Frederick Book Arts Center Brings A Wide Range of Book Craft to the Chesapeake Print & Book Arts Fair
One of the Mid-Atlantic's Most Fully Equipped Book Arts Studios Joins the May 9 Lineup
The Frederick Book Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit studio and education center at 127 South Carroll Street in Frederick, Maryland, built around a single guiding principle: that the art of the book encompasses every step from blank paper to finished binding, and that each of those steps deserves to be taught, practiced, and kept alive. The center maintains a fully equipped letterpress studio with Vandercook proof presses and clamshell platen presses, a complete book bindery, a printmaking studio, an etching press, and a film-based photographic darkroom — a breadth of equipment that makes it one of the most comprehensively outfitted book arts facilities in the mid-Atlantic region.
At the Chesapeake fair, the FBAC team will bring printed work and bound books that reflect the range of their studio practice: letterpress ephemera, hand-bound journals, printmaking editions, and the kind of made-by-hand objects that let you see the decisions behind every layer. Their workshop calendar runs year-round and reaches into bookbinding, wood engraving, alternative photography, drum-leaf and raised-cord journal structures, and collaborative letterpress projects combining printing and binding in a single piece. The FBAC team are as interested in the conversation at the table as the objects on it — if you've ever been curious about setting type, building a clamshell box, or pulling a print on a Vandercook, this is a good place to ask.
Find Frederick Book Arts Center at the Chesapeake Print & Book Arts Fair on May 9, 11am–4pm, on the 200 block of N. Washington Street in Havre de Grace, MD. Admission is free — learn more at chesapeakeprintersfair.com.
