Announcing Our 2023 McKnight Book Artist Fellows

L: Brien Beidler. R: Todd Thyberg, photo by Dan Marshall.

Please join us in congratulating the 2023 McKnight Book Artist Fellows, Brien Beidler and Todd Thyberg! Brien is a bookbinder and toolmaker whose work celebrates pre-industrial bindings in a 21st-century context, and Todd is a book artist with a background in creative writing, graphic design, and letterpress printing.

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New Editions 2023

October 27–28, 2023
Main Gallery at MCBA

New Editions is a biennial pop-up showcase and sale of new artists’ prints and publications in the Main Gallery at MCBA. Kicking off with a ticketed preview party on Friday night,  the sale continues on Saturday, featuring artists’ books, photo books, chapbooks, zines, broadsides, and hand-printed work by artists from around the country. Continue reading “New Editions 2023”

New Arrivals: MCBA’s Artist Collective

August 5–September 25, 2023
Minneapolis Central Library, Cargill Gallery
Reception: Thursday, August 10, 5–7:30pm

New Arrivals features recent work by the Artist Collective at MCBA, consisting of established and emerging local artists working within the breadth of book arts, a group of art forms that range from traditional skills such as papermaking, letterpress printing, and bookbinding, to new methods of artmaking inspired by the form and function of books.

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