Pattern & Flow with author Mindell Dubansky

Mindy Dubansky’s book Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s chronicles the flourishing of American decorated paper arts beginning in the 1960s and extending to the 2000s, with an ongoing legacy today. As museum librarian for preservation at the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dubansky will discuss her research into the study of decorated papers, share stories of the artists responsible for developing innovative styles of paper, and her role in the creation of the Paper Legacy Collection at the Thomas J. Watson Library.Be sure to follow us @ccaprintmedia on Instagram for weekly inspiration and Hamaguchi Print Week updates.

Location:
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island St
San Francisco, CA 94103

Time:
6 – 8 pm; presentation begins promptly at 6:30 pm

METAL / STONE / WOOD Exhibition and Open House

Sarah Horowitz / Chris Stinehour / Richard Wagener
copper plate engravings / stone letter carving / wood engraving
Exhibition and Open House at The CODEX Foundation 

Location:
The CODEX Foundation
Logan Book Arts Center
1331 Seventh Street, Units C & D
Berkeley, CA 94710

Time:
Saturday, February 3rd from 3-6pm
and
Thursday, February 8th from 12-4pm

San Francisco Center for the Book Kicks Off CODEX 2024!

SFCB welcomes you to join them for an open house celebrating the beginning of the Book Art Fair & Symposium! Stop by, see CODEX colleagues, and view the exhibition in the gallery; light refreshments will be provided.

Location:
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island St
​San Francisco, CA 94103

Time:
Doors open at 6 pm; event wraps up at 9 pm

In This Moment: The Book as Witness

An Exhibition of Artist’s Books 
Environmental Design Library

A catalog of the show will be available

Many facets of the current zeitgeist could not have been predicted just a few short years ago. While a plethora of issues facing our local, national, and global communities have been festering for some time, the abundance of recent issues in our post-pandemic, post-Roe world that have been thrown into the mix has caused people to juggle an ever-increasing number of balls as part of everyday life. Work for this exhibition will address current social issues from the artists’ individual or community perspective. Topics will range from global issues to local and personal stories.

Participants:
Julie Chen  (Curator)
Katie Baldwin
Alisa Banks
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Denise Bookwalter
Sarah Bryant
Macy Chadwick
Sandra C. Fernandez
Colette Fu
AB Gorham
Sarah Hulsey
Julie Leonard
Amy Lund
Sarah Matthews
Erin McAdams
Lois Morrison
Camden Richards
Steph Rue
Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder
Veronika Schäpers
Robbin Ami Silverberg
Rachel Simmons
Barbara Tetenbaum
Tricia Treacy

Location:
Environmental Design Library
210 Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
January 3, 2024 – March 3, 2024

Time:
Open Reception: Saturday, February 3
3 pm – 6 pm

The Embodied Press: queer abstraction and the artists’ book

October 12, 2023 – February 9, 2024

KALA Art Institute Gallery
Curated by Anthea Black

The artists’ book is a perfect form to experience the pleasures and politics of the handmade. Saturated ink spreading across a page. Layer upon layer. Looking that quickly opens up a range of senses. The Embodied Press features artist’s books and publications by queer and transgender artists, from graphic novels and collage-works to bold experiments with letterpress, screenprinting, video, performance, and risograph. Works from the 1970s to today overlap several successive chapters of LGBTQ+ and queer-feminist political action to expand our readings of contemporary queer culture. Artists in The Embodied Press make important visual and material choices in their use of printing techniques, sequencing, and manipulation or absence of text; they revel in visual abstraction as an antidote to the daily pressure of navigating our identities. What happens when a book “frustrates legibility” or becomes difficult to read? It must be felt. Held. Absorbed and activated. Each work poses questions about difference, intersectionality and power to show that sexual, gender and racial difference cannot be easily understood or legitimized through public visibility alone. These ideas find great resonance in the artists’ book field as it radically expands the ways books can be produced, read, and understood as a form of culture.

Participating Artists:
Megan Adie
Nadine Bariteau
Joshua Beckman
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Edie Fake 
Tatana Kellner
Kate Laster
Emily McVarish
Heidi Neilson
Lyman Piersma
Pati Scobey
Miller & Shellabarger
Stan Shellabarger
Nicholas Shick 
Clarissa Sligh

Location:
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702

Time:
Reception: Saturday, February 3, 3 pm – 6 pm

Bound to Be Different, Hand Bindings from Private Presses

The American Bookbinders Museum is pleased to present: “Bound to Be Different, Hand Bindings from Private Presses“, showcasing a range of fine bindings crafted by eleven private presses. Each press has a unique approach to the aesthetics of printing and binding. Included are books from William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, founded in 1891, to  contemporary presses.
Commercial books have a publisher (responsible for its content) and a bookmaker (responsible for its manufacture), but a private press is a publisher who is also a bookmaker. They publish limited editions in the hundreds of copies and rarely publish more than a few editions per year. In producing small, limited batches of books, great care is taken in crafting each volume.
All books in the exhibit were made entirely by hand, employing letterpress printing and hand-binding. Private presses have the freedom to publish classics or original works, and to use hand made materials and binding techniques that commercial publishers cannot replicate. As such, the books they produce are not only vessels for the conveyance of literature, they are works of art in their own right.
s, and view the exhibition in the gallery; light refreshments will be provided.

Location:
American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Time:
Opening Reception February 3, 4:30pm

METAL / STONE / WOOD Exhibition and Open House

Sarah Horowitz / Chris Stinehour / Richard Wagener
copper plate engravings / stone letter carving / wood engraving
Exhibition and Open House at The CODEX Foundation 

Location:
The CODEX Foundation
Logan Book Arts Center
1331 Seventh Street, Units C & D
Berkeley, CA 94710

Time:
Saturday, February 3rd from 3-6pm
and
Thursday, February 8th from 12-4pm

A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making
Gallery walk through and discussion

San Francisco Center for the Book will host Women’s Studio Workshop for an evening presentation of their rich 50-year history, the role WSW has played as one of the few remaining arts organizations devoted to women-identifying artists, and the importance of providing community space for studio artists to come together.

Location:
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Time:
6 – 8 pm; presentation begins promptly at 6:30 pm

In San Francisco Center for the Book’s gallery:
A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making (thru March 31, 2024)

Kicking off at SFCB, Women’s Studio Workshop’s 50th anniversary exhibition looks at the organization’s rich history as a proponent of book arts for marginalized communities in the U.S., where documentation and critical analysis in the field are still largely reserved for White male artists. Through artists’ books, zines, printed materials, ephemera, and archival materials, the exhibition examines how the organization’s policies, programming, and operations have evolved over the last fifty years, thus creating a space where the conditions of art-making and institutional support are in the service of a sustainable and more equitable art ecosystem.

Location:
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Time:
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm

Letterform Archive Open House: CODEX and the ABAA

To celebrate the CODEX IX Book Fair and the 56th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, Letterform Archive welcomes book lovers for a special reception and salon.

Join us for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and a pop-up exhibit of rare bibliographic items from the collection.

Location:
Letterform Archive
2325 Third St. Floor 4R
San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

Time:
Reception: 5pm – 8pm