NEW FEATURES ARTICLE
Anastasia Armendariz, "Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections Curatorship with Artists’ Books."
Read it: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#RareBooks #SpecialCollections #Affect #ArtistsBooks #Collecting #BookArts #BookHistory
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of its first publication, Byopia Press presents a DIY edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'.
Instructions in two posts. Find the first here:
byopiapress.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t...
#ByopiaPress #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #BookBinding #BookArts
Mahn Center for Archives & Spec Coll #OHIOUniversity is now official #WomensStudioWorkshop Repository institution!
We have one of almost every WSW #ArtistsBook produced + upcoming annual releases.
Learn more, schedule appointment: https://bit.ly/oulibraries-archives-questions
#ArtistsBooks #BookArts
The Book of Lost Love:
The book is a journey through romantic/3rotic memory, it’s not required to be linear.
#bookarts #artistbook #design #artmaking
Made this one last week, I will say I’m a fan of the purple and black.
#handmadebook #handmade #bookbinding #bookbinder #copticbinding #frenchlinkbinding #booklover #craft #bookmaking #makingbooks #bookarts #paperarts #papercrafts #handmadejournals #traditionalcrafts #sketchbook #journal
from The Book of Lost Love:
Bardo of Love and Loss
A collage of processed photos and poems, all original. Photoshop is the tool that allows me to create what I see in my mind so you can see it too.
#poetry #bardo #love #loss #photoshop #artmaking #design #bookarts #artistbook #typography
from The Book of Lost Love:
A Sunburned Prayer
Finishing up this multimedia sculptural artist book I’ve worked on all month. This is a collage of poems and pencil drawings.
#artistbook #bookarts #pencil #drawing #artmaking #poetry #design #typography
Kate Holland binding on Peter Koch's, Fragments of Parmenides. Photograph inside depicts refugees making the same crossing from Turkey to Greece nearly 2500 years later that Parmenides’s family made. #nyabaa26 #booktok #rarebooks #finepress #designbinding #artistbooks #bookarts
"I look to see how I can push the materials and do something unexpected."
Local artist, Sally Chapman, shares her wisdom in our latest Creators on Creating interview: www.poetose.com/pub/creators...
#art #artist #artists #bookarts #bookartist
Endpaper illustration for Tia William’s Seven Days in June - in an auditorium after a presentation, a young Black woman with curly hair hands a crumbled ball of paper to a tall Black man in a T-shirt.
Endpaper illustration for Tia William’s Seven Days in June - in a diner a Black woman with curly hair and Black man in a T-shirt sit in a booth and share milkshakes.
Photo of the book “Seven Days in June” by Tia Williams.
Last set of end paper illustrations from my collab with @illumicrate.bsky.social and @tiawilliams.bsky.social
This set is for “Seven Days in June.”
#art #bookarts #illustration #romance
The poet and his muse: the latest in an occasional series, spotlighting the multi-disciplinary work of #Penge artist-in-residence Cosmo Chancer...
Buy Cosmo's first poetry collection for £3 at bit.ly/cosmoxyoko
#zines #bookarts #colossivepress
Book 15 of 2026. I wish I had the book when I was a kid! It's also a great book for adults interested in making their own books and book art.
#booksky
#makeartnotwar
#readingchallenge
#bookarts
Reduction woodcuts by Gaylord Schanilec: This is a set of progressive proofs from Lac Des Pleurs: Report from Lake Pepin. Will be in the booth at the NYC ABAA fair. #nyabaa26 #woodcuts #finepress #artistbook #bookarts #rarebooks #booktok
Made a Miyazaki themed slipcase for my brother's birthday this week. Fits a Hayao Miyazaki concept art book I bought him a few years ago.
Linocut art printed on Bugra paper and Cialux bookcloth.
#bookarts #linocut #printmaking #miyazaki #fanart
Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was one of America’s most popular illustrators and storytellers at the end of the 19th century. The broad appeal of his imagery made him a celebrity in his lifetime.
