https://sfartbookfair.com SF Art Book Fair Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:26:35 +0000 https://sfartbookfair.com en https://sfartbookfair.com/SF-Art-Book-Fair Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:01:12 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/SF-Art-Book-Fair <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5cf3bb50ffb5ffd3fca7176b69c7f596d06809170fc76efbf47ab42bd11d20e/SFABF-Web-Banner-Square-01-NEW-ADJUSTED.gif" data-mid="246132322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5cf3bb50ffb5ffd3fca7176b69c7f596d06809170fc76efbf47ab42bd11d20e/SFABF-Web-Banner-Square-01-NEW-ADJUSTED.gif" /> Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents THE 2026 SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIRJuly 23 – 26, 2026&nbsp;Thursday, July 23: 6 - 10pm Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm Free and open to the public 1150 25th Street 1275 Minnesota Street 1201 Minnesota Street San Francisco, CA 94107 https://sfartbookfair.com/Exhibitors Sat, 01 Jun 2019 17:05:22 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/Exhibitors 2026 EXHIBITORS * First-time SFABF exhibitor Active Chapter (NY) * Akio Nagasawa Publishing (Japan)* Amaya Productions (CA) A.R.D.O (CA) *&nbsp; Arion Press (CA)Arkiv Paper (MI) * Artbook | D.A.P. (NY) Auspicious Books (CA) Aventures Ltd. Press (NY) Awkward Ladies Club (CA) AZETAguía (Nicaragua) Basement (CA)Bathers Library (CA)B.B.Press (CA)bench press (IL) * Beneva Books (CA) * Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (CA) * Book and Job Gallery (CA) Books of Interest (CA) * BOVINE press (IL) Bronze Age (United Kingdom)&nbsp; But Whole Press (CA) By Black Sheep (NY) * ‘cademy (NY)Calipso Press (NY) Can Can Press (Mexico)Case Publishing / shashasha (Japan)CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (CA)&nbsp; CHEEKY CHONG (CA) * Chronicle Books (CA)&nbsp; Colpa Press (CA)commune (Japan)Composit Press / Push Pull Editions (OR)Cone Shape Top (CA) conventional projects (CA)&nbsp; Conveyor Editions (NJ)&nbsp; Creative Growth (CA) Current Editions (CA) Cutpiles (CA) *&nbsp; Dark Entries Editions (CA) Datz Press (South Korea) David King Estate (CA) Deadbeat Club (CA) Deep Time Press (CA) DeMerritt&nbsp; | Pauwels Editions (CA)&nbsp; DoPe Press (CA) * Downtown book club (CA) Dream Labor Press (NY) * D.R.Y. (CA) Ediciones Caradura (Mexico) * Eggy Press &amp;&nbsp;The Last Straw (CA) * Errant Press (CA) Et al. (CA)EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery (CA)F.A.G. ARCHIVE (CA) * FAWW (United Kingdom) Fillip (Canada) Fish Juice + Friends (CA) *&nbsp; Floss Editions (CA)For the Birds Trapped in Airports (CA)Friends of the San Francisco Public Library (CA)Further Triennial * / RITE Editions (CA)GenderFail (NY)&nbsp; Gold Rain (MO / Mexico)Groove Merchant San Francisco (CA)Hamburger Eyes (CA) Handshake (Spain) Harpy House Press (CA) * Hat &amp; Beard Press (CA)&nbsp; Heavy Manners Library (CA) Hi-Bred (MD) Homie House Press (MD) HUMOBOOKS (Argentina) * illetante books (CA)&nbsp; Inventory Press (CA) Irrelevant Press (CA / NY) -ism (CA) *Jackfacekillah (CA) *JZZP (China) *&nbsp; KADIST (CA / France) Kareem Michael Worrell (MA)&nbsp; KATE LASTER (CA)&nbsp; KGP MONOLITH (NY) Kidtofer (NY)Kodoji Press (Switzerland) KOMIYAMA TOKYO (Japan) Kult Books (Sweden) * La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop) (CA) LANDSLIDE Books &amp; Objects (Australia) * Letterform Archive (CA) Los Sumergidos (NY / Mexico) Louis M Schmidt (CA) Lower Grand Radio (CA) * Lyricalmyrical Books (Canada) * MAKAN (NY) * Martian Press (CA) MishMash (NY) modlitbooks (CA) Monograph Bookwerks (OR) More Human Editions (CA) Most Ancient (OR) MW Editions (NY) * National Monument Press (CA) Nazraeli Press (CA) New Dimension (United Kingdom) * New Documents (CA) New High Land (NY / Taiwan) * NIAD Art Center (CA) Night Diver Press (CA) NIGHTED (CA)nos:books (Taiwan) * Not Here to Make Friends (CA) * Now place 此间 (CA) * Ocean Escalanti (CA) Page Bureau / RELATED DEPARTMENT (China / NY)* Pamplemousse Magazine (CA) park life (CA) Pearl Slug Studio (CT) * Perfectly Acceptable Press (IL) Perimeter Editions (Australia) Poppy Press (CA) Prelinger Library (CA) Pretty Gritty (CA) Public Land (CA) * QRWHZGUB (CA) Quality Time (CA) Quintal (France) * Radical Characters (MA) * RE/Search and Search &amp; Destroy (CA) San Francisco Center for the Book (CA) S.A.R.A (Mexico) Scooters For Peace (Japan) Secret Headquarters (CA) Secret Riso Club (NY) Service * / AutoErotica (CA) * setanta books (United Kingdom) Set Margins' publications (Netherlands) Sming Sming Books (CA) SNU Design (South Korea) Sonnenzimmer (IL) * Special Effects (CA) Squeeze Sour (NY) * T. Archie (CA) *Taylor Zanke / Allowing Many Forms (CA) TBW Books (CA) te editions (NY / China) The Eriskay Connection (Netherlands) THE ICE PLANT (CA) The Quarterly Report (CA) THUNGRY (IL) * Tiny Splendor (CA) TOMATO TOMATO TOMATO (IL) * Triangle Books / Dreieck Bücher (Belgium) Unity Press (CA) Uroboros Editorial (Mexico) * Vacancy Projects (CA) Vicente Velázquez (CA) * Visible Publications (CA) WORK/PLAY (IL) Written Names Fanzine (CA) X Artists' Books (CA) x_x (Argentina) https://sfartbookfair.com/About-SFABF Sat, 12 Jan 2019 02:26:55 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/About-SFABF Minnesota Street Project Foundation is pleased to present the 2026 San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), marking 10 years since the inaugural fair held in 2016. SFABF is an annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of art publishing and print culture, bringing together independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. Open to the public July 23 through July 26, 2026, with a preview on Thursday, July 23. Exhibitor applications are now closed. The deadline to apply was&nbsp;Sunday, April 5, at 11:59 pm PST. In reviewing applications, the curatorial committee will try to represent a diverse range of publishing practices. Questions? Please email info@sfartbookfair.com. Minnesota Street Project Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides access to the space, tools, and support infrastructure for artists at all career stages to create new work. Help sustain SFABF in its tenth year with a contribution to Minnesota Street Project Foundation and help us keep this event free and open to the public. DONATE HERE.SFABF is a community-driven event made possible in large part thanks to the generosity of our partners and sponsors. Interested in helping keep SFABF free and open to the public through in-kind or financial sponsorship? Please email lisa@minnesotastreetproject.org to learn how you can support. Interested in volunteering at the fair? Please email volunteering@sfartbookfair.com. SFABF was founded in 2016 as a collaboration between Colpa Press, Park Life, and Minnesota Street Project. SFABF 2026 branding and identity by MacFadden &amp; Thorpe. For press inquiries, please email emma@minnesotastreetproject.org. https://sfartbookfair.com/Programming Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:14:08 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/Programming PROGRAMMING Dowload the 2026 SFABF program guide. OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW Join us Thursday, July 23, 6pm - 10pm for our opening night preview of the 2026 SFABF, with music by Fault Radio. Featuring:&nbsp;Chulita Vinyl Club Farbod (Geographic North) 280 Project DJ Dials 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 1201 MINNESOTA ST. Curated by David Senior, Director of Library at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).&nbsp; Friday, July 24 12pm - 1pm Artists, Collectors, and Copyright—Current Controversies and Lessons with Simon J. Frankel Simon J. Frankel, co-author of Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts published by Cambridge University Press, will discuss recent copyright developments and controversies of interest to visual artists and those who publish and collect their works. Topics will include the 2023 Supreme Court decision in the Warhol v. Goldsmith case and practical implications for artists, collectors, and publishers; copyright implications of the use of artworks for training generative AI engines; ownership of copyright in visual works generated by AI; copyright’s work for hire doctrine and its implications; and recent cases concerning artists’ moral rights.&nbsp; 1pm - 2pm Methods of Publishing in South Korea with Chris Hamamoto and Yeju Choi This talk will introduce South Korea's independent publishing scene and explore its connection to a broader East Asian publishing community through the framework of the exhibition, Methods of Publishing, curated and designed by students from Seoul National University’s Visual Design Department, on view at SFABF. The presentation will share insights into a small part of the vast network of designers, publishers, printers, and distributors that make up South Korea's publishing industry. Presented by SNU Design 2pm - 3pm Bookstore as Verb: Publishing, Hosting, and Social Space As bookstores, publishers, and artist-run spaces gather for SFABF, this conversation explores the growing overlap between publishing and space-making. Across many cities, bookstores have evolved beyond retail into sites for exhibitions, workshops, archives, and community gathering, while independent publishers increasingly create physical spaces of their own. Beginning with short presentations from invited guests, the discussion will examine bookstores as spaces of hosting, cultural infrastructure, and collective imagination, reflecting on independent publishing, community labor, sustainability, and the role of physical gathering spaces in a digital age. Presented by Now place 此间 3pm - 4pm Facilitating A Community Space IRL: A discussion with Tiat &amp; Heavy Manners Library Community space founders Matthew James-Wilson (Heavy Manners Library) and Ash Herr (Tiat) discuss their journeys opening brick and mortars in Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively. Born as a response to how the internet has impacted the arts and education, both founders will touch on their intentions running spaces built to connect artists in physical space. Presented by Heavy Manners Library 4pm - 5pm Sam Francis and Yves Michaud in Dialogue: Painting, Poetry, and Philosophy with Susan L. Power, Beth Ann Whittaker, and Dorothée Perret In celebration of the worldwide launch of Sam Francis and Yves Michaud in Dialogue: Painting, Poetry, and Philosophy, a bilingual compendium uniting texts and interviews that testify to the sustained exchange between the artist and the philosopher during the last decade of Sam Francis’s career, DoPe Press is organizing a panel discussion moderated by John Seed, author, curator and art critic, with the book production team: Susan L. Power, Ph.D., project editor and translator, Beth Ann Whittaker, production coordinator, Associate Director of the Sam Francis Foundation, and Founding Director of Plain Sight Archive, and Dorothée Perret, book designer and Founding Director of DoPe Press. The book provides the point of departure for a conversation touching upon magic and chaos, artistic commitment, poetry, and philosophy in painting, among other topics at the heart of Sam Francis and Yves Michaud’s exchanges. Presented by DoPe Press &nbsp;5pm - 6pm Quilt Sounds with Nish Harjani, Cordy Joan, Rhae Dawn, and Matt Brownell Transmissions Quilts is a project that delivers bespoke gift quilts to individually nominated trans people. Under the guidance of Cone Shape Top, Transmissions has produced Quilt Sounds, an ambient album of music responding to quilts, that furthers a connection between the two mediums. This event offers the public a chance to listen to the full Quilt Sounds album with brief remarks from album artists Nish Harjani, Cordy Joan, and Rhae Dawn. Cone Shape Top Imprint is releasing Quilt Sounds at the 2026 SF Art Book Fair. Presented by Transmissions Quilts and Cone Shape Top Saturday, July 25 12pm - 1pm Composit Press: A New Educational Photobook Publishing Model at Oregon State University with Evan Baden, Colleen Mullins, and Jules McGaw In 2024, Evan Baden, a faculty member at Oregon State University, founded a new concept in photography book publishing. Composit Press, housed in the Art Department at Oregon State University, is a student-staffed printing press and bindery, focused on photographic and collaborative publications. Evan Baden, Colleen Mullins, and Jules McGaw will talk about this educational model in the context of Mullins' forthcoming book. Mullins will share about working with the press, McGaw will speak about designing with the artist, and Baden will elaborate on the formation and operation of this exciting new model. 1pm - 2pm After School with Angela Chen Join artist and writer Angela Chen for a talk and reading of her debut text-image book, After School《課後》. After School《課後》brings together autobiography, photographs, collage, and archival documents to unpack the culture of buxiban (after-school tutoring centers) in predominantly East Asian communities in the San Gabriel Valley, CA. The book tells the story of her family’s struggle to run Futurelink, a buxiban business, against the historical backdrop of anti-Asian discrimination and considers the “after-school” as a paradoxical space of discipline and care, assimilation and cultural preservation, competition and community. Attendees will receive a free copy of Chen’s offshoot publication, After School Workbook, to fill out and take home. Presented by Eggy Press2pm - 3pm&nbsp;Nostalgia Is The Ghost Of Care: a Q&amp;A between Huiyin Zhou and Adriana Monsalve Nostalgia often denotes a past tense: a sense of sentimental or wistful longing for things, memories, and objects that are already gone. For Huiyin Zhou, nostalgia rests in the future: “I archive and rescue moments as they are happening, predicting the grief that will come after they disappear.” Beyond irrecoverable loss, how can nostalgia’s tender teachings enable us to recognize the uniqueness of each moment while it is still here? Weaving together photo prints, Polaroids, handwriting, and other ephemera, Nostalgia Is The Ghost Of Care draws from Zhou’s daily encounters in BIPOC and queer communities. Rooted in feminist sensibilities, the book explores photo archiving as care work and an act of grieving, providing a memory sanctuary amidst the hauntings of loss, erasure, and structural violence. Presented by Homie House Press 2pm - 3pm *canceled* Borders: Crossing the Threshold a conversation with Mónica Lozano and Luis Cobelo Borders by Mónica Lozano explores migration, displacement, and the emotional experience of living between borders. Through studio-recreated portraits inspired by the stories and testimonies of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who attempted to cross borders in search of a better life, the book reflects on themes of identity, memory, survival, and the fragile idea of home. This conversation between Mónica Lozano and Luis Cobelo addresses the creative process behind the project and the making of the photobook, understanding borders not only as political divisions, but as deeply human and emotional spaces that continue to shape lives around the world. Presented by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop)3pm - 4pm Virtual Crush Artist Series: Melissa Broder - So Sad Today (Reading and Q&amp;A with LaTurbo Avedon) In conjunction with the group exhibition, Virtual Crush, on view at Slash, author, essayist, and poet Melissa Broder presents a reading from So Sad Today, marking the ten-year anniversary of this landmark essay collection. First conceived in 2012 as an anonymous Twitter account—an unfiltered channel for Broder's anxiety, desire, and ultra-dark humor that drew a following of hundreds of thousands before she revealed herself as its author—@sosadtoday became one of the defining voices of confessional life online. The 2016 book, So Sad Today: Personal Essays, carried that raw, intimate candor into long form, cementing the project as an enduring portrait of the 2010s networked self. Broder's current Substack work appears in Virtual Crush, LaTurbo Avedon's group exhibition on the simulated body, identity, and intimacy. Following the reading, Melissa will be joined by avatar-artist and Virtual Crush curator, LaTurbo Avedon, for a brief Q&amp;A. Presented by Slash 4pm - 5pm Library Noise with Amar Lal and Matt Carney Join Bathers Library for two experimental sound performances from our series of artist instructional projects: Amar Lal will perform a piece based on an experimental score, and Matt Carney will perform a variation on his sensory narrative generation project, air light water moon shadow sky. Presented by Bathers Library Sunday, July 26 11am - 12pm A Decade of SFABF with Jamie Alexander, Luca Antonucci, and David Kasprzak, moderated by David Senior Join the founders of the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), Jamie Alexander of Park Life, Luca Antonucci of Colpa Press, and David Kasprzak, in discussion with David Senior, Director of Library at SFMOMA, as we commemorate 10 years of SFABF! Reflecting on the global phenomenon of art book fairs over the last decade, the conversation considers the SFABF’s distinct place in a network of artists, publishers, and other book fairs. Illustrating the characteristically local aspects of this fair as a unique community gathering for SF Bay Area artists, designers, and publishers, the conversation is backgrounded by images of SFABF over the years. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation 12pm - 1pm Resonances with Ashwini Bhat and Tausif Noor EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery hosts a conversation between artist Ashwini Bhat and BAMPFA Curatorial Associate Tausif Noor celebrating the release of Bhat’s new monograph, Resonances. Co-published by Radius Books and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the volume documents the transdisciplinary artist's long-term exploration of California's ecology amidst climate change and environmental shift. Drawing from her background in literature and dance, Bhat uses her work to investigate profound connections between the human body and the natural world. Presented by EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery 1pm - 2pm Helen Shewolfe Tseng: Trickster at the End of a World Follow Helen Shewolfe Tseng into the tall grasses of uncertainty and the spaces between realms in her new artist book, Trickster at the End of a World. Guided by an obsession with coyotes and in search of things lost, Tseng positions the highly adaptive wild canid and its oft-mythologized archetype of the Trickster as a mirror, foil, and portal. Traveling down side paths and through loopholes to examine wilderness, entanglement, and dwelling in the margins, Trickster at the End of a World is a field guide for relearning how to be an animal in the aftermath of rupture. Presented by Sming Sming Books2pm - 3pm Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California with David Jacob Kramer and Michael Schmelling Half a century ago, a legion of young idealists dropped out of society and went “back to the land,” creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Premiering at SFABF, David Jacob Kramer and Michael Schmelling’s book, Handmade Utopia: Architectural Vestiges of the Back-to-the-Land Movement (D.A.P &amp; Edition Patrick Frey), tracks down the rogue souls still committed to this way of life and captures their handbuilt, otherworldly residences. The audacious hope that drove the movement remains evergreen. Join Michael Schmelling and David Jacob Kramer as they present a slideshow and discuss the current pulse of the movement and its legacy. Presented by D.A.P. 3pm - 4pm The Anti-Influencer-Influencer: What Bill Owens Can Teach Photographers Today with Bill Owens and Stephen Goldblatt Bill Owens has spent more than five decades proving that extraordinary stories can be found in ordinary places. Best known for his groundbreaking photobook, Suburbia, Owens helped shape generations of documentary photographers by turning his camera toward everyday moments that others overlooked. Today, he continues to document the seemingly unremarkable with humor, humanity, and a deep appreciation for the small details of daily life. This conversation will explore what photographers, collectors, and artists can learn from a lifetime of curiosity, and why paying attention to the world around us may be the most important creative tool of all. Moderated by Stephen Goldblatt, Curator of @Photobookfinds. 