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Interviews / On Craft
Inge Bruggeman, Michelle Burgess, Bill Kelly, Emily McVarish, Harry Reese and BarbaraTetenbaum comment on the role of craft in their work.

Influences / Interplay of Type and Image
Elsi Vassdal Ellis answers the question "Is there an (artist's) book that has particularly affected your own work?"

Appreciation / On Helvetica
Andrew Hoyem on the 50th anniversary of the typeface Helvetica.

Broadside / Ruth McGurk
A broadside for this seemingly endless election year: "A Chicken in Every Pot."

On Collecting / The Thrill of the Swap
Anne Rita Taylor talks about the book swaps she's participated in.

Techniques / Tiny Relief Printing
Sarah Whorf's nifty method for printing on a modified credit card imprinter.

Review / Personal Book Printing
Kevin Kelly looks at services that provide printed-on-demand books.

History of the Book / The Book as Spinate
Hedi Kyle contemplates the book spine in this reprint from the Autumn 1991 Ampersand.

Influences / Wordlist Poetry
Jocelyn Bergen answers the question "Is there an (artist's) book that has particularly affected your own work?"

Profile / Artists Making Fabric Books
Deborah Kogan profiles four artists making books using fabric and cloth pages.

Exhibition Review / Fiber + Book
Steven Daiber reviews Fiber + Book at the Fiber Art Center Gallery in Amherst MA.

Exhibition Review / Quilted Books?
John Cutrone reports on the books from the Gold Coast Quilters Guild Book Arts competition.

Broadside / Melissa Kaup-Augustine
Melissa Kaup-Augustine talks about the broadside she made for the Mutanabi Street Coalition exhibition in October.

History of the Book / al-Mutanabi Street
An excerpt from the blog of Dr Saad Eskander, the director of the Iraq National Library and Archive, about the al-Mutanabi Street bombing and efforts to save and restore the Library.

Around the Bay / Two Member Shows
This fall PCBA sponsored two member shows: the juried exhibition Cutting Edge Books and the annual exhibit and fund-raiser, The Calendar.

Tools / Print Gocco
Nikki Thompson reports on the efforts to save production of the Japanese-made printing system, Print Gocco. She also interviews Gocco printer Lois Morrison.

Influences / Phil Zimmerman
Phil answers the question "Is there an artists' book that has particularly effected your own work?"

End Note / Letter from a Muddy Island
Juliet Doyle muses on ampersands.

Interviews / Snapshots of Book Arts in Asia
How are artists using the book form in Asia? Alisa Golden finds out.

Book Review
Alice Austin reviews Barbara Tetenbaum's A Guide to Experimental Letterpress Techniques.

Influences / An Accounting of Things
John DeMerritt and Nora Pauwels talk about the inception and making of their recent book, De Rekening.

Broadside / Laura Szujewska
Laurie Szujewska talks about the broadsides she made for the PCBA-sponsored group exhibit, "Effects of War: Altered Lives, Altered Books."

Resources / Zines
Carolee Wheeler tells us about some of her favorite zines.

Exhibition Review / Effects of War
Amy Davidson reviews the PCBA-sponsored group exhibit, "Effects of War: Altered Lives, Altered Books."

Appreciation / Gloria Helfgott
Steve Woodall remembers LA-based book artist Gloria Helfgott.

History of the Book / Pochoir
In this article reprinted from Bookways, Frances Butler gives a history of and techniques for pochoir, a coloring technique using stencils

Interview / Remembering the Light
Kyle Schlesinger talks to book artist and printer Mary Laird

Techniques / Flipbooks
In the second of two articles, Deborah Kogan shares her experiences making her first flip book, 'hip hop at fifteen'

Doing Business / Setting the Table
Kate Godfrey gives hints and suggestions for showing off your work at book and craft fairs

Reviews
Georgette Freeman comments on the recent Codex Foundation book fair, Nikki Thompson reviews an exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and Alisa Golden tells us about her serendipitous discovery of an exhibit of mexican street graphics

Resources / Artists' Sketchbooks
Andie Thrames shares her list of favorite books on artists' sketchbooks and visual journals.

History of the Book / Flipbooks
In the first of two articles, Deborah Kogan explores the artists' flipbook

Interview / New Paradigms From The Outset
Kyle Schlesinger talks to Granary Books' Steve Clay about publishing

Broadside / The Lovers' Tree
Bill Denham and Kim Vanderheiden collaborate on a broadside of Bill's poetry

Profile / Memorial Bookworks
Kate Godfrey talks to Gabriel Ella about his bookwork

Influences
Mary Laird answers the question "What artist's book has particularly effected your own work?"

