Artists’ Books / Fine Art Prints

The Center for Book and Paper Arts is committed to a growing publications program. This publishing arm, Epicenter, focuses on the production of fine press books, artists’ books, paper art, artists multiples, and ephemera. Epicenter is also devoted to producing unusual trade books and printed matter in large editions suitable for mass distribution. These projects are created mostly on the premises of the Center, by faculty, students and artists-in-residence.

Four Monologues 
by Aram Saroyan

Letterpress, 2011.
In collaboration with Don Share, Senior Editor, Poetry Magazine
Price: $40

Based on a short theatrical piece by poet Aram Saroyan, Four Monologues is a small chapbook produced by students in Columbia College's MFA program's Advanced Printing course under the Epicenter imprint, bound in an edition of 300. Poetry Magazine Senior Editor Don Share calls the finished collaborative work "something unaccountably apt and beautiful: a handprinted, hand-sewn book consisting of four pockets, bound together, holding each piece of the work. The book makes tangible, as does Aram's piece, the poignant fact that these four writers were both brought together by writing and the printed page, and separated tragically by the events of history."

Mundo/Mano/Corazón —La Lotería

Lithograph by Don Colley

Hand-Colored Lithograph, 2010
Edition of 20
Price: $500
Chicago-based artist Don Colley created this limited edition print at 
Anchor Graphics, on the occasion of Mano/Mundo/Corazón: Artists Interpret La Lotería.

Pandora's Box

Various prints and handmade paper inside a custom designed limited-edition wood box. Please Call for pricing.

This special limited-edition box of original prints by various book and paper artists features work by Sally Alatalo, Pamela Barrie, Paul Wong, Melissa Jay Craig, Hatch Show Print, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Audrey Niffenegger, Robin Price, Kerri Sancomb, Cathie Ruggie-Saunders, Book and Paper Center's founder Marilyn Sward, and others.