This is a list of book arts centers worldwide. These are university based programs, community programs, galleries, and museum collections, which focus on books arts, including
bookbinding
Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book of codex format from an ordered stack of ''signatures'', sheets of paper folded together into sections that are bound, along one edge, with a thick needle and strong thread. Cheaper, b ...
,
book design
Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though ...
, and the artistic medium known as
artists books
Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are work of art, works of art that utilize the form of the book. They are often published in small editions, though they are sometimes produced as one-of-a-kind objects.
Overview
Artists' books hav ...
, all as distinct from the writing or publishing of books.
United States
Alabama
* In 1985,
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and la ...
in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population of 1 ...
began to offer a master's degree in the book arts in the School of Library and Informational Studies. It emphasizes making books by hand.
* Edith Frohock taught book arts at
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a Public university#United States, public List of research universities in the United States, research university in Birmingham, Alabama. Developed from an academic extension center established i ...
. Frohock specialized in painting, printmaking and artist's books and was the first instructor to teach books as art in the South. Mary Ann Sampson credits Frohock for steering her in the direction of book arts.
* Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Alabama is a not-for-profit under the direction of Anne Arrasmith and Peter Prinz. The organization has exhibited books as art on numerous occasions including the work of Larry Gens Anderson,
Pinky Bass
Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Asheville Art Museum, Birmin ...
,
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt born (May 16, 1963) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes Artist's books, book arts, and curates art exhibitions.
Background
Coffelt was born to Dorcas Ann (ma ...
David Sandlin
David Sandlin (born 1956) is a Northern Ireland, Northern Irish-born American artist. His drawings, prints, paintings, and installations are in private and public collections worldwide, and his limited-edition artist's books are in the collectio ...
, Joel Seah and Marie Weaver among many others who have worked in book arts.
* Agnes 1992–2001 was the first commercial gallery to show book arts in the South and one of only a handful in the country. During its eight years, the gallery, owned by Shawn Boley,
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt born (May 16, 1963) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes Artist's books, book arts, and curates art exhibitions.
Background
Coffelt was born to Dorcas Ann (ma ...
and Janet Hughes exhibited the work of many noteworthy book artists including Sara Garden Armstrong,
Pinky Bass
Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Asheville Art Museum, Birmin ...
, Mare Blocker, Elisa Bryan, Denise Carbone, Al Edwards Susan Hensel
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces and includes large-scale installations, advertising billboards, ...
, Davi Det Hompson, Lee Isaacs, Sally Johnson, Susan E. King, Jim Koss, Ruth Laxson, Miranda Maher, Emily Martin, Vicki Ragan, Tut Altman Riddick, Anita Ronderos, Jessica Rosner,
Ed Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (, ''roo-SHAY''; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography and film. He is also noted for creating severa ...
, David Sandlin, Claire Jeanine Satin and Joel Seah.
* OEO Press founded by Mary Ann Sampson. After studying bookmaking at UAB with Edith Frohock, Sampson says she was steering into a career in artist's books. Her press is located in
Ragland, Alabama
Ragland is a town in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States southeast of Ashville. It incorporated in 1899. At the 2010 census the population was 1,639, down from 1,918 in 2000. It is part of the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman Combined Statistical A ...
and continues to produce limited edition fine art books.
California
* The CODEX Foundation, founded in 2005 by
Peter Rutledge Koch
Peter Rutledge Koch, also known simply as Peter Koch (born 1943) is an American letterpress master printmaker, artists' book publisher and small book publisher, typographer, educator, and designer. Koch is Internationally known for his artist boo ...
and Susan Filter, and located in
Berkeley
Berkeley most often refers to:
*Berkeley, California, a city in the United States
**University of California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California
* George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher
Berkeley may also refer ...
. They hold the CODEX International Symposium and Artists' Book Fair every two years in early February, on the odd year. It is the largest artists' book fair in the world with over 300 artists coming from more than 26 countries. The Codex Foundation exists to preserve and promote the contemporary hand-made book as a work of art in the broadest possible context and to bring to public recognition the artists, the craftsmanship, and the rich history of the civilization of the book.
