NewsQuaranta: 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 …
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 …
NewsSaints Alive! the 2022 Book Arts Annual Members’ Project
As we’ve just updated the project guidance (12/13/21) Its not to late to join in. Our hope is that these modifications will encourage participants to think more expansively about Saints Alive! and …
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…
NewsVoice-Overs: Writers and artists to respond to the public landscape
A call for works of verbal and visual art in broadsides and posters that reframe narratives of Virginia’s past in addressing the present-day challenges of sexism, racism, and bias, especially …
News20/20 Vision: 2020 Member’s Project Effort Redirected
As of April 20, 2020, we refocused efforts on our member’s collaborative project toward the Quaranta Art Project Members of the Virginia Center for the Book’s book arts program first …
News2019 Annual Member’s Project: Uncharted (Unfounded/Unmoored)
2019 Annual Member’s Project – Uncharted (Unfounded/Unmoored) (Specs Updated 10/03/2019) Milestones w/approx. dates June 20: Project Launch (Participants begin to plan their map) July 1: Participants submit their rough designs …
NewsUNCHARTED: 2019 Collaborative Project “We’ve Arrived!”
How do we explore the most complex experiences? find a way to understand or believe in the midst of the unknowable? catch signs of clarity amid confusion or dissonance? can …
NewsCOVER STORY: Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon by James Sullivan
Recovered by BINDER #9 Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon by James Sullivan Gotham Books, Penguin (2006) Artist’s Statement: This journalistic sojourn into the history of jeans caught …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger
Recovered by BINDER #8 Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger (tr. Albert Hofstadter) Heidegger (1971), First Perennial Classics Edition (2001) Artist’s Statement: Highly influential essays originating in a close study …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: The Orb Weaver by Robert Francis
Recovered by BINDER #7 The Orb Weaver by Robert Francis Wesleyan University Press, Third printing: 1967 (first printed in 1960) Artist’s Statement: I recently discovered the poetry of Robert Francis (1901-1987), …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: You Don’t Miss Your Water by Cornelius Eady
Recovered by BINDER #6You Don’t Miss Your Water by Cornelius EadyNew York, Henry Holt (1995)Artist’s Statement: You Don’t Miss Your Water is a series of poems that makes up a …
