Who We Are

Hive Center for the Book Arts was founded in 2023, after much encouragement, dreaming, and community support.

We hold up community as one of our core values, and, hand in hand with that, are centering equity and diversity from the start, in all that we do.

Hive Center for the Book Arts is a place for people to gather, share ideas, and create. We believe that when humans tell their stories, it deepens and enhances community.

The five components of the book arts (writing, paper making, printmaking, book binding, and reading) can be expanded, exploded, and exponentially experimented with to connect humans through learning, making, and sharing.

Hive is the place where that happens.*

*Though our home base is in Evanston IL, our workshops, exhibitions, programs, and events are popping up all over the North Shore, Chicago, and online. Do join us!