Help to “sing the body electric” in this call for submissions seeking a poem about energy. Make it a crisis, make it a storm: just tap something more kinetic than potential. The power can come from anywhere—words, chemistry, wind, water, oil, storms—but its force must move the reader. Supported by Poetry Daily and the Virginia [...]
Architects and dreamers have shared the VABC this month. Artists on different missions yet sharing a common geometric figure as the home base for their explorations. The figure of the circle. Rich in meaning, the circle can symbolize completeness, a line with no beginning or end. Cultures have also seen it as a symbol of [...]
Art on Ivy Gallery (“Beneath the Art Box”) 2125 Ivy Road, M-F 9:30-5:30; Sat 10-4; closed Sunday May 1 – May 31 Thursday, May 17 – 6PM, Live reading of Borges’s “The Circular Ruins” by storyteller Browning Porter, followed by refreshments and discussion. (Bring a circular snack to share.) VABC welcomes “The Circular Ruins” to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Instructor: Lana Lambert Dates: April 28th (1st class) and May 5th (2nd class) 12 Noon – 4pm Fee: $150 members, $175 non-members The Japanese Woodblock Printing or Moku Hanga process is as beautiful as the prints it produces. In an age of getting-it-done-yesterday-everything-all-the-time-prefabulousness, a process that lets you slow down and reconnect with natural materials and work [...]
The next collaborative project is now taking shape. Below you will find the guidelines, schedule and current signature “chapter” themes you can join, or develop your own. Happy Printing! SPECS and GUIDELINES: Bound book of a number of 12-page signatures (note change!) on the theme of a pocket reference or almanac (no fewer than five [...]
Tuesday, March 27 to May 1 Six Tuesdays, 5:30-8:30pm Intensive Bookbinding Certification: Coptic Binding Virginia Arts of the Book Center 2125 Ivy Road (Ivy Road Shopping Center) Instructors: Kristin Adolfson and Lindsey Mears Tuition: $500 (Member and Nonmember price, UVa Education Benefit Eligible) VABC Members not using Education Benefit receive $50 discount ($450) Contact kmcfadden@virginia.edu [...]
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 [...]
Join us at the VABC from 11AM-4PM on Saturday, December 10 as we open up our catalog for show and sale for the Holiday Open House and Gift Bazaar. Broadsides, cards, and a keepsake holiday card straight off the press just for stopping by. Great limited-edition gifts for that hard-to-sh0p-for friend. Pop in if you’re [...]