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Superstition 13 Invites Artists to Investigate Superstition and the Esoteric.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Exhibition Title: Superstition 13 Exhibition Dates: September 13th (Friday) – October 31, 2013 Deadline for applications: 11:59pm June 30, 2013 Please read these instructions...
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Call To Artists: Submit Book Works Which Speak To The Mysterious, The...
For all book artists, letterpress printers, bookbinders, and other practitioners of the original “Black Art”… Consider entering a piece in this upcoming show at the San Francisco Center for the Book!...
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The Book of You
Turn a blank book into an atlas of the soul The author Carlos Ruiz Zafón once said, “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it an dream about it.” In...
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Letterpress Inking 101
Think you know all there is to know about inking? Ink again. What? “The Secrets of Inking for Letterpress,” a printing workshop with instructor Alan Hillesheim When? July 18th, 6:30 – 9:30pm All right,...
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The Sketchbook Project @ SFCB!
Crowdsourcing is a big deal these days: maybe you crowdsource funds for your chick flick/vampire thriller movie, or you get a bunch of people to define words like “cutty” and “bropocalypse.” What about...
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The Sketchbook Project II
Summer in San Francisco is freezing, and Sunday was no exception. That didn’t stop a hardcore group of book-lovers, artists, imagination-lovers, readers, and what have you (including myself) from...
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The ABC’s of Typesetting
I can’t say I’m a “regular” at SFCB – I’ve only been working here for a month. But still, not much gives me more glee than walking in on a Monday to find a center full of new students. Let’s take a...
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Industrial Mandalas
Mark Faigenbaum has twice been artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, but when Mary Austin talks about him, she’s more excited about the time he spent as artist-in-residence at...
View ArticleNotes from a Library Volunteer: “Paul,”“Ted” and “Lisa”
Near the ground, on a shelf filled mostly with copies of Ampersand magazine and photos from past Roadworks events, stand eight unassuming hard-backed folders – the kind that hold loose-leaf papers if...
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Physical/Digital: The (Changing) Art of the Book at Reed College
I tumbled straight out of my first year at Reed and into the San Francisco Center for the Book. At first glance, these two institutions may seem totally unrelated. as it turns out, though, they share...
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