Reckonings: A show by VABC Member Jesse Wells, May 4th-May 28 the New Dominion Bookshop Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 2012, 5:30-7:30pm New Dominion Bookshop (on the Historic Downtown Mall) 404 East Main Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 Gallery Hours during Bookshop hours. www.newdominionbookshop.com Jesse Wells’ most recent series is an assemblage of tokens pointing to peripheral [...]
May 12: (Saturday), 12:00-4:00pm Book structure: Coptic Fee: $20 members, $25 non-members Class limit: 8 people Hope you can join the class—Coptic sewing is fun and the finished books are lovely. This will be an intermediate-level class requiring knowledge of basic bookmaking and pre-class preparation. Please read the description and send Addeane any questions or comments. [...]
“Wow! Look at that giant printer!” These were the words of a student visiting the VABC in the nineties. It was the first time I noticed that the identity of the printing press was slipping away. The student was pointing to the huge cast-iron Washington press which Rare Books School had loaned to the VABC. [...]
Virginia Arts of the Book Center 2125 Ivy Road, “behind the Art Box” Sunday, March 25, Noon to 2PM Join us for a special event at the VABC during the 2012 Virginia Festival of the Book, Sunday, March 25. Formal presentation from Noon to 2PM…and informal open house on into the afternoon! Sci-fi illustrator and [...]
A skeleton and a neon sign were all that remained. When my fellow artists and I were seeking a new location for our collective, a studio that would be named Ten Flavors after the dust-covered neon ice cream parlor sign we discovered above the old downtown storefront. To be sure, the skeleton was only a [...]
I was arrested by the emotional power of the written word on my visit to Sweet Briar College several weeks ago. Gay and I had traveled down to Amherst County to participate in a poetry reading featuring recent work of writers resident at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts across the highway from the college [...]
March 1-29 Art on Ivy Gallery / Virginia Arts of the Book Center 2125 Ivy Road, Charlottesville (“The Art Box entrance”) 9:30 – 5:30 M-F, 10AM-4PM Sat, Closed Sunday Join us in welcoming “Pigeon,” an exhibition by Greg Antrim Kelly of pencil and ink drawings. Featuring selections of 20 original pieces that appeared in Kelly’s [...]
Oh fortunate man, I successfully lured my wife, Gay, into the august halls of New York City’s Grolier Club on our whirlwind two-day holiday trip to the city! The Grolier Club, with a clubhouse in midtown Manhattan, is one of America’s oldest associations of bibliophiles. It can never hope to compete with the blockbuster [...]
Congratulations to Anne Harding Woodworth of Washington, DC, the winner of the Musical Mood poetry contest. Her poem “Taps” will be made into a limited-edition letterpress broadside by VABC artists. Images of previous broadside winners HERE. Contest poems were to engage the theme of music. Honorable mentions go to poets Mary Pinard (Roslindale, MA) for “Wanting [...]
April 28 through June 2 Design with Type Certification Course Virginia Arts of the Book Center 2125 Ivy Road (Ivy Road Shopping Center) 6 Saturdays, 10:00 AM-12:00 Noon Instructor: Josef Beery Tuition: $500 (Member and Nonmember price, UVa Education Benefit Eligible) VABC Members not using Education Benefit receive $50 discount ($450) Contact kmcfadden@virginia.edu for inquiries [...]