The San Francisco Center for the Book is honored to present Celebrating Teachers as Artists through May 31, featuring 47 new works by our local instructors. These 28 book artists hail from a wide range of artistic disciplines and draw upon diverse mediums and techniques. Click on the images below, and you'll find an impressive variety of work: typographic books of poetry and prose, photography, solar etching, folded paper, Coptic bindings, polymer-clay book structures, calligraphy, eraser-carved block prints, altered books, accordion-fold structures, sculptural books, loose letterpress pages in handmade portfolios, scrolls, rubber-stamped text and artwork, clamshell boxes, miniature books, encaustic-dipped pages, handmade papers, and such unconventional book forms as a leather wallet and a cigar box. There's even a dress on display - for reasons that viewers can puzzle over (enjoyably, I hope).

This diversity is first of all a reflection on a wonderful group of teachers, the Center's most important asset. But it is also a tribute to the vitality and elasticity of the book arts as a discipline. And we hope that in our new, larger quarters (same blue building, but now with the entrance on 16th Street), more practitioners and more students will discover the appeal of the arts and crafts of the book.

Cathy Miranker
Curator

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