PROGRAMMING
OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW
SPONSORED BY THE EAMES INSTITUTE OF INFINITE CURIOSITY & WILLIAM STOUT ARCHITECTURAL BOOKSJoin us Thursday, July 10, 6-10pm for our opening night preview of the 2025 SFABF, with music by Fault Radio.
Featuring:
Discodelic
Jeremy Castillo
Three6Sashia
Alex Shen
Fault Radio is the ultimate advocate for our local community, acting as a dynamic bridge between the Bay Area’s thriving arts scene and the broader music world.
THE LOUNGE AT 1275 MINNESOTA ST.
Curated by David Senior, Director of Library at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).
Friday, July 11
12pm –1pm
Books are Dead, with Alan Sobrino
In today’s world almost anyone can print their own book and soon there will be more authors than readers. On the other hand, the rise of digital libraries place millions of books just a few clicks away. The book, as we know it, is terminally ill and soon will disappear. What does it mean? What can we expect in the future? Which books will survive? Can we save the book?
Presented by Errant Press
1pm - 2pm
Growing a New Hope: The importance of publications on ecology and the natural world with Ocean Escalanti
Independent publishers are stepping up to the plate with books on sustainability, homesteading, and natural world know-how in a time of rising food costs and the loss of plant knowledge. We are post-pandemic and pre-recession civilians in a world where eco-nihilism is at an all time high and these publications are hoping to inspire folks to reconnect with community and nature. Come celebrate these publishers and join the conversation as we explore the many ways in which these zines, books, and monthly observers are upholding stewardship by teaching the community valuable tools on urban foraging, food growing, and counter urgency.
2pm - 3pm
Starting a community library from scratch with Matthew James-Wilson
Heavy Manners Library founder Matthew James-Wilson discusses the process of opening up his lending library, community space, and book store in Echo Park Los Angeles, and gives advice for those looking to start their own DIY space. Learn about common pitfalls, helpful resources, and community building techniques that have made Heavy Manners possible over the past four years.
3pm - 4pm
Design, Delivered: Ten Years of Publishing at Letterform Archive with Lucie Parker and Rob Saunders
To mark its 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive looks back at a decade of publishing innovation, from grassroots Kickstarters to worldwide distribution. Lucie Parker and Rob Saunders share how the Archive’s publishing program grew into a powerful tool for storytelling, education, and design preservation, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how they bring the past to life through print.
Presented by Letterform Archive
4pm - 5pm
Two or Three Things, an ongoing lecture series with Lindsey White and Jon Rubin
Roughly every three months, THE QUARTERLY REPORT selects seven contributors and asks them to provide material of what they are thinking about when they are not working. Each issue involves individuals from a variety of fields: artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, scientists, travel show hosts, and even auto-shop mechanics. Two or Three things is an ongoing lecture series that expands upon the periodical and presents these experiences in front of an audience. This lecture will feature artist Lindsey White, who will discuss her ongoing collection of photos of comedian Phyllis Diller, and artist/educator Jon Rubin, who will discuss his premises for the ideal of the Art School.
5pm - 6pm
Love Letters with Kelly Ording and Maria Otero
Join artist Kelly Ording and Maria Otero, co-founder of Oakland's independent publishing project, Land and Sea, for a conversation on Kelly Ording’s new book Love Letters. This book documents the artist's four-year creative arc, highlighting the development of the artist's unique style and mastery of their chosen medium over this period. The book captures the experimentation, shifts in technique, and refinement of themes that define the artist's artistic progression.
Presented by Land and Sea
Saturday, July 12
11am – 12pm
Va a Llover Toda La Noche (It’s Going to Rain All Night) with Alicia Vera and Luis Cobelo
Join Alicia Vera and Luis Cobelo as they discuss Va a Llover Toda La Noche (It’s Going to Rain All Night), Alicia’s debut photobook and a deeply intimate exploration of memory, loss, and caregiving. The project centers on Alicia’s relationship with her mother, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and unfolds through photographs, handwritten notes, journal entries, and Super 8 stills. Alicia and Luis will reflect on the process of transforming personal archives into a visual narrative—one that moves beyond the individual to touch the collective. The conversation will explore how visual storytelling creates space for vulnerability, love, and connection. Alicia Vera is a photographer based between Mexico City and Miami. Luis Cobelo is a photographer and founder of La Chancleta Voladora, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco.
