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Spring and Summer Highlights
Exhibitions and Events | • | Join us on August 15 for the opening of Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship. Participating artists include: Sandow Birk, Eva
Bovenzi, Milton Bowens, Enrique Chagoya, Luis Delgado, Emory Douglas, Ala
Ebtekar, Art Hazelwood, Charles Hobson, Naomie Kremer, Mary Risala Laird,
Kara Maria, Mary Marsh, Wendy Miller, Penny Nii, Nigel Poor, Favianna
Rodriguez, Roberto Rovira, Joe Sam, Hadi Tabatabai, Sandra Ortiz Taylor,
Brian Keith Thomas, Kathy Walkup, Kazuko Watanabe and Jan Wurm. In our
schools and communities, intellectual freedom and freedom of expression are
increasingly under attack. This exhibition in a collaboration with the
African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO), the exhibition at
the AAMLO opens on Sept 5.
|  | | • | Dominic Riley, a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in the United Kingdom will give a presentation on Aug 1 at 7pm:
A Bookbinding Odyssey. Riley
started creating unique design bindings in 2000 and has won ten prizes in
national Designer Binders competitions in the UK, including-in 2007-two
first prizes and the coveted Mansfield Medal. Read more about Riley
here.
| | | • | For Poets Pulling Prints this summer, we have a tremendous trio of printers: Terry Horrigan, Mary Laird, and Lisa Rappoport with their
corresponding poets: Ralph Dranow, Carolyn Miller and Lisa Robertson.
Limited edition broadsides from each of the pairs will be available.
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Summer Bookbinding Intensives These extended intensive workshps allow you to go deep, affording the time
to explore and practice new skills and techniques, to master new materials
and structures, to work closely with talented and experienced instructors,
and to develop your own ideas and work under expert supervision. The
complete schedule is available here.
Printing Our
letterpress program continues strong as a new wave of talented printer/designers fills our
studio. Remember, after graduating from our introductory classes (I-III), you'll be qualified to
rent the presses for your own projects. It's exciting for us to see gorgeous prints lifted from
the rollers of our Vandercooks every day.
Other printing/printmaking classes:
| • | Macy Chadwick's unique class, Three Techniques for Printing Images
Letterpress, counts as Letterpress II & III. Complete your qualifying
classes with new methods for background textures and hues, relief printing
with linoleum and photopolymer plates, and finish off your composition with
wood type.
| | | • | Wood Type Posters, with Melissa Kaup, takes advantage of the Center's extensive wood type collection to help you create colorful,
large-format posters.
| | | • | Gettting Started with Silkscreen, with Thilde Weems, introduces you to this dynamic technique for creating striking imagery.
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Bookbinding We insist on teaching solid fundamentals to start you off on the right foot. Bookbinding I and
II will build a foundation for more advanced classes – in both traditional or experimental
styles. We are happy to have bookbinding instructors Dominic Riley
and Michael Burke visiting again this summer from the UK an
Historical and Advanced Bookbinging Series including:
- Longstitch and Linkstitch Binding Intensive with Michael Burke
- Millimeter Binding with Michael Burke
- Luxury in Leather: Elements of Design Binding with Dominic Riley
- Restoration of Leather Bindings with Dominic Riley
Related Arts This category, which we sometimes call "the creative heart of book making"
includes a variety of techniques and topics, classes that can't be easily
pegged.
Classes include:
| • | Encaustic Painting Techniques, with Eve Marie Bergren, learn the essentials of this unique medium and experiment with various applications .
| | | • | Advanced Collage with Thilde Weems expands on her popular Magic of Collage class. Go further with your collage technique.
| | | • | Enliven Your Work with Susan E. King, develop a current project, get new ideas for how to approach your next book work, and get feedback on
a work in progrss.
| | | • | Contemporary Stereo Cards with Georgette Freeman leads you through the process of creating your own stereo images, with the
irresistibly cool and retro form factor of an antique stereoscope.
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Highlights
Book Arts Salon
Tuesday Sep 2, 7pm
Kate Godfrey will present The Art of Selling. The Book Arts Salon (formerly the Bookarts Users Group, or BUG) is a free and informal gathering for local artists and writers to convene and converse. Fere and everyone is welcome.
Roadworks: Steamroller Prints
Sat Sep 20, 12 noon to 5 pm
 Join us for our 5th annual street fair on De Haro Street between 16th and 17th Streets. Local artists will be creating unique large-scale linoleum block carvings printed with a three-ton steamroller, dozens of book arts vendors will be selling their wares, there'll be free children's activities, music, and a chance to pull your very own letterpress print in the SFCB studio. See photos from previous events and find out more here.
Looking to Buy or Sell Equipment?
Check out our
Equipment Exchange Bulletin Board
Visit Bookmaking for Kids
The Teacher Features blog has a new name and a new location. Please click Bookmaking with Kids to explore this resource for finding book projects to make with kids—in the classroom, at home, in libraries and at community events.
In the Austin/Burch Gallery: Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship
Aug 15 - Nov 26
This exhibition presents work by visual artists in response to books that have been repressed, censored or banned. Click here to see a list of public programs associted with the exihibition.
Support the SFCB When You Shop On Amazon
 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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