The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 160, mid-April - June 2024 is now ready for free download at:
bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/
67pp of artists' books news. Cover artist: societyofbookbinders Society of Bookbinders BOOK ARTS DAY 2024. Featured exhibition: Joe Devlin Next deadline: 20th June 2024.

📣 We’ll be heading over the border into Suffolk to join Great War Huts for their Wipers Times event!

Delving into the history of trench newspapers, we’ll be discussing the challenges and triumphs of printing in the midst of conflict.

Tickets👇
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Dog ear found in an 18th century Methodist pamphlet. After Erica Baum.

Issue five is now on sale! 🌱🌀 Featuring poems by Alex Older, Olivia Guanieri, Stephen Nelson, Julie Johnstone, M@, Tess Little, Laurel Moore and many more. This is a bumper issue with more poems than ever! Head to the shop for your copy – link in bio.

composition / improvisation #nonuniformdays

2024 marks 20 years of Four Corners Books 🎈

Sign up to our newsletter, and we'll send you a free 20th anniversary catalogue in the post (while stocks last)
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Still a few places left on this course - come and experience some of Cambridge UL's most unusual and interactive books.

Heritage Crafts and Marsh Charitable Trust are running a new Community Catalyst of the Year Award in 2024, to recognise someone who has gone above-and-beyond on a voluntary basis during the past 12 months. Deadline: 24 May 2024, 5pm.📷 CraftivistCollective forms.gle/wFsnfT79tEzmKK…

Our Wayzgoose is three weeks away! 🙌

Join us on Sunday 28 April for our annual celebration of all things letterpress. Explore stalls selling letterpress supplies and printed items, visit our workshop and network over a lovely slice of cake.

#SBFWayzgoose #letterpress

Ethel is preparing for the Printed Matter Art Book Fair in NYC April 25-28 along with betweenthehighway press betweenthehighway press.

This week in the garden… #littlesparta

Ooh look at this!

The brilliant colours of Nettlefolds suppliers and agents labels from around the world are preserved in this hand-made scrapbook, 1880s #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives Winterbourne HG Lee Hale History WestMidlands Simon Briercliffe #industrialhistory

The new issue of The Blue Notebook journal for artists' books is ready for free download. Articles by: David Berridge, Tanya Peixoto & Natalia Zagorska-Thomas, Jeanette Koch, Alastair R Noble, Niamh Fahy & Rodrigo Arteaga, featured artist: Cristian Zuzunaga:
bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue-notebook/

Looking forward to another great conversation on Between the Covers!

The Art of Making - London Craft Week

Exhibition, demonstrations and talks
18 - 19 May 2024
11am - 5pm

During London Craft Week we will showcase the wide range of craft disciplines represented by our members with a series of talks, demonstrations and an exhibition.

The countdown begins!

Our first open day of 2024 is on Good Friday!

We hope to see you there 👋

Plans for Bristol Artist's Book Event here at Bower Ashton 29-30 June 2024 are coming together. The exhibitor list is being updated each week; the talks programme is ready thanks to Angie Butler / ABPress - you can download it and find out more here:
bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2024/

Looking forward to co-chairing with Karen Di Franco Dr Karen Di Franco ♒️ this AAH conference panel session: Reproduction! Networks of Distribution in Archives and Collections of Publishing, in less than two weeks! forarthistory.org.uk/reproduction-n…

This week in the garden…. #littlesparta