Appreciation / Inside Out
Lisa Rappoport's on-going compilation of poetry about printing

Doing Business / Get Printed
Deb Carlen suggests ways to get your story into the newspaper

Tools / Edgy
Alisa Golden tells us about some nifty tools that can add to your work without being cute or kitschy

Around the Bay / The Calendar 2007
A sampler of works from the annual member show at SFCB

Endnote / Movable Books?
Peter Thomas ruminates on what makes a book "movable"

History of the Book / Orihon's Triumph
Hedi Kyle looks at the origin and adaptations of the concertina fold

Profile / Play, Weaving, Risk, Pattern
Sara McManus gives us a glimpse into Kitty Maryatt's class, "Typography and the Book Arts," at Scripps College

Broadside / I Speak of the Jazz Poets
Lisa Rappoport's broadside of a Jack Crimmin's poem

Appreciation / Lloyd Reynolds
Gay Walker remembers the calligrapher and teacher Lloyd Reynolds

Around the Bay / Out of Our Control
Deborah Kogan looks at Margaret Tedesco's flip books

Techniques / A Tie Clasp
Deborah Kogan & Catherine Helfer detail instructions for making a tie clasp with your own hand-made linen cord

Book Reviews
Gerald Lange reviews Neil Macmillian's An A-Z of Type Designers, and Amy Davidson looks at the recent multiplicity of books about altered books

Tools / When Good Pens Go South
Georgette Freeman's love affair with her Manuscript calligraphic pen

Resources / Royalty-free Images

Endnote / Letter from Italy
Cathy Miranker discovers a book bonanza in Siena, Italy

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Retrospective / Janus Press
A pictorial walk through 25 years of Claire Van Vliet's broadsides

Profile / Cari Ferraro
Calligrapher Cari Ferraro talks about contemporary calligraphic artists' books

Techniques / A Surprise Inside
David Rosen gives instructions and tips for the Turkish map fold

Collaborations / Thicket Press
Katherine Case reports on how her poetry group tackles publishing their own limited edition books

Doing Business / Money Matters
Claire Van Vliet talks about running Janus Press, artistically and financially

Around the Bay / Bound to Inspire
The Bay Area Book Artists' 10th Anniversary Member Show

Book Reviews
Betty Bright's No Longer Innocent, Karen Cheng's Designing Type, and two books issued in conjunction with the 2005 "ABC: The Artists' Books Conference" — Keynote Addresses and Resonance and Response

Tools
A review of the Japanese Book Drill plus instructions on how to make a simple finishing press

Appreciation / Weather Bird Press
Pat Reagh remembers the fine press printer and publisher Vance Gerry

End Note
Peter Thomas has suggestions for showing artists' books in galleries

Appreciation / Heagy's Warehouse
Why we'll miss Jim Heagy's Hunters Point warehouse, a treasure-trove for letterpress printers all over Northern California for more than 25 years

Doing Business / Photographing Books
Tips and tricks for documenting and staging your work

In Brief / Books
Carol Barton's The Pocket Paper Engineer; Sarah Bodman's Creating Artists' Books

2006 Member Show
Catalogue of the 12th Triennial PCBA Members Exhibition, Bookworks 2006, including photos of the 83 works in the show and the winners of the Steven Corey Award for emerging artists and the Alastair Johnston Award for fine printing

Interview / Swiss Impressions
Merilyn Umboh talks with Swiss typographer and letterpress printer, Romano Hänni

Techniques / Through the Looking Glass
Mary Brennan & George Simonson look at pastepapers that go beyond book covers and end sheets

Profile / Bea Nettles
Over the last 35 years, Bea Nettles has built a successful career as a fine art photographer and book artist by quietly breaking the rules and feeling her own way forward. Debbie Kogan reviews her career. (Read the article)

Around the Bay / Cowell Press
Gregory Graalfs discusses the unique legacy of the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz on book arts in the Bay Area

Collaborations / Staying Limber
Macy Chadwick talks about her playful long-distance collaborations with Lisa Hasegawa (Read the article)

Reader's Notebook / Judging a photobook by its cover
Molly Schwartzburg looks at Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava's "The Sweet Flypaper of Life"

Resources / Opportunities in Europe for Book Artists
Carrie Galbraith's guide includes exhibitions, book fairs, collections, residencies, schools, and more

Doing Business / On the Web
Tips for a successful website to promote your book arts business

Techniques / Gocco Etching
Nicholas Yeager explains how to use a Gocco printer to etch images in metal

Appreciation / Gaza Bowen
Friends remember the Santa Cruz book artist, who was known for her shoe sculptures as well as her bookworks

End Note
Comments on a book arts exhibit at the Getty Center in Los Angeles

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Working Methods / By Chance: Serendipity and Randomness in Contemporary Artists' Books
Yale special collections librarian Jae Jennifer Rossman and book artist Robin Price survey the approaches of artists who use unpredictability and chance in their work. They discuss such methods as the Exquisite Corpse and reader-determined randomness. Includes photographs of many of the works discussed.

