About Book Art

Book Arts Web features an extensive list of links to sites related to book art. Also sponsors a listserv with approximately 1200 members and an on-line gallery.

Book Information Website is devoted to all aspects of books including the book arts, book history, printing, preservation, binding, antiquarian books, manuscripts, dealers, and auctions.

Colophon Page serves the community involved in modern illustrated and fine press books.

Discovering Artists Books: The Art, the Artist, and the Issues by Gwendolyn Jan Miller. An overview of contemporary book arts that includes interviews of artists.

Book Art Collections

ArtistBookArchive.com features a large database of artist's books from their archives. The Artist Book Archive also lends books for exhibitions.

Arts of the Book Collection at Yale Library is a non-circulating collection that includes examples of and material relating to the book and its attendant arts: binding, typography, illustration, book design, paper making, and the history of the book.

Book Art in the National Arts Library, Victoria and Albert Museum houses over 5,000 items dating from the 1890's to the present .

Independent Press Archive at the Visual Studies Workshop is located in New York City and houses over 5,000 artist's books.

The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University houses over 6,000 items including artist's books, fine press books, miniature books, children's books, movable books and ephemera.

Joan Flasch artist's Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago houses over 3,000 artist's books, serials, and reference materials.

Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace/Artist Book Collection houses the world's largest collection of artist's books. Franklin Furnace's international collection of contemporary artist's books was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art's Library Collection in 1993. Over 7,700 artist's books are included in MOMA Library's searchable database, DADABASE.

National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center houses a book art collection with over 650 items and sponsors an annual Books As Art exhibition series.

Otis College of Art and Design artist's Book Collection includes over 3,000 items primarily from the 1960's to the present. Located in Los Angeles.

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry is located in Miami Beach and houses over 8,000 items. Their holdings include books, manuscripts, artwork, periodicals, and ephemera associated with the movements of Italian Futurism, Russian and Eastern European Avant Garde, Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Ultra, Tabu-Dada, Lettrisme, Ultra-Lettrisme, etc.

Wellesley College Book Arts Collection devoted to the history and art of the book. Their collection includes a wide range of books on book production as well as fine press and artist's books.

Centers for Book Arts and Educational Programs

Booklyn Artists' Alliance is a non-profit organization that assists artists in publishing, exhibiting, and distributing artist's books. Offers educational programs to the public and collection development services to institutions. Located in Brooklyn, New York

Center for Book Arts is a non-profit organization that produces artist's books and offers classes, residency programs, and exhibitions. Located in Manhattan.

Cincinnati Book Arts Society is a non-profit organization promoting the book arts through educational programs, exhibitions, and publications.

Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts offers a Master of Fine Arts program in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts promotes contemporary book arts through educational programs, exhibitions, and an artist's residency program. The center also has a library and archive that houses books, broadsides, and other materials produced by the center; reference materials on book-making; and a slide library of artist's books.

Pyramid Atlantic offers classes, exhibitions, and residencies for print, paper, and book arts. Located in Silver Springs, MD, Pyramid Atlantic also sells and publishes work and sponsors an annual book fair.

Rare Book School is an independent, non-profit institution based at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Offers intensive non-credit courses on studies relevant to the book, printing, and typography.

San Francisco Center for the Book offers educational programs, exhibitions, and events that promote the art of the book.

University of Alabama offers a Master of Fine Arts Program in the Book Arts.

University of the Arts is located in Philadelphia, PA and offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in printmaking/book arts.

University of Iowa Center for the Book supports the study of the book in culture, the use of the book as a source of artifactual evidence in scholarly research, and the creative production of new fine press and artist's books.

Visual Studies Workshop offers residencies, internships, and an M.F.A. with an emphasis in visual books. Also houses the Independent Press Archive with over 5,000 books.

Women's Studio Workshop is a non-profit organization located in Rosendale, N.Y. that has been publishing artist's books since 1979. The Women's Studio Workshop offers educational programs, internships, a residency program, and various grants.

Dealers and Presses

Arcana Books specializes in rare and out-of-print books on twentieth century art, architecture, and design.

Bookstorming.com sells contemporary art publications, editions, and artist's books. Based in Paris.

Vamp and Tramp Books is a distributor of fine press, letterpress editions, and artist's books. Represents over 300 privately operated presses across the United States.

D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. sells books, special editions, and rare publications from publishers and museums around the world.

Dia Art Foundation Bookshop publishes and sells books and multi-media sources on contemporary art and architecture. Their selection includes in and out-of-print artist's books.

Evil Twin Publications is a private press run by identical twins, Amber Gayle and Stacy Wakefield.

Granary Books publishes and sells contemporary poetry and artist's books.

Nexus Press has been producing and publishing artist's books for over twenty-two years.

Onestar Press is an artist-managed press based in Paris. Produces and sells books, multiples, and movies.

PABA Gallery specializes in contemporary photography and book arts. Based in New Haven, CT.

Printed Matter is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of publications made by artists in a book-like format.

Miscellaneous

Art*o*mat is an original art-vending project based in Winston-Salem, NC. Created in 1997, Art*o*mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. Currently, there are 71 ACTIVE MACHINES in museums and various locations throughout the country.

Books2Eat: The International Edible Book Festival is a yearly event that takes place on April 1. Organizations and groups around the world are invited to participate.

Mobilivre-Bookmobile is an annual touring exhibition of artist books, zines, and independent publications. Traveling by way of a vintage Airstream, the BOOKMOBILE visits a variety of venues in Canada and the US including community centers, schools, libraries, festivals and artist-run centers.

Movable Book Society is a forum for collectors and enthusiasts of pop-up and movable books.

Pop Goes the Page is is an online exhibit on movable and mechanical books from the Brenda Forman Collection housed in Special Collections at the University of Virginia.


> Back to the VCU Book Art Collection Main Page