April 17th, 2009
6″x14.5″ multi-color linoleum cut by Josef Beery
Year of the Ox print
Book Festival Pass
April 17th, 2009
In 2009, the VABC helped out the Virginia Festival of the Book by designing and producing its “Headline Event” passes. This pass was designed on a computer, saved as a pdf, then sent to our friends at Boxcar Press who converted it to a reversed polymer image. We can then print with the polymer using [...]
Winter Holiday Card
January 30th, 2009
The haiku (written by Kristin) reads: Smoke chilled air, immovable as a sharp twig snaps sharply like ice. Under the cold earth spring is silent.
L,O,V,E and the Other 22
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 [...]
One Volume Missing
September 4th, 2008
Beautiful, limited edition letterpress work signed by Rita Dove featuring the poem “One Volume Missing” from Dove’s Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collection, Thomas and Beulah, which traces the lives of her grandparents. Handset in Caslon types and printed on Stonehenge paper. A limited edition of 100. A limited number of these broadsides are available for [...]
Snake Oil & Voodoo Chicken
September 3rd, 2008
Cherryl Floyd-Miller’s two poems Snake Oil and Voodoo Chicken. The poems won the Companion Poems Broadside contest, Virginia Arts of the Book Center, VFH, Charlottesville, 2006. Broadside designed by Kristin Adolfson and printed by Angie Hogan and Kevin McFadden. Letterpress printed with penciled accents, numbered edition of 70. This broadside is available for $35 through [...]