Book Arts

Refillable sketchbooks w/ Seth Brauchler
Floating ink w/ 溯镝 Sudi
Coptic stitch bookbinding w/ Laura E Chenault
Zinemaking as resistance w/ cowboy jo Collagraph printmaking w/ Kathie Menduni Aspaas

Take a workshop with our ever-creative & welcoming teaching artists next week!

Register and learn more at wnybookarts.org/classes

October approaches and the High Priestess says you should lean into creation at a workshop at Book Arts!

Spooky linoblock printing, haunted tunnel books, and Letterpress Tarot on Halloween: we’ve got some festive workshops lined up, along with all kinds of print & bookmaking sessions.

See you there….or else?????

Slide 1: High Priestess letterpress tarot card made by Brie Eloise at a recent Letterpress Tart workshop with james alea

Stop by Book Arts this Saturday to…

check out two exhibitions: Katleen Sherin’s Disrupted (slide 1 & 2) and Amanda Maciuba’s Natural Mythologies (slide 3)

take a workshop with Heather Cook and learn now to make a mountable Butterfly House Book Sculpture 🦋

peruse new work by local artists in our shop like our rack of steamroller prints from past BookFests, prints by Harumo Sato, and mini-book necklaces & earrings by Just Terrific • Rachael Gootnick.

We’re open 10am-2pm!

Next week at Book Arts: Woodblock Relief Printmaking workshop with SuDI Wang!

Explore relief printmaking by carving into woodblocks to create monochromatic prints. We’ll focus on your relationships with the wood and tools as printmakers. No previous printmaking experience is required, and all skill levels are welcome.

Complete and understand relief printmaking basic processes. Projects will be one or two layers of woodblock print on Kozo paper, one design per student, and around 10 final prints per person, with woodblock print sizes around 3’’ x 4.5’’. The final print could be used as an individual art piece, postcard, bookplate, etc!

*** This is a two class workshop. Participants must attend both class dates.***

This past spring, we hosted an exhibition by Sudi, featuring her printmaking work, titled Where is Momo? You can still find some of her mini-momo prints in our artist shop! Snag one next time you visit!

Where did the summer go?! As fall sneaks in, we’re thinking about all we did this summer! BookFest, ZineFest, our 18th annual Members’ Show, workshops, summer residency, exhibitions, and hanging with our talented Member artists in our Print Studio.

Thank you to all who came through to celebrate, learn, teach, make, shop, and support local book artists & printmakers with us!

We can’t wait to keep inking it up with you this fall!

We are excited to announce two new Printing Partner programs beginning this fall at the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library & Locust Street Art! Classes are FREE and geared towards families of all ages.

Explore a new book arts project each week, including: origami bookmaking, hand-stitched journal making, and various forms of making prints! Students will receive a kit of specialty art tools & materials for their use during the classes, and to keep after the program ends.

Find us at the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library on Fridays from 4-6pm (Oct 2 - Nov 20)!

Find us at Locust Street Art on Tuesdays from 4-6pm (Oct 6 - Nov 24)!

While we welcome walk-ins to class, seating can be limited. We ask families to kindly RSVP at our website: wnybookarts.org/classes

What is Printing Partners?
Hosted by community partners throughout the Buffalo region, Printing Partners offers free hands-on classes on the book arts to children & families in their own neighborhoods.

We had a great time at the Central Library showing people how to letter press!

Thank you james alea & Timiyah for representing Book Arts!

Robin Jordan was also there showing people how to make zines!

Much gratitude to Buffalo Library for including us in this awesome event 📚💕

Also opening tonight (Friday, Sep 18 from 5-8pm) in our Studio Gallery: Amanda Maciuba’s Natural Mythologies. On view through Oct 17th.

Amanda’s exhibition is the result of her time as Book Arts’ Studio Artist Resident this summer.

In Amanda’s words: “The prints in this exhibition show expected landscape and environmental landmarks that I grew up with in and around the shores of Lake Erie, particularly a family cottage in Long Point, Ontario. This work is the initial foray of a longer study on how human management has impacted the introduced and native species in the Great Lakes region, and how this has evolved and changed the landscape over time. These prints specifically deal with mussels, wetlands and a natural phenomenon called garnet sand.

Also on display as part of her exhibition will be a print she made during BookFest using a streamroller in the street.

Head to our website to learn more about Amanda and to read her residency reflection in which she goes into fascinating detail about the natural family mythologies that inform her work, as well as the “pressure printing” process she used to make the piece on display.

About Amanda:
Born and raised in the Buffalo, NY area, Amanda Maciuba (she/her/hers) graduated from the University at Buffalo with a degree in Visual Studies. She has a MFA in printmaking and a Certificate of Book Arts from the University of Iowa. Currently, she teaches printmaking, drawing and book arts at Mount Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts.

Amanda Maciuba’s work is concerned with the landscapes, communities, development practices and environmental practices throughout the United States. By reacting directly to the landscapes and environments she is living in at the time, her work examines, celebrates, and critiques place.

Through a combination of prints, drawings, artist’s books and digital media she calls attention to how human actions and climate change are transforming our current environment, and creates a space for mourning and reflection on the environments that are already irrevocably altered beyond repair.

Book Arts’ exhibitions are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts & Erie County

Kathleen Sherin was at Book Arts yesterday helping with the installation of her exhibition, Disrupted! We talked a bit about the gorgeous deep blacks in her pieces and the years-long trial and error process that got her there.

She’ll teach some of her techniques at a two-part, hands-on Introduction to Silk Aquatint & Carborundum Collagraphic Monoprinting at Book Arts (which we’re sorry we told you about because it is currently full). Reach out if you’d like to be added to the waitlist though!

Join us Friday (Sep 18 from 5:00-8:00pm) for an opening. There will be refreshments! As long as we don’t dip into them first. We’ll do our best.

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This exhibition is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Butterfly book sculptures, a stunning sketchbook, or hard cover bookbinding: join us for a workshop next week!

Make sure to register! Link in bio