Making Book
Organizations dedicated to do-it-yourself publishing.
Compiled by Kevin Stark

826 Valencia
826 Valencia St.
San Francisco, California 94110
415-642-5905
contact@mcsweeneys.net
www.826valencia.org

826 Valencia supports students ages 6 to 18 in developing their writing skills and helps teachers get their students excited about writing. 826 offers workshops in fiction and nonfiction writing as well as bookmaking. Similar opportunities are offered at locations in Chicago, Brooklyn and Seattle.

Booklyn
37 Greenpoint Ave., 4th Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11222
718-383-9621
www.booklyn.org
staff@booklyn.org

This artist-run, nonprofit organization promotes artist books as an art form and educational resource, provides educational institutions and the public programming to involve contemporary artist books and assists artists in exhibiting, distributing and publishing bookwork. Booklyn arranges classes, lectures and workshops for educational institutions at all levels. Classes range from bookbinding workshops at after-school programs to lectures on book arts history and theory at universities.

Grrrl Zines, Grrrl Zines A Go-Go
P.O.Box 33654
San Diego, California 92163
info@gzagg.org
www.gzagg.org

An all-women workshop group, Grrrl Zines A Go-Go
facilitates workshops in community venues and college campuses throughout Southern California. Grrrl Zines focuses on the, “empowerment of young women
through the production of fanzines and self-published works.”

Independent Publishing Resource Center
917 SW Oak St., #218
Portland, Oregon 97205
503-827-0249
info@iprc.org
www.iprc.org

The Independent Publishing Resource Center is dedicated to encouraging the growth of the visual and literary publishing community by offering a space to gather and exchange information and ideas. Computers, printers and letterpresses are available as well as workshops in bookbinding, printing and letterpress.

The Center For Book Arts
28 West 27th St., 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10001
212-481-0295
info@centerforbookarts.org
www.centerforbookarts.org

The Center for Book Arts offers over 100 classes and workshops in bookbinding, letterpress printing, paper marbling, typography and related fields. The Center offers lectures and seminars and has mounted over 175 exhibitions during the past 30 years.

The Minnesota Center for Book Arts
1011 Washington Ave. S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415
612-215-2520
mcba@mnbookarts.org
www.mnbookarts.org

The Minnesota Center for Book Arts houses studio spaces for both masters and novices working at letterpress printing, hand bookbinding and papermaking. In addition to the studios, there is an exhibition space, a studio shop, an archive, a reference library and offices.