From WNYBAC to Book Arts
From WNYBAC to Book Arts We’re proud to have worked with Telesco Creative Group on creating the new Book Arts’ brand. The refreshed, modern and creative Book Arts mark is representative of who we are, what we do, and the mission we hold dear. As Buffalo’s only...
Book Arts in LIGHTS with City Lights Studio
We glowed up, major. All thanks to City Lights Studio! Rewind to Spring of 2019, a quintessential June day in Buffalo where the sunshine is beaming down, yet still manages to feel soft on the skin, illuminating the menagerie of colors in the spring foliage. A...
Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week Written by Book Arts Intern: Sage Enderton If you’ve ever stepped foot in a school library, you’re sure to know about the very long list of banned books found in the United States. From JD Salinger to JK Rowling to Toni Morrison, there are hundreds...
Book Arts Has a New Look!
We're spilling the type... Book Arts has a New Look! Book Arts has been working on a new look and we are so excited to announce that one of the final steps of our visual branding, our new website, is complete! By joining forces with Telesco Creative Group and...
The Great Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent: A Ten Year Study
October 4 – November 9, 2019
Summer, West Side
ON VIEW SEPTEMBER 6 – SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
in our lower level gallery
Meet the Artist: Kathie Aspaas
A conversation with Kathie Aspaas Kathie Aspaas is a mixed media artist and printmaker originating from Houston, Texas, and is the owner of Aspen House Press, a studio and workshop in Williamsville, NY. Believing that art is a crucial piece of her identity and...
Summer, West Side
An Exhibition by Katy Sloan Opening Reception Friday, September 6th, 5-9pm Summer, West Side is a collection of prints and artist’s books based on the aesthetics and community of the West Side of Buffalo, NY. Silkscreened prints detail the architecture of the West...
Banning Books: Understanding without Reading
September 6 – 28, 2019
Meet the Artist: Julio Enrique Flores
A conversation with Julio Enrique Flores How did you first get started creating visual art? In 1977, the year Star Wars exploded, I coveted my 2nd-grade classmate’s skill at drawing Darth Vader from memory, so he gave me a drawing. This stirred the competitive fearful...
Meet the Artists: Ginny O’Brien & Michael Basinski
A conversation with Ginny O’Brien & Michael Basinski How did you each get started in the visual arts, and when did you first decide to combine your styles the way you have for this show? Michael: Back in the last century. I see my art as poetry. It is writing that...
Meet the Artist: Mark Lavatelli
Encaustic is an ancient and permanent painting technique in which the binder is beeswax. Unlike linseed oil or synthetic resin (e.g. acrylic) binders which dry to harden, the beeswax is heated until molten, mixed with dry pigments to make paint, and, when applied to the painting, cools and hardens instantly. This is why it is unique.
Visual Mindfulness: Intuitive Meditation for the Senses
An unexpected visitor waves through the windows, into Book Arts. It's just hardly after noon on a Wednesday...we're open to the public, but oops, a staff meeting ran long (as they always do), and we pop up to unlock the door. Always in some composition of blue, gray,...
11th Members’ Exhibition
July 19 – August 24, 2019
Soft Propaganda
June 7 – July 3, 2019