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Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined
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Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined

April 19–June 15, 2025

Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined takes inspiration from passports and other travel-related ephemera, highlighting nearly 30 artists’ books that document both the promises and limitations of the passport, while considering key concepts of nationality, boundary, and place.

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Upcoming Events

What’s happening at SFCB?

View fullsize St. Rita's Amazing Traveling Bookstore at SFCB Sunday, April 20, 2025 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Bookstore proprietress Rita Collins will be bringing her bookstore-on-wheels back to SFCB! Visiting 23 cities in six and a half weeks, St. Rita's Amazing Travel
View fullsize Evening Studio Rental alert! SFCB's Bindery and Print studio are both open for rental on Thursday evening, April 3 from 5-9pm. Register at the link in bio. (print by @blferrett - all cabbage feelings are welcome at sfcb)
View fullsize Mita Mahato @mita_mahato will join SFCB on Thursday, April 3 at 12:30pm PDT for a From the Bench online artist visit. She will share insight into how place-making inspires the hybrid poetics in her new book "Arctic Play" and its companion a
View fullsize Tension, Harmony, Movement: Exploring the Works in OPEN • SET Thursday, March 27, 2025 || 6 - 8 pm This week: OPEN • SET organizer Lang Ingalls and exhibiting artist Beth Redmond discuss contemporary design bookbinding and selected works f
View fullsize West Berkeley Community Print Festival 2025 Saturday, April 5, 2025 || 12 - 4 pm Visit the SFCB table at Kala Art Institute’s annual printmaking festival! From community art workshops and artist demonstrations to artist vendors and print stu
View fullsize Tension, Harmony, Movement: Exploring the Works in OPEN • SET Thursday, March 27, 2025 || 6 - 8 pm Join OPEN • SET organizer Lang Ingalls and exhibiting artist Beth Redmond—recipient of the award Highly Commendable: Design Tension in
View fullsize Table applications are open for the SF Art Book Fair! The third annual SFABF is presented by the Minnesota Street Project Foundation and is an annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of printed material from independent publishers, artists, desi
View fullsize The 2025 Book Arts Mentorship award application closes SUNDAY MARCH 2! Julie Chen @flyingfishpress and Zach Clark @zachclarkis will each offer a one-on-one mentorship for mid-career and established book artists from underrepresented communities. Men
View fullsize CATCHING UP WITH: S. Erin Batiste, SFCB Book Arts Mentee 2024 “The SFCB Mentorship Award was the start of my fortune turning, and moving more into my practice and my purpose. Since, I've left my clerical job, traveled to Austria to gain more p
View fullsize CATCHING UP WITH: Danielle McCoy, SFCB Book Arts Mentee 2024 “Being one of SFCB’s first Book Arts Mentorship Award recipients marked the beginning of a pretty significant pivot in my creative practice. After nearly a decade working as a

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