About
2025 Details
May 10–11, 2025Washington Hall
153 14th Ave (Central District)
Seattle, WA 98122
Directions
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Fair hours
May 10: 11am–5pmMay 11: 11am–5pm Mask required hour: 11am–12pm both days
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PREPRESS
Launch Party
Friday, May 9: 6–9pm
The Shop
723 1st Ave (Pioneer Square)
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Washington Hall
Seattle Art Book Fair in the News
- “Seattle Art Book Fair Celebrates Printed Media in All Its Glory” by Jas Keimig. May 8, 2024. South Seattle Emerald ︎︎︎
- “Art Under Cover: Seattle’s Newest Festival, Seattle Art Book Fair, Celebrates the Beauty of Books” by Shin Yu Pai.
April 30, 2024. UW Magazine ︎︎︎
- “Q&A: Jayme Yen and Tom Eykemans of Seattle Art Book Fair.” April 22, 2024. Variable West ︎︎︎
- “Seattle Art Book Fair Launches with Makeready 2021.” May 11, 2021. ARCADE Magazine ︎︎︎
ABOUT SEATTLE ART BOOK FAIR
The Seattle Art Book Fair is a free annual festival that celebrates independent publishing, book design, and artist books. The nonprofit event hosts local, national, and international artists, designers, and organizations and includes exhibitors, talks, workshops, and art installations. The fair is focused on building and expanding the community of booklovers and bookmakers in our region by bringing together seasoned practitioners and newcomers.Seattle is renowned for its contributions to the arts and cultural communities. It has a long history of supporting books and publishing which led to it being named a UNESCO City of Literature in 2017. The Seattle Art Book Fair is modeled after the original New York and Los Angeles Art Book Fairs (established in 2004 and 2014, respectively), which are run by Printed Matter. Seattle will join a growing number of independent art book fairs on the west coast including the Vancouver Art Book Fair (est. 2006) and the San Francisco Art Book Fair (est. 2016).
The fair is co-organized by Jayme Yen and Tom Eykemans, both of whom have worked in arts, design, education, nonprofits, and publishing for many years in Seattle, along with a dedicated team of volunteers and advisors.
WHAT ARE ART BOOKS?
Art books are a broad category of publications by artists, designers, and makers that reflect on books as a medium and publishing as an artistic practice. Art books often combine type, images, and materials in thoughtful ways that push the possibilities of what books can be. They can take the familiar forms of paperbacks, hardcovers, magazines, journals, and zines. They can feature narrative, poetry, photography, and illustration. They can be handmade, offset-printed, letterpressed, photocopied, screen printed, or risographed. Or, they can take some surprising new form and feature an unexpected medium that allows one to experience the world in a wholly new way.SUPPORT
Admission to the Seattle Art Book Fair is free, to ensure accessibility to our area’s diverse community. The fair is supported by sponsors, donors, grants, fundraising, and exhibitor fees. SABF is an associated program of Shunpike, a Seattle 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to empower artists through equitable access to vital expertise, opportunities, and business services. Please consider donating to SABF here!Acknowledgment
The organizers of the Seattle Art Book Fair would like to acknowledge that this event is organized on the traditional territory of Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish Tribe. We aim to honor these communities, past, present, and future.SABF Organizers
Tom EykemansJayme Yen
2025 Team
Lorena Gutierrez PerezAlison Keefe
Amanda Mead
Claire Needs
Meghann Ney
Emily Northrop
Mary Wojnar
Thank you
ARCADE NWCommon Area Maintenance
Creative Cafe
The Hideout
I/O Color
LMN Architects
Marquand Books
Short Run Comix Festival
WellBefore
Woodland Theater
Contact
Email us at info@seattleartbookfair.orgDonate
Support the nonprofit Seattle Art Book Fair with a tax-deductable donation at Shunpike here.
© 2025 Seattle Art Book Fair is organized by volunteers, powered by Shunpike, and supported by 4Culture, ArtsWA, and King County | ︎ ︎