12pm - 1pm
Story Time Window with Ebti and William Clark
What stories do windows tell?
Windows are witnesses who are watching life unfold.
What stories do windows have to tell?
This is the OG window, the window of all windows. One window that started a whole body of work going on for years in an artist's practice. The stories Ebti will read are about these windows, what they mean and how the work developed from the OG window to a book like A Window In Time / فترة زمنية . After sharing her stories, Ebti will have a conversation with William Clark, Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University, about the window as a motif in literature and the arts, diving deeper into the history of the word, how humans have related to windows and how to work in repetition in long term projects.
Presented by ‘cademy
1pm - 2pm
Love is the Drug: a film screening & book production discussion with Heather Edney, Liz Roberts, & Zach Clark
Heather Edney has spent over 35 years pioneering in the harm reduction space, beginning in 1989 when she opened one of the first needle exchange programs on the west coast, while an undergrad at UC Santa Cruz. The short film Love Is The Drug, by artist Liz Roberts, combines Heather's archive of community health education videos, photographs, zines, and flyers with contemporary 16mm footage filmed in Santa Cruz. Sucking Dick for Syringes is a collection of personal texts by Heather Edney, published by National Monument Press. Within this program, a screening of the film will be followed by a discussion about the creation and curation of multiple projects through cross media collaboration to create a collection of work that exists in a fuller conversation.
2pm - 3pm
Tuning Our Storyorgans with Patrick Michael Ballard
Through puppetry and performance, fool magician and artist Patrick Michael Ballard will be giving a demonstration of handcrafted dowsing tools, living objects, and paraversal playthings from his project Azguyaenquainan!—a wunderkammer of psychomagical parlor games. Among the collection will be the Ottodokki, a deck of cards and zine, which can be used to guide reflection, get to know a stranger, help structure a dream sequence in a tabletop role-playing game, or for telling collective stories with a twist.
Presented by Sming Sming Books
3pm - 4pm
DANCING ON THE FAULT LINE by Nick Haymes with Love Bailey
A conversation with Love Bailey and Nick Haymes about the deeply intimate visual memoir that traces 14 years of Love Bailey’s transition, her art, and the life-saving impact of gender-affirming care. Equally an entertainer and activist, Bailey is based in Temecula—a notably conservative region of Southern California—where she founded the Savage Ranch, a desert-based safe house, residence, and gathering place for friends, family, and extended members of the LGBT+ community. The book celebrates the resilience, beauty, and radical creativity of trans life. At a time when rights are under attack, this collaboration is a living archive of why we must protect gender-affirming care and uplift the legacy of queer art.
Presented by Kodoji Books
4pm - 5pm
Self Realization Fellows: Photography and Collaboration with Adrian Martinez of illetante books, Book & Job Gallery, and Josh Schaedel and Wyatt Naoki Conlon of The Fulcrum Press.
How does one sustain a personal photography practice? How about a publishing imprint—and why not throw in a gallery? The answer is with plenty of mutual support. Join two sets of photographers that are managing all of these feats (and more) between their respective lives in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Above all else, the panelists hope to inspire and encourage a new crop of artists to endeavor similar aspirations in the ever-changing landscape of image-based work. Moderated by Alex Landry, Curatorial Assistant of Photography at SFMOMA.
5pm - 6pm
Our commons are free, with Ben Kinmont
Ben Kinmont talks about his current art project, Our commons are free, which looks at the printing history of the San Francisco Diggers, the radical community actors who emerged within the countercultural movement of the 1960s. Discussing the group’s innovative street sheets and printing operations, Kinmont tracks the Diggers’ push for new societies based on “free” ideals of individualism, community care, and a rejection of consumer capitalism. Our commons are free is on view through August 10th at The Store House (Building D) at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. During the exhibition, Kinmont will also activate his Street press in and around San Francisco, including at SFABF25 (Saturday, July 12, 12-4pm).