* The
San Francisco Center for the Book
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch in San Francisco, California in the United States. The first center of its kind on the West Coast, SFCB was modeled after ...
was founded by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch in 1996 and was the first Center of its kind on the West Coast. SFCB maintains a 6,358 square foot facility that houses a large print studio, book bindery, and classroom and administrative space. SFCB offers four to five book arts-related exhibitions each year, focused on artist's books, design bindings, fine press books, artist retrospectives, and private collections among other topics. Its workshop program presents 325 letterpress printing, bookbinding, and related arts workshops to nearly 2,000 students annually. SFCB is also home to the annual Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival, a local artist/vendor street festival that celebrates printing by using the road surface as a printing bed and antique steamrollers as presses for large-scale linocut prints. Attendance at this street festival tops 3,000.
* The
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
art scene (see: Art in the Greater Los Angeles Area) is considered one of the founding homes of the artist's book. "Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations", created by
Ed Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (, ''roo-SHAY''; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography and film. He is also noted for creating severa ...
in 1964 is one of the first artist's books. The
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is a non-profit membership library located in La Jolla, in the city of San Diego, California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United State ...
in
La Jolla
La Jolla ( , ) is a hilly, seaside neighborhood within the city of San Diego, California, United States, occupying of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean. The population reported in the 2010 census was 46,781.
La Jolla is surrounded on ...
has a large collection of artists' books, focusing on conceptual artists' books, and those created by California artists and presses. The library holds the complete collection of Ruscha's conceptual artist's books created during the 1960s and 70s.
* The Women's Graphic Center, at the
Woman's Building
The Woman's Building was a non-profit arts and education center located in Los Angeles, California. The Woman's Building focused on feminist art and served as a venue for the women's movement and was spearheaded by artist Judy Chicago, graphic de ...
, was founded in 1973, for women artists to create artist's books. Exhibitions were held there. The center closed in 1991. The Lab Press was founded in the 1970s by Woman's Building co-founder
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (born 1940) is an American graphic designer, artist and educator whose work reflects her belief in the importance of feminist principles and user participation in graphic design. In 1990 she became the director of th ...
to teach printing and the making of books.
* The
Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles, California. Established in 1918, it was the city's first independent professional school of art. The main campus is located in the former IBM Aerospace headquarte ...
began collecting and exhibiting artists' books in the 1960s.
Florida
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Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University (Florida Atlantic or FAU) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida, and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Florida, Dania Beach, Davie, Florida, Davie, Fort Lauderd ...
's Wimberly Library is home to th Jaffe Center for Book Arts which revolves around a collection of books as aesthetic objects focused on artists' books and limited editions. In 1998, Arthur and Mata Jaffe donated their collection of 2,800 books to FAU and the Jaffe Collection opened in 2000. Since then, the collection has grown to over 6,000 cataloged materials, as well as thousands more yet to be cataloged. In 2007, an expanded Jaffe Center for Book Arts opened; it included a letterpress studio, book bindery and paper making lab. In 2011, poet and artist Helen M. Salzberg established JCBA's Artist in Residence (AIR) program which funds two residencies each academic year. The AIRs produce creative works utilizing JCBA facilities. They also teach workshops and provide mentoring opportunities to FAU students and staff. JCBA is based at a university, but the center's programming is community-based: JCBA offers workshops and presents educational book arts programming (as well as intimate concerts, films and other book art related events) for the students and faculty of FAU as well as the broader community.
* The
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...
, engraved wood blocks by
Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes Gill as ″the greatest artist-cra ...
, and letterpress books by
Julie Chen (book artist)
Julie Chen (born 1963) is an American book artist.
Education and teaching
Chen was born in 1963 in Inglewood, California. She completed an undergraduate degree in printmaking at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. She subsequently b ...
. In addition, undergraduate and graduate courses in book arts and letterpress are offered in the
University of Florida College of the Arts
The University of Florida College of the Arts is the fine arts college of the University of Florida. The college was established in 1975, and is located on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The current dean is Onye P. Ozuzu.
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.
Georgia
* Nexus Press, in Atlanta, was a major publisher of artists books. Founded in 1978 by Michael Goodman and Gary Lee Super, Nexus Press encouraged artists to make books as original works of art. Nexus Press was one of the few artists book publishing centers that provided artists with access to offset lithography as a creative process. Though the press also had letterpress equipment, it never was a center for fine print production. It was a center for experimental book production and produced more than 150 titles, including I Want to Take Picture, by Bill Burke. The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center suspended all Nexus Press operations in 2003.
