Much thanks to everyone who helped make this year's Annual Benefit and Auction a success-in particular: Roni Gross for overall design and good cheer; Courtney Booth for an exciting! live! auction! event! Richard Minsky for playing host; Karen Gorst for certificate design; all of our volunteers and workstudy for serving drinks food and generally being helpful; Russian Standard Vodka; Les Chauds Lapins for delightful entertainment; all of the artists who donated work to our fantastic auction; Alex Campos for leading the way; Delphi Basilicato for framing excellence; Star Black for photographic evidence; our generous sponsors; the Benefit Co-Chairs; our Board of Directors for spreading the word...am I forgetting anyone? Oh yes:




























































The Hive Baking Collective for our site-specific dessert installation. Corinna Zelstman (center) made the amazing tiered hive honey cake; Jordan Provost (left) made the honey comb brittle; Sarah Nicholls (right) made the flower cookies, and Bridget Ewald (on vacation in the Bahamas) made the A-MAZ-ING marzipan bees.




















Nick and Bryan can't believe their eyes. There's more photos of the entire event for your viewing pleasure here. Thank you to everyone who came and made our fundraiser a success!

The Center for Book Arts turned thirty-five in the fall of 2009. In honor of our thirty-fifth anniversary year—a venerable landmark—we hope you will join us in recognizing how far we’ve come! You are cordially invited to mark this exciting occasion, and pay tribute to key individuals who have made exceptional efforts to advance and promote the book arts:

• Lesley Dill, Artist
• Dikko Faust, Printer, Purgatory Pie Press
• Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner, Founders, The Women’s Studio Workshop
  
• Ruth and Marvin Sackner, Art Collectors
• Mary Coxe Schlosser, Binder and Scholar

We are pleased to celebrate the admirable achievements of these individuals at our 2010 Annual Benefit & Silent Auction on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, from 6 to 9 pm. We hope you will join us for an enchanting spring evening of French Jazz, cocktails, gourmet hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, and a rousing live auction featuring work by acclaimed artists.

You may purchase tickets for the benefit through our website, here, or by phone at (212) 481-0295.

The exciting artworks on the auction block for this year are viewable on our website!Click here to get a preview of this year's auction.

Please consider purchasing a fully tax-deductible ticket to the Center's Annual Benefit & Auction today.

The Center for Book Arts is proud to be a part of the Annual Chapbook Festival , co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York; The Center for Book Arts; Poets House; Poetry Society of America; and Poets & Writers. Now in its second year, the Chapbook Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a vehicle for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. This year’s festival features two days of workshops, panels, readings, a book fair of chapbook publishers, and a reception at the CUNY Graduate Center on Monday and Tuesday, May 3-4. The complete schedule of events is here.

Directly following the events at CUNY, we'll ask, how do you go from manuscript to object? What are your options for getting text to page? How exactly do you make a book, anyway? Join us on Wednesday, May 5th, from 10 am to 5pm when instructors Susan Mills and Karen Randall will teach basic bookbinding and printing techniques for writers interested in publishing their own work. Writers will learn a few structures suitable for binding their words, and get their hands dirty printing some letterpress book covers. Students will come away with models, ideals and inspiration for producing their own chapbooks. RSVP at 212-481-0295; there's a $20 fee for materials.

We'll cap off the day with our first Broadside reading of the year's series; John Yau has invited Boni Joi and Albert Mobilio to read at 6:30pm, and letterpress printed broadsides are being produced by artists here at the Center to commemorate the event. $10 suggested donation at the door gets you a complimentary broadside. Wine and cheese reception to follow.