Sunday, July 13
11am – 12pm
FREE WORMS: Artist Game Workshop with Alexandra Pink and Helen Shewolfe Tseng
The Bathers Library game series invites artists from various disciplines to create experimental instructions-based artworks, which are risograph printed in limited runs and presented in catalog envelopes. For this workshop, Helen and Alexandra will present their interactive publications and lead participants through the creation of a site-specific game called “The Worm,” which visitors can play during the fair.
Presented by Bathers Library
12pm - 1pm
Highlighting Artists’ Books of the Arab Diaspora: Storytelling, Memory, and Resistance with Maymanah Farhat, Andrea Shaker and Jennie Hinchcliff
This summer, San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) presents Mourning and Melancholy: Artists’ Books from the Arab World and Its Diaspora, an exhibition highlighting artists' books, ephemera, zines, and video art. The show examines how artists connected to the Arab world use book forms to chronicle, protest, and subvert the modern conflicts that have devastated the region and displaced millions. This panel discussion, expanding on the themes of the exhibition, features the curator Maymanah Farhat and artist Andrea Shaker. Farhat shares her extensive expertise in contemporary Arab-American art and printmaking, while Shaker offers insight into her practice of reclamation and resistance. The discussion, moderated by SFCB’s Director of Exhibitions Jennie Hinchcliff, explores bookworks as sites of memory, identity, and activism.
Presented by San Francisco Center for the Book
1pm - 2pm
A Conversation with artists Ala Ebtekar, Binh Danh, and Stephanie Syjuco, moderated by Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA
Through collaboration with Santa Fe-based nonprofit Radius Books, each artist has created a distinctive monograph that functions as an artist book. These publications are designed around the unique qualities of each artist's practice, resulting in engaging works that serve as repositories for their creative processes. The conversation will explore how these artists transformed their practices into book form, examining the relationship between artistic vision and publication design. Join us as these artists share insights about their collaborative experiences and the unique challenges of translating visual work into the printed medium.
Presented by EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery and Radius Books
2pm - 3pm
Are humans the only dreamers on Earth?: A conversation between Rodrigo Hernández and David Peña-Guzmán, moderated by Diego Villalobos
Marking the publication of the catalog (co-published with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE) for artist Rodrigo Hernández's exhibition, with what eyes? (2023-2024) at the Wattis, join the artist and philosopher David Peña-Guzmán in conversation. Together, they will discuss the unique experience of a nonhuman animal and how it can transfer to the realm of visual art, allowing us to reconsider how we inhabit and perceive space. Like the exhibition and catalog, this conversation starts with the question posed by Peña-Guzmán: Are humans the only dreamers on Earth?
Presented by the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
3pm - 4pm
Soft Core with Brittany Newell and Maria Silk
A conversation between San Francisco writer and performer Brittany Newell and artist Maria Silk. Newell and Silk, who are longtime collaborators, will discuss Newell’s most recent novel Soft Core (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2025). Soft Core is a love story centered on Ruth, a stripper who lives in San Francisco with her ex-boyfriend Dino until she comes home from the club one day and finds that he has disappeared. The book tracks Ruth’s everyday life and emotional landscape as she looks for Dino and becomes increasingly unmoored from reality. Following a reading from the novel, Newell and Silk will draw on their own shared experience as performers in the City’s drag scene to connect the book to larger topics related to performance, nightlife, and San Francisco. The conversation will be followed by a book signing.
Presented by Slash
4pm - 5pm
INCENDIARY TEXT: MANIFESTOS & OTHER MISSIVES THAT SURVIVE REGIMES with Kate Laster
From Magnus Hirschfeld to Queer Nation, from Taller de Gráfica Popular to JUSTSEEDS — artist, educator & critical historian Kate Laster presents an art history lecture that is meant to embolden community and highlight the webs of artist labor that connect anti-fascist movement work from the past to now.
PROJECT SPACE A - 2nd Floor - 1275 Minnesota St.
