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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September 3rd, 2009
Join us Sept. 20th, 1-5PM, for an open house as we celebrate our latest broadside–Jennifer Perrine’s “Life Gives You Lemons, Make”–and toast the equinox with lemonade. (Lavender lemonade while it lasts, also a $25 members price on the broadside.) Check in on the “Infinite Stakes” project, a publicity plan for the Nov 13th Raucous Auction, [...]
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July 2nd, 2009
You are invited to join the VABC for our Summer Seminar sessions, weeklong immersions in the book arts. Meet daily at the VABC for printing instruction and building familiarity with the book arts. See “Classes and Hours” in the tab above for the descriptions of “Loaded Words” with Lindsey Mears and “Works on Paper” with [...]
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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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September 10th, 2008
This is the winner of the 2007 “Belle Letters” contest….Jeanette Marie Sayers’s “L, O, V, E, and the Other Twenty-two” is a whimsical and romantic exploration of the alphabet, the winner of the Belle Letters contest from the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, letterpress printed in Charlottesville, 2008. Each letter has a story, and [...]
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