Hamaguchi x KALA alumni exhibition and CODEX Welcome Party

Kickoff Hamaguchi Print season with an exhibition celebrating the work of recent Hamaguchi x KALA artists-in-residence! See what alumni awardees Zoe Spikerman, Camila Killion, Khushi Thakkar, and Aris Ruff have created at KALA Art Institute. This professional residency is a creative and financial launch-pad that supports CCA alumni working across print, paper, and artist’s books for 9 months after graduation. 

CODEX Welcome Party coincides with the CODEX International Art Book Fair and invites our extended print, paper, and book arts communities to visit CCA’s new studios and experience works by some of our recent alumni superstars. 

All members of the CCA community and the public are welcome to attend our CODEX Welcome Party and we encourage you to mark your calendars and RSVP early for our 31st annual Hamaguchi Visiting Artist Lecture by Alison Saar on March 11, 2026. 

This event is open and free to the public. RSVP is encouraged.

Be sure to follow us @ccaprintmedia on Instagram for weekly inspiration and Hamaguchi Print Week updates.

Hamaguchi Printmedia Week is curated by Anthea Black, Associate Professor, Printmedia and Graduate Fine Arts.

Location:
Printmedia Etching, Relief and Letterpress Studio, D164, Double Ground
California College of the Arts
145 Hooper Street, San Francisco 94107

Time:
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

About the Printmedia Program at California College of the Arts
Printmedia is a hub for contemporary art, craft, and design, situated front-and-centre in CCA’s new Double Ground makerspaces. Through Print we are committed to the creative, social, and political role of the artist in society, and our alumni can be found exhibiting their works in top galleries & museums, and working as professional printers, art publishers, teachers, illustrators, as image-makers for activist movements and more. Printmedia faculty include Hamaguchi Curator Anthea Black, Michael Wertz, Emily McVarish, Luz Marina Ruiz, Shanna Strauss, Courtney Sennish, Leonard Reidelbach, and Julia Goodman; with guest faculty from across Fine Art, Design, and Writing & Literature at CCA. 

About the Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Awards
The purpose of the Hamaguchi Scholarship Awards is to foster excellence and dedication in the study and practice of Printmedia. The undergraduate award is open to all majors whose work is dedicated to the practice of printmaking and print media. Award recipients receive a scholarship of $5,000, framing of their works, and participate in an annual curated exhibition at CCA’s PLAySPACE Gallery. Our annual bursaries support student access to high-quality printmaking supplies and paper. Our Hamaguchi Graduate Scholar awards and our CCA x KALA emerging artist residency program extend support for exceptional students engaged in contemporary printmaking at all stages of their practice. 

About Yozo Hamaguchi 
In 1995 Yozo Hamaguchi and his wife, Keiko Minami generously endowed a fund at CCA (then CCAC) for the purpose of granting annual awards to outstanding students in Printmedia. Each an artist of international reputation, the Hamaguchis were born in Japan, then studied and lived in France from the 1950s until their arrival in San Francisco in 1982. After Mr. Hamaguchi retired, he gave his exquisite American-French Tool etching press to the Printmedia Program, and the Hamaguchis returned to Japan, where both artists lived into their 90s. Hamaguchi’s legacy as a renowned master of color mezzotint etching continues at CCA today.

Priscillia Leal Torres, Director of éditions Leal Torres in France will present a video of her latest artist book publication project. Inge Bruggeman, Director of The CODEX Foundation will give a brief introduction in English about the CODEX X International Biennial Book Art Fair & Symposium and introduce Priscillia Leal Torres who will give her presentation in French with an English translator so the event will be bilingual.

The éditions Leal Torres creates limited edition books which are connected to the livre d’artiste tradition developed in France during the late 19th and 20th centuries, however Priscillia Leal Torres takes her productions in new contemporary directions, often collaborating with the Atelier du Livre d’art et de l’Estampe de l’Imprimerie Nationale. 

Location:
San Francisco Alliance Française
1345 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

Time:
5:30 pm Reception
6:00 pm Event

Collecting with Integrity and Intention: A Seminar for Library Professionals

Full-day Seminar with Ruth Rogers at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Location:
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Friday, February 6, 2026

Time:
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Cost:
$300 Seminar Only
$425 Seminar plus Multi-Day pass to the Book Art Fair & Symposium ($300 value)

Collecting with Integrity and Intention: A Seminar for Library Professionals

Ruth R. Rogers

How does a librarian develop the critical insights needed to build a collection of contemporary artists’ books? What kind of collaborations between students and faculty can be explored through engagement with them, and how do we refine our choices? This one-day intensive seminar will cover creative approaches to harness the visual and communicative power of artists’ books, by integrating them into an institution’s broader curricular objectives.

