Based in New York, The Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object.
The San Francisco Center for the Book is a center of inspiration for the book arts world, featuring the art & craft of letterpress printing, bookbinding, and artists bookmaking.
The Movable Book Society, a nonprofit organization, provides a forum for artists, book sellers, book producers, collectors, curators, and others to share enthusiasm and exchange information about pop-up and movable books.
Based in New York, Printed Matter is one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations dedicated to the dissemination, understanding and appreciation of artists’ books.
The Research Institute of Paper History and Technology is a non-profit organization, established in October of 1994. The Institute includes a complete hand papermaking facility and a museum of international papermaking that holds the tremendous collection of books, handmade paper and artifacts used in the making of paper, all of which have been collected by Elaine Koretsky and Donna Koretsky over the past thirty years.
The Society of Bookbinders is a UK-based educational charity dedicated to traditional and contemporary bookbinding and to the preservation and conservation of the printed and written word.
This blog, created by Canadian artist and curator Dave Dyment, is dedicated to artists’ books, multiples, recordings, postcards, magazines and ephemera.
Artists' Books Online is designed to promote critical engagement with artists books and to provide access to a digital repository of metadata, scans, and commentary.
Founded in 2019 by book artist and printmaker Tia Blassingame, the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective brings scholars of Book History and Print Culture into conversation and collaboration with Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) book artists, papermakers, curators, letterpress printers, printmakers to build community, support systems.
This directory is being compiled to increase awareness of artists' books collections. It currently contains collections primarily in the United States and Canada.