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The Center for Book Arts - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for The Center for Book Arts. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

“Politics of Place” Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Installation
- 2019-01-18 - 2019-03-30
The Center for Book Arts is proud to present the latest exhibition, Politics of Place, curated by Alexander Campos and Monica Oppen. From the mechanisms of colonialism, to intractable wars, displacement...More »
“Inside/Out: Family, Memory, Loss, Displacement, Catastrophe” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Prints
- 2018-10-05 - 2018-12-15
Organized by Carole Naggar, poet, artist, curator, educator, and photography historian This exhibition features thirty-four self-published photobooks, varying in sizes and aspect, usually printed in...More »
“Look, Look, Look…A Playful Book” Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Other - Installation
- 2018-07-11 - 2018-09-22
Organized by Elisabeth Lortic, independent curator and co-founder of Les Trois Ourses (Paris) This exhibition brings to the forefront ideas and concepts articulated by the early 20th century Futurist-informed...More »
“Opulence: Not Everything that Glitters is Gold” Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Installation
- 2018-07-11 - 2018-09-20
The Center presents Artist Members Exhibition Opulence: Not Everything that Glitters is Gold, organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director & Curator, The Center for Book Arts. Opulence is...More »
“Freud on the Couch – Psyche in the Book” and Bethany Collins “Occasional Verse”
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- Media: Installation
- 2018-04-20 - 2018-06-20
Freud on the Couch – Psyche in the Book The science of psychoanalysis has always held a great fascination for artists – both as a medium for reflection and as an instrument for creating meaning. Indeed,...More »
“Pulp as Portal : Socially Engaged Papermaking” Exhibition
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- Media: Prints
- 2017-02-03 - 2017-04-20
Organized by Jessica Cochran, Independent Curator As an extension of the broad survey Social Paper, co-curated by Jessica Cochran and Melissa Potter in 2014, Pulp as Portal adds to growing discourse...More »
“Lulu Lolo, Where Are the Women?” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2016-10-07 - 2016-12-17
Curated by Organized by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Artist and Independent Curator Photographer: Keka Marzago, Costume and Prop Design: Ramona Ponce While performative art practice, with all of its...More »
“Making Sense of the Senses” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2016-07-13 - 2016-09-24
The Center for Book Arts presents its Summer 2016 Member Artist Exhibition, Making Sense of the Senses, organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director and Curator, The Center for Book Arts, and Peter...More »
“Queering the BibliObject” Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2016-04-15 - 2016-06-25
The Center for Book Arts presents its Spring 2016 Main Gallery Exhibition Queering the BibliObject, organized by John Chaich, Independent Curator, Designer, and Writer. An opening reception will take...More »
“Revealed Terrain: The Semantics of Landscape” Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Other
- 2016-01-22 - 2016-04-02
The Center for Book Arts presents Revealed Terrain: The Semantics of Landscape was organized by Cynthia Nourse Thompson and David Charles Chioffi, Guest Curators. A landscape’s formation within the...More »
“Archive Bound” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Other - Video installation
- 2015-10-02 - 2015-12-12
The Center for Book Arts presents its Fall 2015 Main Gallery Exhibition, to mark the opening of its 41st season. Archive Bound, organized by Karen E. Jones, examines methodologies within the presentation,...More »
“Embraced: The International Community” and “/mit ðə detə/: Source Materials Visualized” Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Other
- 2015-07-08 - 2015-09-19
The Center for Book Arts presents two summer exhibitions, marking the final chapter of its 40th Anniversary year which began in the fall of 2014. In the main gallery, Embraced: The International Community,...More »
Linda Carreiro “Inside Out Of Words”
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- Media: Installation
- 2015-04-17 - 2015-06-27
Calling attention to both reading and the material form of a book, Linda Carreiro‘s work provokes questions of what constitutes a book. Employing Jacques Derrida’s concept on “the inside out of language,”,...More »
“Then and Now: Ten Years of Residencies at the Center for Book Arts” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2015-04-17 - 2015-06-27
Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director & Curator, Center for Book Arts, and Erin Riley-Lopez, Curator, Freeman Gallery, Albright College This exhibition examines two of the Center’s core...More »
“REDUX: SELECTED FEATURED ARTIST PROJECTS RENEWED” Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Other
- 2015-01-23 - 2015-04-03
Organized by Maddy Rosenberg, Independent Curator and Founder of CENTRAL BOOKING. As part of the Center’s 40th Anniversary season, this exhibition highlights selected artists who have had a Featured...More »
“Zines+ and the World of ABC No Rio” Exhibition
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- Media: Media Arts
- 2014-07-23 - 2014-09-27
Zine is an abbreviation of the term fanzine, and in describing its history and uses Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin are commonly cited, often alongside 1970’s punk music. By straddling the line between...More »
“Once Upon a Time, There Was the End” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2014-04-18 - 2014-05-09
Borrowing its title from the stock opening and closing phrases of traditional oral narratives, in particular fairy tales, Once Upon a Time, There Was the End pivots around two central themes: stories elicited...More »
“The Center for Book Arts Winter Exhibitions”
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints
- 2014-01-17 - 2014-03-29
Silence Unbound: The Artist’s Lexicon in the Making Organized by Heather Powell The artists featured in Silence Unbound often work in familiar forms, but have at some point been driven to create or...More »
"Canceled" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Other
- 2012-04-18 - 2012-06-30
These publications document the process and politics of cancellation, exist as an alternative manifestation of the exhibit, act as a critique of the forces that called for its cancellation, or may be an...More »
"Strange Birds" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Other
- 2012-01-18 - 2012-03-31
This project encompasses vignettes into people’s lives through objects that hold significant personal meaning to them. Through each object on display, a conversation with its caretaker begins; visitors...More »
"Poems & Pictures" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2010-07-07 - 2010-09-11
Poems & Pictures examines relationships between visual and language art. The exhibit features over 60 books produced between 1946 and 1981, as well as paintings, collages, periodicals, and ephemera....More »
Garo Manga Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing
- 2010-04-14 - 2010-06-26
Garo Manga: 1964-1973 will be an exhibition focused around the renowned manga (Japanese comics) journal Garo during the period of its greatest aesthetic experimentation and political commitment. Garo is...More »
"Narrative Sequences" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Other
- 2010-01-20 - 2010-04-03
This exhibition will focus on work that creates a sequence of images that leads from one to another as a literal or an implied narration unfolds. By this narrowing down to a single aspect of an artist’s...More »
Leah Oates "Transitory Spaces"
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- Media: Photography
- 2010-01-20 - 2010-04-03
In this exhibition, Oates will show newer work from the “Transitory Space” series along with framed digital prints of book spreads. One of the books from this series is created from images shot in Finland...More »
Star Black "The Collaged Accordion"
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- Media: Drawing - Photography
- 2010-01-20 - 2010-04-03
Star Black is a poet and photographer who has created a series of large-scale accordion books that merge found texts, found photographs and ephemera (maps, hand-written letters, ledgers, etc.) to create...More »
Ellie Brown "A Chronicle of Lovers"
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- Media: Prints
- 2009-09-23 - 2009-12-05
The Chronicle of Lovers project was started in homage to each of the men the artist has slept with. Each man has a book and a digital print of the book in his name. The books are based on her impressions,...More »
"There Goes My Hero" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Illustration
- 2009-09-23 - 2009-12-05
The exhibition There Goes My Hero will explore women artists who use the format of comic books and/or the comic book superhero in their artistic practice as a strategy to comment on larger socio-political...More »
"Racism: An American Family Value" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints
- 2009-07-08 - 2009-09-12
This exhibition investigates how visual artists have used the printed word in their artistic practice to address one of the country's oldest and most challenging social problems. Mixing humor with subversive...More »
“Threads: 2009 Artist Members" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Crafts - Video installation
- 2009-07-08 - 2009-09-12