Illinois
* The
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is a Private college, private art college in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, it has 5,928https://about.colum.edu/effectiveness/pdf/spring-2021-student-profile.pdf students pursuing degrees in more than 60 undergra ...
Center for Book and Paper Arts, founded in 1994, offers a wide range of classes in papermaking, bookbinding, and printing, in addition to an active exhibition program, artists' residencies, and a lecture series. The center is also home to th Interdisciplinary Arts MFA i a graduate program focused on using the book arts in the production of contemporary art.
The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection which is housed within th John M. Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is a large collection of artists' books. Click her to access the collection online. International in scope, the collection is strongest in works by American and European artists with work dating from the early 1960s to the present. In addition to over 4,000 artists' books, periodicals and multiples, the collection also houses reference materials to support the study of artists' books, various archives related to the field, and an extensive array of exhibition catalogs as works of art, pamphlets, and other ephemera. Anyone is welcome to visit the artists' book collection; all items may be viewed in the study room only. Hours of access vary slightly by semester.
Iowa
* Th University of Iowa Center for the Book is a research program dedicated to the past, present, and future of the book. Located in the University of Iowa Graduate College, the Center integrates practice in the art of the book with study of the book in society. The center offers curricula in the arts of printing, binding, papermaking, and calligraphy, in the history and culture of books as a field of study, and in the expressive power of the book form. The center hosts visiting lectures and workshops with book scholars and artists, including the annual Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book and Mitchell Lecture on the Arts of the Book.
* The center offers a Master of Fine Arts in the Book Arts, as well as a Graduate Certificate, which can be pursued alongside a master's or doctoral degree in another department. The UICB also offers a joint degree with the School of Library and Information Sciences and affiliates with book scholars in UI departments and programs such as History, English, Journalism and Communication Studies, Religious Studies, the Writers' Workshop, and American Studies.
* In 2015, the Center entered a joint publishing project with University of Iowa Press, the University of Iowa Press called Impressions: Studies in the Art, Culture, and Future of Books, edited by Matthew P. Brown. The series invites works that attend to the changing meanings of authorship, publication, and reading and that explain the shifting valences of print, image, speech, script, and screen.
Maryland
* Th Book Arts Conservatory http://www.bookarts.us/index.html], a fine hand bindery and studio gallery. Book Arts is the culmination of the collective efforts of gifted American and Florentine bookbinders, conservators, book artists, letterpress printers and leather craftsmen. Inspired by the classic Florentine atelier and a 100 year old legacy, Book Arts coalesces a life-time of experience to make available timeless products, and uncompromising services employing the arts of fine binding. Specialties include hand tooling in genuine gold, fine leather bound editions, and bespoke presentation bindings. Works are accessioned across the globe into presidential and royal palace collections, and prominent museums.
Michigan
* The
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (KBAC) is a nonprofit organization of artists and writers located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
History
KBAC was founded by Jeff Abshear in 2005 to create a community workshop and educational space focused on the arts ...
was founded in 2005 by artists and writers with a passion for book arts. Their vision is now a creative public space where artists and book enthusiasts of all kinds gather to collaborate and celebrate books and the many arts that inform them: papermaking, printmaking, letterpress, creative writing, and bookbinding. The KBAC provides workshops for children and adults, monthly exhibitions, and the Poets in Print reading and broadside series
Minnesota
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Minnesota Center for Book Arts Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is the largest and most comprehensive independent nonprofit book arts center in the United States. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, MCBA is a nationally recognized leader in the celebration and preservation of ...
in Minneapolis is the nation's largest and most comprehensive book arts center, offering extensive programs in papermaking, binding, printing, and other book-related art forms. The center has a large gallery space and sponsors a number of artist programs, including residencies, fellowships, and lecture series. In addition, educational opportunities are offered to both youth and adult learners through classes, tours, workshops and onsite visits.
* Susan Hensel Gallery is the home of "A Reader's Art", a long running survey show of artists books.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...
. The mission for ''Susan Hensel Gallery'' is art, story and activism, bringing together artists working in all media in the service of story.
Mississippi
Mississippi Art Colony The colony, established in 1948 is one of the oldest continuing artists colonies in the United States. Notable instructors are Edith Frohock who taught book arts as well as, Larry Gens Anderson, Frances de LaRosa, Moe Brooker, Howard Goodson,
Fred Mitchell (artist)
Madison Fred Mitchell (November 24, 1923 – May 21, 2013) belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world. New York School Abstract Expres ...