Eames Institute Reading Room
The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity is a nonprofit public charity that advances the dynamic legacy of Charles and Ray Eames. By sharing the things the Eameses made and loved, along with their joyful and rigorous approach to life and work, we seek to inspire creative problem-solving that positively shapes our world. The Eames Institute holds one of the most significant and comprehensive collections of Eames designs and related ephemera in the world—the majority of which originates from the Eameses themselves, and their office at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California. The collection encompasses early correspondence and artwork that predate their meeting, unique prototypes and process materials, industrial products, printed communications, and even treasured personal effects. During SFABF25, the Eames Institute will bring a selection of furniture from their collection, creating a public reading room.
PROJECT SPACE D - 1st Floor, 1275 Minnesota St.
Flag Works presented by SNU Design
Flags are symbols of personal identity as well as political devices. Capturing and commenting on these topics within Korean society today, this exhibition presents a curated selection of flags by current students and faculty, and recent alumni of the Department of Design at Seoul National University Design School (SNU Design) in South Korea. Works include citizen-made protest flags and flags made in a cross-cultural exchange between students from San Francisco and Seoul. SNU Design engages in various forms of visual research and experimentation with the book format, resulting in independent publishing projects, talks, and exhibitions.
CHRONICLE BOOKS - Booth C17
Join Chronicle Books for multiple book signings celebrating art and design. Inspired by the enduring magic of books, Chronicle Books cultivates and distributes exceptional publishing that is instantly recognizable for its spirit and creativity. Their collaborations spark the passions of adults and children worldwide, encouraging them to explore, connect, and see things differently.
On Thursday, July 10 at 6pm, join Marilyn Chase for a signing of Everything She Touched: Ruth Asawa. On Saturday, July 12 at 2pm, artist, author, and designer Jessica Hische will sign copies of the latest edition of her career-spanning book, In Progress: See Inside a Renowned Lettering Artist's Creative Process. On Sunday, July 13 at 1pm, join artist and author Clarissa Potter for a signing of her book, It’s Okay to Feel Things Deeply. In celebration of the weirdness and isolation of being alive right now, Potter is also offering what she refers to as “uncomfortably long hugs” in-keeping with the overly forceful affection for which she is known. Visitors are invited to participate at will until a sense of “enoughness” is fulfilled.
SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES
Thursday, July 10
6pm, Chronicle Books, Booth C17: Signing of Everything She Touched: Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase
7pm, Aperture, Booth A20: Signing of Cargo by Richard Misrach.
Friday, July 11
4pm - 6pm, McSweeney's, Booth A04: Signing of Mostly Everything; The Art of Tucker Nichols, published by McSweeney's.
4pm - 6pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Signing of THE JOY IS IN CAPTURING THE JOURNEY by Ray Barbee.
5pm, Deadbeat Club, Booth E07: Signing of Sunshine Terrace by Emily Shur, published by Deadbeat Club.
Saturday, July 12
11am, Poppy Press, Booth F04: Signing of Written on the Wind by Tim Lahan, Published by Poppy Press.
12pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Reservoir by Mimi Plumb, published by Nazraeli Press.
12:30pm, La Chancleta Voladora, Booth A30: Signing of Va a llover toda la noche (It’s Going to Rain all Night) by Alicia Vera.
1pm, Datz Press, Booth D09: Signing of DARK LIGHT by Hendrik Paul, published by Datz Press.
1pm, Club del Prado, Booth H03: Signing of Asakusa by Yoshi Yubai.
1pm, Cone Shape Top, Booth B07: Signing and meet & greet. Join Falkor, celebrity dog and cultural phenomenon, for a special book signing with Cone Shape Top. Celebrate his evolution from pet icon to self published author as he connects with fans for a meet & greet event and shares his children’s book in a rare and interactive experience.
1pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Tales from the City by Joshua Amirthasingh, published by Nazraeli Press.
1pm - 3pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Signing of THE JOY IS IN CAPTURING THE JOURNEY by Ray Barbee.
