Member Bio: Kevin McFadden is the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities liaison to the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. His work at the VFH has included nine seasons as the Associate Program Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book. He is a letterpress printer whose first book of poems, Hardscrabble, was awarded the Fellowship of Southern Writers' George Garrett Award and the Great Lakes College Association's New Writing Award.
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The Virginia Arts of the Book Center is pleased to announce that Laura McKee of Seattle, WA, is the winner of the “Power Poems” poetry contest. Her poem “Good Behavior / White Salmon” will be made into a limited-edition letterpress broadside by VABC artists. Contest poems were to engage the theme of power. Other finalists for [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Broadsides on February 1st, 2013 | No Comments »
“Taps” by Anne Harding Woodworth was the winner of the 2011 Musical Mood Contest. “Taps” was originally published in TriQuarterly, Issue 129, 2007. Ink drawing for plate by Frank Riccio, typeset by Kevin McFadden, and letterpress printed by hand at Virginia Arts of the Book Center, a program of Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, [...]
Filed under: Broadsides on May 10th, 2012 | No Comments »
Top row: Roger Williams, Lindsey Mears (instructor), Anne Causey, Addeane Caelleigh, Melissa Dimmitt; Bottom row: Kevin McFadden, Kristin Adolfson (instructor), and Melanie Lower.
Filed under: Recent Work on May 4th, 2012 | 3 Comments »
“Pip, Mid-Sea” is a poem by Hailey Leithauser that won the VABC “Chapter Verse” poetry contest (poems about books) with her poem in the vein of Moby Dick. The image is pen-and-ink artwork by Frank Riccio, for a two-plate process. Typeset by Kevin McFadden. Riccio and McFadden printed the broadside in a limited edition of [...]
Filed under: Broadsides on July 27th, 2011 | No Comments »
Join us in celebrating the publication of the winner of the 2009 “Green Poems” broadside contest–Jnanam MacIsaac. Click on the image to see what the collaboration with VABC Artist Frank Riccio yielded, a limited edition of 100 copies. (It’s even better in the pear-flesh.) Broadsides will be available for $45 ($35 for members). A limited [...]
Filed under: Broadsides on July 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In 2009, the VABC helped out the Virginia Festival of the Book by designing and producing its “Headline Event” passes. This pass was designed on a computer, saved as a pdf, then sent to our friends at Boxcar Press who converted it to a reversed polymer image. We can then print with the polymer using [...]
Filed under: Recent Work on April 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
Signed, letterpress print of the late George Garrett’s poem “Luck’s Shining Child.” Printed in black on natural paper with attractive, light-fast, black paper wrapper (Stonehenge paper) imprinted with silver lettering. Limited edition of 150 in honor of his Virginia Poet Laureateship during the 10th annual Virginia Festival of the Book.
Filed under: Broadsides, Members Only on September 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Beautiful, limited edition letterpress work signed by Rita Dove featuring the poem “One Volume Missing” from Dove’s Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collection, Thomas and Beulah, which traces the lives of her grandparents. Handset in Caslon types and printed on Stonehenge paper. A limited edition of 100. A limited number of these broadsides are available for [...]
Filed under: Broadsides, Recent Work on September 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
