We aim to:

Create a welcoming environment for all individuals interested in the art of the handmade book. 

• By growing our programming to be more inclusive and accessible.
• By building our relationship with our local community.
• By confronting past inequities in our field and in our organization. We are taking a critical eye to our existing policies and looking for opportunities to address systemic inequities and racial injustice.
• By creating the Emerging Artist Fellowship program which aims to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of book arts by helping to reduce the financial barriers to exhibiting at the CODEX Book Fair and its companion symposium. The fellowships are sustained for two consecutive biennial fairs.
• By creating a Joint Research Scholarship with the College Book Art Association, which aims to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of book arts. This scholarship supports artists, scholars, librarians, and curators to attend our biennial Fair and Symposium. This additionally focuses on easing the burden of travel and lodging costs for recipients coming from further distances. 

The CODEX Foundation Logan Book Arts Center is located on the unceded ancestral lands of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people. The land from which we benefit continues to be a place of foremost importance to the Ohlone and all descendants of the Verona Band. As a non-profit we pay Shuumi, a voluntary land tax, as one way to support the work of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. You can read more here.