Auseklis Ozols
Auseklis Ozols (born September 22, 1941) is a Latvian-born American artist and professor based in New Orleans. Ozols has been active in the fields of oil painting, watercolor painting, ink, and photography.
Biography
Auseklis Ozols was born in ...
, Johnnie Winona Ross and Hugh Williams.
New Hampshire
* The International School of Typography & Letters a Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press holds classes and workshop retreats in Letterpress Printing, Typographic design, and the Book Arts as well as having a focus on the transformative effect of craft on creativity and process in art and music. Formed in 2013, after 30 years of making books as Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press, the school offers ongoing internships to students. Julia Ferrari established the school after the loss of her partner, Dan Carr (punch cutter, poet, and type designer) in 2012.
New Jersey
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...
has several significant programs that support artists' books. The Brodsky Center (formerly, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper), in
New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick is a city (New Jersey), city in and the county seat, seat of government of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Judith K. Brodsky teaches classes in book-making with an emphasis on both traditional and non-traditional (artists') books. The
Rutgers University Libraries
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was a ...
support an annual event in the fall on its
Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.The New Jersey Book Arts Symposium. Founded in 1994 by Michael Joseph and Susan G. Swartzburg, the NJBAS consistently showcases artists' books by artists who reside, work, or were born or educated in the state, although its inclusive focus falls on every facet of the book arts. As well as featuring presentations by New Jersey artists, the NJBAS includes extended considerations of topics deemed of moment to students and practitioners of the book arts. The NJBAS goes beyond state borders and invites presenters from all parts of the world to speak when their expertise dovetails with that year's topic. The Symposium has posted numerous web pages including a photographic essay on a recent symposium on th relation of artists and collectors of artists' books
New York
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The Center for Book Arts
Center for Book Arts (CBA) is a non-profit arts organization, founded in 1974. It is the first organization of its kind in the United States dedicated to contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object while preserving traditional pract ...
was founded in 1974 by
Richard Minsky
Richard P. Minsky (born January 7, 1947) is an American scholar of bookbinding and a book artist. He is the founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City.
Background
In 1960, Minsky obtained his first printing press at the age of 13 to re ...
, and was the first center dedicated to all aspects of book arts. It has mounted over 140 exhibitions of artists' books. Exhibited artists include
Warja Honegger-Lavater
Warja Lavater (28 September 1913 – 3 May 2007) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales ...
.
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Franklin Furnace Archive
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. is an arts organization-in-residence at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Since its inception in 1976, Franklin Furnace has been identifying, presenting, archiving, and making avant-garde art available to the p ...
and
Printed Matter, Inc
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit grant-supported bookstore, artist organization, and arts space which publishes and distributes artists' books. It is currently located at 231 11th Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of N ...
were both founded in 1976, originally as one organization which quickly splintered into two projects: the Franklin Furnace as a major collection of artists' books; Printed Matter as a publisher and distributor. The Franklin Furnace Collection is now held at the Library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Printed Matter continues to publish and distribute artists' books, but also mounts exhibitions of artists' books, hosts book launches, and acts as an advisory service to both artists and collecting institutions.
Printed Matter, Inc
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit grant-supported bookstore, artist organization, and arts space which publishes and distributes artists' books. It is currently located at 231 11th Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of N ...
also hosts the annual
NY Art Book Fair
The NY Art Book Fair is Printed Matter, Inc's annual event, historically held in September or October. The NY Art Book Fair is the world’s largest book fair for artists’ books and related publications, featuring over 370 exhibitors from 30 c ...
.
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Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
is a center for book arts and is the home of book artist Judy Hoffman.
* 2007–2008 SDCA (Seaport District Cultural Association) under its founding directors, Richard Sack, Jim Wintner and Florence Wack, opened SPACE gallery on Front street in the downtown seaport area of Manhattan.
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt born (May 16, 1963) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes Artist's books, book arts, and curates art exhibitions.
