Bookbinding Workshop Enclose This: Bound Enclosures and Clamshell Boxes Instructor: Amanda Nelsen Date: February 11 & 18 (11am-4pm) Fee: $110 VABC Members, $120 non-members During this workshop we will discuss and practice measuring off the object, materials selection, gauging material thickness, adhesive options, cutting techniques, and best practices for construction. Students will create two four-flap [...]
Workshop: Intensifying Love (A Wood Type Reduction) Instructor: Garrett Queen Date: February 4th, 1-5 pm. Fee: $35 members, $45 non-members This workshop will concentrate on presswork using the Vandercook Universal One. Focus will be on prepress planning, lock-up, multi-color registration, impression pressure and overall print quality. At the end of the day each participant will [...]
At our recent members meeting we had a fruitful and inspiring brainstorming session regarding the 2012 collaborative project. This page is to serve as an area where all members can converse, brainstorm, and exchange ideas by replying to this post below. We will be having a new brainstorming session in person at Block Nite, Wednesday [...]
This Saturday, January 7, 1pm – 4pm Start off the new year on Saturday Jan 7 at the VABC at 1pm. We will socialize a bit with a potluck lunch. Bring something to share, or check in to Foods of All Nations as you park your car… We will laugh a bit by having a [...]
Raucous Auction Friday, November 11 ELEVEN! ELEVEN!! ELEVEN!!! 5:30- 8PM Live auctions at 6 and 7, silent auction til 7:45 Suggested donation: $11 or purchase Virginia Arts of the Book Center 2125 Ivy Square Shopping Center (enter through the Art Box) It’s that time of year again–join us for the Raucous Auction as the members [...]
During this 6-week course, which meets 1-5PM on Sundays*, class members will learn all of the skills for basic competency with the VABC’s letterpress printing equipment. At the end of our class we’ll conduct a printing test toward licensure to use equipment independent of supervision. Contact kmcfadden@virginia.edu by September 22 to reserve a space in [...]
Remember last year’s Raucous Auction when we signed up a number of people to print a limited edition of their own posters? Well, we’re showing the fruits of those labors for September’s “Art on Ivy” Gallery Show. It’s a lot of fun to put your words into big block prints…aided by VABC Artists. Drop by [...]
Use it or lose it? Postal systems are under attack. Many countries have never quite gotten one really off the ground. In the United States the USPS is a centuries-old institution…long revered and trusted since its creation by the Continental Congress in 1775 with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster. Now snail mail seems to [...]
Herman Melville’s magnificent novel Moby Dick provides an ocean of meaning for a new poem by Hailey Leithauser. Leithauser is the winner of the 2011 Virginia Arts of the Book Center Poetry Contest, “Chapter Verse.” Her poem “Pip Mid-Sea” follows: Dear muddler and paddler of puddles, dear huddler of egotist oceans, dear floater, dear rower [...]
THE SUBMISSION PERIOD IS NOW CLOSED. Ezra Pound famously said, “When poetry strays too far from music, it atrophies.” Well, it’s time to warm up those scales! This call for submissions seeks a poem attuned to the frequencies of musical composition: the sounds, instruments, rhythms, melodies, and harmonies are at the discretion of the composer. [...]