NewsGiving Opportunity: Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence
The Virginia Center for the Book—a program of Virginia Humanities—has announced the Frank Riccio Fund to support programming around an annual visiting book artist: the Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence. The fund …
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NewsExhibit A: Visualizing Art, Agency, and an African American Attitude
These past months have been a challenge for us all, and we hope you have found ways to stay healthy and safe…
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NewsBefore We Forget with Lyall Harris and Patricia Silva
A Shelf Life Zoom and Streamed PresentationThis video presentation is now available, archived at: https://www.facebook.com/vabookfest/videos/336333474204320 Lyall Harris and Patricia Silva discussed Patricia’s 2020 pandemic project Before We Forget, hand-bound journals …
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NewsSHELF LIFE: St Brigid Press with Emily Hancock and Kristin Adolfson
A Shelf Life Zoom and Streamed PresentationThis video presentation is now available, archived at: https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaCenterForTheBook/videos/297255401699373/ In this interview by Kristin Adolfson, Emily Hancock of St Brigid Press takes us on a tour of her letterpress print shop, …
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News2020 Great Reads: The Undefeated
Every year, the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress features a book from each of the affiliate Centers for the Book, creating an annual list of Great Reads. …
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NewsEngaging students with diverse books while schools are closed
While public schools across Virginia remain closed in response to COVID-19, the Virginia Center for the Book is working to ensure that students have access to diverse books…
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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 …
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NewsThe Third Rainbow Girl
In this webinar Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her acclaimed debut nonfiction book, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, in conversation with Allison Wright. …
NewsHow to Build a Heart
Join freelance writer, essayist, and author of young adult novels, Maria Padian, for a closer look at her award-winning work and latest book for young readers, How to Build a …
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 …
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NewsVirginia Center for the Book (JSCC Location): COVID-19 Suspension of Classes, Workshops and Group Activities
As a program of Virginia Humanities, we are affiliated with the University of Virginia (UVA) and will be following all UVA policies and procedures related to the coronavirus. As well as following …
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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 …
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