Background
Coffelt was born to Dorcas Ann (ma ...
was the curator/director of SPACE upstairs book arts venue. Anne Bean exhibited a tie-in exhibition with
Franklin Furnace
Franklin Furnace, also known as the Franklin Mine, is a famous mineral location for rare zinc, iron, manganese minerals in old mines in Franklin, New Jersey, United States. This locale produced more species of minerals (over 300) and more differ ...
here in the Summer of 2007. SPACE' inaugural exhibition was "''Cuerpos Santos''" by
Pinky Bass
Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Asheville Art Museum, Birmin ...
followed with an organic book installation by Judy Hoffman. SPACE venue represented artists books as an out-of-the-vernacular experience pushing the boundaries of what is considered a book.
* Central Booking was founded in 2009 by
Maddy Rosenberg
Maddy Rosenberg is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA from Cornell University and her MFA from Bard College. Rosenberg is both an artist and a curator.
Her art practice extends over a number of media, including oil pa ...
in
DUMBO
''Dumbo'' is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, a ...
, Brooklyn gallery district. In 2010, it began publishing CENTRAL BOOKING Magazine. In early 2012 the gallery left its Dumbo space.
* Booklyn Artist Alliance is an artist non-profit that helps document and distribute artist publications and also curates exhibitions. It is located in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn ...
.
North Carolina
* Asheville Bookworks was founded in 2004 in Asheville, North Carolina by Laurie Corral. The organization's goals included providing education and building community for people interested in book arts, letterpress, and printmaking. The facility provided multiple printing presses and equipment for classes, as well as a dedicated gallery space. Exhibitions over the years 2009-2018 included multiple iterations of the Bookopolis event, as listed at the organizations website. The organization announced plans to close in 2019.
Ohio
* Cincinnati has an active book arts community that formed The Cincinnati Book Arts Society approximately 9 years ago. Small but active, the society offers study groups, opportunities to exhibit, workshops and a friendly community of artists ranging from fine bookbinders, librarians, visual artists and novices. Visit the website for more information. The Cincinnati Book Arts Society in conjunction with the Cincinnati Public Library has for the past eight years sponsored an annual "BookWorks" exhibit at the downtown main library. Typically held in the spring, the exhibit features a wide range of books from small edition to one of a kind books.
Texas
* College of the Mainland in
Texas City, Texas
Texas City is a city in Galveston County, Texas, Galveston County in the U.S. state of Texas. Located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a busy deepwater port on Texas's Gulf Coast, as well as a petroleum-refining and pe ...
just hosted a critical overview of the field of book arts called ''"The Book "ever after""''. Co-curator Janet Hassinger and
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt born (May 16, 1963) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes Artist's books, book arts, and curates art exhibitions.
Background
Coffelt was born to Dorcas Ann (ma ...
selected 38 artists for this exhibition, an overview starting from the beginning of the book arts movement with works by
Ed Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (, ''roo-SHAY''; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography and film. He is also noted for creating severa ...
,
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...
,
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野 洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Ono grew up i ...
and
Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist best known for his artist's books, editioned prints, sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot.
...
to contemporary works by
Pinky Bass
Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Asheville Art Museum, Birmin ...
, Coffelt, and Mary Ann Sampson. The Printing Museum in Houston has a large collection of printing equipment, mounts exhibits, and holds classes in various aspects of book arts. http://printingmuseum.org/ The Austin Book Arts Center in Austin, Texas began holding workshops in fall 2015. ABAC was located in the Flatbed Studio building until February 2019. ABAC is now located at 5501 N. Lamar C125 Austin, Texas 78751 http://atxbookarts.org/
Virginia
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Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university in Richmond, Virginia. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virginia in 1854. In 1968, the Virgini ...
in
Richmond, Virginia
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has a large and notable collection of rare and original book art in its Special Collections Department housed in the main university library, James Branch Cabell Library. Included in the collection are books by
Lothar Meggendorfer
Lothar Meggendorfer (6 November 1847 in Munich – 7 July 1925 in Munich) was a German illustrator and early cartoonist known for his pop-up books.
He was first published in 1862 in the ''Fliegende Blätter'', an illustrated comic weekly, and fro ...
,
Davi Det Hompson
Davi Det Hompson (1939–1996), also known as David E. Thompson, born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, and raised in Warren, Ohio, was a Fluxus book artist, concrete poet, creator of mail art, sculptor and painter living and working in Richmond, Virginia ...
