Category Archives: Instructors

Open Studio Specimens

By Nina | Published: April 25, 2012

Last Saturday was Open Studio Day on Bryant Street and I decided to pay SFCB’s own Rhiannon Alpers a visit at her studio. I work with Rhiannon everyday, and I know she’s a book artist but I was still blown away by the great work that I saw. Rhiannon’s most recent project was set up on a [...]

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Nina
Nina
Nina Eve has been obsessed with books since receiving Harold and the Purple Crayon as a child before she knew how to read. While receiving her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute she took as many book and printmaking classes as possible. She now spends her time working as the Project Coordinator at SFCB, making and selling her printed and bookish wares, and learning French.

Grendl And Her Spooky Third Thursday Open House: Halloween Edition

By Michael Shanahan | Published: October 25, 2011

Hi bookish fans! I just wanted to give a gouly shout out to everyone who attended last Thursday night’s open studio slash Halloween party. All were aghast as we demonstrated letterpress printing for our unwitting guests. I’m pretty sure Grendl Löfkvist (our high demo priestess), clad in all black, didn’t even dress up specially for [...]

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Michael Shanahan
Creator and Editor for Strange Cessation Publications (www.strangecessation.com) & GEMS Music & Arts Magazine, and current SFCB Volunteer 2011.

Screenprinting at the Mission Cultural Center with Marsha Shaw

By Allie Washkin | Published: August 24, 2011

Last week, Marsha Shaw hosted a screenprinting workshop at the Mission Cultural Center. In this lively class, students learned about the versatile screen-printing process from beginning to end. Using a variety of methods, including hand drawing on film and cutting rubylyth for color separations, the students used their own photographic images, embellishing color and flair [...]

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Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin, SFCB's newest marketing intern, is earning a BA in Creative Writing at SFSU. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she has cultivated a love and devotion to coffee, airports, adventures, and the written word. She often walks, for hours on end, with nothing but ideas... Keep moving forward, and there will be light. Better said by Frank O'Hara: "You are gorgeous and I'm coming."

SFCB Workshop: The Typography of Handwriting

By Nina | Published: August 17, 2011

Yesterday I had my first session of a handwriting to typography workshop at the San Francisco Center for the Book. The class is taught by calligrapher Georgianna Greenwood. The workshop is challenging and incredibly interesting and focuses on learning to be more consistent with your handwriting so that you can work it into your art. Handwriting [...]

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Nina
Nina
Nina Eve has been obsessed with books since receiving Harold and the Purple Crayon as a child before she knew how to read. While receiving her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute she took as many book and printmaking classes as possible. She now spends her time working as the Project Coordinator at SFCB, making and selling her printed and bookish wares, and learning French.

Introduction to Letterpress: A Review

By Hannah Schuster | Published: May 25, 2011

I have been volunteering at SFCB for a few months now, and have spent the majority of my time jealously staring at anyone expertly using the Vandercook Presses. I would think to myself- “Someday, Hannah, someday you will have the skills required to operate such a glorious machine!” Little did I know, the basic skills [...]

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Hannah Schuster
Hannah has been an avid book reader since her youth, and through a happy accident discovered the amazing art of book binding and letterpress. She has lived in San Francisco for three years and spends her time (when not occupied with all things book) taking photographs on an impractical camera and trolling the streets collecting twigs and discarded items.

SFCB Teacher Maia de Raat featured on Felt & Wire

By Rocket Caleshu | Published: May 11, 2011

SFCB teacher and friend Maia de Raat is featured on the Felt & Wire blog today! Great pictures of her jackelope cards, and this gem from the interview: De Raat’s process is simple: “I draw and erase, then draw, then erase … until I like what I see.” Congrats, Maia, and good luck at the [...]

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Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu is the Marketing and Communications Coordinator here at SFCB, and a freelance letterpress printer.

Workshop Spotlight: Feathers, Fur and Scales

By Maggie Engebretson | Published: April 18, 2011
Courtney Cerruti

Here’s a quick peek at this weekend’s Paper Animals workshop. Led by Courtney Cerruti (San Francisco’s resident paper creature expert). Workshop attendees Lynne Stevens, Kathleen Ryder, and Aba Nathan layered found paper and recycled dictionary pages over wire armatures to bring these gorgeous totem animals to life. The photos below capture the animals as works-in-progress, [...]

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Maggie Engebretson

Rik Olson: Master Printmaker

By Rocket Caleshu | Published: March 17, 2011
Rik Olson Print

For nearly twelve years, we have been lucky enough to have master printmaker Rik Olson as an SFCB instructor. Making the journey down from Sebastopol every few months, he brings a vast wealth of knowledge about all things illustration. In his own words, Rik has built a career “specializing in wood engraving, scratchboard, pen& ink, [...]

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Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu is the Marketing and Communications Coordinator here at SFCB, and a freelance letterpress printer.