In Book Arts, the container works with the content. Some of the books are narrative, some contain poetry, and some have no words, but tell a story through illustrations and images. Book Arts is about making books by hand. It encompasses the traditional techniques of bookbinding, papermaking, calligraphy, and letterpress as well as the capabilities of electronic media. It touches on many other forms of contemporary art, including printmaking, photography, painting, sculpture and mixed media.

This Saturday, October 20, is the 6th Annual Book Arts Jam at Foothill College where over 50 exhibitors will display unique and limited edition books, ‘zines, handmade paper, fine art prints, assembled ephemera and bookworks that challenge conventional views of what it means to “be a book.”

Visitors will be able to connect directly with letterpress printers, prominent regional artists and craftspeople, and representatives of Bay Area book arts organizations.

Bay Area Book Artists will provide a “behind-the-scenes” look at the creative processes, tools, and techniques used in book arts providing demonstrations of numerous book arts skills including sewing a fine binding, making gelatin prints, capturing images using a pinhole camera, folding a book out of a single sheet of paper, and more.

6th Annual Book Arts Jam
Foothill College, Campus Center
12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills

Saturday, October 20
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Free admission, parking $2

Directions, best parking, printable map here.

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