(aka David E. Thompson),
Lucy Lippard
Lucy Rowland Lippard (born April 14, 1937) is an American writer, art critic, activist, and curator. Lippard was among the first writers to argue for the " dematerialization" at work in conceptual art and was an early champion of feminist art. S ...
,
Louise Odes Neaderland
Louise Odes Neaderland (born August 23, 1932) is an American photographer, printmaker, book artist and founder of the International Society of Copier Artists (I.S.C.A.) and the ''I.S.C.A. Quarterly'', a collaborative mail, book art, and copy art ...
,
International Society of Copier Artists
The International Society of Copier Artists (I.S.C.A) was a non-profit group founded by Louise Neaderland in 1981, intended to promote the work of photocopier artists who used the copier as a camera with which to scan and print original and experi ...
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Ed Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (, ''roo-SHAY''; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography and film. He is also noted for creating severa ...
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Carol Barton
Carol Barton (born 3 June 1954) is a book artist, paper engineer, curator, and educator. She is the proprietor of Popular Kinetics Press and has published several editions of artist books. She may be best known for her series of interactive workb ...
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Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist best known for his artist's books, editioned prints, sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot.
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Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captio ...
, Richmond Artists Association (RAA), and many others. VCU's Cabell Library is also a repository for the
Women's Studio Workshop
Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) is a nonprofit visual arts studio and private press offering residencies and educational workshops, located in Rosendale, New York.
The workshop was founded in 1974 by Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Anita Wetzel, ...
, one of the most noted large publishers in the United States of hand printed and hand bound artists' books.
* The Virginia Arts of the Book Center was founded in 1995 in Charlottesville as a public-access book arts workshop providing cooperative use of presses and type for letterpress printing. Begun by Josef Beery, Cal Otto, and Terry Belanger, the Center became the locus of serious artistic activity during the years preceding and following the turn of the millennium when book artist, art theoretician, and author Johanna Drucker became its visiting artist for almost a decade. Partnership with the University of Virginia Art Department through the sponsorship of art professor and book artist Dean Dass opened the center to the activities of college students from surrounding academic institutions. Through the leadership of Kevin McFadden, the self-governed organization was absorbed by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities during this period and then in 2018 became a part of the Virginia Center for the Book. The current resident artist and program director is Garrett Queen who provides support to a vibrant group of book artists who teach classes and sponsor events encouraging and supporting the arts of the book. They describe themselves as "a community of artists exploring books, paper, and printmaking."
Wisconsin
* Activity in the book arts in Wisconsin is centered around the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For many years,
Walter Hamady
Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady (September 13, 1940 - September 13, 2019) was an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking. ...
taught in Madison, and countless notable book artists studied with him. His Perishable Press, Ltd. is located nearby in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. Today, a considerable community of book artists live and work in and around Madison. Madison is also home to th Wisconsin Center for Book & Paper Arts and th Silver Buckle Press University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee also has a extensive Book Arts Collection The collection's main focus is on examples of artists' books from the late nineteenth century to the present, and it features work from 31 artists.
Canada
Also As Well Too is an artist book library based in Winnipeg. Its primary purpose is to make artist books available for the public to experience.
Art Metropole
Art Metropole is an artist run centre that publishes, promotes, exhibits, archives and distributes artists' publications and other materials. Art Metropole was founded in 1974 by the Canadian artist collective General Idea as a division of Ar ...
was founded by the three artists of General Idea in 1974 for the collection, distribution, publishing and promotion of artists' books. It continues today as one of the primary institutions for artists' books, with a regular exhibition programme, in addition to its publishing and distribution activities. The Art Metropole Collection, comprising some 13,000 items, is now held by the Library of the National Gallery of Canada as a special collection.
Germany
Mainzer Minipressen-Messe, also known as the biennial International Book Fair for Small Publishers and Private Presses, in Mainz. Up to 360 exhibitors from more than 16 countries and 10,000 visitors form the largest marketplace for books by small publishers.
Austria
Salon für Kunstbuch, in
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Bernhard Cella
Bernhard Cella (born 1969 in Salzburg) is an Austrian artist and curator.
Academic career
Cella studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Erich Wonder, the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz with Herbert Lachmayer and the Hoch ...
