GALLERY TALK

25 Years / 25 Books in 75 Minutes (or Less)
Tuesday May 27, 2025
3 to 4:30 PM at the Book Arts Gallery
Jaffe Center for Book Arts
Third Floor East of Florida Atlantic University's Wimberly Library

Free • Donations encouraged • Open to all • No reservations

Our 25th Anniversary Year celebration continues with this whirlwind gallery talk by JCBA Director John Cutrone. He's choosing 25 artists' books –– one from each year since the Jaffe Collection opened in 2000, and he's got 3 minutes (or less) to show and talk about each one. JCBA Education Coordinator Jonathan Rockford will be on hand with a stopwatch and a very large bell to keep things hopping. The stopwatch begins after a brief welcome and introduction at 3. You're guaranteed to experience things you've never seen before, and you're guaranteed to be outta here by 4:30 PM. Any questions? No? Good. Just show up (no RSVP required) have a seat and enjoy the experience.

Aside from his work at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, John Cutrone is a writer and a partner in Convivio Bookworks, a Lake Worth book arts shop and studio specializing in limited edition letterpress printed books and broadsides (https://conviviobookworks.com), as well as artisan goods and specialty foods from around the world. He is the author of the Convivio Book of Days, a literary lifestyle blog encouraging us to live the ceremony of each day (https://www.conviviobookworks.com/blog/), and was recently named North American editor of Parenthesis, the journal of the Fine Press Book Association. He is a graduate Florida Atlantic University and of the MFA in the Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama.

JCBA is located on the third floor east of Florida Atlantic University's Wimberly Library. From I-95 or the Florida Turnpike, exit Glades Road, east. The FAU campus is located just east of I-95. If you enter the campus at FAU's main entrance (the one furthest west on Glades Road... and the first you'll see approaching from I-95), you will enter on West University Drive. Continue straight on West University Drive to the traffic light at Volusia Street. Turn right onto Volusia Street. Parking Garage 1 is on Volusia Street, and the Wimberly Library is the next building east.

The I-95 interchange for Florida Atlantic University (Exit 48A) takes you directly from the interstate to FAU. Once you pass the traffic light at Spanish River Boulevard, you are on the FAU campus on FAU Boulevard. Continue to the traffic signal at the intersection of FAU Boulevard and University Drive (FAU Stadium will be on your right). Turn right onto University Drive. Turn left at the traffic signal at Volusia Street. Parking Garage 1 is on Volusia Street, and the Wimberly Library is the next building east.

Visitors to the FAU campus must pay at the meters or use the ParkMobile app (or visit https://parkmobile.io/) to park on campus. Both are available 24/7. Parking is $2.50 per hour. Vehicles must be parked nose-in.

Visitors using the ParkMobile app or website may park in any yellow or blue lot. Blue spots are designated by normal white lines on the ground. Parking Garage 1, which is the garage adjacent to the Library, is a blue lot. The ParkMobile parking zone for the library's parking lot (Lot 19/20) is Zone 6927. The parking zone for Parking Garage 1, which is the building just west of the library, is Zone 6931.

Vehicles paying by physical meter must park in the yellow metered lot and spaces. These will have yellow lines on the ground as well as “Pay By Plate” signs in front of each. These are found in Lot 19 in front of the Library. Find a campus map here: Maps (fau.edu)