This year’s Artist Members Exhibition brings together current members of the Center's artistic community and invited artists who use actual thread as a design element to convey both content and form. Artworks...More »
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"\'flo\: art, text, new media" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2009-04-15 - 2009-06-27
The Center for Book Arts presents the exhibition \'flo\: art, text, new media. Organized by guest curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Curator at The Jersey City Museum, this exhibition focuses on the use of...More »
"2008 Artist-in-Residence Spotlight" Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2009-04-15 - 2009-06-27
An exhibition featuring new work produced here at the Center during their 2008 residency by emerging artists Cesar Cornejo, Hadassa Goldvicht, Wennie Huang, Ivan Monforte, and Zoe Saldana. These New York-based...More »
Roni Gross "Zitouna at 20"
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- Media: Other
- 2009-04-15 - 2009-06-27
2008 was the 20th Anniversary of Zitouna press, which means olive in Arabic. Started in 1988 by Roni Gross the press publishes multiple editions twice a year for Halloween and Valentines Day. These holidays...More »
Zahra Partovi "A Poet Speaks"
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2009-01-15 - 2009-03-28
Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director A Poet Speaks, an experimental installation with three diverse elements, represents a ‘temple’ to poetry and homage to the words of the 13th century...More »
"Artists' Books as (Sub)Culture" Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2009-01-15 - 2009-03-28
Organized by Natalie Campbell, Independent Curator This exhibition takes an in-depth look at the way artist-funded and artist-run organizations have combined a focus on book arts with a unique social...More »
Jacqueline Rush Lee "INTROspective"
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2009-01-15 - 2009-03-28
Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director This exhibition of work will showcase sculptures created entirely out of used books with selections from the 2005 Biennial of Hawaii Artists (Epic)...More »
"The Last Place on Earth" Artist Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-11-14 - 2008-11-14
Rocco Scary’s work is about the relationship between place and memory. His stacking book structures are made of both paper and metal, and can be taken apart or un-stacked to reveal evocative images and...More »
"Whittington & Matrix in America" Artist Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-03 - 2008-10-03
This exhibition will focus on the Whittington Press and its influential annual, Matrix, which provides an important platform for typographical dialog on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. More »
"Illustrated Fine Printing: Whittington & Matrix in America" Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Other - Film
- 2008-09-26 - 2008-12-06
This exhibition will focus on the Whittington Press and its influential annual, Matrix, which provides an important platform for typographical dialog on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Ten American artists...More »
Rocco Scary "The Last Place on Earth"
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- Media: Product - Crafts - Other
- 2008-09-26 - 2008-12-06
Rocco Scary’s work is about the relationship between place and memory. His stacking book structures are made of both paper and metal, and can be taken apart or un-stacked to reveal evocative images and...More »
Julie Chen Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Other
- 2008-09-26 - 2008-12-06
Julie Chen is proprietor of Flying Fish Press in Berkeley, where she creates and publishes many sculptural, limited-edition artist's books. She is an instructor at the San Francisco Center for the Book....More »
"Fun & Games (and Such…)" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2008-07-09 - 2008-09-13
The theme of the 2008 members’ exhibition examines book and related arts that have a playful, game-like, and/or interactive characteristic. The work can be whimsical and/or conceptual in nature although...More »
"Artist as Publisher" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints - Installation
- 2008-07-09 - 2008-09-13
This exhibition examines art publications produced by artists and collaboratives. The publications selected for the exhibitions each embody a spirit of collaboration and experimentation and a DIY ethos....More »
"Mapping Correspondence: Mail Art in the 21st Century"
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- Media: Prints - Crafts - Other
- 2008-04-11 - 2008-06-28
This exhibition invited artists, who in turn invited additional participants, to submit work via the postal service, creating a network of communication that reflects the complex and varied meaning of...More »

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