MCBA Outlook Gallery May 3, 2024–August 3, 2024 Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (AND FROM INSIDE THE SHOP DURING OPEN HOURS) Binding/Unbinding is an installation of printed textiles of botanical imagery combined with writing, drawing, and sewn elements that explores the entanglements of culture, ecosystems, and personal healing.
MCBA Outlook Gallery February 3, 2024–April 27, 2024 Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (AND FROM INSIDE THE SHOP DURING OPEN HOURS) somewhere to rest is a mixed-media installation, a small way-stop for any weary eyes in any long winter.
MCBA Outlook Gallery October 7, 2023–January 27, 2024 Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (AND FROM INSIDE THE SHOP DURING OPEN HOURS) Others is a book art installation consisting of seven paper mâché heads. Each of the heads are a case for the scroll that spills out of the head’s mouth.
MCBA Outlook Gallery August 8–September 30, 2023 Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (AND FROM INSIDE THE SHOP DURING OPEN HOURS) The Benevolent Tornado is an installation that pushes back against the storm of book bans that has been escalating in recent years, currently affecting students in 21 states.
Saturday, July 22, 2023 11am–1pm Room 203 (Open Book) Join us for a closing reception and poetry reading with local poets celebrating Patrick Vincent’s solo exhibition, The Clouds We Share.
MCBA Outlook Gallery April 22 – July 22, 2023 Reading & Closing Reception: Sat, July 22, 11am–1pm Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (AND FROM INSIDE THE SHOP DURING OPEN HOURS) The Clouds We Share is a display of letterpress-printed poems submitted by Minnesota artists. Patrick Vincent organized and printed the …
MCBA Outlook Gallery February 3–April 16, 2023 Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (AND FROM INSIDE THE SHOP during our open hours)
Experience the exceptional work of these mid-career book artists January 21–April 1, 2023 This winter, in our Main Gallery, experience the exceptional work of the first four McKnight Book Artist Fellows: Paula McCartney (2020), Lisa Nebenzahl (2020), Mary Hark (2021), and Sonja Peterson (2021).
Visitors can watch the exhibition unfold in MCBA’s Outlook Gallery on January 13 & 14 from 10am–5pm. Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to welcome back Kansas-based visual artist and professor Dr. Rachel Epp Buller for the closing weekend of her fabric installation, In/Visible Care.
Our Galleries Our galleries are open for wonder and wander! MCBA raises the visibility of artists by presenting an average of 10–12 exhibitions annually in two separate galleries. Main Gallery MCBA presents 5–6 exhibitions annually in our Main Gallery, located on the ground floor of the Open Book building in Downtown Minneapolis. Exhibitions feature work …
MCBA Outlook Gallery October 14, 2022–January 14, 2023 Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (and from inside the shop during open hours)
Friday, January 13 & Saturday, January 14, 2023; 10am–5pm Outlook Gallery
MCBA Outlook Gallery July 15–October 2, 2022 Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (and from inside the shop during open hours)
MCBA Outlook Gallery March 26–July 9, 2022 Free and open to the public VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET (and from inside the shop on saturdays)
MCBA Outlook Gallery January 20–March 20, 2022 viewable from the sidewalk along washington avenue and from inside our shop on saturdays from 10am–5pm.