4pm - 5pm Holy Dirt by Tino Holy Dirt is an album about remembering and preservation. Through loop-based guitars, fractured synthesizers, and handmade field recordings captured in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 2020-2026, Tino soundtracks a subterranean road trip where memories and melodies blur with the sounds of home. Join the artist for a special listening program to hear the recently released, limited edition 12” vinyl album, published by Deep Time Press. Presented by Deep Time Press PROJECT SPACE 1&nbsp;- 1st Floor, 1275 Minnesota St. Autonomous Agents: Screening Program presented by KADIST Presented alongside KADIST’s recent publication, Autonomous Agents, this screening program features video artworks from the KADIST Collection by three artists who are also included in the book: Lou Fauroux (France), Holly Herndon &amp; Mat Dryhurst (Germany/US), and Interspecifics (Mexico). As in the 15 artist interviews that comprise the book, this short program combines nuanced, poignant, and critical perspectives by artists who use LLMs in notably different ways. Surveying themes of environmental visualization, trauma and intimacy, post-collapse commodity, and digital dependency, the videos offer distinct perspectives on how digital systems shape contemporary life. Copies of Autonomous Agents will be available for purchase. Lou Fauroux Vol. 1 The Porn Selector (2023) Digital color film, stereo sound 14:00 mins Holly Herndon &amp; Mat Dryhurst I’M HERE 17.12.2022 5:44 (2023) AI generated video, sound 5:44 mins Interspecifics Aire v.3 CDMX (2020) HD video, sound 10:00 mins Total run time: 29:44 mins (looped) All artworks courtesy of the artist(s), KADIST collection. KADIST is a non-profit contemporary art organization that believes artists make an important contribution to a progressive society through their artwork, which often addresses key issues relevant to the present day. Dedicated to exhibiting the work of artists in its collection, KADIST affirms contemporary art’s role within social discourse and facilitates new connections across cultures. PROJECT SPACE 2&nbsp;- 2nd Floor, 1275 Minnesota St. KOMIYAMA TOKYO KOMIYAMA TOKYO presents a curated selection of Japanese art books, photography, graphic design, fashion, queer art, and subcultural publications from the 1960s to the present. Focusing on postwar and contemporary visual culture, their installation explores the relationship between printed matter and artistic expression in Japan. Alongside rare and collectible books are vintage posters, ephemera, and original artworks that reflect the evolution of Japanese aesthetics and counterculture across generations. By bringing together publications and original materials in one space, KOMIYAMA TOKYO aims to create a dialogue between archive, design, and contemporary art practice, highlighting both internationally recognized artists and lesser-known creators whose works have shaped Japan’s creative landscape. Established in 1939, Komiyama Tokyo Bookstore is a Tokyo-based rare book dealer located in Jimbocho, the world’s largest book district. Renowned internationally for its curated collection of vintage art books, the bookstore has spent over 80 years developing a distinctive selection shaped by deep expertise and enduring passion. PROJECT SPACE 1&nbsp;- 1150 25th St.Letterpress Printing &amp; Collaborative Installation presented by Arion Press As one of the earliest forms of self-publishing, letterpress printing is both craft and democratic practice. In addition to presenting a display that showcases the craft and collaboration that goes into every Arion book, the Press will bring portable letterpresses to SFABF. Visitors are invited to print and participate in a cumulative installation that will be assembled over four days. Arion Press is the last unified hot-metal type foundry, letterpress workshop, and bindery in the United States. Founded in 1974 and located at San Francisco's Fort Mason, Arion invites contemporary artists to reimagine literary classics in collaboration with our team of bookmakers. Through their publications, public programs, and educational opportunities—which include paid craft apprenticeships and the King Artist Residency—Arion Press preserves, celebrates, and champions traditional book craft in a digital era. PROJECT SPACE 2&nbsp;- 1150 25th St.Beyond the Studio: Print as Self-Organized Culture presented by FAWW GALLERY Beyond the Studio: Print as Self-Organized Culture is a research-based project and exhibition exploring a decade of underground print culture across a decentralized network of European screen print studios, publishers, artists, musicians, and collectors. Presented by FAWW GALLERY, Beyond the Studio examines how independent printmaking practices have evolved far beyond the production of posters and publications, giving rise to an entire self-organized subculture shaped through collaboration, circulation, and collective exchange. Forget About White Walls, otherwise known as FAWW GALLERY, is a London-based curatorial platform and gallery that has spent over a decade working within the underground worlds of printmaking, experimental graphic design, and club culture across Europe. Through exhibitions, publications, and collaborative projects, the gallery foregrounds experimental approaches to visual culture and the self-organized networks that sustain them beyond traditional institutional frameworks. PROJECT SPACE 3&nbsp;- 1150 25th St.Methods of Publishing presented by SNU Design Seoul National University Design (SNU Design) presents a print-on-demand publication and installation exploring independent designers-publishers from around the world, with a focus on comparing design culture and publishing practices in South Korea and the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication will be available on site and is free to print while supplies last. The exhibition also features works by students, alumni, and faculty, highlighting the wide range of graphic design research, experimentation, and production taking place at Seoul National University. SNU Design collects work from students and recent alumni from Seoul National University, including individual practitioners and student organizations such as &lt;111&gt;, the student print club, and Tool(), the creative coding club interested in web-to-print publications. Seoul National University is a research university based in Seoul, South Korea. SIGNINGS &amp; LAUNCHES Friday, July 24 12pm - 2pm, Chronicle Books, 1201 Minnesota St.: Signing and launch of It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O'Malley, published by Chronicle Books. 12pm, Homie House Press, Booth Z23: Signing and launch of Nostalgia Is The Ghost Of Care by huiyin zhou, published by Homie House Press.&nbsp; 3pm, La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop), Booth A21: Signing of Álbum El Informador 1996-1999 by Luis Cobelo, published by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop). 4pm - 6pm, Landslide Books, Booth D14: Signing and launch of Discommunication by Yoshi Yubai, published by Landslide Books. Saturday, July 25&nbsp; 12pm - 2pm, Chronicle Books, 1201 Minnesota St.: Signing and launch of It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O'Malley, published by Chronicle Books. 12:30pm, La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop), Booth A21: Signing of Borders by Mónica Lozano, published by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop). 1pm, MW Editions, Booth C06: Signing of JANG by Michael Jang. 1pm - 3pm, Casemore Gallery, 1275 Minnesota St.: Signing and special edition print release with Bill Owens. 1pm, Setanta Books, Booth C01: Signing of Stray Sod by Maria Lax, published by Setanta books.1pm, TBW Books, Booth A06: Signing of Swan Moon's Swan Moon by Swan Moon, published by TBW Books. 2pm, Artbook | D.A.P., Booth A07: Signing of This Book is a Camera by Kelli Anderson, published by Katherine Small Gallery. 2pm, Colpa Press, Booth B04: Signing of No. 46, by Benjamin Vilmain, published by Colpa Press. 2pm, Deep Time Press, Booth C08: Signing and launch of Rock Clock by Sean McFarland, published by Deep Time Press. 2pm - 4pm, Haddock Studio, Gallery 209: Launch of Scales of Measures.&nbsp; 2pm, Homie House Press, Booth Z23: Signing of Nostalgia Is The Ghost Of Care by huiyin zhou, published by Homie House Press.&nbsp; 2pm, Nazraeli press, Booth C02: Signing (advanced copies) of It Will Hold you by Alex Ramos, published by Nazraeli press. 2pm, Setanta Books, Booth C01: Signing of OK BW by Jason Lee.&nbsp; 2:30pm,&nbsp;Setanta Books, Booth C01: Signing of The Ramble by Arthur Tress, published by Stanley/Barker&nbsp; 3pm, La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop), Booth A21: Signing of Álbum El Informador 1996-1999 by Luis Cobelo, published by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop). 3pm, Nazraeli press, Booth C02: Signing of Tales of the City by Joshua Amirthasingh, published by Nazraeli press. 3pm, Setanta Books, Booth C01: Signing of Migration Patterns by Brandon Ruffin, published by Setanta books. 3pm, Triangle Books / Dreieck Bücher, Booth A17: Signing and launch of Collages by Peter Sutherland, published by Triangle Books. 4pm, MW Editions, Booth C06: Signing of A Perfect Medium by Bob Farese, Jr., published by MW Editions. Sunday, July 26&nbsp; 12pm - 2pm, Chronicle Books, 1201 Minnesota St.: Signing and launch of It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O'Malley, published by Chronicle Books. 12pm - 2pm, Casemore Gallery, 1275 Minnesota St.: Signing and special edition print release with Bill Owens.&nbsp; 1pm, Nazraeli press, Booth C02: Signing of The End Sends Advance Warning and House Hunting by Todd Hido, published by Nazraeli Press. 2pm, MAKAN, Booth A42: Signing of Desert Notes by Samantha Jensen, published by MAKAN.&nbsp;2pm, MW Editions, Booth C06: Signing of Knot by Forrest Gander and Jack Shear, published by MW editions and Copper Canyon Press.3pm, La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop), Booth A21: Signing of Álbum El Informador 1996-1999 by Luis Cobelo, published by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop). &nbsp; 1201 MINNESOTA ST.Thursday, July 23: 6pm - 10pm Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm Thru THICK and THIN, Rose D’Amato &nbsp; Thru THICK and THIN (2026) is a layered installation of windows, billboard structures, reflective paintings, and 8mm film surveying the typographic landscape of San Francisco's recent past. In D'Amato's practice, streets become a metaphorical extension of time's transient nature, where objects, imbued with the marks of labor and human touch, transcend their materiality. Each work is not only a product of its physical creation, but reflects the history and influences that have shaped it. Through this interplay of space, time, and process, Thru THICK and THIN encapsulates the essence of craftsmanship as both a temporal and timeless pursuit. For the Opening Night Preview on Thursday, July 23, DJ TUFF and Nicolas Torres will spin a selection of vinyl records in dialogue with the installation. Rose D’Amato (b. 1991, Los Angeles, CA) is a pinstriper and painter living and working in San Francisco, CA. D’Amato uses painting to create a personal archive of both the hand-painted signs in the built environment and the lettering she’s called on to paint for those around her. As a second-generation sign painter, D’Amato engages techniques inherited and learned through a years-long commitment to her family’s trade, working with airbrush, gold leaf, and hand lettering to create her own representations of their practices in motion. She hopes to hold and honor the visual histories of California subcultures in her artistic work.Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation Thru THICK and THIN will remain on view Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through August 8, 2026 at Minnesota Street Project Foundation. Thursday, July 23: 6pm - 10pm Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm ART BEFORE DISHES by Susan O’Malley From her Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self series, ART BEFORE DISHES (2015) by the beloved artist Susan O’Malley (1976-2015) makes its debut as a large-scale mural installation on the exterior of 1201 Minnesota Street. What advice would your 80-year-old self give you? This is the question artist Susan O'Malley asked more than a hundred ordinary people of all ages, ultimately transforming their responses into vibrant text-based prints, posters, and murals made publicly accessible and redistributed back into the community. A call to action and words to live by—heartfelt, sometimes humorous, and always fiercely compassionate, O’Malley’s work unveils the wisdom we hold inside ourselves right now. Artwork courtesy of the Estate of Susan O’Malley and Romer Young Gallery Susan O’Malley (1976–2015) was an internationally exhibited artist and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. From posters to pep talks, billboards to vending machines, O’Malley used simple and recognizable tools of engagement to connect people to one another. In her Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self project, she interviewed people of all ages and transformed their words into bold artwork that has been shared widely as a book, prints, and public installations. The impact of O’Malley’s work has travelled far and wide, with public projects across the United States—San Francisco, New York, Nashville—and around the globe in the United Kingdom, Poland, and Denmark. Her work has been exhibited at alternative spaces and cultural institutions, including SFMOMA, Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the San Diego Airport, Montalvo Art Center, Kala Art Institute, and Palo Alto Art Center. Her participatory installation Finding Your Center, was featured at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. O’Malley’s project A Healing Walk is permanently installed at the Montalvo Arts Center. Her career spanning monograph, It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O’Malley (Chronicle Books, 2026) presents all her major works in vibrant color alongside essays from Bay Area art luminaries. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation ART BEFORE DISHES&nbsp;(2015) will remain on view through October 31, 2026 at Minnesota Street Project Foundation.Thursday, July 23: 6-10 p.m. Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm Chronicle Books Join Chronicle Books for multiple book signings celebrating the launch of their latest publication, IT WILL BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE: THE ART OF SUSAN O’MALLEY, a vibrantly colorful 288-page monograph, bringing all of Susan O’Malley’s major projects together for the first time and featuring essays contributed by 24 SF Bay Area curators, artists, and collaborators. Purchase your copy of the book and have it signed by contributors to the project, including Jonn Herschend (THE THING Quarterly) and local artist Leah Rosenberg, among other luminaries who will be at the Chronicle Books booth Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 12pm - 2pm. 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. Saturday, July 25: 12pm - 3pm&nbsp;Screen Printing Workshop &nbsp; Discover the screen-printing work of Bay Area artist Susan O'Malley (1976–2015) at this hands-on workshop for all ages. Participants will create a 5 × 7 screen-printed postcard using one of O'Malley's original designs—ART BEFORE DISHES (2015) or BE YOU (2015)—from her Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self series. Presented in conjunction with SFABF26 and the debut mural installation of O'Malley's ART BEFORE DISHES (2015), this workshop is made possible through a partnership with the Estate of Susan O'Malley and Romer Young Gallery. Special thanks to Erina Davidson, Emily Harter, and Ellen Lake of Kala Art Institute. Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Kala Art Institute. Saturday, Jul 25: 7pm - 10pm Spiritual Surveillance EP launch with Cone Shape Top With performances by: Daria Lourd IDHAZ bastiengoat bodyworkbodyworkVisuals by Jeffrey Yip of Macro Waves Celebrating a new musical direction and the first release under her full name, Daria Lourd (aka Bored Lord) brings together a lineup of close friends who are emblematic of the current Bay Area electronic music scene. Expect ambient, downtempo, experimental performances accompanied by visuals from Jeffrey Yip of Macro Waves for an immersive experience.&nbsp; Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Cone Shape Top Sunday, July 26: 12pm - 4pm Billboard Techniques Workshop with Rose D’Amato Participate in a hands-on drop-in workshop for all ages exploring early advertisement and billboard techniques through tool use and painting. D’Amato will share insight into how the ghost signs of San Francisco came to be through the perspective of their original painters.&nbsp;Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation 1275 MINNESOTA ST.Friday, July 24: 12pm - 5pm Origami Zine-in-a-Box with C.K.Itamura San Francisco Arts Education Project, 1275 Minnesota St Join SFArtsED artist-mentor C.K.Itamura and create a unique origami zine-in-a-box. Learn how to use Japanese origami, colorful papers, and a small box to make an expandable caterpillar-style zine that you can fill with your own stories, illustrations, manga, poetry, and more. This family friendly, drop-in workshop is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and San Francisco Arts Education ProjectFriday, July 24: 12pm - 5pm Woodblock Printing Workshop with Joe Ferriso San Francisco Arts Education Project, 1275 Minnesota St Join SF Bay Area artist and toy designer (Jafies Joiners) Joe Ferriso for a woodblock printing workshop combining pattern, paint, and play! Visitors are encouraged to experiment with mark-making to create geometric patterns and design and build colorful and symbolic worlds on paper. Use Ferriso’s custom-made wood stamps and create your own print to take home. Then, make your mark on the wall, contributing to a collaborative installation that other SFABF visitors can enjoy all weekend!