Step into history and celebrate the birth of America with your whole family at the Printing Museum! In the Heritage Theater at 11am and 1pm, a trio of Founding Fellows — Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson & Betsy Ross — will share fascinating stories about their role in the creation of our great nation. Franklin will […]
Are you looking for a literary agent? Have you sent out your query only to receive a polite rejection letter wishing you well on your publishing journey? Here’s the reason: Literary agents are overwhelmed. Some receive 1500+ queries a month. But there’s an even bigger reason as to why you are not getting the traction you […]
Have you ever wanted to create a community book-binding experience? Want to bring attention to local events through bookbinding? Don’t know where to start? Please join community organizer and artist, Cynthia Marsh, in a virtual webinar with the American Bookbinders Museum on how to do just that. From exploring preliminary ideas through execution, Marsh will […]
Join us to learn from a bay area book artist.
Are you an Editor of Color? Would you like to meet up with your fellow Editors of Color in a welcoming, intimate, online setting? Jesi Vega, recent president of the Northwest Editors Guild and a Puerto Rican Jew from the Bronx, hosts a monthly Zoom coffee hour for editors who identify as Black, Indigenous, or Person of […]
For more than twenty years, the Los Angeles Times columnist Al Martinez (1929-2015) delighted, and enriched the lives of, thousands of readers across southern California. An Oakland native, he attended San Francisco State College. Later, he was a reporter for the Richmond Independent and the Oakland Tribune before being lured to Los Angeles to write […]
We’ve heard tips from expert editors, and we’ve heard feedback from writers who have been edited. But what if you are both? With unique viewpoints from each side of the relationship, hear from a panel of writer-editor professionals as they share their experiences wearing both hats. There will be many learning opportunities for writers and […]
Around the turn of the 19th century, a revolution left the world of typography utterly different from what it had been. The explosion of new type styles during this period—including the modern face, the fat face, the slab serif, and the sans serif—reflected new technologies and ways of thinking that set the stage for modern […]
In this Member Nerd Out, we’ll guide you through our favorite examples of concrete poetry and asemic writing in the Letterform Archive collection. This presentation will be followed by an opportunity to show some objects from your own home with fellow letterform Nerds across the globe.
The Far North Editors meet every second Wednesday from 11:15am to 12:45pm. Traditionally they meet in Mount Vernon, WA, but currently their meetings are entirely online.
Five generations of Judsons have worked with artists, architects, and designers to create Old World-style stained glass whose quality and craftsmanship has often been compared to the work of Louis Tiffany. Famed for its Craftsman glass, Judson arts-and-crafts era windows have been celebrated by experts in the field for decades. Judson’s work with Frank Lloyd […]
This edition of SongWriter features live storytelling by Emmy- and Peabody-winning television host and producer, comedian and bestselling author W. Kamau Bell, which will be transformed into original music by the Chicano band Las Cafeteras. Together with SongWriter host Ben Arthur and social psychologist Shira Gabriel, they craft an evening about identity, home and collective effervescence through a thrilling exchange […]