The San Francisco Center for the Book

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In the News

The Bay Area is a center for the thriving art of hand bookbinding according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

In their annual Best Of issue, SF Weekly has named us the Best Place to Take an Art Class! See what they have to say.

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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.

Letterpress printing, the technology of Gutenberg, has been enjoying an enormous revival. Come learn what it's all about in our array of letterpress classes, from introductory surveys to advanced techniques. After taking Letterpress I-III or the equivalents, you can rent time on the Center's presses. To schedule studio rental, email the studio manager. You can see all our letterpress offerings here.

Highlights

Rebecca Foust and Lorna Stevens present God Seed
Thursday Feb 25, 7-9 pm
Join us for a reading with Rebecca Foust and artist Lorna Stevens focused on their new project God Seed that collects poems about the environment and its seasons.

Bound for Success: An International Bookbinding Exhibition
Feb 12-March 6 2010
Bound for Success is an exhibition of contemporary bindings from around the world brought to you by Bonhams and Butterfields and the Friends of Designer Bookbinders. *This exhibition will be at Bonhams and Butterfields, 220 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco

Restless Dust: A Ghost Walk With Darwin
January 15 2010 through April 17 2010
This exhibition explores the making of “Restless Dust,” created during Gail Wight's one-year Imprint residency at the Center in 2009. The exhibtion also features previous works by Wight. The exhibition is open from 1/15 through 4/17.

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