&nbsp;Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and San Francisco Arts Education Project Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm SFArtsED Family Artmaking Table &amp; Artist-Mentor Pop-Up San Francisco Arts Education Project, 1275 Minnesota Street Join SFArtsED and participate in free artmaking activities with your family, featuring printing, collage, bookmaking, and paper-based activities designed and facilitated by SFArtsED artist-mentors (who will also be sharing one-of-a-kind and editioned prints and other works for sale). Drop-in visitors of all ages are welcome. Saturday, July 25: 2pm - 4pm Exhibition Walkthrough and Book Launch with Architect Tommy Haddock Gallery 209, 1275 Minnesota St Scales and Measures is a comprehensive book and exhibition surveying the first decade of work by the architecture and design office Haddock Studio since its founding in San Francisco in 2016. Welcoming visitors into a space that is serious about play, the exhibition brings together photographs, furniture, models, sketches, drawings, mock-ups, and material fragments, tracing how, through collaborative design, ideas become buildings and objects across scales, media, and disciplines. Come for the exhibition walkthrough to meet the architects and take home a book! 1150 25th ST.Thursday, July 23: 6pm - 10pm Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm Et al. Slash, 1150 25th St Et al., a gallery and bookstore in the Mission District of San Francisco, presents a selection of “very nice” books, along with hundreds of five-dollar books. We'll also be joined in the library of Slash by friends San Francisco Review of Whatever. Thursday, July 23: 5pm - 7pm Opening reception of 印象/Impressions in /room/ Slash, 1150 25th St Join Slash for the opening reception of 印象/Impressions, an installation in /room/ by violist, teacher, and artist Angie Zheng 郑晴 that deconstructs existing hierarchies between composer, performer, and audience, releasing expectations of linearity in process. The installation is centered on four of Zheng’s sound and print-based projects, configured into a multi-channel orchestrated listening experience. MINNESOTA GROVE&nbsp;Saturday, July 25: 12pm - 1pm Sunday, July 26L 12pm - 1pm Modular Typography Cyanotypes a hands-on activity &amp; lecture with Kelli Anderson Join graphic designer and author Kelli Anderson for a two-part workshop mimicking a lesson from Josef Albers' classroom at the Bauhaus, where he developed an alphabet/puzzle called Kombinations-Schrift. With his students, Albers used Kombinations-Schrift to contemplate how letters could be crafted from a minimum number of modules/parts while remaining harmonious and easy to read. In the first part of the workshop, participants will craft letterforms using 11 tiny, geometric building blocks taken from Anderson’s interactive book, Alphabet in Motion. These designs will then be placed atop light-sensitive paper and exposed to sunlight, creating a cyanotype. The second half of the workshop will further explore Albers' letterform puzzle, and how the concept of modularity informed art and design in the 20th century. Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult.Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and D.A.P. Thanks to the Dogpatch &amp; NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District. OFF-SITE Thursday, July 23:&nbsp;9pm - 1am SFABF After Party Bar Part Time, 496 14th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 $10 cover at the door Join us at Bar Part Time as we celebrate the opening night of the 2026 San Francisco Art Book Fair with music by Jeremy Castillo. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation&nbsp;&nbsp;Friday, July 24: 9:30am - 11:30 am Coffee and Art at the Wattis - a Walkthrough of Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 145 Hooper St, San Francisco, CA 94107 (Exhibition walkthrough at 10am) Join the Wattis for coffee, breakfast treats, and a walkthrough of the exhibition, Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp—the first West Coast institutional exhibition of artists Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz. At the heart of the exhibition is a film inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s beloved character, “The Tramp,” a mischievous vagrant living on the margins. The artists have created an encompassing environment for the exhibition: deconstructed production sets are repurposed as furniture, while drawings, production stills, paintings, prints, and ephemera are presented alongside the film.Friday, July 24: 6pm–8pm Closing party for the Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in the Postbook Age exhibition San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103 Free and open to the public When the SF Art Book Fair wraps up for the day, stop by San Francisco Center for the Book for a last look at the exhibition, Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in a Postbook Age. This open house and closing party offers SFABF exhibitors and visitors the opportunity to see works and books by contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of what a codex can be. Friday, July 24: 5pm - 8pm Tropic of Cancer: New Work by Ben Peterson Et al. etc., 2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Join Colpa Press for the opening reception and book launch of Tropic of Cancer: New Work by Ben Peterson. Peterson’s exhibition of new work consists of ceramic sculptures fired and painted to resemble archaeological objects or architectural fragments alongside drawings and maquettes made from cereal boxes. The publication is a full color, section-sewn limited edition of 200 with a screen-printed cardboard cover. Tropic of Cancer: New Work by Ben Peterson will remain on view at Et al etc. through August 30, 2026.&nbsp; Friday, July 24: 5pm - 8pm Book Release Party EYRC Architects, 797 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94107 Join San Francisco-based design studio Quality Time to celebrate their launch of three new publications. Noise, by John Lithgow, is an illustrated collection of sonic explorations marking the first in his series of marchine curated books. Savithri Velaga's research-based text, Punisher, chronicles different modes of punishment throughout history, and Elliot Lannes' Song of Myself is an anthology of personal essays from six contributors about their favorite songs. Wine and other refreshments will be provided. Friday, July 24: 6pm - 10pm SFABF26 Happy Hour Ruby Wine, 1419 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94107 Keep the fun going! Come for a “happy hour” (or two, or three…) at Ruby Wine and celebrate 10 years of SFABF with us. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation https://sfartbookfair.com/Sponsors Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:14:10 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/Sponsors SPONSORSThank you to the SFABF sponsors whose support makes this event possible.&nbsp; <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a016bc8a3c01523b1c476722ce60ffb3f5917ea6ee961edef5f03c9779ee5a11/new-logo.jpeg" data-mid="250420484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a016bc8a3c01523b1c476722ce60ffb3f5917ea6ee961edef5f03c9779ee5a11/new-logo.jpeg" /> SFBAF is a community-driven event made possible in large part thanks to the generosity of our partners and sponsors. Interested in helping keep SFABF free and open to the public through in-kind sponsorship or financial sponsorship? Please email lisa@minnesotastreetproject.org to learn how you can support. https://sfartbookfair.com/FAQ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:12:51 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/FAQ FAQ Getting here:&nbsp;We strongly encourage taking public transportation, carpooling, ridesharing, biking, and walking!Parking — there is no reserved parking and we’re expecting lots of visitors! If driving is your only option, please allow extra time to find street parking in the vicinity;Biking — if you’re cycling to the event, please note there is no reserved bicycle parking. You will need to park and lock your bicycle on the street;&nbsp;Public Transportation — T Third St Muni Metro; #48 bus stop; 22nd St CalTrain Station;Rideshare drop-off/pick-up location: 1398 Tennessee St (behind 1275 Minnesota St); please do not request drop-off in front of any SFABF buildings (1201 Minnesota St, 1275 Minnesota St, and 1150 25th St) Site Maps: <img width="1484" height="1467" width_o="1484" height_o="1467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/725730904af3f2a3a178c63eef48538966d1aa7fe2bad7eca937e6503cd7c6fe/SFABF26-Site-Map.png" data-mid="250541043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/725730904af3f2a3a178c63eef48538966d1aa7fe2bad7eca937e6503cd7c6fe/SFABF26-Site-Map.png" /> <img width="1898" height="1804" width_o="1898" height_o="1804" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d270c565a3b9678b5f2d51dc971f5d592c7af8605e436292db99983e30a362db/1201-Map.png" data-mid="250541041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d270c565a3b9678b5f2d51dc971f5d592c7af8605e436292db99983e30a362db/1201-Map.png" /> <img width="1000" height="1758" width_o="1000" height_o="1758" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b9b0b4ddde494b364a21aa02f7700e4dc58d226511ea3fe2084043c2984f428/1275-Map.png" data-mid="250541111" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b9b0b4ddde494b364a21aa02f7700e4dc58d226511ea3fe2084043c2984f428/1275-Map.png" /> <img width="1348" height="1478" width_o="1348" height_o="1478" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03f88d149efd5120c3b867750d733402ba16c39fa532e2c26042ad8ca5e80bed/1150-Map.png" data-mid="250541112" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03f88d149efd5120c3b867750d733402ba16c39fa532e2c26042ad8ca5e80bed/1150-Map.png" /> Food/Beverage/Bars: Thursday, July 23:&nbsp;1275 Minnesota St- Besharam 1150 25th St&nbsp; - Kabob Trolley Friday, July 24: 1201 Minnesota St- Humphry Slocombe Coffee &amp; Ice Cream- Excelsior Coffee1275 Minnesota St- Besharam- Grand Coffee 1150 25th St&nbsp; - Big City Halal - Sam’s Chowder- Pop Nation - Excelsior Coffee Saturday, July 25:1201 Minnesota St- Humphry Slocombe Coffee &amp; Ice Cream- Excelsior Coffee 1275 Minnesota St- Besharam- Grand Coffee 1150 25th St&nbsp;-&nbsp;Mozzeria- Sunrise Deli &nbsp;- Pop Nation - Excelsior Coffee Sunday, July 26:1201 Minnesota St- Excelsior Coffee - Pop Nation 1275 Minnesota St - Besharam- Grand Coffee1150 25th St&nbsp;- El Fuego - Me So Hungry- Pop Nation- Excelsior Coffee Bars, which are open daily, are located at 1201 Minnesota St, 1275 Minnesota St, and 1150 25th St - Aperol Spritz - Espolòn Tequila- Fort Point Beer Co.- GT’s Kombucha (na) - Roku Gin - Rodney Strong wine&nbsp;- Waterloo (na) Accessibility:1201 Minnesota St:All exhibitor booths, The Lounge, and workshops are accessible;Pubic restrooms are located across the street outside of 1240 Minnesota St; fully accessible restrooms are located inside at the front-right of the building. Ask staff or volunteers for assistance;&nbsp;A water fountain and water refill station are located near the restrooms 1275 Minnesota St:All exhibitor booths and workshops are accessible;The building is equipped with an elevator, which is located in the back-right corner of the building, ensuring access to the Galleries located on the second floor;Public restrooms, which are located in the back-left corner of the building, are fully accessible;Water fountains are located near the restrooms on the first floor, and two additional water fountains are located on each floor near the elevator1150 25th St:All exhibitor booths are accessible;There is a dedicated ADA parking space just inside the gated lot;The public restrooms at this location are not fully accessible; please ask staff for accomodations (additional fully accessible restrooms are located inside 1150 25th St Building A and Building B) There are sidewalks, a crosswalk, and curb cuts to ensure wheelchair accessibility in-between buildings along Minnesota St. Staff and volunteers are readily available to assist at all SFABF26 building locations. We’ll do our best to assist with accommodations on site!While pets are welcome, please know that this is a highly attended event, and we expect crowds. https://sfartbookfair.com/2025 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:26:35 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/2025 ARCHIVE THE 2025 SF ART BOOK FAIRPresented by Minnesota Street Project FoundationJuly 10 – 13, 20251150 25th St. / 1275 Minnesota St. / 1201 Minnesota St.San Francisco, CA 94107Public Hours:Preview: Thursday, July 10: 6:00–10:00 pmFriday, July 11: 11:00 am–6:00 pmSaturday, July 12: 11:00 am–6:00 pmSunday, July 13: 11:00 am–5:00 pm <img width="1280" height="800" width_o="1280" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c35d9be3073cb798d362f0834c74eb1b25f9b4c8a940d228944ee3dcd806f7fb/2EDITsfabf_2025_lizzymyers-50.jpg" data-mid="246121652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c35d9be3073cb798d362f0834c74eb1b25f9b4c8a940d228944ee3dcd806f7fb/2EDITsfabf_2025_lizzymyers-50.jpg" /> Photo by Lizzy Myers.&nbsp; 2025 EXHIBITORS* First-time SFABF exhibitor A is A (CA) * Amaya Productions (CA) *Anjelica Colliard (CA) * Aperture (NY)Arion Press (CA)Artbook | D.A.P. (NY)Aventures Ltd Press (NY)Awkward Ladies Club (CA)AZETAguia (Nicaragua)B.B.Press (CA/Mexico)BASEMENT (CA)Bathers Library (CA)Bill Daniel /Bayshore Industrial Photographic (CA) *Bong Sadhu (Japan) * Book and Job Gallery (CA)BOVINE PRESS (IL) *Bronze Age (United Kingdom)But Whole Press (CA)‘cademy (NY)Calipso Press (NY)Can Can Press (Mexico)Case Publishing / shashasha (Japan)CCA Wattis Institute forContemporary Arts (CA)Cherub Dream Records (CA) *Chronicle Books (CA)Club del Prado (Spain)colour bloc creativ | cbc press (CA) *Colpa Press (CA)commune (Japan)Company Studio (CA)Cone Shape Top (CA)conventional projects (CA)Conveyor Editions (NJ)courtney sennish (CA) *Creative Growth Art Center (CA)Creativity Explored (CA)Curious Publishing (CA)&nbsp; &nbsp;Current Editions (CA)Dark Entries Editions (CA)Datz Press (South Korea)Deadbeat Club (CA)Deep Time Press (CA)DeMerritt PauwelsEditions (CA)Downtown Book Club (CA) *D.R.Y (CA)East Bay Booksellers (CA) *Ediciones Concordia Mx (Mexico)Eggy Press (CA)Errant Press (CA)EVERYTHING MATTERS Press (OR) *EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery (CA)FAWW (United Kingdom)Fillip (Canada)Floss Editions (CA)For the Birds Trapped in Airports (CA)Friends of theSan Francisco Public Library (CA)Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)Gold Rain (MO)Grafis Nusantara (Indonesia) *GRL GRP (CA)Groove Merchant San Francisco (CA)Handshake (Spain) *Hat &amp; Beard Press (CA)Heavy Manners Library (CA)Hi-Bred (MD)Hobo Books (Spain) *Homie House Press (MD)illetante books (CA)Impresos Mexico (Mexico) *Inventory Press (CA)Irrelevant Press (CA)Issue Press (MI)Kareem MichaelWorrell (MA)KATE LASTER (CA)KGP MONOLITH (NY)KIDTOFER (NY) Kodoji Press (Switzerland)Korean American Artist Collective (RI)La Chancleta Voladora +Raya Editorial (CA/Colombia)LAND AND SEA (CA)Last Gasp (CA)Letterform Archive (CA)Little Big Man Books (CA)Los Sumergidos (NY/Mexico) *McSweeney's (CA)Miau Ediciones (Mexico) *Modlitbooks (CA)MonographBookwerks (OR)More Human Editions (CA)MÖREL (United Kingdom)Morgann Trumbull Projects (CA) *Most Ancient (OR)Nathaniel Russell (IN) *National Monument Press (CA)Nationale (OR)Nazraeli Press (CA)New Documents (CA)NIAD Art Center (CA)Night Diver Press (CA)NIGHTED (CA)Ocean Escalanti (CA) *PageMasters (United Kingdom) *Pamplemousse Magazine (CA) *Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)Paragon Books (CA)Park Life (CA)People I've Loved (CA)Perimeter Editions (Australia)Poppy Press (CA)Prelinger Library (CA)Proyecto Piranha (Argentina) *Publishing Neighbors (South Korea) *Push Pull Editions /COMPOSIT Press (OR) *QRWHZGUB (CA)Quality Time (CA)RE/Search and Search &amp; Destroy (CA)RITE Editions (CA)Saint Lucy (MD)San Francisco Center for the Book (CA)San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)SARA (Mexico)&nbsp; &nbsp;Secret Headquarters (CA)Secret Riso Club (NY)Set Margins'publications (Netherlands)Setanta books (United Kingdom)siglio (MA)Slash (CA)Sming Sming Books (CA)SNU Design (South Korea) *Special Effects (CA)Stephen Parks (Constant Ritual) (NC) *StreetSalad (CA) SUPER LABO (Japan)TBW BOOKS (CA)te editions (NY)The Eriskay Connection (Netherlands) *The Fulcrum Press (CA)THE ICE PLANT (CA)THE QUARTERLY REPORT (CA)Tiny Splendor (CA)TIS books (NY)&nbsp; &nbsp;Tyler Rico (TX) * Unity Press (CA) Vacancy Projects (CA)Visible Publications (CA)William StoutArchitectural Books (CA)WORK/PLAY (IL)Written NamesFanzine (CA)X Artists' Books (CA)x_x (Argentina) &nbsp; &nbsp;Zatara Press (VA) 2025 PROGRAMMINGDownload the 2025 SFABF program guide. OPENING NIGHT PREVIEWSPONSORED BY THE EAMES INSTITUTE OF INFINITE CURIOSITY &amp; WILLIAM STOUT ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS Join us Thursday, July 10, 6-10pm for our opening night preview of the 2025 SFABF, with music by Fault Radio.Featuring: DiscodelicJeremy CastilloThree6SashiaAlex ShenFault 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 1112pm –1pmBooks are Dead, with Alan SobrinoIn 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 Press1pm - 2pmGrowing a New Hope: The importance of publications on ecology and the natural world with Ocean EscalantiIndependent 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 - 3pmStarting a community library from scratch with Matthew James-WilsonHeavy 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 - 4pmDesign, Delivered: Ten Years of Publishing at Letterform Archive with Lucie Parker and Rob SaundersTo 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 Archive4pm - 5pmTwo or Three Things, an ongoing lecture series with Lindsey White and Jon RubinRoughly 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 - 6pmLove Letters with Kelly Ording and Maria OteroJoin 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 1211am – 12pmVa a Llover Toda La Noche (It’s Going to Rain All Night) with Alicia Vera and Luis CobeloJoin 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 - 1pmStory Time Window with Ebti and William ClarkWhat 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 ‘cademy1pm - 2pmLove Is The Drug: a film screening &amp; book production discussion with Heather Edney, Liz Roberts &amp; Zach ClarkHeather Edney is a first wave harm reductionist and drug user organizer. Love Is The Drug is a short film by Liz Roberts, combining Heather's archive of community health education ephemera with contemporary 16mm footage filmed in Santa Cruz. Sucking Dick for Syringes is a collection of personal texts by Heather, published by National Monument Press. This program will include a screening of the film, followed by a discussion about the creation of multiple projects through cross media collaboration.2pm - 3pmTuning Our Storyorgans with Patrick Michael BallardThrough 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 Books3pm - 4pmDANCING ON THE FAULT LINE by Nick Haymes with Love BaileyA 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 Books4pm - 5pmSelf Realization Fellows: Photography and Collaboration with Adrian Martinez of illetante books, Book &amp; 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 - 6pmOur commons are free, with Ben KinmontBen 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 &amp; 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 1311am – 12pm FREE WORMS: Artist Game Workshop with Alexandra Pink and Helen Shewolfe TsengThe 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 - 1pmHighlighting Artists’ Books of the Arab Diaspora: Storytelling, Memory, and Resistance with Maymanah Farhat, Andrea Shaker and Jennie HinchcliffThis 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 Book1pm - 2pmA Conversation with artists Ala Ebtekar, Binh Danh, and Stephanie Syjuco, moderated by Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMAThrough 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 Books2pm - 3pmAre humans the only dreamers on Earth?: A conversation between Rodrigo Hernández and David Peña-Guzmán, moderated by Diego VillalobosMarking 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&nbsp; 3pm - 4pmSoft Core with Brittany Newell and Maria SilkA 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 Slash4pm - 5pmINCENDIARY TEXT: MANIFESTOS &amp; OTHER MISSIVES THAT SURVIVE REGIMES with Kate LasterFrom Magnus Hirschfeld to Queer Nation, from Taller de Gráfica Popular to JUSTSEEDS — artist, educator &amp; 