In-person presentation, Tuesday, September 22, 2026 7:00 pm, at Partners In Print, 402 Cedar St. Seattle. To give an idea of how many will attend, please register here. In this talk, Rebecca will look back over her 40 years as a working book artist, detailing the planning, process and production that led to the creation of her award-winning body of work. Rebecca Chamlee is a book artist, letterpress printer, writer, and bookbinder who has published innovatively designed, le

Online presentation, Thursday August 13, 2026 7:00pm PDT To receive Zoom link register HERE. Over the past four years, Rhiannon Alpers has created a series of sculptural artist books investigating how color can become a way of knowing a place. Rooted in her lifelong relationship with Colorado’s landscapes, where she was raised and later based for four years, the work traces an evolving inquiry from early investigations of ochre in Colorado’s North Fork Valley to recent artist

Online presentation Saturday July 25, 2026, 11:00 am PDT To receive Zoom link, register HERE. Please join us to meet artist Pat Hodson, based in Sheffield, UK. Her talk will outline how she stumbled into making books in the mid 1990's, after working with wax resist on cloth for around 15 years. She’ll show the different influences which inspired or changed her work, such as continual experiment with different materials, cross media collaborations, and computer technology. How

Online presentation Sunday June 28, 11:00 am PDT To receive Zoom link, register HERE. Edward and Paula will share the context and process of their collaboration in Born a Problem, a project exploring the erasure of Indonesian Chinese identity through decades of state-mandated assimilation laws. They will share the historical context that led to Edward's translation and erasure poetry as a form of resistance and reclamation. They will also go through the making of the artist b

August 15, 2026, 10am-5pm: “Shaped Boxes & Curious Containers” August 16, 2026, 2pm-6pm: “Playful Paper Boxes” Location: Artworks, 200 Dayton St., Edmonds, WA PLEASE NOTE: REGISTRATION IS CLOSED AS OF 7/30/26; BOTH CLASSES ARE FILLED. Shaped Boxes & Curious Containers: Boxes come in all shapes and sizes — with lids, curves, compartments, and drawers. Unusual artist books and bound treasures often call for equally inventive housing, and this playful one-day workshop explores c

With great sadness we share that Selene Fisher passed away on May 21, 2026. Selene was a long-time member of the Book Arts Guild and since 2019 served as BAG President. It would be difficult to overstate the energy, effort, and dedication which she contributed to the group. She was a “rock” for the rest of the Board: reliably conducting well-run meetings, recruiting presenters, and shouldering much of the administrative load. For years, she enthusiastically organized BAG’s o

Online Presentation Thursday, May 14, 2026 7 pm PDT To receive Zoom link, register HERE. Katy Gilmore will show slides and talk about her project exploring a Northwest year using the Japanese format of 72 micro-seasons rather than just the 'usual' four. Observing her surrounding plants, birds and weather every five days and making a record with image and words on pages of deaccessioned gardening encyclopedias made for a memorable year. The 72 pages are now bound into four acc

Thursday ,April 9, 2026, 7:00pm in person and online Suzzallo Library Fifth Floor Conference Room University of Washington, Seattle Please register here This illustrated talk covers artist book and related projects from recent years that ponder the nature of reading. These include projects based on reading Willa Cather's 'My Antonia' and essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It also includes a newly printed artist book 'How did I get inside your head?'. Artist books will be availabl

Online Presentation by Brenda Gallagher February 12, 2026 6:00 PM PST (7:00 MST) (note time) Online presentation, watch the recording HERE . In 2024 and 2025, the Guild of Book Workers* hosted a traveling, juried exhibition called NIGHT CIRCUS . Artists were invited to submit books on this theme, where a Night Circus " …invites curiosity with its Spectacle, fascinates with Artistry and Performance, explores the Mysterious and Luminous, investigates Clandestine actions

In-person meeting in the UW Suzzallo Library Sunday, January 11, 2026 2:00 pm PST Fifth Floor Conference Room No registration required. Come for the camaraderie. Meet the Book Arts Guild Board. Bring something you've made that you'd like to talk about. Bring a light refreshment to share. Or just bring yourself and socialize. No pre-registration is required. Parking is FREE on campus on Sundays. The Fifth Floor Conference room is on the fifth floor (obvi) of the Suzzallo Libra