THE 2024 SF ART BOOK FAIR
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
July 18–21, 2024
1275 Minnesota Street / 1150 25th Street / 1201 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Public Hours:
Preview: Thursday, July 18: 6:00–10:00 pm
Friday, July 19: 11:00 am–6:00 pm
Saturday, July 20: 11:00 am–6:00 pm
Sunday, July 21: 11:00 am–5:00 pm

The San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) is pleased to announce its seventh year at Minnesota Street Project’s contemporary art campus. Open July 19 through July 21, 2024, with a preview the evening of July 18, the SFABF is a free annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of printed material from independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world.

SFABF places the unique history and perspectives of the Bay Area in conversation with national and international publishing communities. Free and open to the public, SFABF features artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists’ multiples. Throughout the weekend, visitors to the fair are welcome to experience a diverse range of talks, performances, book launches, special projects, exhibitions, and signings across the Project’s contemporary art campus, as well as select off-site projects and events. As of 2023, the SFABF has welcomed more than 80,000 visitors. The fair continues to expand its horizons, offering more in-depth programming related to art publishing at three different venues on the Minnesota Street Project contemporary arts campus, new exhibitors, and exciting fundraising editions from Bay Area artists.

Adding to the excitement, we’ve included a new exhibition space at 1150 25th Street, Building B, Suite B. In addition to the 85 exhibitors at 1275 Minnesota Street, 1150 25th Street will feature 45 publishers whose practices are dedicated to accessible and inventive forms of bookmaking and publishing.

Presented by the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF’s mission is to help sustain the creation and distribution of printed material through support of the independent publishing community from the Bay Area and beyond, and to expand our reach to new audiences.

In the past 10 years, Risograph printing has shifted from being a niche printing method to a fully realized and ubiquitous method for creating artist publications and ephemera for micro and small press publishers. Curated by Zach Clark and Amy Burek, the exhibition Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing brings together artists and publishers from across North America who use Risograph printing as a central element in their works. The publications in Unfolding Duplications range from accessible comics and zines to limited fine press editions, underscoring the broad spectrum of artistic possibilities that Risograph printing offers.

Works like Temporary Services's "Book Waste Book (link is external)," which explores the ecological impact of publishing, encourage contemplation on printing practices and their environmental implications, inviting dialogue on sustainability within the artistic community. Amelia Johnson's "Unmarked Moments (link is external)" brings attention to humble, everyday objects, prompting readers to reflect on what is valued, used, discarded, or left behind. This emphasis on the intersection of concept and Risograph's unique print methods further illustrates its potential as a medium for exploring and conveying meaningful narratives. Bringing together contemporary Risograph artists and publishers, Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing offers insights into how a specific printing technology can evolve into a medium for creative expression while retaining the spirit of innovation and experimentation.

Opening Reception July 19th

My suiseki work will be featured in this group exhibition curated by artist and educator Minoosh Zomorodinia that explores the complicated concept of "place" and the interplay of relationships and interactions that shape and define places. 

The exhibition will feature works by: Alex Arzt, Ebti, S. Emsaki, Kiana Honarmand, Masha Kechaeva, Carolina Maki Kitagawa Frisby, Nazafarin Lotfi, Lorena Molina, yétúndé olagbaju, Kelley O’Leary, Tiare Ribeaux and Qianqian Ye, Sanaz Safanasab, Supermrin and Jessica Fertonani Cooke, and Connie Zheng. 

Opening Public Reception Details 
Friday, October 13, 6 – 8 p.m.  
SFAC Main Gallery, War Memorial Veterans Building 
401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 126, San Francisco, CA 94102 
Free and open to the public. No reservations necessary.

A Magic Mountain will be tabling at this year’s LAABF at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. For fair hours and ticketing, visit https://laabf2023.printedmatterartbookfairs.org/

THE 2023 SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIR
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
July 14 – 16, 2023
Preview: Thursday, July 13

A Magic Mountain: Booth Z49

Minnesota Street Project
1201 + 1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Public Hours - Free admission
Thursday, July 13: 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 14: 11am – 6pm
Saturday, July 15: 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 16: 11am – 5pm

Saturday, 3-4pm in The Lounge:
A TIME MACHINE: From personal to community archives, with Adriana Monsalve, Alex Arzt, and Marc Fisher, moderated by Lindsay Buchman
While it has been written about extensively, the archive continues to circulate in contemporary art discourse. Image-making, publishing, and the history of print coalesce into a complex, provisional space. Through this lens, A TIME MACHINE examines how archival histories inform artists’ books by asking independent publishers Adriana Monsalve (Homie House Press), Alex Arzt (A Magic Mountain), and Marc Fisher (Half Letterpress / Temporary Services) about the urgency and role of archives in their work. This conversation explores what we might learn from the suture between past, present, and future while centering on how personal and community archives continue to inspire generations of artists’ books. Presented by Seaton Street Press.