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 RoomThe 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 -&nbsp;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 &amp; LAUNCHESThursday, July 106pm, Chronicle Books, Booth C17: Signing of Everything She Touched: Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase7pm, Aperture, Booth A20: Signing of Cargo by Richard Misrach.Friday, July 114pm - 6pm, McSweeney's, Booth A44: 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 1211am, 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; launch of Glimmer by Leah Koransky, published by Deep Time Press.2pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Todd Hido books, published by Nazraeli Press2pm, 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 &amp; 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 McQueen3pm, 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 &amp; launch of DANCING ON THE FAULT LINE by Nick Haymes, published by Kodoji Press5pm, 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 131pm, Chronicle Books, Booth C17: Signing 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.PARTICIPATING GALLERIESAltman SiegelAnglim / Trimble GalleryJenkins Johnson GalleryJack Fischer GalleryMunicipal BondsNancy Toomey Fine ArtRena Bransten Galleryre.riddleThemes + ProjectsSlash 1201 MINNESOTA ST.Thursday, July 10: 6–10pmFriday, July 11: 11am–6pmSaturday, July 12: 11am–6pmSunday, July 13: 11am–5pm2024 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 FoundationThursday, July 10: 6–10pmFriday, July 11: 11am–6pmSaturday, July 12: 11am–6pmSunday, July 13: 11am–5pmThe StoutmobileWilliam 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 BooksThursday, July 10: 6pm – 10pmFriday, July 11: 11am – 4pmSaturday, July 12: 11am – 6pmScreening Program curated by San Francisco Cinematheque &nbsp;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/Thursday, July 106pmCauleen Smith, Blue Scrubs, Yellow Scrubs, Trustees All Above / Orange Jumpsuit (2019), 24 mins.6:30pmMakino Takashi, Memento Stella (2018), 12 mins.Makino Takashi, cinéma concret (2015), 30 mins.Total run-time: 42 mins.7:15pmMichael 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), 10 mins. loopedJeanne Liotta, Climate Fictions (2017), 4 mins.Scott Stark, Shimmering Spectacles (2015), 8 mins.Aura Satz, Warnings in Waiting (2023), 24 mins.Total run-time: 61 mins.8:30pmPeter Burr, THE CONTINUOUS MONUMENT (2021), 72 mins.Friday, July 1111amCauleen 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. loopedAyanna 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.12:30pmPeter Burr, DROP CITY (2019), 7 mins.Jodie Mack, Stained Glass Daydream (2025), 11 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. loopedMichael Damm, Field Guide to San Lorenzo Creek, Castro Valley, California (2025), 8 mins. Total run-time: 52 mins.1:45pmMichael 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.3:15pmMakino Takashi, Memento Stella (2018), 12 mins.Makino Takashi, cinéma concret (2015), 30 mins.Total run-time: 42 mins.Saturday, July 1211amPeter Burr, THE CONTINUOUS MONUMENT (2021), 72 mins.12:45pmMichael 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.4pmEsperanza 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. loopedP. Staff, Pure Means (2021), 5 mins. Total run-time: 45 mins.5pmPeter Burr, DROP CITY (2019), 7 mins.Jodie Mack, Stained Glass Daydream (2025), 11 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. loopedMichael Damm, Field Guide to San Lorenzo Creek, Castro Valley, California (2025), 8 mins. Total run-time: 52 mins.All works courtesy of the artist unless otherwise indicated.*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 FoundationFriday, July 11: 4pm - 6pmExquisite Corpse Book-Making with the American Bookbinders MuseumInvented 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 - 4pmLEGO® Letterpress with Arion PressJoin 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 LatitudesRobert 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 MindsSunday, July 13: 11am – 5pmSFABF x KUSF Rock‘N’SwapKUSF’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 PopSunday, July 13: 11:30am – 12:30pmWest Coast Launch of Peace Makers in the Summer Time with Creative GrowthMarking the season, Creative Growth is bringing us the West Coast launch of Peace Makers 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 – 5pmListening Room with DiscogsJoin 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. Walk-in registration is welcome; pre-registration is recommended, as space is limited. Pre-register here. Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Noise Pop1240 MINNESOTA ST.Saturday, July 12: 12pm, 1pm, 2pmOpen 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 FoundationSTREET ACTIVATIONSaturday, July 12: 12pm – 4pm Ben Kinmont's Street press activationBen 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 &amp; Culture. OFF-SITEThursday, July 10: 9pm - 1amSFABF25 AFTER PARTYOFF NIGHT at El Valenciano, 1153 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110Join us out on the wooden dance floor at OFF NIGHT to celebrate the 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair. Music by Jeremy Castillo and Pascual. No cover!Friday, July 11: 6pm - 8:30pmSFABF25 Industry Night with Et al.Et al. &amp; Et al. books, 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110Our 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.2025 SPONSORSThe 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair would like to thank our generous sponsors:Preview Sponsors:Eames Institute, William Stout Architectural BooksSponsors:Chronicle Books, Dogpatch Business Association Media Sponsor:Hyperallergic, KEXPIn-Kind Sponsors:Abbey Party Rents, American Bookbinders Museum, Babylon Burning, Lightsource SF, Outpost Studio SF, Poppy Press, Shapco Printing, Small Works, Tiny SplendorIn-Kind Bar Sponsors: Best Day Brewing, Culture Pop, Fort Point Beer Co., Marine Layer Wines, Missing Thorn, Salt Point, Una Lou, WaterlooThe SFABF is presented by:Minnesota Street Project Foundation: Emma-Caitlin Cooper, Lisa Ellsworth, Trinity WestWith additional support from: Temi Adamolekun, Wendy ChangDirector, SF Art Book Fair: Gaelan McKeownProgramming Curator, The Lounge: David SeniorBranding and Identity: Quality TimeOpening night music provided by: Fault RadioMinnesota Street Project Foundation extends thanks to: Jamie Alexander, Luca Antonucci, David KasprzakMiranda Morris, Steve PoltaSarah Hotchkiss, Sean McFarlandIain McKayDeborah and Andy RappaportMinnesota Street Project: Segfred Amoyan, Sarah Austin, Cherisse Baird, Julie Casemor, Aimee Le Duc, Michael Rubel, Jonathan Runcio, Jamie Sandoval, Jaelynn WallsMinnesota Street Project Art ServicesMinnesota Street Project Galleries: Casemore Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Hashimoto ContemporaryAdditional thanks to: Besharam, Romer YoungSpecial thanks to all of the SFABF25 volunteers! https://sfartbookfair.com/2024 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:19:31 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/2024 THE 2024 SF ART BOOK FAIR Presented by Minnesota Street Project FoundationJuly 18 – 21, 20241150 25th St. / 1275 Minnesota St. / 1201 Minnesota St.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 <img width="1620" height="1620" width_o="1620" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c510ebe6be13eea667fd067571de1ef9b20331e10a3536d8bc84f1e9043be014/201A1328.jpg" data-mid="225785020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c510ebe6be13eea667fd067571de1ef9b20331e10a3536d8bc84f1e9043be014/201A1328.jpg" /> Photo by Andre Huffaker.2024 EXHIBITORS 222 Press (CA) Adobe Books and Arts Coop (CA)Alex Lukas (CA)Allowing Many Forms (CA)Annie Sprinkle &amp; Beth Stephens, E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF (CA)Anthology Editions (CA)Aperture (NY)Apogee Graphics (CA)Artbook | D.A.P. (NY)Aventures Ltd Press (NY)Awkward Ladies Club (CA)AZETAguía (Nicaragua)azulejo arte impressa (Brazil/CA)Bad Student / Future Fellow (Philippines/NY)Balam (Argentina)BASEMENT (CA)Bathers Library (CA) B.B. Press (CA)BLUM Books (CA)Book and Job Gallery (CA)But Whole Press (CA)Calipso Press (Colombia/NY)Can Can Press (Mexico)Case Publishing / shashasha (Japan)Colpa Press (CA)commune (Japan)Company Studio (CA)Cone Shape Top (CA)Container Corps (OR)conventional projects (CA)Conveyor Editions (NJ)Creative Growth (CA)Crisis Editions / Dane Press (Canada)Curious Publishing (CA)Current Editions (CA)Datz Press (South Korea)David King Estate (CA)Deadbeat Club (CA)Deep Time Press (CA)DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA)Documerica Books (CA)D.R.Y. (CA)Eames Institute (CA)Ediciones Concordia Mx (CA)Ediciones Hungria (Mexico)EGGY (CA)Errant Press (CA)Et al. (CA)EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery (CA)Fillip (Canada)Floss Editions (CA)For the Birds Trapped in Airports (CA)Friends of the San Francisco Public Library (CA)Fugitive Materials (NY) The Fulcrum Press (CA)GenderFail (NY)Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico) Gold Rain (Mexico)GRL GRP (CA)Groove Merchant (CA)Hat &amp; Beard Press (CA)Hesse Press (CA)Hi-Bred (MD)Homie House Press (MD)Hot Books (CA)THE ICE PLANT (CA)illetante books (CA)Inventory Press (CA)Irrelevant Press (NY/CA)Issue Press (MI)Kareem Michael Worrell (MA)KATE LASTER (CA)Kidtofer (CA) LAND AND SEA (CA) Language Barrier &amp; Auspicious Books (CA) Last Gasp (CA)Lemonade Press (CA)Letterform Archive (CA)Louis M Schmidt (CA) Lower Falls (CA)The Magazine / Dark Entries Editions / New Age Rage (CA) A Magic Mountain (CA)Matt Crabe (CA)McSweeney's (CA)Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts / San Francisco Arts Commission (CA)modlitbooks (CA)Moniker Press (CA)Monograph Bookwerks (OR) Moonlight Press (CA)More Human Editions (CA)MÖREL Books (UK)Most Ancient (CA)National Monument Press (CA)Nazraeli Press (CA)NEOGLYPHIC MEDIA (WA) New Documents (CA)NIAD Art Center (CA)Night Diver Press (CA)NIGHTED (CA)Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)Paragon Books (CA)Park Life (CA)People I've Loved (CA)Perimeter Editions (Australia)PM Press (CA)Poppy Press (CA)Prelinger Library (CA)QRWHZGUB (CA)Quality Time (CA) The Quarterly Report (CA)Random Man Editions (NY)RE/Search and Search &amp; Destroy (CA)Rite Editions (CA)Saint Lucy Books (MD)San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)SARA (Mexico)Savi Factory (CA)Scooters For Peace (Japan)Seaton Street Press (NY)Secret Headquarters (CA)Secret Riso Club (NY)Set Margins' publications (Netherlands)Setanta books (UK)Shortt Editions (FL)Silver Sprocket (CA) / (Slash) (CA)Sming Sming Books (CA)Soberscove Press (IL)Special Effects (CA)StreetSalad (CA)SUPER LABO (Japan)TBW Books (CA)te editions (NY/China)Telematic Media Arts (CA)Tiny Splendor (CA)TIS books (CA)Tomorrow Today (CA)Triangle Books / Dreieck Bücher (Belgium)Unity Press (CA)Vacancy Projects (CA)Visible Publications (CA)Wasted Books (CA)Weird Babes Press (CA)William Stout Architectural Books (CA)X Artists' Books (CA)x_x (Spain)Zatara Press (VA) <img width="1620" height="1082" width_o="1620" height_o="1082" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fd37c544edc14c720ebb9d1c1fbc4bdd154ceac1f2a00f283ecf44825ce7bd1/07.21.24-SF-Art-Book-Fair-9-of-80.png" data-mid="225785241" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4fd37c544edc14c720ebb9d1c1fbc4bdd154ceac1f2a00f283ecf44825ce7bd1/07.21.24-SF-Art-Book-Fair-9-of-80.png" /> 2024 PROGRAMMINGDownload the 2024 SFABF program guide.Our Director of Programming is David Senior. THE LOUNGE AT 1275 MINNESOTA ST. Friday, July 19 1-2pm Citizen Printer, with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and Kelly Walters Through the use of bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layers, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s letterpress prints embody an intensity that catches the eye and provokes the mind. Curated by Fridaydesigner and author Kelly Walters, Citizen Printer, a solo exhibition at Letterform Archive includes a wide variety of printed artifacts such as broadsides, maps, church fans, handbills, and oversized posters produced throughout Kennedy’s career. Walters joins Kennedy for a special conversation at the SF Art Book Fair on Friday. Then join us on Saturday, July 20 for a reception at the Archive. See lettarc.org for details. 2-3pm Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing.Zach Clark, National Monument Press with Amy Burek, Awkward Ladies ClubLindsay Buchman, Seaton Street Press, Erica Wilk, Moniker Press, Rodrigo Alasua, SARA Within the last decade, Riso has shifted from a niche method for printing low cost underground ephemera to a fully embraced and ubiquitous method for creating artist publications. Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing is a panel discussion featuring the curators and a selection of participating artists from the show of the same name, opening this weekend at the San Francisco Center for The Book. This talk and the corresponding exhibition present multiple points of view around what makes Risograph publishing exciting and important at this moment in time. Presented by National Monument Press. 3-4pm What is a book? with Alan Sobrino "Everything is a book. Books are books. A building is a book. The last kiss is a book. The deepest part of the pool is a book. A map is a book about books. A scream in the shower is a book. Palm trees are books. Almonds are also a book. I am a book." Books are typically approached in a straight timeline that tries to capture all of its forms. "What is a book?" will explore the book as a social object, peeling its layers and reflecting the possibilities, forms, and shapes a book can achieve. Presented by Errant Press. 4-5pm From Handmade to Big Trade: Language Barrier + Auspicious Books Discuss Different Publishing Channels and How to Find Them. Trinie Dalton and Abby Banks will discuss their personal histories of making artists’ books and handmade publications starting in the 1990s, particularly within frameworks of shaping indie projects into trade editions for commercial publishing houses. Through examples of some favorite zines and unconventional book-making tools, they’ll share histories of their designs highlighting eras and renovations of fun antique reproduction techniques like xerography and analog photography. 5-6pm In Community, with Pia Camil In celebration of Pia Camil: Friendly Fires, Inventory Press invites you to join artist Pia Camil for a talk &amp; cabaret-inspired performance with local collaborators. Saturday, July 20 12-1pm Forty Creeks in Forty Minutes: an audiovisual tour of the San Francisco-San Pablo Bay system Join the Society of Submerged Culture's Lauren Hartman and Jon Fischer on an audiovisual tour of the San Francisco-San Pablo Bay system. This guided tour will traverse the network of creeks that drain the entire Bay Area, from mountainous redwood forests to some of the most urbanized parts of California. It will coincide with the release of "The Forty Creeks Project," a limited edition box set that includes screen-printed art objects and a new atlas commemorating the essential creeks of the San Francisco Bay Area watershed. 1-2pm The Evanesced [Tarot Deck] with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle a.k.a. Olomidara Yaya will be performing a live reading from The Evanesced [Tarot Deck + Guidebook]. This new artist's book is inspired by Hinkle/Yaya's The Evanesced Series, an expansive body of work featuring hundreds of drawings and paintings that the artist calls un-portraits, along with a suite of site-specific performances. The project interrogates the erasure of Black womxn historically and presently, standing in solidarity with #SayHerName and various intersections of what it means to be femme, especially Black and femme. Presented by KACH Studio Press and Sming Sming Books. 2-3pm REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE, with Craig SteelyTo celebrate the release of REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE, the 40th effort of LAND AND SEA, Craig Steely will discuss, among other things, his ideas in relation to common hierarchical notions of architecture. REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE, as an object, collects Craig's sketches, models and finished homes and presents them in a non-hierarchical frame, equally championing the idea, the magic, the spark, and the process, as well as finished dwellings. Presented by LAND AND SEA. 3-4pm LIVING ARCHIVES: how book arts community refuses complete burnout, with Kate Laster The practice of keeping records may be associated with institutional control or private comfort but it continues to also be an act of survival. What happens when burnout burns out? This visual studies lecture explores the history and present of cycles of burnout and endurance in book, print and movement work. From scanner beds, printing zines, to studios in the woods producing accessible protest art, our radical art ancestors have taken up space in book margins, founded alternative presses, gathered at meetups, made counter-monuments and rallied in community. The process of persistence is embedded in a vast bibliography far outside of the canon: this is the future of collective liberation. 4-5pm Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown, with Kim Beil and Alexander Nemerov Join Kim Beil in conversation with Alexander Nemerov on the mysteries of found photographs. Attendees who buy a copy of Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown will receive their own mysterious vintage photograph selected by the author. Beil teaches art history at Stanford University and her writing on photography appears in the Atlantic, the Believer, Cabinet and the New York Times among other publications. Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford and is the author, most recently, of The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s, as well as Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York. Presented by Park Life. 5-6pm “Hi Babe, It’s Me. You.” — Sam McGuire and MARBIE in conversation on the intersection of queer identity, creativity, and skate To celebrate photographer Sam McGuire’s debut monograph “Hi Babe, It’s Me. You” (Paragon Books), the author joins contemporary artist MARBIE in conversation about their experiences navigating and finding success beyond the skate industry as queer creatives. Sam left his small Iowa hometown to spend a decade on the road documenting professional skaters, driven by a desire to find himself and explore the exotic locations he saw in magazines. He found success working for Nike, Adidas, and Converse, yet struggled with the fear that his career could be ruined if he ever came out. MARBIE also faced challenges in seeking queer representation in skateboarding. A severe leg injury pushed her out of the skate world, but with the rise of queer and women-centered skate crews like Unity Skateboarding, MARBIE returned to find support and a growing audience for her visual art. Presented by Paragon Book and Hashimoto Contemporary. Sunday, July 21 12-1pmOrganizing Power: Unionizing for Arts WorkersAll working people have rights, whether we work at an art museum, a bookstore, or a school. Nationwide, arts workers have begun to unionize—they’ve enhanced their rights and improved their workplaces. But it can be difficult to know how to get started. Organizing Power is a series of Risograph-printed booklets which provide tools for union formation tailored to arts workers. Join artist Jessalyn Aaland and Bay Area arts workers and union organizers Matt Kennedy, Amy Lange, and Erin Schilling to learn about their experiences at institutions like SFMOMA, CCA, and the Oakland Museum of California. Presented by Current Editions.1-2pm Handle with Care with Art Handlxrs*, a book launch event and conversation with Bay Area based art handlxrs This panel will explore the future of art handling and the importance of care, organizing, and diversity in the art world. The conversation will feature Bella Manfredi, Yoni Asega, and the Co-Founders of Art Handlxrs* Marcel Pardo Ariza and Ambrose Trataris with a focus on uplifting individual and collective efforts that improve the conditions and sustainability of the industry. Join this event to celebrate and learn more about this new publication by Art Handlxrs* (available through But Whole Press - table H05) with editions profiling art handlxrs in San Francisco, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and New York. 2-3pmWorking together, talking together with Lynn Marie Kirby, Jordan Stein, and Tanya Zimbardo On the occasion of the new X Artists’ Books (XAB) publication Time &amp; Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby, XAB co-presents with / (Slash) a trialogue with Kirby, Jordan Stein and Tanya Zimbardo.This book explores Kirby’s work through a collection of newly commissioned writing and previously published essays by Etel Adnan, Barbara McBane, Charlie Hewison, Glenn&nbsp; Phillips, Etienne Kallos, Lynne Sachs, Jeffrey Skoller, Jordan Stein, Jalal Toufic, Carolina Magis Weinberg, Tanya Zimbardo, and interviews with Kirby and Lissa Gibbs, Alexandra Grant, Megan Kiskaddon, Rachel Ralph, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. In lieu of standard photo documentation, the book includes Kirby’s black &amp; white “scans.” &nbsp;&nbsp; 3-4pm Mondo Vision with Bart Nagel and R.U. Sirius Join us for a talk about Mondo 2000, the iconic cyberculture magazine published from 1984 to 1998. The discussion will feature co-founder and editor R.U. Sirius and art director Bart Nagel, moderated by Dr. J. Christian Greer. Mondo Vision: A Pictorial Survey of Mondo 2000 is a new publication by Colpa Press. THE MEDIA ROOM AT 1275 MINNESOTA ST. Ongoing - LOOP Some time, some place presented by Lynn Marie Kirby and X Artists’ Books This looping program features the work of contributors to Time &amp; Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby, X Artists’ Books’ most recent publication. Artists include: Kirby, Etienne Kallos, Lynne Sachs, Jeffrey Skoller, Jalal Toufic, and Carolina Magis Weinberg. PROJECT SPACE A - 2nd Floor - 1275 Minnesota St. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts / San Francisco Arts Commission The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Central and South American, and Caribbean people. MCCLA is a multicultural, multidisciplinary arts organization committed to the collaborative vision of Latino art forms and to making the arts accessible as essential to the community's development and well-being. The project space is organized in collaboration with the San Francisco Arts Commission and in conjunction with the exhibition Una Voz Publica: A Public Voice on view at City Hall through September 27, 2024. PROJECT SPACE B - 1st Floor - Room B - 1275 Minnesota St. Eames InstituteThe 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 SFABF the Institute will bring the collection to life through artifacts, photography, and a new series of printed catalogs.CHRONICLE BOOKS ARTIST BOOK SIGNING ACTIVATIONRoom D - 1275 Minnesota St. Creativity Explored will be present to sign the book Art is Art, celebrating the organization’s 40th anniversary, and artist Tucker Nichols will be on site to sign copies of Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say. Watch this space for times and details. SIGNINGS &amp; LAUNCHES Friday, July 19Table E10 - 12pm - Dark Entries Editions - DARK ENTRIES COLLECTED MUSIC GRAPHICS by Eloise Leigh, published by Dark Entries Editions. Signing and Launch.Table C09 - 1pm -&nbsp; Saint Lucy Books - Klea McKenna - Witnesss Mark. Signing. Table A21 - 1pm - Annie Sprinkle &amp; Beth Stephens, EarthLabSF - Assuming the Ecosexual Position—The Earth as Lover. Signing.1201 Minnesota St. - 1:30pm - Aperture - Ed Templeton - Wires Crossed. Signing. Table D01 - 2pm - Documerica Books &amp; Light Squared Media - Course of the Empire, published by Steidl &amp; Midnight La Frontera, published by TBW. Signing.Table D05 - 4pm - SUPER LABO - City Confessions #3 PARIS by Ed Templeton, published by SUPER LABO. Signing. Saturday, July 20Table G08 - 11am-1pm - Deep Time Press - Madeline Cass poster signing.Table E01 - 12pm - Paragon Books - "Sketchbook 5" by Felicia Chiao. Launch &amp; signing.Table E01 - 3:30pm - Paragon Books - "Hi Babe, It's Me. You" by Sam McGuire. Deluxe edition launch &amp; signing.Table A22 - 1pm - azulejo arte impressa - The settler’s town is a well fed town. Its belly is always full of good things. by Amanda Teixeira. Launch.Table D10 - 1pm - Datz Press - This Earthen Door by Amanda Marchand &amp; Leah Sobsey, published by Datz Press. Signing.Chronicle Books (D Room) - 1-3 pm - Contributor to the book ART IS ART, Creativity Explored artist Vincent Jackson, will sign books with Lead Teacher, Francis Kohler.Table E10 - 2pm - Dark Entries Editions - outside.sex by daniel case, published by Dark Entries Editions. Signing.Table D03 - 2pm - Deadbeat Club - Standstill by Ward Long, published by Deadbeat Club. Signing.Table D03 - 3pm - Deadbeat Club - Lost Dog by Ian Bates, published by Deadbeat Club. Signing.Table D10 - 3pm - Datz Press - Paper Constructs by Diane Pierce, published by Datz Press. Signing.Chronicle Books (D Room) - 3-4 pm - Tucker Nichols, author of FLOWERS FOR THINGS I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SAY will be available to sign books. &nbsp;Table A20 - 3pm - TBW Books - Juggling Is Easy by Peggy Nolan, published by TBW Books. Signing.Table D09 - 3pm - Nazraeli Press - ATL and other Mark Steinmetz titles published by Nazraeli Press. Signing.Table D09 - 4pm - Nazraeli Press - The End Sends Advance Warning and other titles by Todd Hido, published by Nazraeli Press. Signing. Sunday, July 21Table E01 - 12pm - Paragon Books - Chuck Sperry book signing &amp; print release. PARTICIPATING GALLERIESSaturday, July 20, from 1-3pm Book signing for Hype Means Nothing at Themes+ProjectsBook signing for Hype Means Nothing is the culmination of a three-year collaboration between artist, Ashleigh Sumner and designer, Shaun Roberts. This beautifully illustrated book documents timely projects such as, The Covid Diaries along with selected works from 2017 to 2023. The unique monograph features in-depth artist commentary in addition to essays by curators and patrons. Shaun Roberts’ keen design provides stunning photography of an artist at work. The book signing coincides with Summer’s solo exhibition, Touch the Sky, at Themes+Projects.SFArtsED Pop-Up: All WeekendDuring the SFABF, we’ll have lots of art-making activities and makers-tables for the duration of the fair, including book-making, collage, shrinky-dink art and takeaways, button making stations, and much more. Designed by SFArtsED Artist Mentors, all makers activities will be free for all ages! Also in the gallery, our Artist Mentors will be hosting pop-ups with limited edition and unique works for sale. <img width="1620" height="1620" width_o="1620" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae17445a9a2d6ea17cecaa20e7f71e67d243c9e8a6f0205581d61c45650b72c5/201A2078.jpg" data-mid="225785305" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae17445a9a2d6ea17cecaa20e7f71e67d243c9e8a6f0205581d61c45650b72c5/201A2078.jpg" /> 1201 MINNESOTA ST.Thursday, July 18, 6-8pm; Friday, July 19, 12-5pm; Saturday, July 20, 12-5pm; Sunday, July 21, 12-4pmXerox Party hosted by Minnesota Street Project Foundation This cumulative, collaborative art installation invites all ages. Celebrate the revolutionary impact of the photocopier on printmaking and create copy machine art alongside participating artists, then display your work in the Foundation’s 1201 Minnesota Street exhibition warehouse. Visit minnesotastreetproject.org for participating artist schedules and more information. Saturday, July 20, 12-1:30pmMake a Zine! (Ages 13 &amp; under)With Irrelevant Press and People I’ve Loved Start them young. Create a zine or mini art book (parents welcome!) with different supplied materials and formats. With nothing off the table see what can be created. Drop-ins OK. 1240 MINNESOTA ST.Saturday, July 20, 1-4pmOpen Studios at the Artist Studios, hosted by Minnesota Street Project Foundation Meet the studio artists, experience their work, and learn how this program is impacting the Bay Area art scene. Walk-in registration is welcome, but pre-registration at minnesotastreetproject.org is encouraged, as space is limited. OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW Join us Thursday, July 18, 6-10pm for our opening night preview of the 2024 SFABF. Music and DJs provided by Fault Radio. OFF-SITE Friday, July 19, 6-8pm Opening reception for Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph PublishingCurated by Amy Burek and Zach ClarkJuly 13–October 6, 2024San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, CA 94107In 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. 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. Emphasizing the intersection of concept and Risograph's unique print methods illustrates the potential of Risograph printing as a medium for exploring and conveying meaningful narratives. Bringing together contemporary Risograph artists and publishers of the past five years, Unfolding Duplications offers insights into a specific printing technology and how it can evolve into a medium for creative expression while retaining the spirit of innovation and experimentation. Friday, July 19, 7pmEt al., 2831a Mission Street, San Francsico, CA 94110 A release event for ‘Cybele Lyle: Sense of Space (in 3 parts)’ celebrating Cybele’s Lyle’s new monograph. Lyle will discuss the book; refreshments will be served. Friday, July 19, 9pm-1:30amSFABF AFTER PARTY - BAR PART TIME - 496 14th St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Join us at Bar Part Time to celebrate the 7th edition of the San Francisco Art Book Fair. Music by Jeremy Castillo. Saturday, July 20, 9pm DARK ENTRIES ANNIVERSARY PARTY - 900 Marin St. San Francisco, CA 94124 Celebrate one of our exhibitors, Dark Entries, at their 15 year anniversary party at the Midway. Tickets available here. Featuring music by Bill Converse, Group Rhoda, Dax Pierson, Carlos Souffront, and Pre Op Trans. 2024 PUBLICATION GRANT <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abff4ffb2b11d3b5778e7ca5d67fb434eadeb6b3b08a0bc37b5c7f25db6961e2/ZP_WetProof_2.jpg" data-mid="225785361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abff4ffb2b11d3b5778e7ca5d67fb434eadeb6b3b08a0bc37b5c7f25db6961e2/ZP_WetProof_2.jpg" /> This year we were happy to present our 2024 SFABF Publication Grant, courtesy of Edition One Books, to Zatara Press. Zatara Press was selected from our pool of exhibitors and will receive $5000 in printing credit at Edition One Books. Zatara Press is an independent, small press, photography book publishing company created in 2014 by Andrew Fedynak. Through unique designs and direct collaborations with artists, Zatara makes photo books that are poetic art objects. Edition One Books works with design professionals, photographers, artists and other creative types to manufacture highly customized, top-quality books. They are focused on building longterm relationships with their customers, and strive to offer a more personalized book production service for small to medium runs.Check out our 2020 Publishing Grant, 2022 Publication Grant and 2023 Publication Grant to see publishers we have supported in the past!2024 SPONSORS The 2024 San Francisco Art Book Fair would like to thank our generous sponsors: Presented by:Minnesota Street Project Foundation Sponsors:Chronicle Books, Dogpatch Wealth, Waymo, San Francsico Center for the Book and Independent Arts &amp; Media Media Sponsor:Hyperallergic In-kind Sponsors:Shapco Printing, Forthrite Printing, Edition One and Lightsource SFSupporting Galleries:Anglim / Trimble, Casemore Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary and SFArtsED In-kind Bar Sponsors: Curious Elixirs, Local Motion Canned Vodka Soda, Fort Point Beer Compan, Culture Pop, Blue Bin Wines and WaterlooFood and Beverage Vendors: De La Calle, El Fuego, Kabob Trolley, Mozzeria, Sunrise Deli, The Pop Nation and Excelsior CoffeeOpening night music and DJs provided by Fault Radio The SFABF is organized by:Minnesota Street Project Foundation: Lisa Ellsworth, Joyce Grimm, Caitlin Kirkpatrick and Rachel SampleMinnesota Street Project: Sarah Austin, Julie Casemore, Aimee LeDuc, Justin Mata, Jonathan Runcio and Michael RubelMinnesota Street Project Art ServicesColpa Press: Luca AntonucciProject Coordinator: Gaelan McKeownProgramming Director: David SeniorArt Director: David Kasprazak Special thanks to Jamie Alexander, Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Bill Proctor, Derek Song, Heather Fisk, Shannon Trimble, Ken Harman, Eleanor Harwood, Heesoo Kwon, Craig Calderwood, and all of our volunteers! https://sfartbookfair.com/2023 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:31:06 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/2023 THE 2023 SF ART BOOK FAIRPresented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation1201 + 1275 Minnesota StreetSan Francisco, CA 94107Thursday, July 13: 6pm – 10pmFriday, July 14: 11am – 6pmSaturday, July 15: 11am – 6pmSunday, July 16: 11am – 5pm <img width="1620" height="1080" width_o="1620" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78978eefc8428fac356d5e13bd82befd6fc7453cf3a5437d5949fabe3600df71/SFABF23-Wojack-8110.jpeg" data-mid="204996966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78978eefc8428fac356d5e13bd82befd6fc7453cf3a5437d5949fabe3600df71/SFABF23-Wojack-8110.jpeg" />Photo: Aaron Wojack2023 EXHIBITORS A Magic Mountain (CA)Afterlife Press (CA)Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe (Canada)Altman Siegel (CA)Anal Magazine (Mexico)And Aaron Krach (NY)Animal Sleep Stories (OR)Aperture (NY)Arion Press (CA)Aventures Ltd Press (NY)Awkward Ladies Club (CA)B.B. Press (CA)Basement (CA)Blum &amp; Poe (CA)BOMB Magazine (NY)Book and Job Gallery (CA)Bronze Age (UK)But Whole Press (CA)cademy (NY)Can Can Press (Mexico)Canyon Cinema Foundation (CA)CCA COMIC COHORT (CA)CCA Small Press (CA)CCA Wattis Institute forContemporary Arts (CA)Christopher Kardambikis andPaper Cuts (D.C.)Chronicle Books (CA)Cita Press (CA)Club del Prado (Argentina)Cold Cube Press (NY)The Codex Foundation (CA) Colour Code (Canada)Colpa Press (CA)commune (Japan)Company Studio (CA)Cone Shape Top (CA)Container Corps (OR)conventional projects (CA)Creative Growth (CA)Creativity Explored (CA)Crisis Editions / Dane Press (Canada)Curious Publishing (CA)Dalé Zine ® (FL)Datz Press (South Korea)Deadbeat Club (CA)Deep Time Press (CA)DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA)diasporan savant press (GA)Division Leap (OR)Documerica Books &amp;Light Squared Media (CA)DRY. (CA)Each and Every Press (MI)East of Borneo (CA)edgar bryan books (CA)Ediciones Concordia Mx (Mexico)Eggy (CA)Entropy Editions (MN)Et al. (CA)Eternal Now (CA)Evil Twin (CA)FAWW GALLERY (UK)Fillip (Canada)Fish Juice (CA)Floss Editions (CA)For The Birds Trapped in Airports /Speculation Bookshop (CA)Forgotten Youth Records (CA)Friends of the San FranciscoPublic Library (CA)Fugitive Materials (NY)The Fulcrum Press (CA)Gabriel Edwards (CA)Gallery 16 Editions (CA)Garage Publishing (CA)Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)GRL GRP (CA)Groove Merchant San Francisco (CA)Handy Hand Goods (CA)Hat &amp; Beard Press (CA)Headlands Center for the Arts (CA)Hi-Bred (CA)Homie House Press (MD)HOMOCATS (NY)horse gurl press (OR)Hotam Press (Canada) The Ice Plant (CA)IDEAL Surf (CA)illetante books (CA)Illustoria Magazine (CA)Inventory Press (CA)Irrelevant Press (CA)Issue Press (MI)Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON (NY)Jamiyla Lowe (Canada)KAHL Editions (UK)Kareem Michael Worrell (MA)KGP | MONOLITH (NY)Kidtofer (CA)Kodoji Press (Switzerland)Korean American Artist Collective (CA)Laguna Collective (CA)LAND AND SEA (CA)Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (CA)Louis M Schmidt (CA)Lower Falls (CA)Margaux Bigou (French Polynesia)Martian Press (CA)modlitbooks (CA)Monograph Bookwerks (OR)More Human Editions (CA)MÖREL Books (UK)Most Ancient (CA)National Monument Press (CA)Nazraeli Press (CA)New Documents (CA)NIAD Art Center (CA)Night Diver Press (CA)NIGHTED (CA)Nino Mier Gallery (CA)nueoi (CA)OMMU (Greece)Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)Paragon Books (CA)Park Life (CA)People I've Loved (CA)Perimeter Editions (Australia)Plunge (CA)Poppy Press (CA)Press Press (CA)Raya Editorial +La Chancleta Voladora (Colombia - CA)RE/Search and Search &amp; Destroy (CA)Revista Balam (Argentina)RITE Editions (CA)S.A.R.A. (Mexico)San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)Saleem M’Boge (CA)Savi Factory and Friends (CA)Seaton Street Press (PA)Secret Headquarters (CA)Setanta Books (UK)Shlag Lab (France)Shortt Editions (FL)siglio (NY)Silver Sprocket (CA)/ (Slash) (CA)Sming Sming Books (CA)Soberscove Press (IL)Special Effects (CA)The Spooky Haus (CA)stop.gap (CA)Strangeways Magazine (CA)StreetSalad (CA)Taxonomy Press (MI)TBW Books (CA)te magazine (CA)Telematic Media Arts (CA)THESE DAYS (CA)Tiny Splendor (CA)TIS books (NY)Tomorrow Today (CA)Triangle Books (Belgium)Unity Press (CA)Vacancy Projects (CA)Visible Publications (CA)Wasted Books (CA)Who Press'd Press (PA)William Stout Architectural Books (CA)Written Names Fanzine (CA)X Artists' Books (CA)Zatara Press (VA) <img width="1620" height="1080" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1620/q/75/i/a3f4f4c9155e77a3e2c795b08a200e0e267463727d9357382eb75fb8904e41cd/SFABF23-Wojack-8025.jpeg" style="width: 608.133px; height: 405.422px;">Photo: Aaron Wojack2023 PROGRAMMINGOur Director of Programming is David Senior.To download the 2023 SFABF program guide, click here.THE LOUNGEFriday, July 1411am-12pmCyberfeminism Index, with a performative reading by Mindy Seu, who will be joining remotely, followed by an in-person discussion with Kishonna GrayEdited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, CYBERFEMINISM INDEX includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism, academic articles, hackerspaces, software education, net art, and more. Both a vital introduction for laypeople and a robust resource guide for educators, CYBERFEMINISM INDEX—an anti-canon, of sorts—celebrates and makes visible cyberfeminism’s long-ignored origins and its expansive legacy. Presented by Inventory Press.1-2pmThe Molotov’s Poetry: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Self-Publishing, with golden dreamsongIn the last fifty years, self-publishing has been critical in the dissemination of a number of seminal queer and feminist works, including Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider and Larry Mitchell’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions. Diasporan Savant Press’s golden dreamsong would like to take you on a tour of some of their favorite examples of feminist, queer, and trans works published by small publishing houses throughout history, as well as contemporary independent publishers keeping the tradition alive! Presented by Diasporan Savant Press.2-3pm40 Years of Zines, Monographs, and Collaborative Art Publications by Creativity Explored ArtistsCreativity Explored presents over two dozen artful books, zines, and collaborative projects by artists with developmental disabilities. Meet several Creativity Explored artists and learn about their growing contributions to the world of art publishing.