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 2021 Book Arts Annual Member’s Project
Saints Alive, a collection of storied art conveying gratitude for whoever/whatever helped us get through the past year, is the working title for the Book Arts 2021 member collaboration. Our …
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…
News2020 Book Center’s Member Project is NOW the Quaranta Art Project
We are redirecting our member’s collaborative project energies towards our Quaranta Art Project On April 20, 2020, Bonnie Bernstein (Member’s Project co-leader) wrote: Hello, friends. I am writing on behalf …
NewsQuaranta Art Project
“In this time of physical isolation, we don’t have to be socially distanced” Our Book Center’s Member’s Project Landed Here! Participation is Open to Anyone and Everyone. Please engage online …
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), …
