March 2nd, 2010
(photo) “After Love” Illustrated by Jeff Pike & Produced at the VABC
“Letters to Fictions: Heloise & Abelard” a presentation with Jeff Pike, Professor of Communications Design, Washington University, St. Louis.
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center
Book artist, author and illustrator Jeff Pike will present his just completed “hand [...]
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February 19th, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2:00-4:00 pm:
Workshop Fee: $15 members / $30 non-members (materials are included)
A workshop on making basic accordion structures, with models and instructions for designing and making a whole book, plus time to create one accordion book and, depending on your speed and enthusiasm, perhaps a second one.
The workshop will include…
Demo and instructions. A handout will be [...]
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February 19th, 2010
Virginia Festival of the Book – VABC Open House
Sunday, March 21, 12:00-4:00 pm:
http://www.vabook.org/site10/program/details.php?eventID=228
Drop in from Noon to 4 PM in Central Virginia’s open book arts studio for a look at current work by local members. Cards, prints, and broadsides available that make great gifts for book lovers.
While you’re out and about, the Sunday Book Festival [...]
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May 7th, 2009
Concept: Participating artists will choose a theme from the list and interpret the theme as a whole/face/major arcana/ace “card”—no suits, sixes, or tens—that is a representation of its concept. One way of thinking of it was “a deck of ideas” and it should be oriented to the present or future. One approach would be for [...]
Tags: card project, group project, project 2009
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April 29th, 2009
(Sept. 29…Charlottesville, VA) The Virginia Arts of the Book Center, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is pleased to announce that Jnanam MacIsaac, of Charlottesville, VA, is the winner of the “Green Poems” contest, the fourth of the independent book arts studio’s annual broadside contests.
Poems were to engage the chosen theme—green—in any [...]
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April 20th, 2009
Guests included the Deputy Mayor and Culture Minister of Florence Italy, JMU President Linwood Rose and his wife; and JMU Associate Provost Lee Sternberger. The delegation was given a tour of the press, and various printing demonstrations by VABC members.
Tags: florence, vabc tour
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April 16th, 2009
The Virginia Arts of the Book Center has a new online look! We hope to give you a better sense of the great work going on at the VABC with better posting features, a new calendar, and more ways for our Pressgroup members to show you what they’re up to at the shop. Click around, [...]
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April 16th, 2009
We live in a world of clicks. But not so long ago it was click clack clack clatter click CA-CHIIIING. Journey back to those good old days as 3 typewriters and 200 lbs of paper work away on Saturday, April 25 from SUNUP to SUNDOWN (6AM-8PM) on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. Try your hand typing [...]
Tags: freedom of expression, fun, type, typewriter, virginia arts of the book center
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