&nbsp; Featuring Fears of Your Life and Imaginationally, both by Michael Bernard Loggins, Lancescapes by Colter Jacobson, Tell You What series by NY Times best-selling author Beth Lisick, Wonderful Blackiful People by CE’s Blackiful Collective, and a selection of original art books.3-4pmNew Life in the Public Domain, with Jessi HaleyOur cultural heritages contain a vast trove of material that can inform understanding of our current moment and inspire new work. Readers and creators can get their hands on tens of thousands of books, images, and other media in the public domain–all free to consume and adapt. Curation and accessibility are essential to finding and nurturing the legacies of works by marginalized and avant-garde artists. How can designers and artists draw from this body of work? Cita Press is an open access, design-focused feminist press that honors the principles of decentralization, collective knowledge production, and equitable access to knowledge. Join us for an exploration of how we can help those works breathe new life into our present. Presented by Cita Press.4-5pmGregory Rick: Book Launch Event, in coversation with Chris GrunderHeadlands Center for the Arts presents the publication of artist Gregory Rick’s first artist monograph, which features a new commissioned essay by artist, writer, and educator Brooks Turner along with new paintings completed during Rick’s time at Headlands. This publication is the culminating project of the artist’s 2022-2023 Tournesol Award, an award which recognizes one Bay Area painter each year with a generous cash prize and a yearlong studio residency. The event features an intimate conversation between the artist and Chris Grunder. It will be followed by a book signing.5-6pmA brief history of Mexico’s LGBTQ+ Publications, with Ricardo VelmorMexico’s LGBTQ+ movement has been enriched and spread out through time, thanks to independent publications. Many of them were made by the same people who first walked in the streets to fight for rights and freedoms of this community. However, the first mentions of LGBTQ+ people in printed matter were all about judging, demonizing and criminalizing sexual behaviors different from heteronormativity. Both sides are part of Mexican LGBTQ+ history and both will be part of this discussion by Ricardo Velmor, featuring materials from a growing archive of Mexican LGBTQ+ publications called Archivo Anal. Presented by Anal Magazine.Saturday, July 1511am-12pmSaturday Morning Cartoons with KoakKoak shares a selection of her favorite pioneering and experimental animations from the 1930s-1990s including the likes of Charley Bowers, Ladislas Starevich,&nbsp;Norman McClaren,&nbsp;Jan&nbsp;Švankmajer,&nbsp;and others (approx. run time 1hr). Presented by Altman Siegel.11am-12pmHow To Breathe Underwater, breathwork with Rohini Moradi and edition by Carissa Potter.Meet us outside the lounge at 11am and together we will walk to a green spot for some relaxation and magic.&nbsp; Presented by Rite Editions &amp; People I've Loved.12-1pmPersonal Projects: Strategies for Publishing, with Gabriela Hasbun, Janet Delaney and Kelsey McClellanJoin photographer Gabriela Hasbun to discuss the creation of her first print publication with Chronicle books, THE NEW BLACK WEST: Photographs from America’s only touring Black Rodeo. Hasbun will be joined by Janet Delaney and Kelsey McClellan to discuss the ins and outs of pitching your work to publishers after creating a long-term photographic project.1-2pmOn Latin American Expanded Photography, with Luis CobeloExpanded photography has hybridization, fragmentation, and constant resignification as its fundamental characteristics, where the limits between the traditional pictorial representation and the production of images by the territories of abstraction can coexist with artistic, documentary, or journalistic practice. There is more than ever a need to expand from the image in a historic moment, where Latin America is redefining itself inwards, in community, and towards the world.Raya Editorial and La Chancleta Voladora are independent publishers, created by Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo and Luis Cobelo, that focus on the design and promotion of photobooks &amp; zines by authors who use photography to reflect on human and political tensions by using mixed techniques and visual narratives. Through the way we face and carry out our artistic photographic projects, our understanding of ourselves expands, and all of this multiplies necessary reflections and a better and broader understanding of our Latin American continent.2-3pmSocial Documentary Photography &amp; The Humanist Vision, with Ken Light and Wessam Al-BadryDocumentary photography aims to witness and shed light on social issues and injustices. It focuses on capturing images that tell stories and provoke dialogue about important political and cultural topics. Ken Light and Wesaam Al-Badry both work in this tradition and are driven by their desire to create awareness and stimulate change through their photographs and projects. Light’s photobooks have long been a part of this tradition as well. He has been actively involved in the field of photography for five decades as photographer and Professor at UC Berkeley. His powerful photographs explore innumerable social and political issues as seen through his numerous books, including Delta Time, Texas Death Row, Midnight La Frontera and Course of the Empire. Wesaam Al-Badry, an Iraqi refugee, multi-talented visual artist and part of the new contemporary generation of social photographers, will discuss with Ken the practice of this powerful medium for storytelling and advocating for social change as witnessed through their photos and publications. Presented by Documerica Books.3-4pmA TIME MACHINE: From personal to community archives, with Adriana Monsalve, Alex Arzt, and Marc Fischer, moderated by Lindsay BuchmanWhile 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 Fischer (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.4-5pmHéctor Muñoz-Guzmán: Brown Eyes from Russell StreetJoin us for a conversation with Héctor Muñoz- Guzmán and Vivian Sming, in celebration of the launch of Brown Eyes from Russell Street. Brown Eyes from Russell Street traces Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán’s artistic practice during a transformative and critical period in his life— contending with isolation, mental health struggles, hospitalization, and alcoholism. The book weaves together ideas, memories, thoughts that provide continual sources of reflection, illustrating the range of Muñoz- Guzmán’s experiences—growing up in South Berkeley, attending RISD, being diagnosed with bipolar, working in the agave fields of Tepatitlán, and staying connected to family. Whether the subject is community, depression, or agrarian life, Muñoz-Guzmán treats them with the same attention, care, and grace, recognizing that all of these people, places, and states of mind inform who he is as a person today. Presented by Sming Sming Books.5-6pmKawabata, the Writer, the Travesti Philosopher, and the Fish, with Shook and Mario BellatinWith longtime collaborator Shook, Mexican prose stylist and Documenta guest curator Mario Bellatin presents a performative reading of Gato Negro’s new bilingual edition of Kawabata, the Writer, the Travesti Philosopher, and the Fish, a genre-fluid—and previously unpublished—text and cryptic key to Bellatin’s iconic plague novela Beauty Salon. Presented by Gato Negro Press.Sunday, July 1612-1pmIs now the time for joyous rage?with Selam Bekele, Jacqueline Francis, Jeanne Finley, Charles Lee, and Trina Michelle RobinsonIs Now The Time For Joyous Rage? is the fourth book in A Series of Open Questions, which is published by the Wattis and Sternberg Press, and distributed by MIT Press. Each reader includes newly commissioned texts and an edited selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis’s year- long research seasons. The title of each book comes in the form of a question. The fourth issue is informed by themes found in the work of Lorraine O’Grady, including diaspora, Black female subjectivity, racial hybridity, translation, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, Black representation in the art world, archives, music, Conceptualism, and performance art. For this launch event, several contributors have chosen to highlight a piece from the book (other than their own). In a series of short presentations, they read and/or introduce the piece and why they chose it.1-2pmWhere digital and analog meet: the many worlds of Most Ancient booksWhat is the significance of analog books in an increasingly digital world and how can digital experiences expand narrative conventions? Veronica Graham founded Most Ancient in 2010 and since then has experimented with interactive narrative and nonlinear storytelling in comics and exploration games. The projects explore ideas at the intersection of art, technology, and activism. At SFABF she will discuss “Diatribes,” a virtual reality experience and companion printed publications that explore fears about climate change.2-3pmTransforming Ephemera Into Evidence, with Catalina Cariaga and Catherine Ceniza ChoyA conversation between Oakland-based Filipina American poet Catalina Cariaga and Asian American historian and ethnic studies scholar Catherine Ceniza Choy on the occasion of “Notes on Cultural Evidence,” the multidisciplinary exhibition and reading room curated by PJ Gubatina Policarpio, on view in the Slash library through August 19, 2023. The exhibition is anchored in the out-of-print but influential poetry collection “Cultural Evidence” (1999, Subpress Collective) by Catalina Cariaga. Catherine Ceniza Choy wrote the accompanying essay for the exhibition. Presented by / (slash).3-4pmTaxonomies of Labor Within Small and Self Publishing, with Vivian Sming,Carissa Potter, John DeMerritt and moderated by Zach ClarkArt books take many forms. Under the same umbrella term, one may come across fine press handmade artist books, large-scale production coffee table books, urgently made zines, forms of ephemera that push the idea of what a book even is, and endless other forms that fit somewhere in between. Behind any one art book is a publisher or artist taking on a number of tasks to bring the project from conception to tangible object. Publishers may work largely as project managers and financial backers or practice a more holistic publishing approach, touching the book in every stage of its creation. A group of publishers from the fair, Vivian Sming of Sming Sming Books, Carissa Potter of People I've Loved, John DeMerritt of DeMerritt Pauwels Editions with Zach Clark of National Monument Press will discuss the various types of labor they perform in the creation of their books to form a non-hierarchical taxonomy of the labor involved in small &amp; self publishing. Presented&nbsp;by National&nbsp;Monument Press. MEDIA ROOMOngoing - LOOPCraig Baldwin: Avant to Live!presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and INCITE Journal of Experimental MediaClocking in at 508 pages, Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!—published 2023 by San Francisco Cinematheque an INCITE Journal of Experimental Media (SFABF —documents the life and work of acclaimed filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin (b. Oakland CA, 1952), an inspiring and influential figure in contemporary media arts. Meticulously detailed, with contributions from over 50 writers, artists, illustrators and ideologues, Avant to Live! is the first critical text to examine the artist’s films analytically as a coherent and meaningful body of work and critical artist’s statement while also examining the cultural impact of Baldwin’s Other Cinema curatorial project. In celebration of this publication, Cinematheque and INCITE present this five-film survey of Baldwin’s work, including Stolen Movie (1976), Bulletin (2015), Wild Gunman (1979), Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991) and Sonic Outlaws (1995). Please visit SFABF Table E04 to pick up a copy of Avant to Live!TENNESSEE ST.Friday, July 14, 11am-2pmTypographic Spirograph: Experimental Letterforms with Savi Factory + Friends: Savithri Velaga and Maria CardenasParticipants will use a spirograph drawing tool created specifically&nbsp;for typography; the resulting letterforms converge analog geometry alongside moments of improvisational drawing. This workshop structure will allow visitors to continually&nbsp;engage with the tool in an informal outdoor setting, and hands-on demos throughout the activity will provide a combination of free-form experimentation and individual instruction.Saturday, July 15, 11am-12pmZine making with IllustoriaCome make an accordion-style zine with Illustoria! Illustoria is an art and storytelling magazine for creative kids and their grownups. They will have magazines to cut up for collage making, and all sorts of drawing tools so you can create the zine of your dreams.Saturday, July 15, 1-3pm Drop-In-Zine-Making with Curious PublishingLearn how to make your own paper collage zine using the saddle-stitch technique! Feast your eyes on vintage magazines and colorful paper swatches to cut, glue, and assemble your very own creation with us. All supplies provided. Drop in any time during the program!<img width="1620" height="1080" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1620/q/75/i/6618ab4268c5d66af6e89690118686b68722c392929ea3d851e5a1bcbacb8a2c/SFABF23-Wojack-7939.jpeg" style="width: 608.133px; height: 405.422px;">Photo: Aaron WojackPROJECT SPACE - 2nd FloorFAWW Gallery, also known as Forget About White Walls, is a leader in the screen print art community. It cultivates the next generation of art collectors, offering unique silk screen prints, zines, and art-related publications. Committed to inclusivity, the gallery supports diverse artists globally, hosting lively openings with renowned DJs. FAWW fosters artistic innovation and increases artists' visibility. They champion collaboration, empathy, and community involvement. Beyond visual arts, the gallery endorses cutting-edge music and film. FAWW aims to make art approachable, inspiring, and transformative, actively contributing to cultural development.PARTICIPATING GALLERIESFriday, July 14, 3pm“IN C” - K.R.M. MooneyAltman Siegel - 1150 25th St.In conjunction with his solo exhibition auxil, artist K.R.M. Mooney will stage a performance of Terry Riley’s 1964 composition “In C” at Altman Siegel on Friday, July 14, 2023 at 3:00 pm. Described as the first minimalist composition of its kind, “In C” consists of 53 melodic fragments and numbered musical phrases which can be combined and recombined to start at varying times with no specific duration. Purposely lacking a definitive form, its significance is underpinned by its improvised and performative nature as to undergo constant renewal. Focused on wind and breath activated instruments, this re-performance, coupled with the sculptures on view, will explore nature of exchange within the interpersonal realm.Saturday, July 15, 12-2pmFlowers and Their Meanings book signing event with author/artist Karen AzoulayThemes+Projects gallery (2nd Floor, #205)Uncover the secret meanings behind your bouquets and floral arrangements in Karen Azoulay's new book, Flowers and Their Meanings. Stop by to pick up a signed copy!&nbsp; The book contains stunning illustrated explorations of the Victorian language of flowers, including the multicultural history, rituals, and mythology behind over 600 flowers, herbs, and trees.Karen Azoulay is a Canadian born, Brooklyn-based artist and author whose projects have been featured and reviewed in publications such as the New York Times, New Yorker,&nbsp;Hyperallergic, and&nbsp;Vogue. Azoulay incorporates performance, photography, sculpture and video into her art. She has&nbsp;a fascination with floral symbolism and secret messages are often embedded in her work. Inspired by “feminine” motifs, Azoulay explores cultural phenomena that have historically been overlooked with the purpose of&nbsp;recontextualizing and championing them.Saturday, July 15, 2-5pmLive Drawing with CharloThemes+Projects gallery (2nd Floor, #205)Stop by Themes+Projects gallery from 2pm to 5pm to see Charlo create unique drawings live! Charlo's objective as an artist is to create joy, optimism, and build community through his work. This event also coincides with his solo exhibition, Looking for Clouds, currently on view at Themes+Projects.Charlo is a multimedia artist and designer. He emigrated from Monterrey, Mexico in 2013, and is currently based in Denver, Colorado. In 2020, using the NextDoor app, he connected with fellow residents of the greater Denver community who invited him to paint murals onto their garage doors. As part of his Make Alleys Great Again project, he brought unity and joy to communities through his five dozen alleyway murals. In 2021, in partnership with Nextdoor and the New York Stock Exchange, he produced a live mural entitled The Joy of Being Together. In August of 2022, Charlo made his debut as a keynote speaker at TEDxMileHigh allowing him to tell his story to a much wider audience.&nbsp; Currently, his solo exhibition, Looking for Clouds, is on view at Themes+Projects gallery through August 26, 2023.SIGNINGS &amp; LAUNCHESFriday, July 14Table E06 - 11am-6pm - Nathaniel Russell Coloring Book - Gallery 16Table D05 - 1pm - Course of the Empire by Ken Light - Documerica Books/Light Squared MediaTable A43 - 1pm -&nbsp; Flowers by Tucker Nichols, published by Nieves - Park LifeTable E06 - 2-3pm - Book signing with Hal Fischer, The Gay Semiotics - Gallery 16Table D05 - 4pm - Midnight La Frontera by Ken Light - Documerica Books/Light Squared MediaTable A26 - 5pm - TE AMO by Luis Cobelo - La Chancleta VoladoraSaturday, July 15Table Z75 - 12-1pm - Words for White People: An Etymylogical Kit - Diasporan Savant PressTable A40 - 1pm - Book signing with Taylor Galloway, I Can Feel You Dreaming - Deadbeat Club Table E06 - 1-2pm - Book signing with Hal Fischer, The Gay Semiotics - Gallery 16Table B06 - 2pm - High Contrast by Sarah Hotchkiss - Colpa PressTable D05 - 2pm - Picturing Resistance by Melanie Light: Moments and Movements of Social Change - Documerica Books/Light Squared MediaTable A40 - 4pm - Book signing with Patrick O’Dell, Big River - Deadbeat ClubTable Z26 - Uncreative Writing by Taylor Swift - Wasted BooksSunday, July 16Table E07 - 11:30am-12:30pm - The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 2 by Chuck Sperry - Paragon Books OFFSITEFriday, July 14, 10:00amCaitlin Cherry: The Regolith Was Boiling exhibition tourCCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts360 Kansas Street, San FranciscoWattis Assistant Curator Diego Villalobos, who organized Caitlin Cherry's solo exhibition The Regolith Was Boiling, gives a public tour of the exhibition.The Regolith Was Boiling is a site-specific installation of large-scale oil paintings and digitally produced prints inspired by the architecture of the Wattis Institute. Conceived as a mural, where an overall visual ripple effect connects individual parts to a larger whole, Cherry has taken countless vignettes from popular social media platforms,&nbsp;Google Image Search,&nbsp;and Getty Images,&nbsp;each one featuring a female celebrity from the Black diaspora.&nbsp;Painted in the artist's distinct style of chromatic distortions and dizzying overabundance,&nbsp;this installation emphasizes the depersonalization of celebrities and dilutes their iconographic status by placing them within a visual sea of others. Coffee and bagels are served.What can we learn from artists today? CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a nonprofit exhibition venue and research institute dedicated to reflecting on this question through temporary exhibitions, public events, and in-depth research.