The seminar will be divided into morning and afternoon sessions. Morning will be devoted to sharing strategies for identifying artists’ books that fit into a cross-disciplinary educational mission and how they connect to existing historical collections. Sample lecture topics and lists of suggested books will be provided. 

The afternoon session will be devoted to guided hands-on analysis of pre-selected books based on the morning’s themes, beginning with work in small groups, and concluding with lively discussion and debate. 

The goal of the seminar is to provide attendees with the tools and framework needed for acquiring artists’ books that will have a lasting impact in their collections. By emphasizing content, production values, communicative power, and course collaborations, attendees will be better equipped with strategies for expanding their own institutional collections. 

CODEX X Kick-Off Party!

San Francisco Center for the Book is excited to host CODEX X attendees, exhibitors, and participants at their biannual kickoff party!

This signature event marks the beginning of the fair and provides an exclusive opportunity to preview the new exhibition Who Is America at 250?: Artists’ Books in the Age of Democracy. Join us at SFCB to connect with colleagues, enjoy some light bites, celebrate the vibrant book arts community, and inaugurate the tenth edition of CODEX. Attendance is free, but RSVPs are appreciated.

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

Time:
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Member & Guest Social: CODEX X

Join us for a special reception to celebrate the International Biennial CODEX Book Art Fair & Symposium. Mix and mingle with members, volunteers, special guests, and staff. Light refreshments will be served. Space is limited. Registration required.

This event is open to Book Club of California members and CODEX X exhibitors and participants.

Location:
Book Club of California
47 Kearny Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94108

Time:
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

MUST have a CODEX Badge or special invitation to attend

Light snacks and refreshments served. Cocktails available for purchase.

Location:
Oakland Marriott City Center
Skyline Ballroom – 21st Floor

Time:
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (Immediately after the Book Art Fair closes)

BOOKNESS Exhibition at Kala Art Institute
Curated by Inge Bruggeman, Sonya Casatillo, Mayumi Hamanaka, & Ellen Lake

The book is a cultural artifact that has taken many shapes and forms across the globe and over time. From papyrus scroll and medieval parchment manuscript, to palm-leaf bindings, accordions, slat books, and other Asian-style stab bindings. The book is in constant evolution with the culture it is witness to, and is in fact, not dead, but continuing its ongoing metamorphosis as an object that is a reflection of the world around it. For decades, if not centuries, artists’ books have played a critical role in most artistic movements and artistic practices throughout art history, but always seemingly on the margins. The space of the book has long been co-opted by artists, exploring the potential of the medium as a dynamic crossroads between the literary and the visual arts. The future of the book is now the art of the book. 

This exhibition explores the edges of the book as both a cultural artifact and an expressive artistic medium in its own right. It includes artists’ books exploring the space of the book in complex ways, but it also looks at work by artists with bookish tendencies who focus on aspects of the book as cultural icon and physical artifact.

Location:
Kala Art Institute
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA

Time:
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Suntup Editions Exhibit
Spend the evening at the American Bookbinders Museum for a special reception and talk with fine press proprietor Paul Suntup. See our latest exhibit, Suntup Editions: A 21st Century Fine Press and enjoy the museum’s galleries. Light refreshments and beverages will be served. 

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

How to get there: 
From the Oakland Marriott: Take BART from the 12th St./City Center Station, below the Oakland Marriott, to Powell Street Station in San Francisco (15 minutes $4.25). Walk south 3 blocks (4th or 5th street) to Clementina Street.

Time:
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
7:45 pm Talk by Paul Suntup

Art as Community Defense

Please join us in a free show of solidarity and a celebration of some of the activist/artists and organizations that are in the frontlines of the creative resistance against escalating USAmeriKKKan fascism. Hosted by the incandescent activist/artist Favianna Rodriguez, and featuring a rare personal appearance of all three Booklyn and Organik co-founders: Kurt Allerslev, Marshall Weber, and Christopher Wilde. We’ll be honoring books, box sets, and prints by Golnar Adili (in person), Jenna Hamed and the OF TIME Collective, Kate Laster (in person), Letra Muerta, Voces de la Frontera/Voces de la Artistas, and many others. 

Contact: mw****@*****yn.org

ACCESSIBILITY: This event is located on the third floor. If you require an elevator, please contact Favianna so that we can give you instructions on how to park in the back. This space has an accesible bathroom and a ramp at the back of the building to enter.

Favianna’s Art Studio sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people.

Location:
Favianna Rodriguez Studios
2200 Adeline St, Suite 315
Oakland, CA 94607

Time:
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

MUST have purchased a ticket in order to attend

Location:
Oakland Marriott City Center – Ballroom

Time:
6:00 pm – 10:30 pm

CODEX Open House and Real Lead Saloon Exhibition

Come decompress with us after the fair with drinks and snacks!

Visit our beautiful headquarters at The CODEX Foundation Logan Book Arts Center. We will be exhibiting the work of our Saturday Salon: community members who come together under the guidance of co-founder, Peter Koch, to keep the art of printing from metal type alive and well. 

