NewsVoice-Overs
A call went out from the Virginia Center for the Book in April of 2020, during the early horrors of COVID-19 and before a new tide of protest against racial …
News25th Anniversary Print by Kristin Keimu Adolfson now available to order!
Purchase a limited-edition print to support Book Arts at the Virginia Center for the Book…
News2020 Book Center’s Member Project is NOW the Quaranta Art Project
We are redirecting our member’s collaborative project energies towards our Quaranta Art Project On April 20, 2020, Bonnie Bernstein (Member’s Project co-leader) wrote: Hello, friends. I am writing on behalf …
NewsQuaranta Art Project
“In this time of physical isolation, we don’t have to be socially distanced” Our Book Center’s Member’s Project Landed Here! Participation is Open to Anyone and Everyone. Please engage online …
NewsVoice-Overs: Writers and artists to respond to the public landscape
A call for works of verbal and visual art in broadsides and posters that reframe narratives of Virginia’s past in addressing the present-day challenges of sexism, racism, and bias, especially …
News20/20 Vision: 2020 Member’s Project Effort Redirected
As of April 20, 2020, we refocused efforts on our member’s collaborative project toward the Quaranta Art Project Members of the Virginia Center for the Book’s book arts program first …
News2019 Annual Member’s Project: Uncharted (Unfounded/Unmoored)
2019 Annual Member’s Project – Uncharted (Unfounded/Unmoored) (Specs Updated 10/03/2019) Milestones w/approx. dates June 20: Project Launch (Participants begin to plan their map) July 1: Participants submit their rough designs …
NewsUNCHARTED: 2019 Collaborative Project “We’ve Arrived!”
How do we explore the most complex experiences? find a way to understand or believe in the midst of the unknowable? catch signs of clarity amid confusion or dissonance? can …
NewsCOVER STORY: Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon by James Sullivan
Recovered by BINDER #9 Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon by James Sullivan Gotham Books, Penguin (2006) Artist’s Statement: This journalistic sojourn into the history of jeans caught …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger
Recovered by BINDER #8 Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger (tr. Albert Hofstadter) Heidegger (1971), First Perennial Classics Edition (2001) Artist’s Statement: Highly influential essays originating in a close study …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: The Orb Weaver by Robert Francis
Recovered by BINDER #7 The Orb Weaver by Robert Francis Wesleyan University Press, Third printing: 1967 (first printed in 1960) Artist’s Statement: I recently discovered the poetry of Robert Francis (1901-1987), …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: You Don’t Miss Your Water by Cornelius Eady
Recovered by BINDER #6You Don’t Miss Your Water by Cornelius EadyNew York, Henry Holt (1995)Artist’s Statement: You Don’t Miss Your Water is a series of poems that makes up a …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: Why Not Eat Insects? by Vincent M. Holt
Recovered by BINDER #5 Why Not Eat Insects? by Vincent M. Holt British Museum (1888) Artist’s Statement: This book was designed 20 years ago at the beginning of my career …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Recovered by BINDER #4 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Bantam Editions (1981) Artist’s Statement: I decided to take a paperback book and rebind …
NewsCOVER STORY CONTEST: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Recovered by BINDER #3 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Dover Publications, Inc (1960) Artist’s Statement: I took a paperback of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and bound …
