NewsAAPI Heritage Month Reading Recommendations
Emma Ito, director of education at Virginia Humanities, shares her reading recommendations for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
EventJo Piazza & Christine Pride
Join the Bluebird & Co. and the Virginia Center for the Book as we celebrate the release of Jo Piazza & Christine Pride’s new novel You Were Always Mine. The …
EventAnnual Members’ Project Meeting: Rivanna Reconnaissance
Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 2:00 PM We’ve heard some really great ideas so far for our Annual 2023 Members Project, Rivanna Reconnaissance. We’ll be meeting at the Virginia Center for the Book at 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon on May 21st to discuss our concepts!
EventIntroducing Book Art: Where Structure and Content Converge
Explore a range of simple folded and bound structures in this introductory book art workshop. We will consider the relationship between subject and form and experiment with visual and written content.
EventThis Saturday!.. We’re Printing at JMRL’s How-To Festival
Our Book Arts team will demonstrate small press printing at this annual library event. We’re bringing over to the library a few of our more portable presses for this three-hour session.
News2023 Annual Members Project Rivanna Reconnaissance
As a result of profound climate change, newly revealed archaeological and paleontological finds are surfacing along the banks of the Rivanna River. We are creating a scientific field journal cataloging these incidences in a fictional case study. Lost treasures unearthed, lost landscapes exposed, lost life forms revealed or revived, lost memories recovered – we are moved by these unexpected finds. Our fictional field journal will contain many examples of these newly uncovered discoveries.
EventThe House Is On Fire
Rachel Beanland, award-winning Richmond novelist will have a conversation about her soon-to-be-published new novel, The House is On Fire, with Roanoke author Heath Hardage Lee (The League of Wives). The …
News2023 Festival of the Book: Demonstrating the Art & Craft of Bookmaking
In conjunction with the 2023 Festival of the Book, our Book Arts members offered public demonstrations at the Center for the Book and the Omni Hotel. On Friday, March 24, …
EventBook Arts Annual Meeting & 2023 Members’ Project Reveal
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday, April 16, 2022, at 2:00 PM for our Annual Members’ Meeting. We invite our Book Arts members, friends, and all those curious about our center’s offerings to attend.
EventBookbinding Core Skills: 2023 Intensive 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.
EventA Constellation of Blackness – A lecture by Veronica Jackson
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph A lecture by Book Arts Member Veronica Jackson Tuesday, March 21 @ 6:30pm
EventBound Visions a Book Arts Festival Preview Event in Staunton, VA
Meet some of the artists of Bound Visions: Art Books by Women Artists, an exhibition of artists’ books by nine contemporary women artists during a special presentation.