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

Time:
11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Gallery Walk + Conversation: Who Is America at 250?
Join SFCB for a walk-through of our powerful exhibition on democracy and artists’ books. Exhibition curators and exhibiting artists will be in discussion about art, activism, and the evolving idea of America as we approach the nation’s 250th anniversary, while viewing works from the exhibition

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

Time:
Doors at 6 pm, gallery talk begins promptly at 6:30 pm

Open House for CODEX
Letterform Archive is hosting a special event for attendees and other book lovers. Letterform Archive staff will share some of their favorite objects from our collection, many by book artists who participate in the fair.

Join us for food, drink, and a feast for the eyes—including a special announcement and presentation from author and designer Warren Lehrer.

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

Time:
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Artist Talk: The Book as Art

The CODEX Foundation will introduce book artists from Japan who will be exhibiting at CODEX X: International Biennial Book Art Fair & Symposium. Maki Aizawa of Amu Arts will introduce Ryoko Adachi, Kyoko Matsunaga, Tatsuhiko Niijima. These artists will give a brief presentation followed by an interactive experience with the artists and their works.

Location:
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Time:
6:00 pm

Creative Processes and Decorative Techniques for Design Binding

Creative design for bookbinding is often seen as a challenging part of the binding process – not only generating a visual response to the text but also, finding the right techniques and materials to translate that visual response into a binding. This course will introduce a range of activities to help you to explore your own unique way of responding to a text and engaging with the content to develop your confidence in this area of design binding. During the first part of the course, Sue will take you through a range of guided exercises. She will support you through tasks aimed at exploring a text and developing ways of translating these responses into a visual design. We will use a range of different texts, culminating in a short story, which you will use to create a small portfolio of visual responses. Sue will include a presentation with examples from her own practice to introduce the concept of design for binding and, in between the exercises, there will be lots of discussion and workshop time in which you will have the opportunity to explore everyone’s ideas and responses. During the second half of this workshop, Kate will introduce you, via demonstration and images of past work, to a variety of decorative techniques suitable for bookbinding: leather dyeing – craquele, ombre, paste resist; printing – reverse offset printing, monoprinting; inlays and onlays – backpared onlays, sunken onlays, cushioned onlays, inlaying other materials; gilding leather with gold leaf; impressing leather; blind tooling, foil tooling, tooling with gold leaf. We will then explore how to translate your designs into leather ‘covers’ using these techniques. By the end of the four days, you will have a small portfolio of written/visual responses to the text and a plaquette of your design using some of the techniques demonstrated, plus, a whole lot of knowledge and inspiration to help you explore further.

Prerequisites: Basic Leather Paring

Tools/Materials: Please bring your paring knives and a paring machine such as a Scharf-Fix or Brockman if you have one.

Seats: Space limited to 8 students

Cost: $1150 Non-members & $950 Members plus $120 materials fee

Scholarships: To apply for a scholarship that would cover half the tuition of this workshop, please fill out this Scholarship Form by December 1st. You would still be responsible for paying half the tuition as well as the full materials fee.

Directions, Transportation and Parking: The CODEX Foundation Flex Space is a 30 minute walk from North Berkeley BART, or an 8 minute walk from the #72 San Pablo Avenue bus lines. If you need to drive, carpooling with other students is encouraged. There is street parking available.

Location:
The CODEX Foundation
Logan Book Arts Center
1331 7th Street, Unit D
Berkeley, CA 94710

Time:
9:00 am – 5:00 pm with a break for lunch

Creative Processes and Decorative Techniques for Design Binding

Creative design for bookbinding is often seen as a challenging part of the binding process – not only generating a visual response to the text but also, finding the right techniques and materials to translate that visual response into a binding. This is a process that designer bookbinders Sue Doggett and Kate Holland have repeatedly carried out with brilliant results. In this lecture, they will share some of their techniques through visual records and discussions of past projects. The Hand Bookbinders of California is very excited to offer their lecture free to the public at the conclusion of Kate and Sue’s four-day workshop on the same topic. 

Location:
The CODEX Foundation
Logan Book Arts Center
1331 7th Street, Unit D
Berkeley, CA 94710

Time:
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The Fair returns to San Francisco once again at Pier 27, The Embarcadero, from February 27 – March 1, 2026! A vast array of materials, including books, maps, ephemera, drawings, manuscripts, autographs, and more, will be available on TWO FLOORS. This three-day event features the collections and rare treasures of booksellers from around the globe, including manuscripts, modern first editions, children’s books, ephemera, maps, and autographs, as well as antiquarian books on a vast array of topics.

Location:
Pier 27
27 The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94111

Time:
Friday, February 27: 4pm – 8pm
Saturday, February 28: 11am – 7pm
Sunday, March 1: 11am – 4pm