&nbsp;It is part of California College of the Arts in San Francisco.Friday, July 14, 6pm-later...Tomorrow another dream will startEt al etc. &amp; Et al. books2831a Mission Street, San FranciscoEt al. is pleased to invite you to a party celebrating the San Francisco Art Book Fair and the openingof ...Tomorrow another dream will start - an exhibition curated by Wild Life Archive....Tomorrow another dream will start presents a survey of 1980’s nightclub ephemera fromthe Mediterranean island of Ibiza, focused primarily on the promotional posters distributed throughoutthe island during the summer season to publicize some of the world’s most renowned nightclubs ofthe era including Pacha, Amnesia, KU and Glory’s to name a few.The Balearic Islands had long been a bohemian escape attracting both pleasure seekers and those insearch of refuge from repressive political regimes. Ibiza in particular became a utopianparadise offering new arrivals both sanctuary and likeminded community. Hedonistic pursuitswere soundtracked via jazz bars during the 1950’s, psychedelic happenings in the 1960’s and withthe arrival of nightclubs on the island in the 1970s. By the 1980’s both free spirited holiday makersand the European jet-set had joined the party, further enhancing the uniquely decadent atmospherethat could be found nightly across the islands dance floors. Patrons danced with wild abandon underthe stars at open air disco’s like KU and Amnesia while listening to the local DJs eclectic mix ofgenres encompassing pop, rock, classical, new beat, house and flamenco among others, a discerninganything-goes selection that would in time become known as the Balearic Beat.The posters themselves were offset printed in small quantities and used only forpromotional purposes. The poster design, briefed in-house or commissioned to a freelance artist wasmost often a mix of hand drawn illustration and graphic design centered around the club logo andtheme of the night e.g. ’Luna Lena’, ‘Summer Dream’ and ‘Noche Romantica’. The few posters thatremain in private hands today help to further document the collective history of dance music culture.They also act as memories, inspiration and are beautiful pieces of art in their own right.Soundtrack: KhotinGraphic design: Daniel LucasFriday, July 14, 6-9pmI Can Feel You Dreaming: Taylor GallowayBook and Job Gallery838 Geary StreetSan Francisco, CA 94109Book and Job Gallery invite you to I Can Feel You Dreaming featuring work from Taylor Galloway’s latest release of the same name from Deadbeat Club. The pictures in Taylor Galloway’s I Can Feel You Dreaming are glimpses of things, sometimes slippery, peripheral, brief, furtive shadows in the margins; they’re slowly unraveling threads that you can’t quite follow back to anything, but that nonetheless feel like clues, pieces of a forensic puzzle; they’re trance visions, or something you briefly noticed while looking for something else. Perhaps they remind you of channel surfing through the foothills of sleep as you toss and turn in a motel bed, slowly emerging from a fever dream or hangover.Taylor Galloway is a photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. Galloway’s photographs explore the ideas of memory, navigation, and one’s own place in their journey. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe.Friday, July 14, 7:30pmA Barcode Scanner, Book Launch and Film ScreeningMedicine for Nightmares3036 24th StreetSan Francisco, CA 94110On Friday the 14th of July at 7:30pm, Gato Negro Ediciones will be having a book launch presentation at Medicine for Nightmares together with Zêdan Xelef and Shook for their new edition of the book: A Barcode Scanner. And a screening of the film adaptation of the title poem, created by Shook, Zêdan's longtime collaborator and co-translator of the book.Friday, July 14, 7-10pmIsabella Manfredi: sew your echo staircase 148 Clement StreetSan Francisco, CA 94118sew your echo is a nostalgic rumination on object, place, and relationship. Artist Isabella Manfredi repurposes found footage of her family ranch to create an original film and textile-based artworks. Through stitching, printmaking, and carpentry, Manfredi presents artifacts as a conduit for memory. Isabella Manfredi works in printmaking, sewing and poetry; creating sculptural installations that can be worn for years. There are nods to workwear, entropy, familial identity and nostalgia within her work. While she strives to craft a utilitarian object; she aims for her work to exist within and outside the gallery space. Graduating from University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in Art Practice and with a Minor in Journalism, she lives and works in San Francisco, CA.Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 18, 6-8pm Datz Press: Contemporary Voices in Global PhotobooksJuly 15-Oct. 1, 2023San Francisco Center for the Book375 Rhode Island StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103San Francisco Center for the Book’s latest exhibition, Datz Press: Contemporary Voices in Global Photobooks showcases ten years of collaboration and artist book production between Datz Press and artists such as Linda Connor, Alyssa Fujita Karoui, Young Suh, and Gap Chul Lee. Over forty-five photobooks ranging from special edition volumes to handling copies of exhibited work will be displayed.Datz Press is an artist book publisher and community space based in Seoul, South Korea. Focused on working with photographers, designers, and bookmakers, Datz Press creates, publishes, and exhibits works centered on photography, operating a bookmaking studio to support artists who want to self-publish their work. Director Sangyon Joo also oversees the Datz Museum of Art and a book project space called D'ARK ROOM; her comprehensive vision of artists’ photo books includes artists living and working across many countries and cultures while creating compelling work.<img width="3404" height="2270" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/2000/q/75/i/7f0350ae8c494361d44b83bc250bae718d1cdafd2fd509342700af61780a3495/IMG_1499recrop.jpg" style="width: 608.133px; height: 405.541px;">Maria Otero and Christopher Robin Duncan of LAND AND SEA.2023 PUBLICATION GRANT This year we were happy to present our 2023 SFABF Publication Grant, courtesy of Edition One Books, to LAND AND SEA. LAND AND SEA was selected from our pool of exhibitors and will receive $5000 in printing credit at Edition One Books.LAND AND SEA is a small press and project space in Oakland, California founded in 2010 by artists Maria Otero and Christopher Robin Duncan. They collaborate with a wide array of artists to produce books and records that share images, ideas, and/or sounds that otherwise might go unseen/unheard. Recent projects from LAND AND SEA include ARCHIVE - a book by Leonie Guyer, EMPATHY - a cassette by SF-based musician Joel St. Julien, small yellow center a sun - a collection of artwork and poems by nkiruka oparah and Maxine Schoefer-Wulf, and SEASONS - a collection of stories and poems related to winter, spring, summer and fall, as an accompaniment to the current exhibition at Rebecca Camacho Presents. Upcoming releases include REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE &nbsp;by architect - Craig Steely. REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE is a collection of Craig Steely’s explorations into where architecture can be found - not just in the finished homes and structures, but sketches and models as well. Personal and generous, this catalog presents his recent work within a non-hierarchical framework. THE STUD - Working closely with Chloe Miller, STUD bartender and STUD Pin Archive coordinator, THE STUD is a collection of pin backs/buttons and ephemera found in boxes in the basement of the historic SF gay bar THE STUD.Edition One Books works with design professionals, photographers, artists and other creative types to manufacture highly customized, top-quality books. They are focused on building longterm relationships with their customers, and strive to offer a more personalized book production service for small to medium runs.Check out our 2020 Publishing Grant&nbsp; and 2022 Publication Grant to see publishers we have supported in the past! <img width="1620" height="1080" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1620/q/75/i/73b718b5ba458a79ab13e839c6ac3a4131f21b3fd0a67d2c7b1853cddd1c183f/SFABF23-Wojack-7839.jpeg" style="width: 608.133px; height: 405.422px;">Photo: Aaron Wojack 2023 SPONSORS The 2023 SFABF was organized by Park Life, Colpa and Minnesota Street Project.SFABF’s 2023 branding and identity by David Kasprzak. Presenting Sponsor:Minnesota Street Project Foundation Supporting Sponsors:San Francisco Arts Commission, Independent Arts and Media, Chronicle Books and San Francsico Center for the BookMedia Sponsor:Hyperallergic and KQEDIn-kind Sponsors:Shapco Printing, Edition One, Lightsource SF Special thanks to Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Michael Rubel, Rachel Sample, Caitlin Kirkpatrick, Cherisse Baird, Julie Casemore, Aidan Williams,&nbsp;Morgan Stanley, Anglim Trimble, bitforms gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary, Marbie, Lauren D’Amato, Ruby Wine Bar and all our volunteers! The 2023 SFABF wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the San Francsico Arts Commission as administered through Independent Arts and Media. https://sfartbookfair.com/2022 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:58:20 +0000 SF Art Book Fair https://sfartbookfair.com/2022 THE 2022 SF ART BOOK FAIR1275 Minnesota StreetSan Francisco, CA 94107 Thursday, July 14 - 6pm – 10pmFriday, July 15 - 11am – 6pmSaturday, July 16 - 11am – 6pmSunday, July 17 - 11am – 5pm &nbsp;<img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d257adbb842a6d67ad2adce93b26d0d6c784e3666b6ba080e34cba97cbfbd79/SFABF2022_PhotoCredit_JennaGarrett_011.jpg" data-mid="169090700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d257adbb842a6d67ad2adce93b26d0d6c784e3666b6ba080e34cba97cbfbd79/SFABF2022_PhotoCredit_JennaGarrett_011.jpg" />Photo: Jenna Garrett 2022 EXHIBITORS 1418 Fulton (CA) 3standardstoppage studio / Bungee Space (NY) Aaron Krach (NY) Altman Siegel (CA) Anthology Editions (NY) Aperture (NY) ARTBOOK | D.A.P. (NY) Aventures LTD (NY) Awkward Ladies Club (CA) Basement (CA) Blum &amp; Poe (CA) Boabooks (Switzerland) BOMB Magazine (NY) Boo-Hooray (NY) Book and Job Gallery (CA) Book &amp; Wheel (CA) Bronze Age (UK) Brown Recluse Zine Distro (CA) But Whole Press (CA) Can Can Press (Mexico) Carletta's Books (CA) Case Publishing / shashasha (Japan) Cassandra Press (NY) CCA Hybrid Practices (CA) Childish Books (ME) Chronicle Books (CA) Clown Kisses Press (VA) Club del Prado Ediciones (Argentina) Colpa Press (CA) Commune (Japan) Concordia Press (Mexico) Container Corps (OR) Conveyor Editions (NJ) CRISIS EDITIONS / DANE PRESS (Canada) DABA (NY) Dale Zine (FL) Deadbeat Club (CA) DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA) Draw Down Books (CT) Each and Every Press (MI) edition fink (Switzerland) Endless Editions (NY) Et al. Books (CA)Fair Enough (Switzerland) Fillip (Canada) FISK Gallery (OR) Floss Editions (CA) The Fulcrum Press (CA) Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico) GenderFail (NY) GRL GRP (CA) Hamburger Eyes (CA) Handy Hand Goods (CA) Hi-Bred (CA) The HIV Howler:Transmitting Art + Activism (CA) Homie House Press (MD) HOMOCATS (NY) The Ice Plant (CA) illetante books (CA) Inventory Press (CA) Irrelevant Press (CA) Jungle Books (Switzerland) Kareem Worrell (MA) KGP (NY) Kodoji Press (Switzerland) LAND AND SEA (CA) Louis Schmidt (CA) Lower Falls (CA) LUCCA MART (CA) A Magic Mountain (CA) Margaux Bigou (French Polynesia)Martian Press (CA) Mi Casita Press (AZ) modlitbooks (CA) Moniker Press (Canada)Monograph Bookwerks (OR) MÖREL books (UK) Most Ancient (CA) Mouth 2 Mouth (CA)National Monument Press (CA)Neuro Fuzzy (CA) New Documents (CA) NIAD Art Center (CA) Night Diver Press (CA) Onomatopee Projects (The Netherlands) Open Projects Press (NY) Other Books (CA) Paper Monument / n+1 (NY) Paragon Books (CA) Park Life (CA) People I've Loved (CA)Perimeter Editions (Australia) Pier 24 Photography (CA) Play Press (CA)Plunge (CA)Press Press (CA) Printed Matter, Inc. (NY) Radical Documents (IL) Random Man Editions (NY) Ratio 3 (CA)RE/Search and Search &amp; Destroy (CA) RITE Editions (CA) Sarah Duyer (CA) Scary Sugar (UT) Seaton Street Press (PA) Sebastien Girard (France) Siglio (NY)Silent Sound (CA) Silver Sprocket (CA) Sleeper Studio (PA) Sming Sming Books (CA) Soberscove Press (IL) Strangeways Magazine (CA) StreetSalad (CA) Sun Night Editions (CA) TBW Books (CA) Tiny Splendor (CA) TIS books (NY) tria publishing (Switzerland) Triangle Books (Belgium) TXTbooks (NY) Unity Press (CA) Unknown Unknowns (NY)Unrealized Archive Press (CA) Vacancy Projects (CA) Visible Publications (CA) Wasted Books (CA) Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (CA) Wendy's Subway (NY) Written Names Fanzine (CA) X Artists' Books (CA) <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f07f80cc5c8d6a7ac9b3ee07802f00dec7f245daf42064634be474e793f0736/SFABF2022_PhotoCredit_JennaGarrett_075.jpg" data-mid="169089896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f07f80cc5c8d6a7ac9b3ee07802f00dec7f245daf42064634be474e793f0736/SFABF2022_PhotoCredit_JennaGarrett_075.jpg" />Photo: Jenna Garrett 2022 PROGRAMMINGOur Director of Programming is David Senior. To download the 2022 SFABF&nbsp;program guide, click here. The Lounge Friday, July 15 12-1pmPublishing Spaces: Chroma × Practise with Alexis Tompkins, Emily Poole, and James Goggin Chroma and Practise are both design studios with processes rooted in research and scholarship around art, architecture, design history, and contemporary culture. For Chroma, this work results in physical (and occasionally virtual) interior spaces (like this year’s SFABF public program space). For Practise, it manifests in digital and printed spaces (like some of the books on display at SFABF). Emily Poole (Brand Manager, Chroma) will moderate a discussion between Alexis Tompkins (Creative Partner, Chroma) and James Goggin (Partner, Practise) accompanied by a presentation showing a common spatial language evident in three particular projects: a virtual apartment, a printed zine, and a new quarterly online journal. 1-2pmFair Enough with Izet Sheshivari Fair Enough is an alliance of four independent art book publishers from Switzerland: Boabooks, edition fink, Jungle Books and tria publishing platform. They represent each other internationally at book fairs and jointly take care of the sales and distribution of publications. Izet Sheshivari from Boabooks and Fair Enough, will share more about how the alliance has realized alternative modes of book distribution in Japan as well as Switzerland. He will share notes of the alliance’s journey so far and share their experiences, as well as giving some insight into the ideas, relationships, and new public they have found with this model. Sponsored by Swissnex. 2-3pmPandemic Publics: Expansive Publishing Practices in a Time of Contagion with Josh Schaedel (Fulcrum Press), Zoë Taleporos and Sarah Hotchkiss (Premiere, Jr.) and Daniel J. Glendening (Labor is a Medium), moderated by Alex Lukas The delineation of roles within the field of artists’ publications is slippery. The ability to morph from artist to publisher to printer, organizer, curator, editor, or audience member is a hallmark of the medium. We are resourcefully multifaceted makers, and our publications are, in short, community affairs. As COVID-19 redefined the ways we interact, artists and publishers were forced to not only reconsider what it means to “make public” but what “public” itself entails. In the midst of this isolating time, the participants in this panel discussion redefined notions of shared space, proposed radical forums for community, and created new and expansive modes of collaboration. Our conversation will focus on these efforts to push and redefine what a publishing practice can encompass during a pandemic. Presented by Written Names Fanzine. 3-4pmWhat happens between the knots? BARBEDWIRE Scores performed by Phillip Greenlief What happens between the knots? is the third book in the annual A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. Each book in the series includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images,&nbsp;and references related to the Wattis’s year-long research seasons dedicated to single artists.&nbsp;This third volume is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña,&nbsp;including ecofeminism,&nbsp;indigenous forms of knowledge,&nbsp;poetry and politics,&nbsp;dissolution and&nbsp;extinction,&nbsp;exile,&nbsp;dematerialization,&nbsp;regeneration,&nbsp;and environmental responsibility.For this book launch, musician Phillip Greenlief&nbsp;(tenor saxophone,&nbsp;Bb clarinet),&nbsp;Kyle Bruckmann&nbsp;(oboe,&nbsp;English horn),&nbsp;and&nbsp;Madalyn Merkey&nbsp;(live electronics)&nbsp;perform a selection of Greenlief’s graphic&nbsp;BARBEDWIRE Scores,&nbsp;some of which are included in What happens between the knots? When performing a score, each player improvises for a set duration, loosely following one of three lines as drawn by Greenlief.&nbsp;The shape of the line informs how much&nbsp;(or how little)&nbsp;the musicians change their improvisatory behavior.4-5pmThe Floating Museum by Lynn Hershman Leeson in conversation with David Senior The Floating Museum was a temporary museum that, over its lifetime, from 1974-1978 commissioned over 350 artists to create work that existed outside the very limited boundaries of traditional museum spaces. It was intended to “recycle space” wherever it existed, from the walls of San Quentin prison to the landscapes of Fort Point and even the Bay Area Rapid Transit Artists used mediums not yet accepted by traditional museums and galleries, such as performance, photography, comic drawings, video, soundscapes and all manner of site specific locations (though that term had not been yet invented). It was designed to be temporary. Its structure became the model for Creative Time and PS1, amongst others. Though the archive is in Stanford University’s Special Collections Library, its history was unknown. This was the motivation of this book, to make accessible this influential project so that it could be added to the history of that time. 5-6pmKeko Jackson &amp; Lava Thomas: In Conversation This conversation celebrates two new books, Keko Jackson: Restored/Access and Lava Thomas: Homecoming, published by Sming Sming Books. In Restored/Access, Jackson combines photography with archival materials from his uncle’s collection to share the history of Allensworth, the first town in California to be founded, financed, and governed exclusively by Black people. Homecoming brings together Thomas’s intricate drawing installations that explore personal and cultural narratives of bravery and survival, including a new body of work Decatur, about Thomas’s great-great- great-grandfather, Charles H. Arthur, and the eight-year- long legal battle to receive his army pension. Jackson and Thomas will be discussing their respective projects and the ways they draw upon Black family archives to create work, share US history, and build community. Presented by Sming Sming Books. Saturday, July 16 11am-12pmBay Area Contemporary Art Archive: Building a Community Archive The Bay Area Contemporary Art Archive (BACAA) is a public archive: a receptacle, preservation society and venue for the ephemera of Bay Area contemporary artists, venues and related projects. BACAA has been collecting and digitizing thousands of postcards, press releases, posters, zines, and more, while creating an online venue to preserve and share the work of our local art scene. BACAA founder Lexa Walsh will present an overview of the project and its vast contents, how Bay Area artists, curators and collectors can participate, and the importance of community-sourced archives. 