Wayzgoose

Annual Bookarts Fair

Join us for the
32nd Year of Wayzgoose!


always the last Saturday in April!

April 24, 2010, 9am - 5pm

Every year on the last Saturday in April, the Grimsby Public Art Gallery celebrates Wayzgoose, a festival of Book Arts. 

This annual book arts fair brings together private presses from all across Canada and the United States representing the renewal of old friendships, the beginning of new ones, and the appreciation for handmade book and paper arts.

Demonstrations and displays of paper making, book binding, calligraphy, paper marbling, and book making celebrates the love of fine art, fine craft, and stories.

Wayzgoose Anthologies

Each year the gallery produces a limited edition anthology for sale featuring signatures*, a sampling of printer’s and artists work bound in book form. The Anthology is lined with marbled paper and hand bound in beautiful covers.

The Grimsby Public Art Gallery has copies of the Anthology from previous years on sale for the extraordinary price of $85.00 (includes GST and shipping). If you would like to purchase this unique work of art, please contact the Gallery: e-mail the Gallery phone: (905) 945-3246

*A signature is a large sheet or a multiple of pages that when folded becomes a section of a book

Pictures from the 30th Wayzgoose

April 26, 2008

The Grimsby Public Art Gallery's merchandise table featuring the Wayzgoose Anthologies.

Members from the Bookarts Guild of Richmond Hill demonstrating on the Gallery's Pearl Press.  Working the press is Stephen Sword of Stiff n' Sore Press while Kevin Martin of the Papertrail looks on.

A selection of hand-bound books by Van Huizen Bookbinding from St. Catharines, Ontario.  In the background, John Van Huizen demonstrates bookbinding to visitors.