Thanks to everyone who helped make our seventh Raucous Auction one louder and one better! We hit our fundraising goal and can keep the classes, projects, and workshops coming… We hope you’re enjoying your art already. We’ll arrange pickups for those of you who may have left a silent auction bid and were wondering. Contact [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cost: $500 (tuition is UVa Educational Benefit eligible), $450 for members Instructors: Kristin Adolfson, Lindsey Mears 6 Thursdays, 5:30-8:30pm March 31 to May 12 (no class April 21) In this Intensive Bookbinding Certification course we will learn a series of bookbinding techniques. Starting with a simple pamphlet stitch binding, students will plan and create three [...]
no fee; everyone welcome Saturday, Jan. 8, 12:00 noon–4:00 p.m. “Use it again, Sam!” Making books from recycled materials VABC bookmakers and visitors will explore making books from only recycled materials. any kind of book: traditional — radical —whimsical any recycled materials that can be used in books Materials to bring any recycled materials [...]
Curious about the auction? Watch a slideshow from the 2010 Raucous Auction in our new space below the Art Box »
Join us for an introduction to the basics of letterpress and make 15 cards while you’re at it…they make nice gifts or come in handy for the holidays. Come with about 20 words in mind (it must fit on a card!) to print a simple, one-sided, one-color card using available lead type and dingbats. Class [...]
In our new location under Creative Framing/The Art Box (Ivy Square), we are inviting your participation in our REVERSE AUCTION project: we’ll help you print TEN posters with your words, phrase, quote, ad, or otherwised unpublicized notion that the world is missing right now. Assembly line style: You come in with 20 words. Within a [...]