Explore Coptic bindings, the most common form of link-stitch binding and possibly the oldest continuously used book sewing pattern.

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

Immerse yourself in the oldest form of marbling, Suminagashi 墨流し (“spilled or floating ink”).

Experience the magic of marbling firsthand with this in-person workshop!

Get familiar with MCBA’s screen printing studio and print your unique design on a set of cards!

Build pop-up volumes using a sculptural, flexible technique in this rare in-person workshop with Chicago-based artist Shawn Sheehy.

Build a garden of delicious-looking, dimensional paper vegetables.

This in-person letterpress workshop offers an introduction to MCBA’s print studio—including key equipment, tools, and terminology—in addition to an opportunity to experience the satisfaction of printing a message through the hands-on process of letterpress printing.

Join us for an artist talk with the 2025-2026 Jerome Residency recipients, alter hakej, Genie Tran, and Essence Enwere.

This in-person workshop focuses on sharpening skills needed to marble nonpareil and chevron patterns.

Learn to make a Flag Book, an innovative and adaptable book structure that uses an accordion spine and attachable "flag" pages.

Experience the magic of marbling firsthand with this in-person workshop!

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

Learn about the history and power of the printing press as a tool for sharing information, and use a Vandercook printing press to print a message!

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

This in-person letterpress workshop offers an introduction to MCBA’s print studio—including key equipment, tools, and terminology—in addition to an opportunity to experience the satisfaction of printing a message through the hands-on process of letterpress printing.

This in-person workshop explores the incorporation of traditional Indigenous plant material with papermaking processes.

In this in-person workshop, we’ll focus on proper text preparation and traditional sewing patterns for side-sewn bindings.

In this in-person workshop, you'll discover hand-lettering techniques through a guided approach to drawing letters and short words, and walk away with a poster featuring your own lettering alphabet or your favorite letter!

Add supplementary two-dimensional material—including photographs, letters, or found ephemera—to artist’s books and other book arts projects in this in-person workshop.

Building on the fundamentals of drawing letters and short words in Hand-Lettering 1: Art of Letters (previously called The Art of Hand-Lettering), this follow-up workshop focuses on working with multiple words and short phrases.

Inspired by the methods of papyrus-making, we will transform materials such as beet, apple, zucchini, and carrot into handmade paper.

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

Experience the magic of marbling firsthand with this in-person workshop!

This in-person letterpress workshop offers an introduction to MCBA’s print studio—including key equipment, tools, and terminology—in addition to an opportunity to experience the satisfaction of printing a message through the hands-on process of letterpress printing.

This in-person workshop focuses on honing skills needed to marble stone and moire patterns.

This in-person letterpress workshop focuses on setting metal type and building familiarity with printing on the Vandercook press.

Step into the world of bouquet comb artistry with this immersive, in-person workshop!

Letterpress 3: Two-Color Prints focuses on printing multiple layers and building printers’ confidence using Vandercook presses through practice.

In this in-person workshop, learn the full linocut printmaking process from start to finish: transferring an image, carving safely and effectively, and printing by hand.

Transform images before your very eyes! In this in-person workshop, make assorted paper toys that use transparencies and sliding panels to hide and reveal content.

Learn about the history and power of the printing press as a tool for sharing information, and use a Vandercook printing press to print a message!

Immerse yourself in the oldest form of marbling, Suminagashi 墨流し (“spilled or floating ink”).

Explore and experiment with the art of Japanese marbling—or suminagashi 墨流し (“spilled or floating ink”)—in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Learn to fold six different styles of zines—from the classic 8-page structure to larger, more innovative booklets—then experiment with creating your own structures.

Join us for a collaborative concrete poetry and low-fi printmaking workshop in MCBA’s studios, drawing on the history of concrete poetry, the work of screenprinter and text-combiner Corita Kent, and Walt Whitman's insistence that a just society is poetry's embodiment.

Explore a book structure made from equilateral polygons that are hinged together to function in multiple ways, in this in-person workshop.

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.

Join us on the first Saturday of each month for a free tour of our studios.