, it hostst discussions, performances and symposiums about artist books. In 2012 the curatorial initiative Bureau for Open Culture gave a lecture at the Salon für Kunstbuch. Since 2012 the Salon für Kunstbuch is also housed in the
21er Haus
Belvedere 21, formerly 21er Haus or Einundzwanziger Haus ( en, House 21), is a modernist style steel and glass building designed by Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer (1918–1975). Originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion or temporary show ...
which is a branch of the
belvedere, Vienna
The Belvedere is a historic building complex in Vienna, Austria, consisting of two Baroque palaces (the Upper and Lower Belvedere), the Orangery, and the Palace Stables. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the third district o ...
. It publishes an annual list of all artist books published in Austria.
France
The University of Saint-Etienne, France (Université Jean Monnet), started a one-year M.Phil. programme in Art Publishing & Artists' Books in 2007 (Master Edition d'art / Livre d'artistes). Its University Library also holds a collection of Artists' Books. It was the first of its kind in France.
London Centre for Book Arts offers open-access studio facilities and workshops in book arts, bookbinding, printing and publishing.
Three of the earliest and most extensive collections of artists books worldwide are those of th at the
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
, the Library of
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London based in London, United Kingdom, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation.
It offers further and higher educat ...
Tate Britain
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...
. The Tate's collection numbers about 4,000 items, includes books dating from the 1960s onwards and is international in scope with an emphasis on British artists.
Since the mid-1990s, Camberwell College of Arts (a constituent College of University of the Arts London) has run a one-year postgraduate degree programme i MA Visual Arts (Book Arts) graduating 10-15 students annually.
London College of Communication (also part of University of the Arts London) ran a three-year undergraduate degree programme i BA (Hons) Book Arts and Design This course ended in 2015.
Th bookartbookshop is a non-profit organisation founded in 2002 by Tanya Peixoto (co-founder of the Artist's Book Yearbook) and sells publications of artist presses and publishers of artists' books.
Surrey
Founded by Meg Green as 'Atelier Soleil' in Montréal in 1996 Some Odd Pages moved to the UK in 2003 and offers workshops in flexible studio book arts, artist editions, historical bindings and unique volumes.
Bristol
Th University of the West of England in Bristol publishes the bi-annual Artist's Book Yearbook, as well as a free downloadable monthly newsletter on artists' books. It began a new MA degree programme in artists' books in 2006.
Dundee
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) is part of the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland. It is ranked as one of the top schools of art and design in the United Kingdom.
History
Attempts were made to establish an art schoo ...
houses a large collection of Artists' books within abcD - artists' books collection Dundee. The collection was originally established in 1999 as the Centre for Artists Books by
Alec Finlay
Alec Finlay (born 14 March 1966) is a Scottish-born artist currently based in Edinburgh. He is a son of Sue Finlay and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Finlay's work takes various forms and media, including poetry, sculpture, collage, audio-visual, neon, and ...
and now includes over 1,400 books, multiples and ephemera from 600 artists. Several works have been specially commissioned for the collection, often through Cooper Gallery, including books by Richard Long ,
Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean (born 1944) is a Scottish sculptor, performance artist and painter.
McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, from 1963 to 1966. At Saint Martin ...
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Paul Noble
Paul Noble (born 1963) is a British visual artist.
Life and career
Noble studied at Humberside College of Higher Education (1983–1986) and Sunderland Polytechnic (1982–1983), before moving to London in 1987. He was one of the five foun ...
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Lithuania
Circle "Bokartas" was founded in 1993 by Kestutis Vasiliunas in Vilnius, Lithuania for artist's book creators to share ideas and participate in collaborative art projects. Since 1993, the Circle "Bokartas" organised more than 40 international artist's book exhibitions, workshops, symposiums and lectures in Lithuania, Germany, Austria, South Korea, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, France, Japan and USA.
The "International Artist's Book Triennials Vilnius" is a unique non-commercial cultural project, organised to promote artist's books, creators of artist's books from all over the world, to connect galleries, publishers, editors and printers of fine art & limited editions, the greater general public, collectors and individual artists. The "International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius" is organised periodically since 1997. Over this period 1778 artists from 99 countries have submitted about 3000 artist's books. An international jury has chosen the best 911 submissions from 68 countries to be displayed during successive exhibitions. During the 22 year of the Triennial history, the artist's books have been displayed not only in Vilnius, but also in Leipzig, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Rheine (Germany), Lille (France), Silkeborg (Denmark), Venice, Urbino, Vercelli (Italy), Seoul (South Korea), Halmstad (Sweden), Salzburg (Austria), Evanston and Fredonia (U.S.A.)
