Come celebrate the book with us at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival, where we will offer hands-on demonstrations in papermaking, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and bookmaking workshops and demonstrations for children and adults. For more information, please visit www.lib.utah.edu/rare or call 801-585-9191. The Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah
The Book Arts Program flourishes because of a small staff who believe in the power and magic of books.
Rare Book Presentations Book Arts Classes and Workshops
September 22nd, 2007 October 13th, 2007 November 17th, 2007 The Red Butte Press K-12 Programming Since 2002, the Book Arts Program has offered fully underwritten summer bookmaking intensives to K-12 teachers. To date, we have provided 1048 Utah teachers with bookmaking instruction. Through these teachers it is estimated that we have reached 47,169 children. We have also directly taught bookmaking to an additional 16,181 children. In the past year, over 9,700 children were directly reached through our K-12 programming. June 29-30, 2007 July 13-14, 2007 The Rare Book Treasure Chest |
The Book Arts Program offers classes and workshops in bookmaking to students and the community. It sponsors lectures, rare book presentations, and exhibitions. It produces fine press publications through its award-winning Red Butte Press. It collaborates with sister organizations. 
And for the past seven years, it has developed an increasingly relevant K-12 Program, including teacher workshops, demonstrations and workshops for children, and the Treasure Chest of Rare Books program that brings rare books and bookmaking into Utah’s classrooms. The Book Arts Program is part of the Rare Books Division of Special Collections at the Marriott Library. 
The Program is one of the most successful in the United States. This success is due to the consistently high quality of each offering and the commitment of all those connected with the program—staff and volunteers alike. The Marriott Library’s rare book collections, one of Utah’s greatest assets, are the inspiration for the Book Arts Program. We never lose sight of our mission to educate the people of Utah about the history and art of the book. It is the books themselves that do this best.
Library’s rare book collections,
sixty thousand volumes representing the history of science; travel & exploration; the history of religion; Middle East collections; medieval and Mesoamerican codex facsimiles; fine press, artists' books; and 
the history of printing and papermaking. Ten years ago, few Utahns knew what treasures were to be found at the Marriott Library. Today, literally thousands participate annually in its programming. Rare book presentations include a history of the book lecture and display of books drawn from the Marriott Library rare book collections. Browse the rare book collections at 
open to the general public. No previous bookmaking skill is required. Bookmaking workshops are offered throughout the year and are open to everyone. For detailed information, see the current calendar of events at 
Red Butte Press preserves and carries forward the tradition of fine press bookmaking. Red Butte creates meaningful publications that strengthen the community, while educating audiences about the history and art of the book. The Press is committed to publishing work that might not otherwise find expression. Released in 2005, Red Butte’s latest edition is Something Lived, Something Dreamed, Urban Design and the American West, an original essay by architect and city planner William McDonough. It was named one of the fifty best books in the U.S. by the American Institute of Graphic Artists; selected for HOW Magazine’s “Perfect Ten” awards; and singled out by PRINT Magazine and DesignArtsUtah’05 for design excellence. Other recent Red Butte publications include an original epic poem Samarkand And Other Markets I Have Known by Nigerian poet laureate Wole Soyinka and an original short story The Firebird’s Nest by Salman Rushdie. For more information about Red Butte Press, 
K-12 classrooms. Hand-painted scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, a clay tablet, a palm leaf book, a Mesoamerican codex; a Deseret Alphabet reader; a hand-painted fine press book, a McGuffey Reader—these and many more provide an opportunity for children to experience the thrill of holding a rare book. Children discover how to make a variety of books as they learn about the cultures that produced them. During the second full year of the Rare Book Treasure Chest program, we reached 5,200 students in thirty-one schools, traveling over 1600 miles within the state of Utah. For information, contact the Book Arts Program at