Book Arts Guild

Welcome to the Book Arts Guild. 31 years ago a small group of book binders, papermakers and printers started the Guild and it is now the largest, longest lived, active book arts group in the Pacific Northwest. With over 300 members, BAG reflects the wide variety of arts and crafts sheltered under the book arts umbrella. We've hosted hundreds of lectures by major artists from all over the world, coordinated many workshops with master artists and craftspeople, supported exhibitions, and been active in regional book fairs throughout the group's history.

On this website you will find upcoming events, both hosted by the Guild and those of interest to its members, and an archive of past activities. You will find photographs from workshops, exhibits, studio visits and lectures illustrating the wide variety of events BAG has sponsored over the last 31 years. Please join us. Our $20 dues are a bargain to attend our monthly meetings with visiting artists specializing in a wide range of media, forms and content. Take this opportunity to support the book arts regionally and nationally. Join us!!

Latest News

Summer 2010

May 14, 2010

Upcoming in the next few months will be a number of exciting events—currently we are working on scheduling. We hope to have a lecture by Mary Ashton, papermaker and book artist involved in the Creation portfolio with Tim Rollins and K. O. S., who has returned to Seattle recently; two field trips—one to Smoke Farm, a book arts cooperative that Kate Fernandez is involved with and to Tieton to visit Ed Marquand's operation; a viewing of a documentary on African American book artist Amos Paul Kennedy; the School of Visual Concepts' Wayzgoose; the opening of the Vandercook Book exhibition at Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries and some other possibilities are in the works. In the fall we anticipate a lecture by Roni Gross, New York book artist, a panel discussion on printing on the Vandercook and a gallery talk by Chandler O'Leary for her exhibition in Tacoma among other activities.

BAG is also working on a Flickr site where members will be able to post images of BAG events and other book arts related images.

Be sure to see the Hamilton exhibition at the School of Visual Concepts through June.

Stay tuned on the Events page for details.

Below are photographs from BAG events from 2009