The 1st International Artist's Book Triennial was in 1997, in Gallery "Kaire Desine", in Vilnius, Lithuania. The theme of it was "Diary: Eight Days". 65 artists from 13 countries took part in the Triennial.
The 2nd International Artist's Book Triennial was in 2000, in Gallery "Arka" in Vilnius and in "Galerie 5020" in Salzburg, Austria. The theme of it was "Apocalypse". 138 artists from 29 countries took part in the Triennial.
The 3rd International Artist's Book Triennial was in 2003, in the Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius), Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius. The theme of it was "23 Sins". 118 artists from 37 countries took part in the Triennial. The Triennial was shown in 2004 in Frankfurt Art Fair in Germany; in 2004 in Thomas Mannas' House in Nida, Lithuania; in 2004 in Gallery "Le Carre" in Lille, France;
The 4th International Artist's Book Triennial was in 2006, in the Gallery "Arka" in Vilnius. The theme of it was "Rabbit and House". 130 artists from 29 countries took part in the Triennial. After the exhibition in Vilnius the Triennial was shown in 2007 in Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany; in 2007 in Seoul International Book Arts Fair in Seoul, South Korea.
5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius was in 2009. The theme - "Text". The Triennial was shown in 2009 in Leipzig Book Fair, Germany; In the Gallery "Arka" Vilnius, Lithuania; In the Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark; In 2010 in the Gallery "Hübner Bokform, Halmstad, Sweden; In the "Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia", Venice, Italy. 330 artists from 56 different countries sent their books for the 5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2009. The jury selected 131 artists for the exhibition
6th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius was in 2012. Theme "Love" The international jury selected 94 artists from 33 countries for the exhibition. The 6th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2012 was shown in "Scuola Internazionale di Grafica", Venice, Italy; in Leipzig Book Fair, Germany; in Gallery "Titanikas", Vilnius, Lithuania; in Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany.
The 7th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2015. Theme "Error"
The 8th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2018. Theme "Memento Mori". The international jury selected 70 artists from 26 countries for the exhibition
The 9th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2021 - is a conceptual art project. Theme "Absence". “Absence is presence. These are the fundamentals of mystery.
Artist's Book Museum in Lithuania
Artist’s Book Museum established in 2021 in Lithuani with the artist's book collectio of the international artists. It is the first Artist’s Book Museum in North Europe.
Artist’s Book Collection in the Artist’s Book Museum consists of unique & limited editions artist’s books and artist’s book-objects. In 1993 Circle "Bokartas" began to organise the Artist’s Book Exhibitions and to collect artist’s books.
Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...
School of Art was an active centre of production for artists' books in Australia between 1996 and 2004. It is now called the Printmedia & Drawing Book Studio.
Th National Gallery of Australia (NGA) holds 1049 Australian artists' books (July 2007), the largest institutional collection of Australian artists' books. The NGA is also one of the most active centres for discussion on artists' books via their triannua Australian Print Symposium
Th National Library of Australia (NLA) holds one of the most notable and accessible collections of Australian artists' books in the ACT, with the collection numbering over 300. The NLA has also held regular exhibitions promoting the collection and further study on the collections, e.g
New South Wales
Southern Cross University
Southern Cross University (SCU) is an Australian public university, with campuses at Lismore and Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales, and at Coolangatta, the most southern suburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland.
It is ranked in the top ...
has established an artists book collection housed in the university library.
Queensland
The
State Library of Queensland
The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government. Its legislative basis is provided by the Queensland Libraries Act 1988. It contai ...
holds one of the most notable collections of Australian and overseas artists' books in Australia, with approximately 800 (as of 2007).
The Center for the Artist's Boo part of grahame galleries + editions, which opened in 1987. It houses over 500 Australian and international artists' books
Victoria
The
State Library of Victoria
State Library Victoria (SLV) is the state library of Victoria, Australia. Located in Melbourne, it was established in 1854 as the Melbourne Public Library, making it Australia's oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in the ...
holds a collection of artists' books. Exhibitions held include "Lost & Found - Peter Lyssiotis and John Wolseley: the adventures of two artists".