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Our next exhibition, Wings for Words, opens January 23, and presents bookworks from fourteen professional artists working in South Korea and Japan today.

The Bay Area is a center for the thriving art of hand bookbinding according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

In their annual Best Of issue, SF Weekly has named us the Best Place to Take an Art Class! See what they have to say.

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Welcome to The San Francisco Center for the Book. 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. Have fun browsing our website.
How I Work As a Book Artist: Ala Ebtekar on The Art of Stepping Through Time

Please join us on Jan 9th when Ala Ebtekar, our 2008 artist in residence, talks about the process of creating The Art of Stepping Through Time. His book is part of our Imprint series.

 
To see what's going on at the SFCB day by day, check out our Calendar. Or click on Workshops to learn about classes in Printing, Binding and Related Arts. Like looking at pictures? Click Book Pix for an eye-popping visual database of the books we teach. Learn more About Us by clicking here. And for driving directions and public-transit suggestions, click here.

Highlights

How I Work As a Book Artist: Ala Ebtekar on The Art of Stepping Through Time
Friday Jan 9, 6pm
Join 2008 resident artist Ala Ebtekar for a presentation about the process of creating the most recent publication in the Center's Imprint program.

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Did you know that you can help the Center when you shop at Amazon.com? It's easy, by using this link to order, a portion of your purchase price will automatically go to the SFCB.


 

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