BIBLIOARTS 2026

BiblioArts is an annual teaching and marketplace event with the aim to support Grey-Bruce artists and fundraise for the Georgian Bay School for the Arts (GB Arts).

BiblioArts is a celebration of the “Book Arts” held the weekend of Victoria Day.

For 2026, our third annual BiblioArts will happen from Thursday to Sunday, May 14-17.

“The Book Arts” describes a wide range of art forms including bookbinding, printmaking, letterpress printing, box-making, paper-making, paper marbling, broadsides, card-making, zines and journals, and so much more; it’s an exciting field and we’re happy to bring it all together for this event.

Thursday and Friday we’ll be featuring special guest artist Jacquie Sullivan who will lead a two-day intensive workshop on Multi-Block Relief Printing focusing on the connection between the Japanese process of Mokuhanga woodcuts and the Western techniques of multi-block linocut printmaking. In 2025 Jacquie received a Canada Council grant to study mokuhanga (Japanese water-based woodblock printmaking) at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory (MI-Lab) in Echizen, Japan. You won’t want to miss this excellent opportunity to learn from a significant artist in this field

Saturday features a Book Arts Marketplace from 9:30am-3pm including printmaking and book artists, specialty vendors of papers, materials, and tools for all your book and printmaking needs. The Goods Kitchen Cafe, located in the entrance to GB Arts, will also be open from 9am-4pm.

On Sunday morning, four featured workshops will run with sessions of Water Marbling, Silk Screen printing, and Letterpress Printing. Tickets can be found at gbarts.ca or at the links below.

On Sunday afternoon, the public is welcome to join BIG PRINTS!—We’re renting a steamroller and going BIG! We will be printing large-scale relief prints on 1st Ave, behind GB Arts, beside the beautiful boardwalk along the Sydenham River. This is a free outdoor art event running from noon until 3pm.

This is all taking place in the large creative studios of GB Arts, located on the main street in the heart of downtown Owen Sound.