About
The Artist Book Foundation (TABF) is a [woman-founded and operated] nonprofit art book publisher that documents and celebrates the lives and work of leading artists. Through museum-quality publications, exhibitions, and public programs, we provide a platform for contributors of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, races, and sexual orientations to publish their work. To support greater access to the arts and culture, we have donated and delivered thousands of TABF books to underserved public libraries, schools, and correctional and rehabilitation facilities nationwide.
Publications: TABF produces artist-centered books, focusing especially on modern and contemporary artists, through artist monographs, catalogues raisonnés, surveys, and exhibition catalogues. Art historians, curators, collectors, and often the artists themselves contribute to TABF’s publications. TABF books are available worldwide in print and digital formats through our hybrid publishing program. They can be found in public, university, and art libraries in all 50 United States. Please visit our Publishing Services page for more about our hybrid publishing program.
TABF also maintains an expansive artist book library that includes the foundation’s titles and those from Hudson Hills Press and other major art publishers. Housed in our gallery space, this archive serves as a reference library for local artists, students, educators, and art lovers of all ages. We have seating in our gallery for anyone who would like to come and spend time with these books.
Mission Statement
The Artist Book Foundation celebrates visual artists with distinguished books, public programs, and focused exhibitions. The donation of TABF books to libraries, schools, and prisons is a fundamental objective that provides wider access to the comfort and inspiration of art.
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that our offices, on the campus of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), rests on the ancestral homelands of the Muhheaconneok or Mohican people (People of the Waters That Are Never Still) and the Wabanaki peoples. We pay honor and respect to these ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.