12-1pmThe Southeast San Francisco Regional Portfolio: An Art-Based Conversation with 4 Neighborhoods The Southeast San Francisco Artists Portfolio is composed of print reproductions of work from artists of the four neighborhoods of Southeast SF. The Portfolio is designed to find its way into the hands of local residents via Chispa, a mobile cultural hub that houses the Portfolio and acts as a base for artistic exchange. Come hear from: artist and curator Kate Connell, who co-developed Chispa along with Book &amp; Wheel partner Oscar Melara; artist Amy Diaz-Infante, whose work was reproduced for the Portfolio; and Bayview historian Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin, who will contextualize the project and its importance to the folx in Southeast SF. You’re invited to visit Chispa at SFABF, where you can trade for art from the Portfolio. 1-2pmI Got Something to Say: Poster Inventory, 2013-2021 by Draw Down Books The founders of Draw Down Books, graphic designers Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sleboda, will discuss their 2022 publication, I Got Something to Say — Poster Inventory, 2013–2021, with a contributor—graphic designer and educator Mary Yang; a frequent collaborator—illustrator Tim Lahan; and a colleague—graphic designer, educator and type designer Javier Viramontes. The panel will speak about poster design, participation in art books fairs as exhibitors, collectors, and designers; and collaborative publications that bring together different voices and perspectives. 2-3pmMedia Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image with Chip Lord and Steve Seid In Media Burn, Ant Farm’s legendary 1975 performance, a radically customized Cadillac is driven through a wall of burning television sets. Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image, by Steve Seid, is a vibrant assessment of the complex set of cultural references and art-making strategies informing this collision of twentieth-century icons. Chip Lord of Ant Farm and Steve Seid will discuss Media Burn alongside a narrated slideshow of images, ephemera, and more. Co-presented by Inventory Press and RITE Editions. 3-4pmStrikethrough: Radical Publications at Letterform Archive Letterform Archive’s next in-house exhibition is Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. In this sneak peek of the show, before it opens on July 23, co- curator Stephen Coles will present some highlights of special interest to Art Book Fair attendees: independent publications. From Fire!!, to The Crisis, from One to The Black Panther, activists throughout the 20th century wielded language, design, and newly accessible reproduction techniques to spread their message, empower communities, and fight oppression.4-5pmThe Last Survivor is the First Suspect, coming of age in Amerika with Nick Haymes A conversation with Nick Haymes about coming of age in Amerika based on his latest book. The Last Survivor is the First Suspect is at once a celebration and a requiem. The project, captured between 2005 and 2009 by photographer Nick Haymes, is a record of a drifting community of young friends based mainly between two distinct geographic points: Southern California and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The book’s narrative merges a sense of joy in documenting burgeoning friendships and bonds, and a looming sense of dread that would ultimately culminate in a series of tragedies. Haymes invites us to form a contemporary engagement with this specific historic moment, where things are both different and the same in equal measure. Presented by Kodoji Press.5-6pm Gravity Spells II: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art, with John Davis and Konrad Steiner Recently released by Bimodal Press, Gravity Spells II is a multimedia “bundle” featuring 2 LPs, 4 DVDs, a perfect bound letterpress booklet, packaged in a hand-printed sleeve designed to give form to the ineffable - a physical set of transposable time-based variables that, when combined, approximate the uncanny and unpredictable inherent in live cinema and music performance. For this event, John Davis and Konrad Steiner will perform an improvisational collaboration that unites sound and image. John performs music to complement Konrad's performance collage of original 16mm loops and samples from feature films. Sunday, July 17 12-1pmRip Tales: Jay Defeo’s Estocada and Other Pieces by Jordan Stein with Dena Beard Curator and writer Jordan Stein in conversation with Dena Beard, executive director the The Lab, about Stein’s first book, Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada &amp; Other Pieces. In addition to DeFeo, Rip Tales concerns creation and destruction in the works and lives of artists Zarouhie Abdalian, April Dawn Alison, Ruth Asawa, Lutz Bacher, Bruce Conner, Dewey Crumpler, Trisha Donnelly, and Vincent Fecteau. Presented by Soberscove Press. 1-2pmThe HIV Howler in conversation with Anthea Black The HIV Howler is a global art newspaper published by Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread that focuses on artists living with HIV. The paper is a forum for dialogue and a guide to navigating the vibrational ambiguities between art and AIDS policy, pathology, and community. Publisher Anthea Black will present on The HIV Howler editorial and wage equity work with poz artists, and host a dialogue with featured artists from recent themed issues on movement- migration, time+money, home, and spirit-substance. 2-3pmUBI SUNT with Blaise Agüera y Arcas and James Goggin Are we living in reality? Is this the past, or the future? And is there a human on the other side of this screen? These questions rear up and twist back on themselves in Ubi Sunt, a solipsistic first-person loop of a life in tech during COVID lockdown by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a Fellow at Google Research who has invented AI and privacy technologies and written widely circulated essays at the intersections of machine intelligence, art, ethics, and social science. Is this book fiction or nonfiction? Though speculative, its historical material is accurate, and its present tense is drawn from life; some of its AI dialogs, too, are generated by interaction with a real large neural language model. Blaise will discuss the concept, influences, materiality, and collaborative process behind the book with graphic designer James Goggin, who will present the project’s print and digital editions with live projection. Presented by Hat &amp; Beard Press. 3-4pmSalones de belleza /The Beauty Salons: Writers &amp; poetas /Escritores &amp; Poets at AeromotoPresented by Gato Negro Ediciones Between 2017 and 2020, the Aeromoto public arts library in Mexico City organized a monthly series of bilingual readings, curated by Kit Schluter and Tatiana Lipkes. The gatherings, called Salón de belleza (Beauty Salon), brought together more than 70 poets and writers from many generations, contexts, and traditions, predominantly from Mexico and the United States, but also from various parts of Latin America and Europe. In these events, translation was used to bridge linguistic and cultural gaps between poets separated by political borders, and helped to create a space in which literatures of different origins and approaches could coexist. The result of this collective initiative was a unique cross-section of some of the most intriguing writing taking place in the Americas during the second decade of this century. Salones de belleza: Writers in Aeromoto gathers work from these writers—in a completely bilingual edition—many of whom are appearing in translation for the first time. 4-5pmCassandra Press Artist Zine series with a performative lecture by Christine Wang Curated by Kandis Williams, the Cassandra Press Artist Zine series consists of contributions from a community of BIPOC artists, scholars, writers, and poets with the intention of asking such questions as: how can print formats like scripts, newspapers, and pamphlets be activated to produce new associations? And what voice or voices can we represent in simultaneity on the page? How does the virtual page act and operate in our social economies? The series includes artists manuel arturo abreu, Hannah Black, Rhea Dillon, Boz Garden, Christine Wang, and Charlotte Zhang, with future iterations to come. For this event, Christine Wang, who is featured in the 2022 Cassandra Press Artist Zine series, will be giving a performative lecture on personal art expenses in the hopes of improving artists’ financial literacy and increasing financial transparency. Media Room Ongoing - LOOP The Abominable Freedomby Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin MartinRandom Man Editions (41 mins / 2006) Originally shot video and appropriated film weaves together a musical celebration of the flesh, an egg from the missing link holds a skeleton key to our educational future. On a parallel world, life coaches made of bone and fur activate televisual coursework including circular zooming studies, cryptid folklore, spectral-mating, and etheric birthing techniques. Manifest destiny eludes its colonial past and takes refuge deep in our pagan libidinal nature.Psychology Todayby Extreme AnimalsRandom Man Editions (30 mins / 2021) In information theory, the repetition of messages tends towards the obliteration of meaning. This theorem is vitally demonstrated in Extreme Animals’ 2021 video Psychology Today, which traces the algorithmically accelerated decomposition of images from the post-millennial cultural imaginary: Shrek, the Joker, and other depressive icons of our interminable financial crisis inspire a legion of exhausted reenactments by children’s birthday party workers and freelance Blender artists. Interwoven with motivational programming staged at depreciating levels of conviction, the final assembly speaks not so much to the experience of overstimulation as to the unique combination of sensory hypertrophy and apathy characteristic of life post-2020.Sarah Klein Puts Paper to MotionMisty Quartet, Sing the Hits, Stir the Beat, Fall Girl, Misty Duet(15 mins / 2013-2021) For the 2022 SFABF, Sarah Klein is presenting her books, posters, calendars and prints, under her Lower Falls imprint, as well as animations in the media room. Her work draws from personal and imagined iconographies that she spans fluidly between serialized, sequenced, and book forms. She looks to images for stories whose telling might be hidden or only suggested. Lone Star is a collaboration with David Kwan. Fall Girl includes music by Synchronized Watches.Works on Paper: Animated Films by Meghana Bisineer, Martha Colburn, Jennifer Levonian, Peter Millard, Johan Rijpma, Paloma Trecka, Selina Trepp, curated by Clark Buckner and Sarah Klein. Presented by Telematic Media Arts. Telematic is pleased to present Works on Paper, a curated screening of animated films by artists working with paint, paper, drawing, cut-out collage, and sculpture to produce time-based, moving image works. Attending to tangible materials, the films in this screening simultaneously foreground the artistic process and the labor required for their own creation. They mark the passage of time as chronicles of physical change. And they show how – with the right degree of creative imagination, focused attention, and sustained physical effort – the world is open to re-invention. But I Love The Zine by Fiona McDougall (16 mins / 2019) But I Love The Zine is a short documentary exploring the enduring love in the Bay Area for zines — self-published, accessible, often artistic publications that offer an antidote to the disconnectedness of internet culture. In this documentary, viewers are introduced to a thriving small press community through interviews with publishers in their studios and at festivals like the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine fest. It features zine makers such as: Raphael Villet, Jeffrey Cheung, Max Stadnik, Jess Wu, and OMCA curator, Carin Adams, among others. Produced and Directed by Fiona McDougall.Zium by Most Ancient(60 mins / 2022) Visit the Most Ancient arcade, a collection of point and click adventure games and surreal Virtual Reality worlds. Walk through an eroded habitat with ominous messaging, visit Zium: part zine and part museum walking simulator, and move through an eerie funhouse to discover hidden stories. Tennesee Street Saturday, July 16 11-6pmSoutheast San Francisco Artists Portfolio with Chispa Chispa is a roving art cart the size of a parade float. Wherever Chispa appears in Southeast San Francisco you’ll find art, music and performances by Southeast SF artists. Chispa is a cross-cultural pollinator building connections between the Bayview/Hunters Point, The Excelsior, The Portola and Visitacion Valley. Sometimes Chispa events spread out on blankets for storytelling and neighborhood games, sometimes she broadcasts poetry, music and soundscapes. Prints by Southeast San Francisco artists are displayed on board Chispa. All of them are available for trade. 4-5pmNoodz Noodz Noodz Join Mouth 2 Mouth zine creators for an outdoor social gathering to celebrate the release of their second issue, “DEATH”, featuring readings, activities, and snacks made by contributors. See and be seen. Touch and be touched. Taste and be tasted.Ongoing KunstCapades LIVE! KunstCapades is an art-themed variety show/podcast hosted by Robyn Carliss, Tim Sullivan, and Josh Pieper. Guests from all points on the artist-curator-dealer-collector spectrum board a gondola up to the recording booth – Altitude, an alpine-island bar in an undisclosed, altitudinous San Francisco location – for conversation and cocktails. Listeners are treated to a rollicking agenda of absurd segments, including “Art Crimes,” “eBay Today,” “Let’s Ask Tantum,” “Bartender’s Ballyhoo,” and intel regarding local openings and calls for work. Join us for a multi-part, LIVE recording at the 2022 San Francisco Art Book Fair.Ideomotor Drawing Sessions with Stephen LichtyBook an appointment - July 15, 16, 17 Stephen Lichty is taking appointments with individuals for his ongoing practice of automatic collaborative drawing. Each 30 minute session results in two identical carbon-transfer drawings, produced after holding a pen to a stack of papers with another person and allowing the shared non-conscious movement of the pen to determine the work. Sessions will take place during the fair on Tennessee St. &nbsp; Project RoomBoo-Hooray Presents Underground Film: Jack Smith, John Waters, Andy Warhol Boo-Hooray is proud to present an exhibition of ephemera and unseen photography from Jack Smith and the Lobster Landlordism, Andy Warhol and His Cronies, the Wonderful World of John Waters, and Kenneth Anger’s Leather Daddy Occultism. Most of these artifacts have never before been publicly exhibited. Centered on the work of four defining figures of American underground film and gay sensibility, the exhibition discloses these filmmakers’ working processes and the development of their singular visual vocabularies. The photography, ephemera, and artwork contextualize each figure in the larger cultural milieus they invented, worked in, and confronted: the respective vibrant cultural scenes Warhol and Waters cultivated, Smith’s bellicose relationship to the New York underground film scene, and Anger’s clique of thelemite Hollywood aesthetes. Included in the exhibition is behind-the-scenes photography of filmmaking and partying at The Factory; ephemera from the production, publicity, and distribution of John Waters’ early films; artwork, flyers, and photography documenting Jack Smith’s filmmaking and performance practice, as well as state repression of his work; and photography and ephemera spanning nearly 20 years of Kenneth Anger’s queer, occult filmmaking. Together, these materials highlight the working and social lives of four legends of queer and underground cinema. Boo-Hooray is dedicated to the organization, stabilization, and preservation of the 20th and 21st century cultural movements, specializing in ephemera, photography, and book arts. We place artists' and organizations' archives with universities and museums, publish and sell rare books, photography, ephemera, and art, and stage exhibitions all over the world. This exhibition includes guest curation by San Francisco’s own Chris Veltri of Groove Merchant Records. Signings Friday, July 15 3pm - Michael Diamond - Untitled 8 fold - at Play Press - Z3 Saturday, July 1612pm - Eva Lipman - Restraint &amp; Desire - at TBW Books - A4012pm - Eva Lipman - Derby - at TBW Books - A4012pm - Christine Atkins - Essential Celebrations - at Play Press - Z31pm - Ruth Laskey - Twill Series - at Ratio 3 (co-published with RITE Editions) - E101pm - Michael Jang - Untitled - at Park Life - A91pm - Phil Jung - Windscreen - at TBW Books - A401pm - NIAD Art Center -"Me &amp; My Gal" NIAD Fashion Book Launch &amp; NIAD Fashion Show invitation- at NIAD - A241pm - Chris Johanson - Considering Unknow Know With What Is, And - at Altman Siegel - A202pm - IAN BATES “MEADOWLARK” - at Deadbeat Club - A392pm - Catherine Sieck - Orbiting Whorl- at Play Press - Z33pm - Nick Haymes - The Last Survivor is the First Suspect - at Kodoji Press - A044pm - SHIORI IKENO “SADO” - at Deadbeat Club - A39Sunday, July 1712pm - Ruth van Beek - Catlogue Flyer - at New Documents - A1 1pm - Jeremy Fish - Forever Ever After - at Paragon Books - Booth A252pm - Andrew Schoultz - Decade 2011-2021 - at Paragon Books - Booth A253pm - Felicia Chao - Sketchbook 6 - at Paragon Books - Booth A25 <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a121f57825f48a76c0b3bdcbe027c49d6979a2f8ff4f2f2b462d733a73a0f126/SFABF2022_PhotoCredit_JennaGarrett_093.jpg" data-mid="169088698" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a121f57825f48a76c0b3bdcbe027c49d6979a2f8ff4f2f2b462d733a73a0f126/SFABF2022_PhotoCredit_JennaGarrett_093.jpg" /> Photo: Jenna Garrett 2022 SFABF PUBLICATION GRANT We were thrilled to present our 2022 SFABF Publication Grant&nbsp;courtesy of Edition One Books. The recipient for the 2022 grant of $5k, selected from our pool of exhibitors, was The Fulcrum Press! Founded in Los Angeles in 2014, The Fulcrum Press is a small publisher exploring the interplay between photography and other artistic media. They are committed to expanding the possibilities of the publication format through their approach to the photo book as a curatorial project that exists both on and off the printed page. This commitment to the expanded role of the photographic object inspired their new brick-and-mortar Los Angeles space, The Fulcrum, which will bring together local, national and international artists working in photography and provide a single site for books, lectures, exhibitions and classes open to the local community.Edition One Books works with design professionals, photographers, artists and other creative types to manufacture highly customized, top-quality books. They are focused on building longterm relationships with their customers, and strive to offer a more personalized book production service for small to medium runs.Check out our 2020 Publishing Grant to see publishers we have supported in the past!&nbsp; 2022 SPONSORSThe 2022 SFABF was organized by Park Life, Colpa and Minnesota Street Project. SFABF’s 2022 branding and identity by David Kasprzak. Supporting Sponsors:Chronicle Books, RITE Editions, San Francsico Center for the Book, Gold Collective and Chroma.Media Sponsor:.Hyperallergic and KQEDIn-kind Sponsors:Shapco Printing, CULK, Edition One, Lightsource SF, Swissnex San Francisco, Swiss Arts Council ProHelvetia, Liquid Death, Fort Point Beer Company and Dad Grass. Special Thanks: Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Anglim Trimble, bitforms gallery, Buddy, True Laurel, Bar Part Time, Casemore Kirkeby and the San Francisco Arts Eductation Project.