Athens Art Book Fair | LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce the second Athens Art Book Fair on Saturday, June 22nd at the Athenaeum in downtown Athens, GA, which will be presented alongside AthFest, an annual free, three-day festival that celebrates Athens, GA’s vibrant creative culture, featuring local and regional musicians and visual artists.

Follow the Fair on Instagram @AthensABF

Printmaking and Book Arts

Saturday June 22

11 am - 4 pm

Athenaeum, 287 W Broad Street, Athens, Georgia

Free and open to the public

The Athens Art Book Fair (also Athens ABF) showcases a variety of works on paper produced by dozens of artists and presses from primarily Athens, Georgia and the Southeast. This event is free to the public and will take place on Saturday, June 22nd at the Athenaeum in downtown Athens from 11 am to 4 pm.

Join us to explore a wide variety of techniques and subject matter on display and connect with artists and publishers!

Please note that this event is affiliated with the annual arts and music festival AthFest, which will attract considerable traffic in the area. Plan your visit and parking accordingly.

Athens ABF organizers Lindsey Reynolds, librarian of the UGA Art Library, and UGA Printmaking Professor Jon Swindler established the fair to spotlight the critical relationship between contemporary art and publishing with a regional focus on the Southeast.

“There’s so much interesting and innovative work being made in the space of book arts and printmaking in our area, we simply want to increase awareness. Art books and prints offer an affordable path to collecting (art). All of the work on display will be for sale with proceeds going directly to the individual artists. I always think back to the thrill of having a little money to spend at the book fair in elementary school — the Athens Art Book Fair will be like that except the work is all unique and predominantly handmade!”

-University of Georgia Printmaking Professor Jon Swindler

The Athens Art Book Fair is presented by the University of Georgia Art Library, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and the UGA Printmaking Students Association.

Find us on Instagram @AthensABF and see you this summer at the Athenaeum!

Exhibitor inquiries can be addressed to Lindsey Reynolds lwreyn@uga.edu and/or Jon Swindler swindler@uga.edu

Images courtesy of Sidney Chansamone

2024 Exhibitor List

Amanda Dzimianski

Bella Provenzano

Benjamin Weldon

Bevin & Christine Carpenter

Caitlin La Dolce

Colette Arrand & Emmett Wiginton

Dani of Square Biz

Douglas Barrett

Flat File Print Shop

The Georgia Review

Greg Stone (Stone Dairy Press)

Katherine Piper

Lydian Brambila

Mandy Mastrovita

Marshall Ransfield

Martin Rogers (FEOND)

Michael Lachowski

Microverse Press

Paper City Publishing

R.L. Edmondson Vance

Robert Newsome (The Atomic Elbow)

Steven & Hazel Cline

Tender-Heart Press

Two Parts Press

Two Steps Press

Uneven Cartoon Press

Valley StipeMaas

Vaden Moore Art

Violet Lustiano