1:30pm, Current Editions, Booth H12: Signing & launch of Like Nothing on Earth by Paul Morgan, published by Current Editions.
2pm, Chronicle Books, Booth C17: Signing of the latest edition of In Progress: See Inside a Renowned Lettering Artist's Creative Process by Jessica Hische.
2pm, Company Studio, Booth A40: Signing of Little Kingdoms by Justin Peroff (of Broken Social Scene).
2pm, Datz Press, Booth D09: Signing of The Little Jungle Book by Linda Connor, published by Datz Press.
2pm, Deadbeat Club, Booth E07: Signing of Poems by Christopher Robin Duncan, published by Deadbeat Club.
2pm, Deep Time Press, Booth G05: Signing & launch of Glimmer by Leah Koransky, published by Deep Time Press.
2pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Todd Hido books, published by Nazraeli Press
2pm, Park Life, Booth A15: Signing of Kevin Cooley - The Wizard of Awe.
2pm, The Eriskay Connection, Booth A39: Signing of Creatures Found by Adam Thorman, published by The Eriskay Connection.
2:30pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Fleeting Gestures by RJ Muna, published by Nazraeli Press.
3pm, Aperture, Booth A20: Signing & launch of the new expanded edition of Intimate Distance by Todd Hido.
3pm, ‘cademy, Booth H06: Signing of Black's Beach by Joshua Moreno, published by 'cademy.
3pm, Datz Press, Booth D09: Signing of A Conversation with the World by Lonnie Graham, published by Datz Press.
3pm - 5pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Launch of LET IT KILL YOU by Ben McQueen
3pm, Deadbeat Club, Booth E07: Signing & launch of The Weight Of Ash by Ian Bates, published by Deadbeat Club.
3pm, Everything Matters Press, Booth H11: Launch of Cruising Diaries by Daniel Sanchez-Torres.
3pm, Saint Lucy Books, Booth C05: Signing of Ensnaring the Moment: On the intersection of poetry and photography, edited by Leah Ollman.
4pm, Kodoji Press, Booth A01: Signing & launch of DANCING ON THE FAULT LINE by Nick Haymes, published by Kodoji Press
5pm, Bronze Age, Booth A22: Signing of Mauled To Death by J.A. Bæblade.
5pm - 6pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Launch of Kill me Softly by HOT FUDGE.
Sunday, July 13
1pm, Chronicle Books, Booth C17: Singing of It’s Okay to Feel Things Deeply by Carissa Potter.
1pm - 3pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Signing of LET IT KILL YOU by Ben McQeen.
3pm, Slash, Booth A14: Signing of Soft Core by Brittany Newell, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
3pm - 5pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Signing of Kill me Softly by HOT FUDGE.
1201 MINNESOTA ST.
Thursday, July 10: 6–10pm
Friday, July 11: 11am–6pm
Saturday, July 12: 11am–6pm
Sunday, July 13: 11am–5pm
2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Exhibition
View the West Coast debut of the 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist—an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the evolving narrative of photography. Now in its 12th year, the awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year. The shortlist represents more than just the most highly produced, classically beautiful books—it is also an expression of the possibilities of bookmaking across a broad spectrum of resources, intentions, and storytelling techniques.
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Thursday, July 10: 6–10pm
Friday, July 11: 11am–6pm
Saturday, July 12: 11am–6pm
Sunday, July 13: 11am–5pm
The Stoutmobile
William Stout Architectural Books brings its storied collection beyond the walls of its beloved Jackson Square bookstore with the debut of The Stoutmobile at SFABF25. For 50 years, Stout has been a vital source for books on architecture, art, design, and visual culture, serving generations of designers, artists, and readers worldwide. The Stoutmobile reimagines this spirit of discovery as a traveling outpost curated specifically for wider audiences. Visitors will find an edited selection of rare, out-of-print, and newly published titles alongside a range of archival catalogs, artist books, and cultural ephemera. The Stoutmobile extends the bookstore's ethos into public space, creating opportunities for dialogue, serendipity, and tactile engagement with books as objects.