10th Anniversary of the East Bay Print Sale at Max’s Garage Press will feature prints by A Magic Mountain. Max’s Press is where I learned to print on the Riso, so if you’ve never been and want to learn, come check out this amazing space and community.

Preview Night: December 8th 3pm-8pm
December 9-12th 10am-4pm

I designed a fundraising T-Shirt for Headlands through Marine Layer’s Giving Tee program. $15 from each shirt goes back to Headlands, an organization that is close to my heart after spending 4 years there as an Affiliate Artist. Help fund future residencies and artist centered programming by buying a shirt! The design features the winding road that leads to Point Bonita looking out over the Pacific. It was inspired by the printing techniques and style of 1970s alternative publications.

Order the Giving Tee here

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 22 from 4-6pm

Feral is an interdisciplinary project by Oakland artist Alex Arzt that explores human-plant relationships, deep mapping, and the physical and emotional relationship to land in a time of ongoing ecological destruction. The project stems out of Arzt's long term engagement with the feral cabbages of California’s coast both in the wild and in her rented lot in East Oakland. With the cabbage's collaboration, she is creating a hybrid feral cabbage that can potentially adapt to California's rapidly changing climate and urban soil contamination. Feral cabbages offer a model for survival through discovering their ecological niches, forming cooperative communities, and creating multispecies partnerships, including with humans. As a potential source of resilient, nutritious food and as connectors to our plant communities, the feral cabbages can both feed us and teach us.

Funding has been made possible by The Puffin Foundation.

A Magic Mountain at the SFABF

July 15 – 17, 2022
Preview: Thursday, July 14

Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Public Hours - Free admission
Thursday, July 14: 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 15: 11am – 6pm
Saturday, July 16: 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 17: 11am – 5pm

Since the first NY Art Book Fair in 2005, Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs have been among the leading international gatherings for fostering the distribution, understanding, and celebration of artists’ books and art related publishing. In 2021, the NY Art Book Fair and LA Art Book Fair will be produced as a combined online event—Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair—safely bringing the artists’ book community together for a fun and experimental new Fair.

Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs have hosted exhibitors from around the world featuring a wide variety of works—from zines and artists’ books to rare and out of print publications, and contemporary art editions. In this new iteration, the Fair will be more broadly accessible to visitors and exhibitors than ever before, and we are thrilled to serve and support artists’ book publishing without the challenge of international travel. As we embrace the possibilities of this time of social and political transformation, we feel that an online event of this kind can continue to provide an essential space rooted in connection, expression, and criticality. The Fair will feature a full schedule of the live programs that have made the event special in the past— discussions and workshops, interactive book launches, musical performances, and much more.

Recruiting for Utopia: Print and the Imagination considers the influence of printed matter on Utopian thought in 1840s New England. The exhibition has historical and contemporary sections that creatively observe the capacity of print and the schematic imagination to build community in the early nineteenth century and the twenty-first century. Works on view include Millerite banners that proclaim the coming apocalypse on a specific date in 1843, later Adventist banners with similar messages, a Shaker spirit drawing, pattern book, and Skeen Bible chart, and other nineteenth-century works on paper and objects from New England that foreground elements of design.

Expanding upon the historical materials shown in the Art Gallery, contemporary, serial prints in the form of booklets, broadsides, and zines by living artists displayed across the Museum campus, explore themes that resonate with the permanent collection. The artistic publications as assembled share the priorities of activism and community building. Celebrating the continued freedom of expression and speech so innate to American values, the exhibition will share diverse stories and ideas and often prompt readers to action.

Printed Matter, Inc. presents
THE LA ART BOOK FAIR
April 3–5, 2020
Opening Night: Thursday, April 2

printedmatterartbookfair.org

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Los Angeles, CA
Free entrance

Printed Matter presents the seventh LA Art Book Fair (LAABF), April 3–5 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Free and open to the public, the LAABF is among the leading international gatherings for the arts publishing community, providing a platform for artists and publishers to connect with audiences and circulate their work in a dynamic environment. The LA Art Book Fair is the companion fair to Printed Matter’s annual NY Art Book Fair.

