Book Arts Links: United States

Here are some links to book arts-related places in the U.S. Haven't been to them all myself -- maybe someday! I'll be updating and adding more links as I find more to add. Right now, this is a quick and dirty list -- I'll fix it up more and make it look pretty when I get the time.

If you know of some other great book arts places to visit in the U.S., please let me know about them in the comments section, and I'll add them to the list.

State Centers for the Book: The Library of Congress website has listings for all 50 state centers for the book. They are non-affiliated organizations, and their programs vary quite a bit, but I'm including this website, as some of the state centers may have postings about book arts - related events.

http://read.gov/cfb/state-affiliates.php

Alabama

University of Alabama M.F.A. in the Book Arts Program
http://www.bookarts.ua.edu/

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

The American Bookbinders Museum - http://www.bookbindersmuseum.com/

The San Francisco Center for the Book: http://sfcb.org/

Bay Area Book Artists' Book Arts Jam: http://www.bookartsjam.org/index.php

Pacific Center for the Book Arts: http://pcba.info/

Sonoma County Book Arts Guild, Sebastopol, CA (www.socobag.blogspot.com)

Colorado

Conneticut

Delaware

Florida

University of Tampa Book Arts Studio: http://tampabookartsstudio.blogspot.com/

Georgia

Georgia Tech Paper Museum

Hawaii

Idaho

Jim Croft -- Old Ways Bookbinding Workshops: http://www.traditionalhand.com/oldway/

(I blogged about attending one of Jim Croft's workshops -- you can find the posts here)

Illinois

Chicago

Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection, School of the Art Institute
http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm4/about_jfabc.php?CISOROOT=/jfabc
Newberry Library
http://www.newberry.org
Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts
http://www.colum.edu/Academics/Interarts/index.php?site=CBPA
Northwestern University Library - Special collections
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/special-collections
University of Chicago Library - Special collections
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl
Bookman's Alley-Evanston
http://evanstonillinois.net/booksmansalley.html
Powell's Bookstores
http://www.powellschicago.com

Center for Book and Paper Arts: http://www.colum.edu/book_and_paper/

Indiana

Iowa

University of Iowa Center for the Book

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Pyramid Atlantic

Massachusetts

Boston Paper Collective: http://bostonpapercollective.wordpress.com/about/

North Bennet Street School (has bookbinding courses): http://www.nbss.org/

Carriage House Paper's papermaking museum in Brookline, just outside of Boston (by appointment)

Michigan

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center: http://www.kalbookarts.org/index.html

Minnisota

Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Cave Paper (in Minneapolis): http://www.cavepaper.com/

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Wells College Book Arts Center: http://www.wells.edu/bkarts/info.htm

Western New York Book Arts Center (http://www.wnybookarts.org/

Women's Studio Workshop

Genesee Center for the Arts: http://www.geneseearts.org/

New York City:

The New York Center for Book Arts: http://www.centerforbookarts.org/

Dieu Donne : http://www.dieudonne.org/

Lower Eastside Printshop

Bright Hill Press & Literary Center: http://www.brighthillpress.org

The Morgan Library: http://www.themorgan.org/home.asp

Booklyn artist's book alliance: http://www.booklyn.org/index.php

Central Booking: http://centralbookingnyc.com/

Calvin-Morris Gallery (sometimes has artist book exhibitions) : http://www.cavinmorris.com/

New York Central Art Supply (has book art supplies): http://www.nycentralart.com/

North Carolina

Asheville Book Works

Penland

North Dakota

Ohio

Dard Hunter's Studios http://www.dardhunter.com

Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland http://www.morganconservatory.org/

Paper Circle (South East Ohio's Center for Paper and Book Arts): http://www.papercircle.org/

Oklahoma

Oregon

C.C. Stern Type Foundry  http://www.ccsterntype.org/

Pennsylvania

University of the Arts - Bookarts

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Museum of Printing History in Houston, TX. The Houston Book Arts Group meets there.

Utah

Book Arts Program at the University of Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Seattle Center for Book Arts: http://seattlebookarts.org/

Book Arts Guild: http://bookartsguild.org/

University of Washington Book Arts Collection: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/collections/bookarts.html

Wessel and Lieberman Booksellers (they sell artist books): http://www.wlbooks.com/cgi-bin/wlb455.cgi/index.html?id=2QbhcRj6

Washington, DC

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming