Local Bookish Events
- Selene
- Apr 2
- 2 min read
Plan Your 2025 Staycation: A collection of local exhibits and events available to everyone
THIS WEEKEND - THIS WEEKEND
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA)’s popular DogEar Festival returns April 4-6, 2025.
The immersive three-day event will once again bring together artists, community, curators, scholars, and creatives for lectures, hands-on printmaking and demonstrations in the galleries, a whimsical Edible Book “Chompetition,” a pop-up print market, a concert with the Bushwick Book Club, and plenty of other live activations and music to keep art-lovers of all ages occupied. This year’s festival highlight is BIMA’s current Artists’ Books exhibition, Power of the Presses. It’s a wide-ranging look at how printing is used creatively today (more below)
Friday, April 4 5-8pm
Saturday & Sunday, April 5 & 6
10am-5pm
Live DJ & Music
Print Pop-up Shop
Typewriter Station
Edible Books Chompetition
Storytime with Mare Blocker
Make Your Own Mini Photo Book
Screenprinting with The Vera Project
Drop-in Printing with Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
Saint Rita’s Amazing Traveling Bookstore & Textual Apothecary
Lectures on Artist’s Books, Artists, Communities, and Creativity
suq’ʷabš Suquamish Lushootseed Language Printing Demonstration and Traditional Narratives
Power of the Presses at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA)
March 7 - June 8, 2025
Power of the Presses is a large-scale group exhibition of artists’ books, broadsides, and diverse print works illuminating the creative potency of this art form. The exhibition will include opportunities for hands-on art making in the gallery. More information HERE.
Tacoma Wayzgoose - May 2, 2025 - 10am - 5pm
Tacoma Public Library Main Branch, 1102 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma WA 98402
Tacoma Wayzgoose is a community letterpress, printmaking, and book arts extravaganza. Meet local printers and view their wares, print your own keepsakes, make paper and bind books. A highlight of the weekend is steamroller printing, where local artists carve 2X3 foot sheets of linoleum and print on giant paper. It’s pretty cool. More information HERE.
Seattle Art Book Fair - May 10 & 11, 2025 - 11am - 5pm
Washington Hall, 153 14th Ave, Seattle, WA 9812
The Seattle Art Book Fair is a free festival that celebrates independent publishing, book design, and artist books. The nonprofit event hosts local, national, and international artists, designers, and organizations and includes talks, activities, and art installations, and 85+ exhibitors. Find out more about the fair HERE.
Wayzgoose Kitsap - June 7, 2025 - 10am - 5pm
Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd, Bremerton, WA 98310
Indoor art market. Outdoor steamroller printing. Family recreation. Workshops. Food. Music.
Still in the planning stages, volunteer now. More info HERE.
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