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Bakehouse Turns 40 – and our Art Deco building turns 100!

We’re throwing a party to celebrate this double milestone with art, music, food, and dancing

Artists’ Proof | 40/100 features:

  • Exhibition Preview – “Bakehouse at Forty: Past, Present, Future”
  • Open Studios with Bakehouse artists
  • Drinks, food, and birthday treats
  • Salsa under the stars with @clubsalsaz
  • Film Screening by Juan Matos and Monica Sorelle
  • Birthday Surprise treats by Zak The Baker

Friday, November 7, 2025 | 7–10 PM

Bakehouse Art Complex | 561 NW 32 ST, Miami

Tickets:

$40 in advance | $100 at the door

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bakehouse-at-forty-past-present-future-tickets-1668967680259?aff=oddtdtcreator

Dress in your birthday best and raise a glass to four decades of Bakehouse and a century of history

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Thank You Give Miami!

Thank you for your generous gift to Extra Virgin Press during Give Miami Day. We are beyond grateful for the outpouring of support from donors, friends, and our letterpress loving family, near and far.

Thanks to you we raised $2,772 raised by 42 donors, letterpress lovers, and book arts affectionados!!

Our plan is to print more and make more books, the old fashioned way, in the new year. Thank you for helping us share more free books.

Meanwhile, look for Extra Virgin Press at Book Fair, our favorite gathering of the kindest, most polite and informed residents in our fair city.  We’ll be at the Miami Book Fair all weekend, with a big surprise at the Gala tonight!

Visit when you can. Come say hi. We’d love to thank you in person. Call me a “Pollyanna” if you like (Google Disney, young’ns), but on this cool, cloudless, glorious Friday morning I am feeling major GiveMiami love is moving our city in the right direction.

With love and gratitude,

Tom

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Give Miami 2024 Book Fair

Miami Book Fair brings together writers, art, food, and books for everyone. If you are at Book Fair you will find the most articulate, engaged, and hospitable people in Miami. The photo documents one of the first Gala Honorees, Edwidge Danticat, receiving “The Road Less Traveled” designed and printed at Extra Virgin Press. Mitchell Kaplan and MDC President Madeline Pumariega were the presenters at Miami’s first Book Fair Gala. 

https://www.givemiamiday.org/organization/Extravirginpressmiami

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Two Books

I am delighted to share the news that the Met has acquired two of my artists books. Conversation Too (2013)  and This Is My Body, Of Food and Freedom (2023) for their permanent collection. I am grateful to each of my collaborators for their contributions of words and images (Convo2: Kari Snyder, Laura Tan/ Artwork; John Dufresne, Michael Hettich, Yaddyra Peralta/ Prose & Poetry. This Is My Body: Edwidge Danticat/ Essay, John Ermer/ Research).

Convo Too was assembled at the Anderson Center at Tower View with our combined work in writing and images. The book was printed during my Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence Program at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University, and bound at Extra Virgin Press in West Coconut Grove, Florida.

This Is My Body, Of Food and Freedom was printed and bound at Extra Virgin Press in Little Haiti (Miami), Florida.

I am grateful to Lin Lougheed, Cherese Crockett, and Oolite Arts for their part in bringing this work to the collection.

book cover