
Letterpress Printing Demonstration
This coming Saturday, May 14th, we’ll be demonstrating small press (letterpress) printing at the JMRL’s Central Library as a participant in the library’s How-To Festival. Join Book Arts members Josef Beery, Lana Lambert, and Erin O’Donnell, in …

Three Ways to Make Bookcloth
We will take different cloth materials and thru three different processes make them suitable to use as book cloth for bookbinding and box making.Demonstrations will be presented and then participants …

Two-day Book Arts Workshops: Paste Paper and Stiff-leaf Binding
Day One: Paste and Decorative Art Papers with Ginna CullenPaste papers are fun and decorative art papers used for a variety of paper crafts including bookbinding, gift wrapping, card making, …

Bookbinding Core Skills: 2022 Summer Session
This four-part Bookbinding Core Series prepares participants to undertake a wide range of projects and additional classes in intermediate and advanced bookbinding techniques and book structures.

Two-Needle Coptic Bookbinding
Coptic binding is the oldest form of a book (a “codex”) in Western culture. In its modern form, it has a hardcover and an open spine that reveals decorative binding stitching.

2022 Annual Book Arts Meeting & Potluck at the Virginia Center for the Book
2020 Book Arts Annual MeetingDate: Sunday, April 10, 2022Time: 3:00 PM Business Meeting – 4:00 PM PotluckLocation: Virginia Center for the Book We’re looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday, …

Book Arts Demo Day: Multicolor Printmaking
In anticipation of our Saints Alive members’ project, we will be demonstrating a number of approaches for making multicolored prints. As these methods of adding color to your prints are …

Riccio Residency Artist’s Talk with Nicole Delgado on Saturday, March 26 (4:00 PM) at Virginia Humanities
Join book artist and poet Nicole Delgado for a presentation and discussion with Center for the Book members and friends. The program will consist of: A presentation of the Artist’s …

Bilingual Poetry Reading with Nicole Delgado
Join Nicole Delgado for a bilingual poetry reading of her selected works on Thursday, March 24 (5:30 PM) at UVA’s Clark Hall 108. Nicole will be reading from the first …

Quaranta: The Spaces of Quarantine
We are revisiting & reimagining Quaranta!Participation is Open to Anyone and Everyone. What many of us once saw as a pandemic with a possible timeline has emerged as “the age …

Japanese Bookbindings w/Lana Lambert
Japanese BookbindingsSaturday and Sunday, March 12th and 13th, 2022 (10:00 AM to 5:00 PM) Workshop Description:Experience the beauty and function of Japanese Bookbindings. In this two-day intensive students will create …