This Event Has Been Cancelled Greetings all enthusiastic Roman and Greek ancient characters. With much regret, we have decided to cancel our Ides of March event scheduled for March 15. We haven’t been able to garner the enthusiasm or numbers needed to make it practical. So sorry, as we are all disappointed and you may have already crafted your costume and persona. We hope to be able to plan a future fun event for our loyal party attendees. In the meantime, on March 15, raise a glass to the gods and toast the ancient Ides day. Hope to see you soon Erica Goldfarb Coordinating Committee Chair ..read more

We’re excited by the new possibilities for our 2024 Annual Members’ Project. Over the past couple of years, we’ve started the development process off by having our membership suggest what we might do for our project. So… if you have an awesome cool concept you’d like the membership to consider for our next project? Follow this link to our “Pitch Page”: Project Pitch Submission Form We’ll be collecting pitches from now through the first week in March. The Members’ Project Subcommittee will then decide from these and announce our new 2024 Member’s Project and we’ll be off to the races producing ..read more

This is a partial listing of upcoming opportunities at the Center. Webpages and registration links will soon be added for each event, class, or workshop. 2024 Annual Members’ Meeting Sunday, January 28, 2024 We’re looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday, January 28, 2024, for our Annual Members’ Meeting. We invite our Book Arts members, friends, and all those curious about our center’s offerings to attend. As per usual the afternoon’s event will include a brief business meeting, a pot-luck lunch, and first pitches for the 2024 Members’ Project register for the Book arts annual member ..read more

This is a partial listing of upcoming opportunities at the Center. Webpages and Eventbrite registration will soon be added for each event, class, or workshop. 2024 Annual Members’ Meeting Sunday, January 28, 2024 We’re looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday, January 28, 2024, for our Annual Members’ Meeting. We invite our Book Arts members, friends, and all those curious about our center’s offerings to attend. As per usual the afternoon’s event will include a brief business meeting, a pot-luck lunch, and first pitches for the 2024 Members’ Project register for the Book arts annual m ..read more

This is a partial listing of upcoming opportunities at the Center. Webpages and Eventbrite registration will soon be added for each event, class, or workshop. 2024 Annual Members’ Meeting Sunday, January 28, 2024 We’re looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday, January 28, 2024, for our Annual Members’ Meeting. We invite our Book Arts members, friends, and all those curious about our center’s offerings to attend. As per usual the afternoon’s event will include a brief business meeting, a pot-luck lunch, and first pitches for the 2024 Members’ Project register for the Book arts annual m ..read more

This is a partial listing of upcoming opportunities at the Center. Webpages and Eventbrite registration will soon be added for each event, class, or workshop. 2024 Annual Members’ Meeting Sunday, January 28, 2024 We’re looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday, January 28, 2024, for our Annual Members’ Meeting. We invite our Book Arts members, friends, and all those curious about our center’s offerings to attend. As per usual the afternoon’s event will include a brief business meeting, a pot-luck lunch, and first pitches for the 2024 Members’ Project ..read more

Acclaimed historian Edward Ayers discusses his new book “American Visions: The United States 1800-1860.” Here, Ayers explains how “key elements” of American life, politics, and culture “crystallized” between 1800 and 1860. Ayers succeeds in providing both detail and the big picture, frankly describing the marginalization of and great harm done to women, African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants. He also chronicles how men and women fought against these problems, some making positive changes in their lifetimes, while others laid the groundwork for future reforms. Ayers’ accurate, bala ..read more

Seasonal readings! Had your fill of calmly bobbing for apples? Bored with haunted hayrides? Here are a few book recommendations for the height of spooky season. Let’s start with a legend, the author who launched a thousand movie adaptations, tv series (*ahem* Mike Flanagan), and literary spinoffs, spooky Shirley Jackson herself. You might’ve read “The Lottery” in high school, but Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is graduate-level scary. In it, a group of strangers visit a reportedly haunted house for research but quickly become subject to its bad vibes. One scene still haunts me: a charact ..read more

National Hispanic Heritage Month takes place annually from September 15th through October 15th. To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of titles—several newly released—by contemporary Latinx authors who continue to display literary excellence.  Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)A striking, fabulous, genre-bending collection of short stories that examine the realities and violences of life in a woman’s body. Machado weaves horror, science fiction, and fantasy into imaginative vignettes that are emotionally resonant and delightfully unsettling. Carmen Maria Machado ..read more

We are now offering multiple levels of Book Arts membership • Book Arts Membership – $50/yr (The Book Arts Enthusiast) • Book Arts Family Membership – $75/yr • Studio Membership – $150/yr (The Book Arts Practitioner) • Studio Plus Membership – $210/yr • Professional Membership – $325/yr Register to become a book arts member Virginia Center for the Book, a program of Virginia Humanities, hosts a community of member artists exploring books, paper, and printmaking through a hands-on studio located in Charlottesville’s Jefferson School. Our book arts program engages in arts & humanities projec ..read more