#loveart #thattick #illustration #bookarts
The application deadline is approaching! Apply for this Center for Book Arts Fellowship and you have a chance to be eligible to apply for our ATBL Research Fellowship to also conduct research at @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Learn more & apply: centerforbookarts.org/book-art-res... #bookarts
Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan. dated 830 AH/1427 CE.
#design #bookarts #830s #metmuseum #Islamicart #endpapers
Graphite drawing of a mountain with a tarn in the foreground.
My submission for World Book Night 2026 - The Mountains Are Calling. WBN United Artists invite you to read and respond to a text or book about mountains.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/pdf/WBN-brie...
#bookarts #bookness #WBN2026
@sarahbodman.bsky.social
Endpaper illustration of a Black man and Black woman making out in a cozy red booth. The woman is straddling the man’s lap as he holds the sides of her dress and looks up at her lovingly.
Endpaper illustration of a couple having a romantic evening at a restaurant. The man holds the woman’s hand and smiles at her.
Photograph of a book “The Perfect Find” by Tia Williams on a wood surface.
Another finished set of end paper illustrations from my collab with @illumicrate.bsky.social and @tiawilliams.bsky.social - for the book “A Perfect Find”.
#art #bookarts #illustration #romance
Illustration of a Black woman in a red dress leaning over piano as Black man in a tan jacket plays it.
Illustration of a woman in a red cloak standing in a living room looking surprised at two women sitting at a dinner table set with her favorite foods. One woman sitting is an elderly Black woman with pink hair and a colorful dress and the second is a light skinned Black woman with bangle earrings and her hair in a bun, her arms are crossed.
Photograph of book “A Love Song for Ricki Wilde”.
#FlashbackFriday to a 2025 client project I can finally share - endpaper illustratons for Tia William’s A Love Song for Ricki Wilde in collab with @illumicrate.bsky.social
#art #bookarts #illustration
We've just made our latest donation - £14 - to @stonewalluk.bsky.social from sales of our 40th Colossive Cartography, You Are Safe Here by @rachaelhouse.bsky.social.
Rachael is donating all royalties - £1 per zine - to this very important cause. Buy it for £2 at bit.ly/colossive40
#zines #bookarts
A bunch of Miyazaki warm-ups from this morning. Got a small project I'm working on as a gift for someone's birthday next week. #printmaking #bookarts #sketchbook
#Penge artist-in-residence and occasional poet Cosmo Chancer has just found out that it's Yoko Ono's birthday today. So he's rushed out a poem in her honour.
Yoko, of course, was the inspiration behind Cosmo's first poetry collection. Buy it for £3 here: bit.ly/cosmoxyoko
#zines #bookarts #yoko
We've just made our latest donation to @mariecurieuk.bsky.social from sales of our 61st Colossive Cartography, Women's Work by Julian Payne.
Julian is donating all royalties - £1 per #zine - to this VERY worthy cause in memory of his mum Linda.
Grab yours for £2 at bit.ly/colossive61
#bookarts
INTO THE FOLD is coming up soon and I will be launching new things.
The Winchester School of Art Artists’ Book and Zine Fair is on Friday 6 March 2-6pm and Saturday 7 March 10-4pm
FREE ENTRY
#intothefold #intothefold26 @unisotonlibrary @wsalibrary
#bookarts #artistsbooks #smallpublishers
Book Art SIG February Huddle Zoom Feb 24 Calling all collections stewards, all lovers of artists’ books and zines, all individuals drawn to works of art in “book” form!
A gathering is overdue! Join the Book Art SIG for an informal conversation (a huddle!) about any Book Art topic you have on your mind over Zoom on Feb. 24. Find the registration link on the events calendar: linktr.ee/arlisna
#skybrarians #BookArts #booksky #GLAMsky
Tyler Starr's, Flags, Placards, and Illicit Climbers of the Capitol Insurrection. Images of rioters scaling walls of the Capitol Grounds, background removed to highlight rioters. Context provided via signage embodying affiliations, motivations & ideologies. #artistbook #bookarts