Held over three days in downtown Los Angeles, LAABF 2020 will welcome hundreds of exhibitors from around the world, including a broad range of artists and collectives, small presses, institutions, galleries, rare and out of print booksellers, and distributors. With a commitment to diversity and representation, the event will serve as an open meeting place for an extended community of art book enthusiasts, as well as a site for dialog and exchange around all facets of arts publishing. A full calendar of free educational programming, book signings, artist-led events, performances, special exhibitor projects, and much more, will take place over the Fair weekend.

Printed Matter’s 2019 LA Art Book Fair (LAABF), takes place on April 12–April 14, 2019 (Opening Night April 11), at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles, California.

Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair (LAABF), initiated in 2013, is the companion fair to the NY Art Book Fair. The two fairs are the leading international gatherings for the distribution of artists’ books, celebrating the full breadth of the art publishing community.

Held at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles over three days (plus Opening Night), LAABF 2019 will welcome hundreds of exhibitors from around the world, including a broad range of artists and collectives, small presses, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, and distributors. With a commitment to diversity and representation, the event will serve as a meeting place for an extended community of publishers and book enthusiasts, as well as a site for dialog and exchange around all facets of arts publishing.

Kim Anno, Claudia Borgna, The Bureau of Linguistical Reality (Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott), Jamee Crusan, Glenna Cole Allee, Alicia Escott, Kiko Le Strange aka Marco Garcia, Stacey Goodman, Rebecca Swan, WHIZ WORLD  with Queen Whiz, Ghost Whiz and Furtips, and the Dream Farm Team..

How to hold this moment of environmental precarity in which we exist? The world’s leading climate scientists have warned that only a dozen years remain for us to avoid an irreversible tipping point, yet we pitch forward with an ever expanding carbon foot print and economy. How do we hold the geologic impact of our actions, on ocean, land, atmosphere, animals? The illogic of systems tooled for short term profit?  Where to hold fires, floods and fear of extinction?  In this exhibition,  we searched for resilient forms of response, the poetic, the oblique and the direct, for re-tooling, re-imagining in all ways, claiming  both activist boldness  and the subtlety of a small sparrow. 

We grounded ourselves first in the visual: small drawings, bold photographs, reconfigured bodily forms, materials from the sea,  mystical futuristic flowers, conceptual considerations... We bear in mind recent movements like Extinction Rebellion and the new Green Deal—what actions, poetics and possibility do they offer us? A thread of feminist magical speculative grounding in the body comes from WHIZWORLD while The Bureau of Linguistical Research provided new words for the emotional and material conditions of our changing state. Shilpi Kumar’s investigations of circular economies offer other forms of critique and consideration.

https://www.dreamfarmcommons.com/

Free and open to the public, VABF is a multi-day festival of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances and artists’ projects.

Featured artists travel to Vancouver from across Canada and the globe, and produce everything from books, magazines, zines and printed ephemera to digital, performative or other experimental forms of publication.

Canada’s first art book fair, VABF is the longest-running international art book fair in the country. In 2018 the event is anticipated to attract more than 5,000 visitors from across the Greater Vancouver Area and beyond.

http://vancouverartbookfair.com

WHIZ WORLD is a publication founded by Queen Whiz, Furtips, and Ghost Whiz with the mission to highlight the lived experiences of women artists. The whizzes write from a speculative magical feminist perspective and invite others to adopt and write from a whiz persona that encapsulates their essential power. Based in the redwood biome of Northern California, WHIZ WORLD forms a network of readers and contributors to battle pervasive sexist oppression through the powerful mystique of the Whiz persona.

WHIZ WORLD 2 Publication  Release Party: Friday April 6th, 6:00pm-9:00pm

An Evening with the Whizzes: Saturday April 7th, 7:00pm-8:30pm

Join us for an evening with the Whizzes, who have traveled across the 37th parallel to debut Whiz World Issue 2 in Richmond. Saturday at 7pm join us for a reading of Whiz World by Furtips, Queen Whiz, and Ghost Whiz followed by a meditation specially prepared for Richmond, by Wind of Whizzes. Donations to support the whiz work are suggested at $6-$18. Please contribute what you can.

Coffee with the Whizzes: Sunday, April 8th, 10am-12pm
Come by the gallery Sunday morning for free coffee with Whiz World.

Open hours are Saturday and Sunday from 1pm-6pm or by appointment. Whiz World’s storefront feature runs through April 29th, 2018.

http://www.sedimentarts.org
instagram.com/whiz.world