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Book Arts

Name: Book Arts
Address: 468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, US
Telephone: +17163481430
Price range: $
Rating: 4.7

http://www.wnybookarts.org

https://wnybookarts.org/book-arts-is-literally-falling-apart-fundraiser/
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Located in the heart of downtown Buffalo, the WNY Book Arts Center is a community print shop and studio for letterpress, screen printing, book binding, paper making, calligraphy, origami, and more! We are a nonprofit organization and a working museum dedicated to preserving the book arts through collaboration and innovation, bridging antique equipment and processes with modern artmaking techniques

, and celebrating the heritage of Buffalo’s’ printing industry. We are proud to act as a hub to create and foster a collaborative community by providing opportunities to artists and educators, and all those in creative pursuits.

06/03/2026

VENDOR SPOTLIGHT for BookFest!

Along with work from the 75+ artists in our Book Arts shop, we’ll have a number of local artists at BookFest this Saturday selling their beautiful, weird + wonderful (and thirst-quenching!) wares!

KiyomiCutsKo will be selling handmade paper crafts: from traditional flat lay paper-cut pieces, to three dimensional paper flower cloches, origami and kirigami pieces. As well as paper-cut “prints” of her original paper-cut designs. (slides 1-4)

Bianca L. McGraw will be keeping us caffeinated with her ever-popular iced coffee bar creations! (slide 5)

Our super awesome neighbors Evening House Books will be selling a selection of their weird & wonderful collection. (slide 6)

And, it wouldn’t be BookFest without artist Nathan Deganis-Librera selling his gorgeous, bright prints! (slide 7-9)

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About BookFest: The 15th annual BookFest (Saturday, June 6th from 11am-4pm) is a playful, hands-on celebration of book arts, printmaking, and creative curiosity — BookFest invites everyone to INK IT UP and experience the joy of ink, paper, metal and wood (type).

Many thanks to our presenting sponsor for this year’s BookFest: Daemen University! And to our supporting sponsors: American Paving & Excavating, Buffalo Place, Print & Graphic Communications Association, University at Buffalo, and Douglas Development

06/02/2026

We INK IT UP year-round at Book Arts! Our annual BookFest is all about celebrating the tactile beauty of the book arts & printmaking, the bright wonder that happens when ink meets paper, metal and wood (type).

Join us this Saturday, June 6th to experience it yourself!

05/30/2026

🫟We’re INKING IT UP at BookFest in 1 week 🫟(That’s Saturday, June 6th from 11am-4pm!)

A celebration of Book Arts and printmaking, BookFest is essentially Book Arts’ annual open house. We’ll have free print & artmaking demos all day that will be fun for all ages!

Get to know our 1930’s printing press, Olga, by pulling a letterpress poster!

Bring t-shirts, tote-bags and other cloth items from home to screenprint using artist-made designs! (Or buy one from us!)

Customize a bookmark on an antique typewriter using readymade paper - aka off-prints from artist projects in our studio!

Take part in a copperplate etching demo with artist !

Make your own sensory journal with our current Studio Gallery exhibition artist, Rachel Derrington!

Try your hand at the beautiful process of paper marbling with teaching artist Tami Fuller of !

Watch as our summer resident artist makes steamroller prints using her giant artist block. Shoutout to American Paving & Excavating for the steamroller support!

Come through!

05/24/2026

Book Arts members are dropping off their dynamic pieces for our 18th annual Members Show and we’re getting so amped! One of our most cherished events, we are continuously intrigued & delighted by the artwork our community of members submits each year.

We encourage all members to submit, and all forms of artwork & skill – from curious hobbyist to professional, any age – are welcome.

If you’re not yet a member, consider joining our vibrant collective of artists & makers, and submit your artwork for the show! (Drop-off deadline is May 30th.) Membership starts at just $50/year.

One exhibiting member will be selected for a solo exhibition in 2027. Jurying the show will be recent WNY Book Arts exhibiting artist A.P. Gorny.

An Opening Reception for our 18th Members Show, “Good Impressions,” will be held Saturday June 6th, 2026 between 11am-4pm during our Annual BookFest, a free and family friendly festival of hands-on art making workshops, celebrating all things print!

05/23/2026

Book Arts is closed Saturday, May 23rd for Memorial Day. 👎️

We'll be back Weds, May 27th! Hope to see you then! 👍️

05/22/2026

Many thanks to the creatively curious crew with WNY Prosperity Fellowship for visiting us today!

Book Arts Executive Director, Michael Bosworth, gave them a tour of the space and its history. Then they got a hands-on printing demo using historic copper plates from featuring a map of The Hydraulics district (now Larkinville) & got to take home custom prints made on Mandy the Mangler, one of our antique presses.

Get in touch if you’d like to schedule an interactive tour with us sometime!

05/21/2026

Join us at our 15th annual Bookfest on June 6th to experience the annual event’s most beloved spectacle: STEAMROLLER PRINTMAKING — where a construction steamroller becomes a printing press, and artist-designed blocks get inked up for large-scale printing on the street!

Bring your own hoodie or shirt and get it steamroll-printed!

ps This is also an appreciation post for our Board President Jeff Sherven who you’ll see riding the steamroller in these pics over the years!

INK IT UP!!! INK IT UP!!!

05/20/2026

We’ve had so much fun running hands-on field trips lately! The gasp in this video from today makes our hearts sing!

Customizable letterpress, bookmaking, and screenprinting activities: our field trips are hands-on, fun, and open to all ages of learners. Whether you’re with a school and want to enrich your students’ studies, need that coveted Girl Scout badge, or want to take your staff on an interactive retreat, reach out if you’d like to learn more about the possibilities!

The rapid growth of technology and digital media makes it essential that our future generations understand the place printed words and books have in our past, present & future. Book arts are an incredible piece of living history we’d love for your students to experience!

Sharing a building, you also have the option to visit Book Arts and our upstairs neighbor org for a unique, two-part book arts + creative writing experience.

Email [email protected] to inquire!

Address

468 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY
14203

Opening Hours

Tuesday	12:30pm - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 2pm

Telephone

+17163481430

Website

https://linktr.ee/wnybookartscenter

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