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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 REMINDER: 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 Amaz
View fullsize We have an action-packed weekend of public events at SFCB! Stop by and browse St. Rita’s Amazing Bookstore and Textual Apothecary (in our parking lot) and then take a moment to view “Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined” in o
View fullsize Join Billy Ola Hutchinson @billy_ola for a three session crash course in calligraphy! Each of the three evenings will focus on a different hand: Billy’s informal take on Gothic, Italic, and Copperplate. Students will learn foundational techniqu
View fullsize May’s virtual studio tour guest is Katie Leavens @kmdleavens, a freelance illustrator and calligrapher based in San Francisco. She thrives on complex projects that blend her background in design, illustration, and lettering. She has a passion f
View fullsize SFCB's new exhibition - Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined - opens Saturday, April 19th! This exhibition travels to SFCB from the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) and features nearly 40 artists’ books inspired by the passport 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 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

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