Jaffe Center for Book Arts

Our Community Ofrenda: it’s Day of the Dead today, Dia de Mu***os. Our ofrenda will be up through Martinmas on November 11; you are welcome to bring a remembrance to set upon it, or just come visit it. Our ofrenda is visible through our lobby doors even if we are closed, so come by anytime the Wimberly Library is open.

Big day today! Our new exhibition, BOOK POP! A Century of Pop-Up Books, opens officially now, Monday, October 12. Join us from 3 to 5 PM here at JCBA to meet collector Eric Greenberg, the Pop-Up Dude, and view the exhibition whilst enjoying fun treats. Full details at the EXHIBITIONS page at jaffecollection.org.

Join us TODAY… FRIDAY 9/18 from noon to 5 PM in the JCBA Printshop for TYPE HIGH DAY: we’ve got a print on two Vandercook presses for you to print and take home with you. Words by Issa Jane Siberry. Design by Convivio Bookworks. Print it here at Jaffe Center for Book Arts, 3rd floor east of the Wimberly Library Florida Atlantic University Libraries. Our gift to you in celebration of all things .918”.

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Join us FRIDAY 9/18 from noon to 5 PM in the JCBA Printshop for TYPE HIGH DAY: we’ve got a print on two Vandercook presses for you to print and take home with you. Our gift to you in celebration of all things .918”.

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New workshop alert! EASY PAPER MARBLING with instructor Kena Kitchengs, JCBA’s current Salzberg Artist in Residence. Wednesday June 24 from 12 noon to 4 PM, in-house at JCBA. 5 seats remain. Tuition: $75. Details and registration at the WORKSHOPS tab at jaffecollection.org.

As we gear up for our next exhibition to go up in February, we at JCBA took a trip down memory lane and found the catalog from the very first traveling show we ever brought in back in 2003. Design, Construct, Engage featured books made by Edward Hutchins over the course of 30 years. His innovative and experimental approach to bookmaking challenged traditional boundaries of what bookmaking could be and completely transformed the medium as we know it today. The exhibition travelled through the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Public Library of Cincinati, and the University of Utah but multiple works included now live permanently in the Jaffe Collection. For more information feel free to reach out or stop by!