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”
Curated by Megan N. Liberty and organized by Center for Book Arts, this exhibition reconnects artists’ books to craft by creating a meaningful link between conceptual art and craft, historically placed at odds.
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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.
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.
Join us for a reception celebrating Craft & Conceptual Art: Reshaping the Legacy of Artists’ Books, a traveling exhibition of book art from the 1960s to the 1990s. The curator, Megan N. Liberty, Art Books editor at the Brooklyn Rail and co-founder of Book Art Review, will be visiting from New York. Local artists Harriet Bart and Philip Gallo will also be in attendance.
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Paper Is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures, co-curated by Tia Blassingame and Stephanie Sauer, offers a new definition of paper within a global and decolonial framework. Featuring works by local, national, and international artists, this exhibition explores the vital role substrates play in human communities and how meaning is made from what we might call paper and papermaking.
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The Clouds We Share is a display of letterpress-printed poems submitted by Minnesota artists. Patrick Vincent organized and printed the poems in wood type using the Goldsmith Type collection at Austin Peay State University.
Join us for a closing reception and poetry reading with local poets celebrating Patrick Vincent’s solo exhibition, The Clouds We Share.
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Continue reading “2023 McKnight Book Artist Fellows Artist Talk”
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