Our Mission

Booklyn’s mission is to promote artists’ books as art and research material and to assist artists and organizations in documenting, exhibiting, and distributing their artwork and archives within the academic market. We specifically assist artists and organizations committed to environmental and social justice. We work towards our mission by documenting, exhibiting, promoting, and distributing their work within educational institutions worldwide. We envision a world in which art and bookmaking are tools for education, personal agency, community engagement, and activism.

Our History

Founded in 1999, Booklyn is an artist-run, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Over two decades, Booklyn has created a global network connecting hundreds of artists and organizations with educational institutions. Through that network, Booklyn has distributed thousands of books, artworks, archival collections, and box sets used by an audience reaching hundreds of thousands. 

Our Programs

Through our Box Set Program, we archive and distribute the work of artists and social justice groups that address urgent cultural issues of our day. Our Education Program presents free and low-cost book-, print-, and zine-making workshops hosted onsite or at like-minded partner sites, and we distribute free printmaking and bookmaking resources online. Our Exhibition Program engages our local community through exhibitions that focus on handmade and print-based works on paper that address socially relevant topics. Our Emerging Curators program ensures that our exhibitions are fresh, diversified, and forward-thinking. Our publishing imprint allows us to extend the cultural reach of our programs beyond the local community and institutions and into the hands of readers of all identities and locations. 

Our Location

Booklyn is located on the un-ceded land of the Munsee Lenape peoples. We ask you to join us in acknowledging the Lenape community, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations.