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The Bay Area is a center for the thriving art of hand bookbinding
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Welcome to The San Francisco Center for the Book. We're a place where you can learn about the many arts and crafts of the book. Through workshops, exhibitions and public events, the SFCB promotes both knowledge of traditional book arts and exploration of experimental book forms. Have fun browsing our website.
To see what's going on at the SFCB day by day, check out our
Calendar. Or click on
Workshops to learn about classes
in Printing, Binding and Related Arts. Like looking at pictures? Click
Book Pix for an eye-popping visual
database of the books we teach. Learn more About Us by
clicking here. For driving
directions and public-transit suggestions,
click here. And, to find out more about
our renting time in our studio, click here.
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In the Austin-Burch Gallery Mon May 04 - Fri Aug 07 Once Upon a Book
Curated by Thacher Hurd, this is the second in a series of children's book exhibitions. This show explores the creative process in the work of six critically acclaimed illustrators: Elisa Kleven, Remy Charlip, Maira Kalman, David Macaulay, Chris Raschka and Brian Selznick.
Thacher has shot videos of
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