We're a place where you can learn about the many arts and crafts of the book. Through workshops, exhibitions and public events, the SFCB promotes both knowledge of traditional book arts and exploration of experimental book forms.
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- Location:
- San Francisco, CA, 94103
- Phone:
- 415-565-0545
- Mon - Fri:
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Sat:
- 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Letterpress Cards & HOLIDAY ClassesCreated about 2 weeks ago
Restless Dust - Gail WightCreated about a month ago
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Events
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- Five Treasures
The Family
Saturday, November 21 at 6:00pm - Roadworks: Steamroller Printin...
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Saturday, September 19 at 12:00pm - Book Launch Party for "Rabbitp...
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Friday, August 28 at 6:00pm - vvxcv
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Friday, August 28 at 2:50pm - Book Release Party - God's Femur
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Friday, April 10 at 7:00pm - Opening Reception: Wings for W...
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Thursday, February 12 at 6:00pm - Book Release Party: Ala Ebtekar
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Wednesday, December 3 at 7:00pm
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Five Treasures guests get a DISCOUNT on a McSweeney's Quarterly Concern subscription - you must be at the event to get the special SFCB price. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern publishes
on a roughly quarterly schedule, and they try to make each issue very
different from the last. One issue came in a box, one was Icelandic,
a...nd one looks like a pile of mail. In all, you get groundbreaking
fiction and much more. http://bit.ly/4hJ9bMRead More
on a roughly quarterly schedule, and they try to make each issue very
different from the last. One issue came in a box, one was Icelandic,
a...nd one looks like a pile of mail. In all, you get groundbreaking
fiction and much more. http://bit.ly/4hJ9bMRead More
San Francisco Center for the Book "Book Art Unbound" - a nice article on the SF Bay Area scene featuring the SFCB in the Nov/Dec issue of Art Ltd magazine: http://bit.ly/1YRGWF
Source: bit.ly
Interior view of the book S2005Emily McVarnishOn a recent rainy afternoon in Berkeley, California, it was standing room only as over forty people gathered in Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore to hear Mills College book art professor and department head Kathleen Walkup discuss the artist book. ...
San Francisco Center for the Book Gail Wight, our artist-in-residence, speaks at Harvard Museum of Natural History today at 4 PM http://bit.ly/222Uxb
Source: bit.ly
The Harvard Museum of Natural History was established in 1998 as the public face of three research museums: the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard University Herbaria, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum. ...
San Francisco Center for the Book
The upcoming classes make it easy to learn letterpress & binding while making gifts and cards for others.
Holidays on a Budget = Do It Yourself
We'll give you ideas & show you how.
San Francisco Center for the Book
Restless Dust will be issued as a limited edition of 50 signed and numbered artist books, each housed in a wooden box containing a multi-media installation. The body type is completely set by hand using metal type for letterpress printing. Images carved in linoleum are also printed on a letterpress.
Wight's text invites... Charles Darwin's ghost to sail to San Francisco and wander with her through the greater Bay Area terrain. The focus of the journey is three part: to celebrate the unique species of the San Francisco Bay Area; to look at the ways in which Darwin's legacy has impacted contemporary Bay Area culture; and to acknowledge the fragile and endangered state of many of our local flora and fauna caused by environmental degradation. Restless Dust will be released Dec 4 and is available for pre-purchase at http://www.imprintsfcb.etsy.comRead More
Wight's text invites... Charles Darwin's ghost to sail to San Francisco and wander with her through the greater Bay Area terrain. The focus of the journey is three part: to celebrate the unique species of the San Francisco Bay Area; to look at the ways in which Darwin's legacy has impacted contemporary Bay Area culture; and to acknowledge the fragile and endangered state of many of our local flora and fauna caused by environmental degradation. Restless Dust will be released Dec 4 and is available for pre-purchase at http://www.imprintsfcb.etsy.comRead More
San Francisco Center for the Book Dave Eggers will be one of the honorees present at the 5 Treasures event Nov 21. See the website for all of the individuals being honored for their contributions to the local book arts, literary, and publishing communities. SFCB student & teacher tickets only $20!
San Francisco Center for the Book Current resident artist Gail Wight will discuss her work and forthcoming publication, Restless Dust this Wed 10/28 at SFCB 6-8 PM, free: http://bit.ly/13GQ4X
San Francisco Center for the Book Be a vendor at the SFCB Holiday Fair - Dec 11 from 5:30-8:30pm - or just come and enjoy, it's free!
San Francisco Center for the Book Discount on Gabrielle Fox's class - sign up now and save $25!
Source: www.sfcb.org
Website for the San Francisco Center for the Book
San Francisco Center for the Book Come by the Center for a free letterpress event Thurs & Fri from 2-5pm. Part of SFMOMA's Metal + Machine + Manifesto: Futurism's First 100 Years.
Source: www.sfmoma.org
Kathleen Burch, cofounder, The San Francisco Center for the BookJohn McBride, editor, Invisible CityPaul Vangelisti, translator and poet
San Francisco Center for the Book Letterpress film at SF Doc Film Fest about Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Get inspired, then come and print!
Source: sfdocfest.bside.com
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. used to be a pretty average guy, a successful computer programmer at a telecommunications company. But he quit to teach himself the letterpress, and now he's a renowned artist and hero to all the design geeks who've rediscovered letterpress printing. ...
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The massive, crushing force of a two-ton-steamroller and the beautiful, intricate markings of an artist’s linoleum-cut print might seem to exist in completely separate worlds, but in a unique and fun event called the Roadworks: Steamroller Printing Street Fair, these worlds collided. Six featured artists – Megan Adie, ...John Hersey, Rik Olson, Jenny Robinson, Michael Wertz, and Rigo 23 – and many additional artists and community members had their work printed as the steamroller rubbled up the road, while handmade arts and craft vendors, music, food, and kids’ activities attracted many additional onlookers.
Thanks to everyone who made it a great event!Read More
Thanks to everyone who made it a great event!Read More
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These images are the 2009 Roadworks prints that will be auctioned at our fundraiser this Saturday, October 3rd. The event includes beverages from Anchor Steam, music from Misisipi Duo and delicious food - http://www.sfcb.org/php/event.php?id=T3-
San Francisco Center for the Book SFCB '09 Roadworks artist Rigo 23 at the New Museum NYC: http://bit.ly/2wqRj Up through 10/11.
Source: bit.ly
For nearly twenty years, Rigo 23 has created conceptually complex created murals, paintings, drawings, and performances, conducted interventions and published zines all of which have advocated for social and political change. ...
San Francisco Center for the Book SF Ctr for Book '08 Roadworks artist Emory Douglas at the New Museum NYC thru 10/18. NYT review: http://bit.ly/4bK9Y7
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Emory Douglas at the New Museum, Franklin Evans at Sue Scott Gallery, Adam Shecter at Eleven Rivington and more.
