Studio

The Space

The Ewing Farm buildings are all that remains of a historic Boulder County homestead settled over 125 years ago at what was then called “Eight-Mile Corner,” now 95th and Arapahoe streets in Lafayette.

The Book Arts League has partnered with the City of Lafayette to preserve the historic structures and provide for their maintenance while using the Farm as headquarters and studio. The League worked with the Lafayette City Manager and Historic Preservation Board to secure Colorado State Historical Society grants for the rehabilitation of the Farm.
This partnership with the City allows the League to continue its mission as a community resource for the traditional and contemporary arts and crafts of the book while providing a permanent home for our antique letterpress collection.

The Book Arts League is a nonprofit community arts organization working to preserve the historic tools and crafts of the book arts, including printing, typography, bookbinding, and papermaking, from which spring the literacy and communications technology on which modern society is built.

The Book Arts League is open to all persons interested in keeping alive the book arts and promoting a love of books and literacy.

It is the mission of the League to serve as a community resource by preserving for the public book arts of great historical importance while fostering their use in contemporary creative work.

There are two spaces for rent:  

The Bunkhouse is the building that holds the Book Arts League presses and is used for printing, bookbinding, papermaking and other related book arts & paper crafts

The Farmhouse can be used for classes, lectures, workshops or events