NewsMaking the Invisible Visible
A conversation with book artist Veronica Jackson about how family, race, and gender have informed her work.
NewsBook Arts 25th Anniversary Celebration Kick-Off
Join us as we kick off a year-long celebration of Book Arts…
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NewsBefore We Forget
In this webinar, recorded August 20, 2020, Lyall Harris and Patricia Silva discuss Silva’s 2020 pandemic project Before We Forget, hand-bound journals with writing prompts aimed at remembering this unprecedented …
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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NewsSt Brigid Press
In this interview by Kristin Adolfson, on August 4 2020, Emily Hancock of St Brigid Press takes us on a tour of her letterpress print shop, shares her latest work, …
EventPrintmaking in the Torres Strait Islands with Brian Robinson
Join renowned Australian Indigenous artist Brian Robinson as he discusses and demonstrates his own practice of printmaking and the tradition of 2d works on paper in the Torres Strait Islands off the …
EventPostponed: Bookbinding Core Skills: Spring Session 2020
Attend this workshop series to learn the art of bookbinding, starting with the basics and ending with the completion of two original books. Participants who attend all four classes will …
NewsFinding Wisdom: Community Art Project Schedule Announced
Visiting Printmaker Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. To Lead a Series of Public Workshops, Talks, and Exhibitions in Charlottesville in March Charlottesville, VA – Virginia Humanities’ Virginia Center for the Book …
NewsVirginia Center for the Book Announces “Finding Wisdom”
A Series of Public & Partnership Programs, Printmaking Workshops, & Exhibitions in Charlottesville with Visiting Printmaker Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
NewsReady, Set, Type
In 2017, VFH’s Virginia Arts of the Book Center (VABC) completed Speaking in Faces, a type specimen book. It’s the first publication of its kind for VABC. The book showcases …
NewsThe Road from Afghanistan
By David Bearinger Sughra Hussainy’s dark eyes sharpen when she says, “the body needs food to sustain itself, but the soul needs art to survive.” Sughra knows about survival, and …
NewsThe Lost Art of Cherokee Letterpress
In 2009, VFH fellow and book artist Frank Brannon, began work with the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts in Cherokee, Norther Carolina, to revitalize the nearly lost art of Cherokee letter press printing. Now, he talks about his with the Cherokee community, as well as history of the Cherokee written language itself.
