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San Francisco, CA 94141
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A close-knit group of hand bookbinders, with shared interests in creating and collecting fine bindings, joined together to promote hand bookbinding and related book arts and to exchange information and ideas.
Information about bookish events happening in the Bay Area and beyond. If you would like to add events to this calendar, please email the editor!
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Pulp - Paper - Book Exhibition at Sebastopol Center for the Arts. DEADLINE (extended): January 20, 2026. Apply Now on CaFE: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=16195
Highlighting works from The Bancroft Library’s rich collection of contemporary artists’ books, including works from renowned local and international artists. It encompasses handmade books using a wide range of texts, illustration techniques, and formats.
In collaboration with the CODEX Foundation, Kala Gallery is excited to co-present Bookness, an exhibition exploring the book as a dynamic medium for artistic and cultural inquiry.
The San Francisco Law Library is honored to invite you to a special lunchtime speaker program in the Law Library featuring visiting Rare Book Expert Mike Widener.
The SAS Artist Book readings is a series organized and curated by AB Gorham and Aaron Cohick
Poetry & Music Performance, Book Release, Art Exhibitions (Renée Owen, Sherrie Lovler, guest poet and musicians). Refreshments. Free to public.
The Book Arts Bazaar is a one-day celebration of the book, print and paper arts featuring BABA Members Gallery, hands-on activities, guest exhibitors and more.
Learn how to utilize magnets in bookbinding
Alberto Blanco will speak about his career as a poet and visual artist.
San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is pleased to host the “Open” portion of the exhibition OPEN SET in our gallery. Sponsored by the American Academy of Bookbinding (Telluride, CO), OPEN SET celebrates the art of finely crafted design bookbindings.
Join Pamela McColl in an in-depth look at a beloved Christmas tale: Twas The Night Before Christmas.
Virtual webinar with available scholarship on how to care and assess rare books.
The Book Arts Bazaar is a one-day celebration of the book, print and paper arts featuring BABA Members Gallery, hands-on activities, guest exhibitors and more.
Magic of Marbling | Unique by Design - an exhibit celebrating the art, techniques and designs of marbling. The marbling samples in this exhibit were made by marbling artist Pietro Accardi.
Bruce Holsinger will discuss the making of parchment past and present, the imaginative role of parchment in literary works, and parchment's historical importance in the Euro-Mediterranean world.
Join HBC’s past President, Rhiannon Alpers, for a two-day workshop sponsored by the Guild of Book Workers' California Chapter.
SFCB showcases contemporary publishers and artists utilizing Risograph technology to create experimental and thought-provoking bookworks.
Roman Holiday is the 40th International Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Conference. After a five year hiatus, our international calligraphic community will gather IN-PERSON to celebrate our collective journey from formal, traditional rules of historical form to personal, creative expression.
Design Week Open House at Letterform Archive
Erin Fletcher will explore the history of embroidered bindings leading up to contemporary binders in the craft. Fletcher will also talk about the significance of embroidery in her craft.
Ever wonder what materials are used to make the book you are reading?
Come see American Bookbinders Museum latest exhibit and explore the different categories of materials and their various uses.
Workshop: Pianel Binding at SFCB
Pianel binding is a modern twist on binding structures that use metal rods at the joint, more commonly known as piano hinges.
Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection, curated by Mindell Dubansky, is a fascinating exploration of the realm where book-like objects and folk art intersect. San Francisco collector Ian Berke has amassed a collection of over 500 of these unique pieces over seventeen years.
Society of Antiquaries
Taste and discrimination: The Cerruti Collection of decorated bindings.
The Bay Area Printers’ Fair & Wayzgoose will return on April 13, 2024 at History Park, 635 Phelan Ave, San Jose, CA.
This is a FREE and public event celebrating letterpress printing, typography, book arts, ephemera, fine paper, printmaking, and allied arts.
Registration opens Mar 4, 2024
DATE: Focus on Book Arts Conference June 26-30, 2024
NEW LOCATION: Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon
The 15th Focus on Book Arts conference offers five full days of workshops that appeal to beginning as well as advanced book artists. You can come for just one workshop or for the entire conference; a range of class lengths let you tailor an experience just for you.
The California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to San Francisco in 2024! This three-day event features fine and rare materials from around the globe, including manuscripts, first editions, illustrated books, ephemera, maps, and autographs, as well as antiquarian books on a vast array of topics.
The CODEX Foundation announces the 9th International Biennial Book Art Fair & Symposium.
The fair & symposium endeavors to bring to the attention of the public the importance and value of the book arts and their essential role in transmitting cultural history. This event supports and facilitates collaboration across the globe between artists, scholars, curators, and collectors in the production and preservation of meaningful scholarly and artistic contributions to the book arts field.
Letterpress print your own broadside on the Book Club’s Colombian hand press with Li Jiang, Lemoncheese Press.
An exhibition of rarely seen work explores the iconic Bay Area printer’s playful and improvisational process. Using a mismatched set of 19th-century wood block letters, Stauffacher reimagined type as abstract form.
A Radical Alteration: Women's Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Marking looks at the organization's rich history as a proponent of book arts for marginalized communities in the U.S. Through artists' books, printed materials, ephemera, and archival materials, the exhibition looks at how the organization's policies, programming, and operations have evolved over the last fifty years, creating a space where the conditions of art making and institutional support are in service to a sustainable and more equitable art ecosystem.
The Cambridge University Library recently purchased a previously unknown notebook kept by Isaac Newton’s chamber-fellow, John Wickins, in the years around 1680. It is possible to identify the contents of the notebook as being previously unknown compositions and correspondence of Isaac Newton, which shed light on many aspects of his work and his engagement with the University in which he was employed.
This talk will attempt to identify the author of the inscription and the owner of the books and manuscripts in new detail; to reconstruct William Walker’s small but unquestionably significant personal library; and to trace the history of the “best” manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney’s “Old Arcadia.”
