
Outreach
The CODEX Foundation works in conjunction with other bibliophilic, book arts, and printmaking organizations in the Bay Area such as these Berkeley organizations: Colophon Club, KALA Art Institute, UC Berkeley Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library; and these Bay Area institutions: San Francisco Center for the Book, Book Club of California, Arion Press, Letterform Archive, Stanford University Libraries, and the American Bookbinders Museum.
The CODEX Foundation also supports national and international book arts activities and organizations, such as: the College Book Art Association, American Printing History Association, Fine Press Book Association, Guild of Bookworkers, and more.
We currently have internship and volunteer programs in place to engage the local community. As well as offering tours, lectures, and events in our Logan Book Arts Center which houses our flex-space, master letterpress print studio, research library, and publishing headquarters.
We collaborate in cross border outreach programs, such as: CODEXMexico, CODEXAustralia, CODEXNordica, and CODEXChina. Each of these CODEX events made a special effort to invite and involve artists and scholars from these countries while headlining symposium speakers and exhibiting their artists’ work. For example, the CODEX Foundation and Stanford University Libraries coordinated with CODEXMexico to organize a very successful Mexican and Californian book arts exhibit, including a catalogue and conferences, that traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico City, Puebla and Washington D.C. in 2011 and 2012. We also helped CODEXAustralia to host its first Book Fair and Symposium – Book, Art, Object, Maker – in 2014 in Melbourne. The CODEX Foundation is interested in collaborating with local, regional, national, and international organizations to share our expertise and passion for the field of artist books and fine press books.