Join SFCB in celebrating our Fall 2024 exhibition "David King Publications 1977 - 2019"
SFCB is excited to host author Bruce Holsinger as he shares stories from his latest book "On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age".
SFCB showcases contemporary publishers and artists utilizing Risograph technology to create experimental and thought-provoking bookworks.
Join SFCB in celebrating the hard work and creativity of 2024's Small Plates artists Thad Higa, Kate Laster, and Amber Wolf! Annually, SFCB invites three Bay Area artists to produce a limited edition artist book for the Small Plates imprint program. Since the program's inception in 2008, local artists have produced 51 different editions, all of which represent […]
Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection, curated by Mindell Dubansky, is a fascinating exploration of the realm where book-like objects and folk art intersect. San Francisco collector Ian Berke began collecting these intriguing artifacts during a chance encounter at an antique show in New England in 2007. Fascinated by a […]
by Coleen Curry The Pianel binding is a modern twist on binding structures that use metal rods at the joint, more commonly known as piano hinges. The ‘Pianel’ structure designed by Ben Elbel uses the piano hinge as a main structural and visual feature with the piano hinge tucked away in a neat, nifty construction, […]
Curator Maymanah Farhat will be in SFCB’s gallery to discuss the exhibition A Radical Alteration, discuss some of her favorite pieces on display, and answer questions about her research at the Women’s Studio Workshop archive. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about Maymanah’s process and how collaboration with a storied arts organization informed certain curatorial […]
Typesetting for letterpress printing presents multiple challenges: aligning each letter, ensuring ideal word and letter spacing, kerning if necessary, then locking it all up… even defying gravity in a chase. Daredevil typesetting becomes even more challenging as type is formed in circles, curves, waves, and complex illustrations such as landscapes or buildings. Jessica will give […]
In her seminal 1971 essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (link is external)Art historian Linda Nochlin examines the conditions of art-making that have prevented women and BIPOC artists from achieving the status of artistic “greatness” that has long been exclusively reserved for white male artists. Written at the height of the second-wave Feminist movement […]
Paper Is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures, co-curated by Tia Blassingame and Stephanie Sauer, offers a new definition of paper within a global and decolonial framework. Featuring works by local, national, and international artists, this exhibition explores the vital role substrates play in human communities and how meaning is made from what we might call […]
About the Festival: The San Francisco Center for the Book's annual Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival is an all-day public printmaking and book arts extravaganza that includes free hands-on printmaking and book arts activities, demonstrations, vendors, open house, and more. About Steamroller Printing: With roots going back hundreds of years, relief printing -- a process where […]
San Francisco Center for the Book’s latest exhibition, Datz Press: Contemporary Voices in Global Photobooks showcases ten years of collaboration and artist book production between Datz Press and artists such as Linda Connor, Alyssa Fujita Karoui, Young Suh, and Gap Chul Lee. Over forty-five photobooks ranging from special edition volumes to handling copies of exhibited work will […]