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. [...]
Art On Ivy Gallery July 01 – 31 11-4pm (excluding Sundays) Accessed through Creative Framing/The Art Box 2125 Ivy Square, Charlottesville The Virginia Arts of the Book Center welcomes The New World, an installation by The Printmakers Left, an international collective, working for ten years through the UVA art printshop on collaborative installations, portfolios and [...]
My wife Gay works with some amazing food as a chef. Recently she came home with a carload of fresh vegetables harvested from Monticello’s kitchen garden. This exuberant cabbage took root in what is my already pretty muddy mind and has become the subject of several prints. I was recently asked by the staff of [...]
Spring has come to Virginia and Romanticism has come to the VABC. This month, we host a classic Virginia Foundation for the Humanities exhibit that used to travel to libraries and museums statewide in the age before digital exhibits, “William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism. Why consider the Romantics now? As you stroll [...]
Brown Brownsides Brown has really been green for a long time. The University of Virginia’s Brown College, an undergraduate residential college, has invited renowned writers on environmental subjects to visit the college every semester for well over a decade. This program has given college students and community members an opportunity to meet and talk with [...]
June 11 and June 18 (Two Saturdays, 12:00 noon-4:00pm) Instructor: Lana Lambert Cost: $150. members, $175. non-members Learn the basics of Moku Hanga or Japanese Woodblock Printing. In this two day workshop, students will learn how the Japanese pulled beautiful prints using only a block of wood, a bit of rice paste, and a bit [...]
Spring’s winds blow with a fury of activity in the VABC this February and March. Dozens of members shake of their winter lethargy and join in on the production of this year’s VABC limited edition collaborative project–a modern book of indulgences. Kicked off by an inspiring talk by Dean Dass of the UVa Art Department, [...]
Continued from the VABC newsletter…. Josef Beery write about the history of Indulgences and the upcoming VABC group Indulgence project.