

Workshop | Calligraphy: The Art of the Hebrew Letter | In-Person
September 22, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
November 3, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 23, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 18, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
In this four-part workshop series, explore the creativity and connection that live within the art of Hebrew lettering.

Workshop | Authentic Heart: Yin Yoga Illuminated by the Work and Life of Mercedes de Acosta | In-Person
This two-hour workshop, co-led by yogi Liza Seltzer and Rosenbach John C. Haas Director Kelsey Scouten Bates, will introduce you to de Acosta’s work and legacy and invite you to take a deep dive into what it means to be truly authentic.

Workshop | Book Arts: Printing America’s Founding Documents – A People’s Friend Program | In-Person
In this hands-on printing workshop, you will use a tabletop press to create your own, personal copies of U.S. founding documents–such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—complemented by a selection of important engravings from the Rosenbach’s holdings.

Workshop | Book Arts: Book Structures in Early America | In-Person
Experience the thrill of historical bookbinding at this workshop, where you will make your own unique journal with the guidance of Ramon Townsend, a local master bookbinder.

Workshop | Moods: Yin Yoga Illuminated by the Poems of Mercedes de Acosta | In-Person
Join yogi Liza Seltzer and Rosenbach John C. Haas Director Kelsey Scouten Bates for this poetry-inspired yin yoga practice. You’ll be guided into passive, longer-held poses that invoke both stillness and openness in body and mind; you’ll listen from this place of openness to the writing poet Charles Hanson Towne describes in his introduction to Moods as having “a haunting quality, a breath of mystery, as though a ghost walked into a garden.”

Book Arts Workshop: Locked Love Letters
Send a secret love note in this hands-on workshop exploring the custom of manipulating a letter so it forms its own elaborate sealed envelope–to be opened only by its intended recipient!

Workshop | Bookmaking and Book Arts with Bryn Michelson-Ziegler | In-Person
Join Rosenbach Assistant Curator Bryn Michelson-Ziegler and the Young Friends of the Rosenbach to learn how to make your own buttonhole stitch book.