Presented by William Stout Architectural Books
Thursday, July 10: 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 11: 11am – 4pm
Saturday, July 12: 11am – 6pm
Screening Program curated by San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco Cinematheque is a 64-year-old nonprofit dedicated to the cultivation of the international field of avant-garde cinema through curated exhibitions, publications, and archives projects. Cinematheque's work inspires aesthetic dialog between artists, stimulates critical discourse and encourages appreciation of artist-made cinema across the broader cultural landscape. As part of SFABF, Cinematheque will activate the Screening Gallery through the presentation of twenty-nine multi-channel film/video works presented across nearly 70 feet of gallery space including installation work and single-channel film work expanded and remixed for this weekend only. Programs curated by Steve Polta. For complete details, visit: www.sfcinematheque.org/cinematheque-sfabf25/
Schedule:
Thursday, July 10
6pm
Cauleen Smith, Blue Scrubs, Yellow Scrubs, Trustees All Above / Orange Jumpsuit (2019), 24 mins.
6:30pm
Makino Takashi, Memento Stella (2018), 12 mins.
Makino Takashi, cinéma concret (2015), 30 mins.
Total run-time: 42 mins.
7:15pm
Michael Snow, WVLNT: Wavelength For Those Who Don’t Have the Time (2003), 15 mins. ***
Matt Whitman, HOW MUCH LONGER (ON BALLOONS) / CAN'T ANSWER YOU ANY MORE (ON FACES) / MARY (ON FLOWERS) / PHONE IN HAND (ON BALLOONS WITH A SHEET OVER DEAD BELONGINGS) / ALL HER PRECIOUS JPEGS (ON YELLOW) (2019), 15 mins. looped
Jeanne Liotta, Climate Fictions (2017), 4 mins.
Scott Stark, Shimmering Spectacles (2015), 8 mins.
Aura Satz, Warnings in Waiting (2023), 24 mins.
Total run-time: 66 mins.
8:30pm
Peter Burr, THE CONTINUOUS MONUMENT (2021), 72 mins.
Friday, July 11
11am
Cauleen Smith, Blue Scrubs, Yellow Scrubs, Trustees All Above / Orange Jumpsuit (2019), 24 mins.
Zach Iannazzi, Wild Pitch (2025), 5 mins.
Esperanza Collado, Trágame nube (el cuerpo establece el ritmo) / The Word Was Deleted (2023), 13 mins. **
Matt Whitman, Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 4; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 5; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 8; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 9 (2019), 16 mins. looped
Ayanna Dozier, Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (2023) / Bounded Intimacy (2024) / It's Just Business, Baby (2023), 6 mins.
P. Staff, Pure Means (2021), 5 mins. **
Total run-time: 69 mins.
12:30pm
Peter Burr, DROP CITY (2019), 7 mins.
Jodie Mack, Stained Glass Daydream (2025), 13 mins.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Coyote / Xiuhtecuhtli / Ritual / Mictlantecuhtli (2023), 16 mins.
Matt Whitman, HOW MUCH LONGER (ON BALLOONS) / CAN'T ANSWER YOU ANY MORE (ON FACES) / MARY (ON FLOWERS) / PHONE IN HAND (ON BALLOONS WITH A SHEET OVER DEAD BELONGINGS) / ALL HER PRECIOUS JPEGS (ON YELLOW) (2019), 10 mins. looped
Michael Damm, Field Guide to San Lorenzo Creek, Castro Valley, California (2025), 8 mins. *
Total run-time: 54 mins.
1:45pm
Michael Snow, WVLNT: Wavelength For Those Who Don’t Have the Time (2003), 15 mins. ***
Peter Burr, PATTERN LANGUAGE (2016), 11 mins.
Jeanne Liotta, Climate Fictions (2017), 4 mins.
Scott Stark, Shimmering Spectacles (2015), 8 mins.
Aura Satz, Warnings in Waiting (2023), 24 mins.
Total run-time: 62 mins.
3:15pm
Makino Takashi, Memento Stella (2018), 12 mins.
Makino Takashi, cinéma concret (2015), 30 mins.
