NewsVoice-Overs
A call went out from the Virginia Center for the Book in April of 2020, during the early horrors of COVID-19 and before a new tide of protest against racial …
NewsResources for Educators
Whether you’re a classroom teacher, librarian, parent, or someone who wants to share a love of reading with the young people in your life, we invite you to check out …
NewsBook Arts receives Jefferson Trust Flash Grant
We are honored to have received a Jefferson Trust flash grants to support Book Arts at the Virginia Center for the Book. The Jefferson Trust makes grants to innovative ideas …
NewsJosef Beery Introduces the Franklin Press at UVA Special Collections
A Book Arts’ Online Presentation For three-and-a-half centuries everything printed in the West was produced on a simple press of a common design. The University of Virginia has a full-size …
News2021 Book Arts Annual Member’s Project
During our February 10 Annual Meeting, we began discussing various possibilities for our 2021 Member’s Project.You’re most welcome to join the conversation in the comment’s section below Capturing the discussion, …
News25th Anniversary Print by Kristin Keimu Adolfson now available to order!
Purchase a limited-edition print to support Book Arts at the Virginia Center for the Book…
NewsBook Arts memberships & virtual events update
These past months have been a challenge for us all, and we hope you have found ways to stay healthy and safe…
NewsThe Heart Is a Drowning Object: A virtual event
Join Katherine Vaz, Isabel Pavão, and Katherine McNamara for a discussion of their multimedia e-book, The Heart Is a Drowning Object, from Artist’s Proof Editions; with Molly Schwartzburg. The Heart Is A Drowning Object is a collaboration …
NewsRaise a glass with us as we celebrate 25 years of Book Arts!
We hope you joined us as we kicked off a year-long celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Book Arts at the Virginia Center for the Book. In case you missed the festivities or would like to see the replay, the video is archived on our Facebook video channel.
NewsBook Arts 25th Anniversary Celebration Kick-Off
Join us as we kick off a year-long celebration of Book Arts…
NewsGiving Opportunity: Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence
The Virginia Center for the Book—a program of Virginia Humanities—has announced the Frank Riccio Fund to support programming around an annual visiting book artist: the Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence. The fund …
NewsExhibit A: Visualizing Art, Agency, and an African American Attitude
These past months have been a challenge for us all, and we hope you have found ways to stay healthy and safe…
NewsBefore We Forget with Lyall Harris and Patricia Silva
A Shelf Life Zoom and Streamed PresentationThis video presentation is now available, archived at: https://www.facebook.com/vabookfest/videos/336333474204320 Lyall Harris and Patricia Silva discussed Patricia’s 2020 pandemic project Before We Forget, hand-bound journals …
NewsSHELF LIFE: St Brigid Press with Emily Hancock and Kristin Adolfson
A Shelf Life Zoom and Streamed PresentationThis video presentation is now available, archived at: https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaCenterForTheBook/videos/297255401699373/ In this interview by Kristin Adolfson, Emily Hancock of St Brigid Press takes us on a tour of her letterpress print shop, …
