VISIT THE CENTER
Come to JCBA to experience books like you've never seen before. We welcome community groups, classes from Florida Atlantic and other universities and colleges, groups of friends and family, professional groups, and classes from high schools and middle schools and elementary schools. Schedule an hour with us and we'll open your eyes to a whole new way of thinking, where the ubiquitous becomes astounding. Groups of 8 to 24 are ideal, but we can bend the rules a bit in either direction. Contact us for more details or to schedule.
25 Years/25 Books
(in 75 Minutes or Less)
Stop Watch Gallery Talk
It's a Stopwatch Gallery Talk that'll keep you hopping! And hopefully, you'll see things you've never seen before. View above or on JCBA's Vimeo Channel.
STOPPING TIME:
A Fairy Tale for the Modern Day
An Online Gallery Talk
with Salzberg Resident
Maria Surducan
Box Making
Instructor Katie Chung
In-House Workshop at JCBA
Monday, November 10, 2025
1:00 to 4:30 PM
JCBA Book Studio 350C at Florida Atlantic's Wimberly Library
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Archival boxes are used to hold precious objects such as books, prints, and artifacts. Learn how to build an archival lidded box in this one-day intensive workshop led by JCBA Salzberg Resident artist Katie Chung. Students will leave this workshop with a beautifully crafted box and the fundamentals of constructing a box using traditional book arts techniques. Prior book making experience is strongly encouraged. Materials and supplies will be provided.
From Blocks to Boxes
Instructor Paula Krieg
Virtual Workshop
Thursday November 13, 2025
6 to 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
From wherever you are in the world, via Zoom.
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Inspired by the shapes of wooden pattern blocks, this workshop scales up and expands these geometric solids to enable you to construct practical and playful items. Our blocks and boxes will be made from cover-weight paper, using hidden magnets to increase impromptu sculptural possibilities. We will explore decorating the surfaces of our blocks, with an emphasis on fractal embellishments, and learn how to modify the provided templates to assemble the blocks into unusual boxes with closures. Your blocks and boxes will be decorative, inviting, and most importantly, whimsical and personal.
REAL MAIL FRIDAYS
Our Real Mail Fridays schedule is upside down for October, 2025:
Join us for Real Mail Fridays on
Thursday October 9 and
Thursday October 16
from 2 to 5 Eastern.
Our usual Friday sessions are canceled those two weeks.
There will be no Real Mail Fridays (and no substituted days) on Friday October 24.
Real Mail Fridays returns to its regular day and time with a Hallowe'en Social on Friday October 31.
From Wherever You Are,
via Zoom
ZOOM LINK & PASSWORD
Here is the link and password for our virtual Real Mail Fridays letter writing
socials:
https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/82597798220?pwd=cmVUbWYyQjJGUVVialJHWjhFdTZVdz09
(And in case you need it, the Meeting ID is 825 9779 8220 and the passcode is Kh51f6.)
Dear Friends,
We've built such a wonderful global community since we began beaming Real Mail Fridays
out to the world through our weekly online JCBA Zoom socials, and it is truly humbling
and heartwarming to see friends join us each week and new folks, too, from all corners
of this vast planet. In that spirit, we have no plans to end our weekly Zoom version of
Real Mail Fridays.
