KIDS ARE DRAWN TO BOOK ARTS

The book arts dwell in the visual arts, yet students typically don't feel they need to be an artist in order to create their own book. The book form provides a familiar, accessible starting place for students. Below is just a sampling of the tens of thousands of books made by youth at Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

 
 

Middleton Elementary School
Woodbury, MN
3rd Grade

Hard cover journal for students to write about travels

 

Middleton Elementary School
 Woodbury, MN
3rd Grade

Inside view of journal, showing pamphlet and a tower pop-up

 

New Visions School
Minneapolis, MN
All grades, K-8

The entire student body from this K-8 charter school participated in a mosaic project created in the papermaking studios at MCBA.

Mendota Elementary
Mendota Heights, MN
4rth Grade

Poetry Anthology based on poetry the students wrote with the guidance of a poet-in-residence.

 
 

Hazel Park Middle School
St. Paul, MN
English Language Learner Students

Using cut paper the student created a dos-a-dos pop-up in celebration of fishing.

Hazel Park Middle School
St. Paul, MN
English Language Learner Students

This is one of the accordion pop-out books made by the Hazel Park Academy students. Many students depicted scenery they remember from Thailand and wrote about their lives there before they moved to the United States.
 

 

 

  
 

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Wednesdays through Saturdays: 10 am to 5 pm
Sundays: noon to 4 pm
Mondays: closed

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is located in
the Open Book Building in downtown Minneapolis
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612.215.2520
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Email: mcba@mnbookarts.org

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