Collaborations / Concert for Letterpress, Guitar and Percussion
Kathleen Walkup discusses the concert that was the culmination of Helen Mirra's residency at Mills College.

Profile / Hedi Kyle: Liberating the Book
For over 30 years, Kyle has been folding paper and inventing book structures. Debbie Kogan reviews her career. Includes photographs of several of Kyle's book structures.

Techniques / Two Structures from Hedi Kyle
Instructions, with illustrations, for Kyle's "blizzard" and "crown" bindings

Doing Business / At Book Fairs
Fairs can be good venues for marketing and selling your work; a number of book artists share their experiences.

End Note
Charles Hobson comments on what makes an artist's book.

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The 2005 Calendar Show catalogue

Realizing the Artistic Vision
Saul Rosenfield, Daniel Gonzalez, and Nicholas Yeager each combined traditional mark-making skills and newer digital technologies to make their works for the Calendar Show.

Quantifying the Quotidian
Most of Arthur Huang's documentations mark the passage of time through the most quotidian elements of daily life: food and money.

Telling Time
Beata Wehr's calendar grids exist, not to faithfully replicate a given month or year, but to tell time as a visual story.

Exploring the Visual World of Dreams
For over twenty years, Genie Shenk has given visual form to her nightly dreams and collected these images into an annual dream calendar.

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The biannual PCBA Resource Guide is a 32-page practical catalogue of book-arts resources for practitioners at all stages of experience. It's also intended as a source of inspiration and a spur to further inquiry. Brief annotations throughout endeavor to supply insight about the listings. The marginalia are eclectic, listing how-to tips, useful websites, helpful suppliers, thought-provoking quotations and must-read books. The Guide concludes with an index so you can zero in on your particular needs. Its generous white space is yours to fill with opinions and discoveries of your own.

The chapters include: Printing, Typography & Book Design, Paper, Bookbinding , Stocking your Studio, Schools & Workshops, Promoting your Bookwork, and Web links.

Themed Member Show
Phineas and Cecilia Brice are two (imaginary) 20th century collectors of art and artists' books, whose collection was "lost" and recently "found". 25 members of the PCBA (re)created their lost works. The article includes photos of each work as well as their stories.

In Conversation / Steve Woodall & Michael Bartalos
Bartalos takes about his Polar Book Lab, artworks inspired by his interest in crygenic issues.

Betsy Davids: Everyday Materials...New Forms
No issue on travel & book arts would be complete without mention of Betsy David's travel journals. A conversation between Davids and Alisa Golden, with photos.

Margaret Fabrizio: The Book as a Travel Companion
Book artist Howard Munson and his friend Margaret Fabrizio have an unusual collaboration: when she travels, Munson makes a special book, tailored to her destination, and she fills it up. Includes photos of the completed journals.

Resources / A Virtual Tour of European Digital Foundries
Brian Allen leads the tour

Techniques / Have Cradle, Will Travel
Nancy Brandt's instructions and illustrations for making a handy, collapsible sewing cradle.

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Revealing the Mysteries: the Development of the Artist Book in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1945 to Now. This show, exhibited at the San Francsico Center for the Book from October 2002 to January 2003, was curated by Betsy Davids, Alastair Johnston and Kathy Walkup. The issue includes essays by the curators, and, for each of the 38 works in the show, a photograph and short essay. The exhibit included works by Kenneth Patchen, Wallace Berman, Arne Wolf, Jamie Robles, Johanna Drucker, Julie Chen, Alisa Golden, Mike Bartalos, and Mark Head, among others.

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Some Thoughts on Woodblock Prints and Children's Books
by Anne Hicks Siberell

An Interview: 34 Berkeley Children on Books

Early Children's Books: The Fox Collection
Ruth McGurk reviews the collection at the San Francisco Public Library

Satori and the Details
Frances Butler looks at the history of Japanese children's books

A Source for Balthus: Jacynth Parsons
Clarissa Darling muses on the sources of Balthus' work

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