Total run-time: 42 mins.
Saturday, July 12
11am
Peter Burr, THE CONTINUOUS MONUMENT (2021), 72 mins.
12:45pm
Michael Snow, WVLNT: Wavelength For Those Who Don’t Have the Time (2003), 15 mins. ***
Peter Burr, PATTERN LANGUAGE (2016), 11 mins.
Jeanne Liotta, Climate Fictions (2017), 4 mins.
Scott Stark, Shimmering Spectacles (2015), 8 mins.
Aura Satz, Warnings in Waiting (2023), 24 mins.
Total run-time: 62 mins.
4pm
Esperanza Collado, Trágame nube (el cuerpo establece el ritmo) / The Word Was Deleted (2023), 13 mins. **
Ayanna Dozier, Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (2023) / Bounded Intimacy (2024) / It's Just Business, Baby (2023), 6 mins.
Zach Iannazzi, Wild Pitch (2025), 5 mins.
Matt Whitman, Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 4; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 5; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 8; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 9 (2019), 16 mins. looped
P. Staff, Pure Means (2021), 5 mins. **
Total run-time: 45 mins.
5pm
Peter Burr, DROP CITY (2019), 7 mins.
Jodie Mack, Stained Glass Daydream (2025), 13 mins.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Coyote / Xiuhtecuhtli / Ritual / Mictlantecuhtli (2023), 16 mins.
Matt Whitman, HOW MUCH LONGER (ON BALLOONS) / CAN'T ANSWER YOU ANY MORE (ON FACES) / MARY (ON FLOWERS) / PHONE IN HAND (ON BALLOONS WITH A SHEET OVER DEAD BELONGINGS) / ALL HER PRECIOUS JPEGS (ON YELLOW) (2019), 10 mins. looped
Michael Damm, Field Guide to San Lorenzo Creek, Castro Valley, California (2025), 8 mins. *
Total run-time: 54 mins.
All works courtesy of the artist unless otherwise indicated.
*Four-channel presentation
**Four-channel presentation exclusive to SFABF
***Four-channel presentation exclusive to SFABF with permission from the Estate of Michael Snow. Courtesy of the Estate of Michael Snow.
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Friday, July 11: 4pm - 6pm
Exquisite Corpse Book-Making with the American Bookbinders Museum
Invented by French Surrealists, the Exquisite Corpse is a game of collaboration and creativity, inviting artists to draw, write, or make a collage together, without seeing each other’s work until the end–when the individual contributions come together in a singular artform! In this workshop, create and stitch together a mix-and-match book of figurative drawings (including drawings by artist Nathaniel Russell), to absurdly imaginative outcomes! This family friendly, drop-in workshop is free and open to the public. Space is limited.
Saturday, July 12: 2pm - 4pm
LEGO® Letterpress with Arion Press
Join Arion Press and learn about letterpress printing! Participants will design and create a print using LEGO® bricks, inks, and a tabletop letterpress. This family friendly, drop-in workshop is free and open to the public (children must be 6+ years of age). Space is limited.
Saturday, July 12: 7pm
SOUND AND VISION with LAND AND SEA, in conjunction with Latitudes
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Brooklyn, NY)
Peaces (Oakland, CA)
Joel St. Julien (San Francisco, CA)
The Urxed (Los Angeles, CA)
LAND AND SEA, in conjunction with Latitudes, is pleased to present a night of sound and vision, bringing together past presenting artist/musicians to celebrate the launch of their most recent effort–a limited edition 7" record, PEACES, from Oakland-based duo Peaces (Zekarias Musele Thompson and Joshua Wismans). Joining the celebration, Aventures LTD will present their recent release, TRIPS, a limited edition cassette by The Urxed (Robert Laird Barber). This is a family affair. All are welcome.
LAND AND SEA is an independent publisher of books, records, zines, and cassette tapes run by Maria Otero and Christopher Robin Duncan.
Other Minds is a global New Music community where composers, students, and listeners discover and learn about fine innovative music by composers from all over the world.
$20 suggested donation.
