Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Papermaking, printmaking, letterpress and bookbinding studios, art gallery, and retail store.

The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center is a community organization that produces books and related products; holds art exhibitions, poetry readings and other events; and promotes book arts through workshops and community educational programs.

We had a fun, messy afternoon in the studio today with Airzoo STEAM Camp middle school students, part 2 of a 3-part book...
06/18/2026

We had a fun, messy afternoon in the studio today with Airzoo STEAM Camp middle school students, part 2 of a 3-part book project! 🔥
1. Earlier this week, they were here making handmade paper for their books
2. Today, they experimented with paste painting for their cover paper, and carved stamps for the endpages
3. Tomorrow, Katie and our interns will be at Airzoo to lead them through the book-binding process! 🤩

KBAC Staff will be teaching at the Air Zoo on Friday June 19th! We will be back by Noon and stay open till 5 p.m.
06/18/2026

KBAC Staff will be teaching at the Air Zoo on Friday June 19th! We will be back by Noon and stay open till 5 p.m.

Call for Printmakers!The KBAC is looking for printmakers to participate in our Poets in Print broadside series. Since 20...
06/17/2026

Call for Printmakers!
The KBAC is looking for printmakers to participate in our Poets in Print broadside series. Since 2008 the KBAC has hosted poetry readings in our gallery and have produced over 170 broadsides that combine a handset poem with printed image produced by an artist.
We are looking for printmakers to making a linocut (or other printmaking technique) in response to poems provided by our readers. Artists mail us a piece of carved linoleum which we print in our studio along with the poem which we will handset using movable type. If the artist doesn’t work in linoleum they can provide a stack of printed images, and we will print the type. We will provide postage, linoleum and paper, as well as a small stipend. After the reading the poet and the artist each get three copies of the broadside and we sell the rest in our store and online.
If you are interested, please email [email protected] with examples of your printmaking work.

Last week to register for Concertina Journal with Rachel Stickney, Saturday, June 27, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.This unique conce...
06/17/2026

Last week to register for Concertina Journal with Rachel Stickney, Saturday, June 27, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
This unique concertina journal features side pockets with fun threads and papers.

👉 Great for beginners or seasoned bookmakers looking for something new!
All supplies included.

Register now at https://kalbookarts.org/workshops/concertina/

06/15/2026

Our summer WMU interns Kat and Amelia rocked this weekend’s Modern (paper) Marbling workshop helping things run smoothly AND pulling these incredible sheets of marbled paper right from the start! 🤩 JC Marbling & Book Arts

We had a wonderful visit from Van Buren Tech Career Camp this week! The participants came prepared with linoleum cuts w...
06/12/2026

We had a wonderful visit from Van Buren Tech Career Camp this week! The participants came prepared with linoleum cuts which we printed on the cover of their books. We also made foam sticker stamps for corresponding end pages and bound a book together! it was a fun day with a bunch of creative kids!

Just one week left to see the beautiful woodcut prints of Toru Sugita in the KBAC gallery! 👉 "Toru Sugita: Prints" is o...
06/11/2026

Just one week left to see the beautiful woodcut prints of Toru Sugita in the KBAC gallery!

👉 "Toru Sugita: Prints" is on view through June 19, but please be aware that the gallery will be unavailable for viewing on Tuesday and Thursday between 1-4 PM for onsite educational programming. 👈

Originally from Japan, Toru Sugita is an artist and professor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is known for his black and white intaglio and wood engraving prints with strong architectural elements. Toru's original work is also a part of a KBAC limited-edition book, “A Brief History of Falling,” by Traci Brimhall, released in May! This beautiful book, available in hardcover and softcover editions, is on display in the gallery alongside Toru's prints and is available for purchase through our online and KBAC store.

KBAC interns doing cool things! We are sharing this announcement from the Arts Council of Kalamazoo that our former inte...
06/10/2026

KBAC interns doing cool things!
We are sharing this announcement from the Arts Council of Kalamazoo that our former intern Danny Giancaspro won the People's Choice award at the West Michigan Area Show! His work is so awesome! Head over to the KIA and support our local artists.

Address

326 W Kalamazoo Avenue, Ste. 103A
Kalamazoo, MI
49007

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

+12693734938

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