Austin Launches its Own Book Arts Center

by Glasstire September 4, 2015

 

ABAC_Image1_webIt seems quite appropriate that Austin, home of UT’s Harry Ransom Center and academics and book lovers galore, would have its own Book Arts Center, modeled on similar ones in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York. Austin Book Arts Center will be located in studio #114 in the Flatbed Press building and, according to its board of directors, “will offer classes in bookbinding, letterpress printing, book repair, papermaking, book history and design, and various other arts of the book. ABAC will also make its studio and equipment available for the creation of books.”

The two experienced people at the helm are Mary Baughman, who’s worked at the Ransom Center for nearly four decades and is “one of the originators of the Book Arts Fair held for 20+ years at Laguna Gloria Art Museum,” and Amanda Stevenson, from the Center for Book Arts in New York City and the Printing Museum in Houston.

ABAC’s inaugural open house takes place Saturday, September 12. “Attendees may register to win door prizes, letterpress print a bookmark, and learn about the fall schedule of classes. Admission is free.”

For more info, please go here and here.

 

5 comments

5 comments

Mary Baughman September 5, 2015 - 22:25

Thank you very much for sharing this information.
I hope lots of folks attend the open house. You can sign up for classes now through the atxbookarts.org website. Please have a look!

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Margi Tenney September 6, 2015 - 06:14

Very good news for Austin artists and lovers of the book arts. Please support Austin Center for the Bbok Arts by joining and/ or signing up for a class today!

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Julie Sullivan September 6, 2015 - 08:17

Another fantastic place for the people of Austin to nourish their creative spirits.

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Margi Tenney January 15, 2016 - 07:13

Open house this Saturday, 1/16/16, noon – 8:00pm.
Austin Book Arts Center
2832 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd #114, Austin, TX 78702

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Mark Lee December 15, 2019 - 19:46

I plan to visit Book Arts Center next time in Austin as am anticipating relocating residency near by.
I wish to produce a limited letter press edition, a book of short stories including a novella or two, and a song. The collection to be entitled,“…man in a tea shop…”
Hoping you can point me in the right direction?

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