Join historians and authors Mike Phipps and Don Holmgren in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the cable cars in San Francisco. Phipps and Holmgren illuminate Hallidie's journey to California, his wire rope use in the gold mines, plans for the Clay St Hill cable car and subsequent involvement in the patents, and Pacific Cable […]
Join two of the Bay Area's legendary rap artists, Black C and Mac Mall, as they discuss gripping stories from their recently published memoirs. In vivid, unflinching detail, Black C's A Part of Survival and Mac Mall's My Opinion shed light on the Bay Area's street life, drug trade, and pimp culture of the 1980s and 1990s—and reveal how the resourceful artists […]
The Los Angeles Printers Fair at the International Printing Museum in Carson, California brings the best of letterpress, book arts, and the paper arts to the Los Angeles area. With the backdrop of the world’s largest collection of working antique presses, the Printers Fair annually brings together 80 artistic vendors and 1500 visitors to experience […]
Join us on Saturday, October 21 for the second of two virtual lectures with design binder Brenda Gallagher. “AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER, I ENJOY MAKING DESIGNS FOR BOOKS USING LETTERFORMS IN MY DESIGNS. I’LL SHOW YOU SEVERAL WAYS TO USE LETTERS AS OBJECTS OF DESIGN AND DISCUSS SEVERAL WAYS OF GETTING LETTER DESIGNS ONTO A […]
BAWiP will be at Litquake at Arcana.
Find the full schedule at litquake.org/litcrawl Lit Crawl 2023 is the finale of all festival finales, the best literary party you’ve ever been to, something between a bar crawl and an invite-only reading on a rooftop, an introduction to the nooks and crannies of the Mission District, a presentation of the best new writers around, a […]
Dale Berry will emcee, with readings by Heather Chavez, M.M. Chouinard, Stacie Grey and Reece Hirsch.
With climate breakdown heating up and desertification looming over the horizon, Obi Kaufmann leads curious adventurers on a voyage into the sage-and-ocher landscapes of the American West’s world-famous desert regions this fall in his revelatory and sumptuously illustrated new volume The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas. As philosophical as it is geophysical, this journey […]
Come celebrate excellence in book making and reconnect with publishing colleagues. There’ll be good food, libations, and fabulous friends. Added bonus: At 4:00 p.m., before the book show starts, we’ll have a panel discussion featuring three designers from this year’s book show judging team—Debbie Berne, John Berry, and Victor Mingovits—on what makes a winning book cover, followed by […]
Author Ron Cook will moderate panelists Laurie R. King, Peggy Townsend, Vinnie Hansen, and Jack Erickson. This is a hybrid event! Registration is required for both in-person and Zoom attendance.
The Poison Book Project investigates potentially toxic pigments used in the manufacture of Victorian-era bookcloth. Lead scientist Dr. Rosie Grayburn will situate the use of English bookcloth colored with highly poisonous emerald green pigment and other toxic pigments within a broader historical context; recommend safe handling and storage practices for emerald green bookbindings; and report […]
At the American Academy of Bookbinding Taught by Peter Geraty This core course teaches advanced book forwarding and leather paring in the production of a traditional laced-in board binding structure. You will come away from this class with one or two finished books and gain an in-depth understanding of fine binding techniques. This course is […]