Presented by Other Minds
Sunday, July 13: 11am – 5pm
SFABF x KUSF Rock‘N’Swap
KUSF’s Rock’N’Swap pop-up record fair dates back to 1983 as a destination event for music lovers and collectors. Everyone from passionate collectors to the simply curious can dive into hundreds of crates to browse and shop records, CDs, tapes, music memorabilia, and posters from over 40 vendors, offering a variety of genres from jazz to rock and roll and everything in between. Come discover bargains along with hard-to-find rarities and collector’s items. Curated by Miranda Morris.
Co-presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Noise Pop
Sunday, July 13: 11:30am – 12:30pm
West Coast Launch of Peacemakers in the Summer Time with Creative Growth
Marking the season, Creative Growth is bringing us the West Coast launch of Peacemakers in the Summer Time, a collaborative record by Creative Growth artist William Scott and Studio Route 29 artist BJ Armour. This special release, blending visual art and music, will kick off the SFABF x KUSF Rock’N’Swap event. Through this project, Scott and Armour explore themes of unity, resilience, and community, offering a new way to experience their work.
Creative Growth Art Center, based in Oakland, California, is a globally recognized nonprofit supporting artists with developmental disabilities through a professional studio and gallery program. For over 50 years, Creative Growth has championed inclusivity and creativity, offering artists the space, materials, and support to develop their practice and share their work with the world.
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Sunday, July 13: 1pm – 5pm
Listening Room with Discogs
Join Discogs, the world’s leading music discovery and record-collecting platform, for the Listening Room, where artists chat about their favorite albums and the stories behind each. Special guests will drop the needle on their personal selection of records, played live. Part conversation, part high-fidelity audio experience, the Listening Room is a space for sharing a love of vinyl.
Co-presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Noise Pop
1240 MINNESOTA ST.
Saturday, July 12: 12pm, 1pm, 2pm
Open Studios
Visit the private Artists Studios at 1240 Minnesota Street and connect with some of the career artists working year-round behind closed doors. The Artists Studios, which is a program operated by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, provides 43 below-market rate studio spaces and several shared facilities, including a wood shop, ceramics area, wet dark room, digital print lab, analog print room, and staging gallery. Learn how this long-running program that started in 2016 continues to support the San Francisco Bay Area arts community.
As part of Open Studios, studio artists Klea McKenna and Trina Michelle Robinson will be on site demonstrating shaped-plate Intaglio printing techniques on a newly acquired etching press. Visitors can learn about the process in-passing and collaborate informally in making a unique shaped-plate Intaglio print.
Walk-in registration is welcome; pre-registration is recommended, as space is limited.
Pre-register here.
Hosted by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
STREET ACTIVATION
Saturday, July 12: 12pm – 4pm
Ben Kinmont's Street press activation
Ben Kinmont’s Our commons are free presents an exhibition portrait of the San Francisco Diggers through their publications. Radical community actors who emerged within the Haight Ashbury counterculture of the 1960s, the Diggers used mimeographs and offset printing to establish a “free” economy: free food, free medical care, free goods, free housing, and free information. These publications served to build community, share resources, and empower revolutionary living.
Kinmont brings his Street press, on view in the exhibition, to the neighborhood to print and give away Eric Noble’s A short history of the San Francisco Diggers, a 38-page illustrated essay written by Noble for Our commons are free; six different San Francisco Digger flyers from 1967; and a more recent street sheet written by original Digger Billy Murcott, Noble, and Kinmont.
Our commons are free is on view through August 10th at The Store House (Building D) at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.
OFF-SITE
Thursday, July 10: 9pm - 1am
SFABF25 AFTER PARTY
El Valenciano,1153 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Join us at El Valenciano to celebrate the 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair. Music by Jeremy Castillo and Pascual.
Friday, July 11: 6pm - 8:30pm
SFABF25 Industry Night with Et al.
Et al. & Et al. books, 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Our friends at Et al. invite SFABF25 exhibitors, friends, and family to industry night. Make your way across town to the Mission District for pizza, beer, and even more art books! Free pizza for SFABF25 exhibitors with a badge.