Wells Book Arts Center

With a heavy heart, but out of concern for safety and well-being for all involved, I must announce the decision to cancel the Summer Institute 2020 program. Please refer to updates from the Wells College account regarding Campus events. Please be in touch with any questions. Wishing health and safety to you and yours -- Leah Mackin ([email protected])

Who's ready for Wells Summer Institute 2020?! Check out our website or event page for more information on this summer's exciting lineup of classes. Registration is open until June 15, 2020! Scholarship and Internship applications are available until March 15, 2020. Apply today! https://wellsbookartscenter.org//fu/2020-summer-institute/

Call for artists' books at Main Street Arts. "Biblio Spectaculum: A National Juried Exhibition" https://mainstreetartscs.org/submissions.html

The Book Arts Center wants YOU*! Applications for DIRECTOR of the Wells College Book Arts Center are being accepted now! Review of applications will begin on February 7, 2020. *Or please share this opportunity with your qualified and amazing Book Arts friends, colleagues, heroes, &c. Thank you!

Scholarship and Internship applications for Wells Book Arts Summer Institute 2020 are now live. Both applications linked from this page and will be accepted through March 15, 2020! Tell your students, friends, colleagues, neighbors, self...

Christmas in Aurora starts early at the Wells College Book Arts Center! Greeting Card Printing Event and Wells College Press Pop-up Shop Friday, December 6th, ...12pm - 4pm Wells Book Arts Center: 1st Floor of Morgan Hall See more

Join us for Wells Book Arts Summer Institute 2020! Program and Registration is now live. Our annual program offers week-long intensive courses in letterpress printing, hand bookbinding, artists’ books, lettering and paper arts. July 12th 18th and July 19th 25th, 2020 #wellssummerinstitute #wellssummerinstitute2020

Are you experiencing some Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 Memorial Book Arts Lecture FOMO? We've got you covered with a video recording (and uploaded slideshow!) of Peter D. Verheyen's talk "A Bookbinder’s Journey: My analog and virtual life in the book arts." Enjoy! Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL5Ep4sJeFc&feature=youtu.be Slides here: https://works.bepress.com/peter_verheyen/50/

Tomorrow afternoon 2:00pm-4:00pm! Students from our Letterpress Printing course will be sharing their first printing projects created in response to the Water/Ways exhibit. The suite of prints, Go With The Flow, features 8 printed text pieces with quotes pulled from the exhibition. The students composed pieces by hand with metal type addressing issues of design, ink color choice, layout, and formatting. Join us to raise a glass of lemonade and admire their work!

Mark your calendars! 48th Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 Memorial Book Arts Lecturer: Peter D. Verheyen A Bookbinder's Journey: My analog and virtual life in the book arts... Thursday, Oct. 17, at 6:00 p.m. Hostetter Lecture Hall (Stratton Hall 209) Wells College, Aurora, NY Admission is free and all are welcome. The Wells College Book Arts Center is pleased to welcome noted bookbinder, conservator and librarian Peter D. Verheyen to campus, where he will present the 48th Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 Memorial Book Arts Lecture. This lecture is the 48th in a series named for Susan Garretson Swartzburg. Working closely with Wells faculty and staff, Swartzburg helped to organize the press, bindery and other components that became Wells College’s Book Arts Center, which celebrates its 26th anniversary this year. She served on the Book Center’s advisory board and, in memory of her father, established a biannual book arts lecture series for which she raised funds and organized events.

Last weekend, the Book Arts Center welcomed eight high-achieving high school students from Cayuga County NY for S.T.E.A.M. Camp 2019, a two-day workshop that exposes high school girls to research and scholarship at the intersection of science and art. Students engaged with the concepts of symmetry and sequencing in art and science through lectures and hands-on workshops creating cyanotype photograms and digital negatives. They recorded their findings in a notebook that they b...ound and letterpress printed covers for, including hand-setting their names in metal type. Peep those lasercut golden ratio calipers and, of course, the use of Moore Wood Type ’s patterned circle cuts. Photos by participating faculty, Professor Chris Bailey (Professor of Chemistry), and student mentor, Kate Casler ’20. Participating faculty and staff also included Professor Leah Elliot (Assistant Professor of Biology) Professor Katie Waugh (Associate Professor of Studio Art), Marion Brown (Director of the Wells Center for Sustainability and the Environment), Elaina Rose ’19 (student mentor), and the WBAC’s Leah Mackin (Assistant Director and Academic Coordinator). The 2019 Wells S.T.E.A.M. Camp was made possible with generous support from the Women's Fund of Central New York, which seeks to make a difference in the lives of women and girls from Onondaga, Cayuga, Madison and Oswego counties.

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