Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Give to the Max is a statewide giving opportunity to show your support for nonprofits across Minnesota! Our Giving Holiday is scheduled for Thursday, November 21st, but early giving has begun! A donation of any amount allows MCBA to continue to provide virtual and in-person workshops, host free printing events for the community, offer scholarships & expand the world of book arts!

Show out for MCBA and make a gift today at https://www.givemn.org/organization/Minnesota-Center-For-Book-Arts to help us reach our goal of $10,000 💚 We thank you for your generosity!

🖐️ ⚒️ Join the MCBA team and apply to be an Education Intern (2 openings; 1 remote & 1 hybrid)! Spend 6–8 hours a week from January-April gaining new skills and experiences. The Education Interns will assist in supporting our virtual book arts programs alongside our education team. This opportunity comes with a $800 stipend, among other benefits. Apply and learn more here:
https://www.mnbookarts.org/internships/. Deadline to apply is Monday, November 25, 2024; 11:59pm CT.

Applications for our fall education internships are open! 👋 Spend 6–8 hours a week building new skills and experiences with studio and/or virtual workshops! The Education Internships (2 openings; 1 remote & 1 hybrid) run from September–December 2024 and include a $500 stipend, among other benefits. The deadline is August 9th @ 11:59 CT. Apply here: https://www.mnbookarts.org/internships/

Interested in arts administration and event planning? 👩🏽‍🎨👩🏼‍💻🖼 Join MCBA as a remote Gallery & Marketing Intern for the 2024 MCBA Prize! You'll gain skills and experience in the exhibition promotional process, project management & help build a virtual exhibition of over 100 artists and their work! The internship runs July –September, 2024, for 10 hours weekly and includes a $1000 stipend. Application deadline is Sunday, June 23rd. Visit https://www.mnbookarts.org/internships/ to learn more and apply!

Early-career Minnesota (or New York) based artists, check this out!

Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships support generative artists with a three year, $60,000 award to support their time and expenses for the creation of new work, artistic development, and/or professional artistic career development.

Applications are open now and the deadline to apply is April 15, 2024!

Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship The Jerome Foundation was founded by Jerome Hill (1905-1972), a noted filmmaker, composer and painter, and awards grants to emerging artists in Hill’s home state of Minnesota and New York City, where he spent much of his creative life.

Heads up!

We’re open through Saturday, December 23 for gift-shopping and gallery-wandering, but we’ll be closed December 24, 2023 through January 1, 2024.

Here's to some end-of-year rest and rejuvenation! ❤️🩷💚

All four books pictured here are past winners of the Minnesota Book Artist Award... Is yours next?! 📚🏆

Submissions are open through January 8, 2024 for the 2024 Minnesota Book Artist Award, presented with the Minnesota Book Awards. This biennial prize recognizes a Minnesota-based book artist or collaborative group for outstanding new work created in the last two years. Winners take home a $750 cash prize and enjoy statewide publicity!

Find more details and apply here: https://www.mnbookarts.org/minnesota-book-artist-award/

Box making 📦!
Papercutting ✂️!
Art critiquing 🤔
Wax sealing 🕯️
Foil stamping 💮
Book design 📘
In person 🧍‍!
Virtual 🖥️!

It's all here in our hot-off-the-press February workshop schedule. Browse and sign up here: https://www.mnbookarts.org/category/adult-workshops/

Pictured here are Introduction to Book Design for Visual Artists, Postcard Pocket Notebook: Collaboration & Exchange (with visiting artists from the Shift-lab collective!), and Letterlocking: Folded Secrets.

Learn about the printmaking process while making letterpress posters and ink-stamped postcards for Palestine. Print designs are by Lamia Abukhadra, Andrea Shaker, and Jamie Kubat. Drop into our studios anytime on Thursday, December 14, 2023, 5–7pm. You’ll see a welcome table in the lobby outside our Main Gallery.

This event is presented by Mizna and Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Imagine a book that's taller than you—or one that's round and fluffy like a snowball, or that looks like a mug of hot chocolate!

Make some fun, wintry structures with your kiddo at "Bookmaking for Preschoolers: Snow Play!" on Saturday, December 16 from 10am–12pm. One registration includes one adult and one child, age 2–6.

Sign up here: https://www.mnbookarts.org/bookmaking-for-preschoolers-snow-play/

It’s time to aim high! 🏹 Imagine what you could create with $25,000, a year of professional development, and two years of MCBA studio access.

Applications for the 2024 McKnight Fellowships for Book Artists are open December 1, 2023–March 1, 2024. If you're a beyond-emerging book artist living in Minnesota, this is your nudge to apply! 🫵 Learn more about eligibility and benefits here: https://www.mnbookarts.org/mcknight-fellowships/

📘 📐❣️🔹 WE'RE HIRING! 🔹❣️📐📘

Become a key member of MCBA’s leadership team! 🔑 We’re looking for a full-time Associate Director to, first and foremost, lead institutional and individual giving. Additionally, this person will work with our ED on communications, HR, and leadership.

Priority deadline is December 1, but the position will remain open until filled. Learn more on our website below!

https://www.mnbookarts.org/employment/

Give to the Max Day is finally here! ⏰

When you donate $75 or more by midnight, you contribute to our amazing community of creatives, and as a special thank you, we'll send you the following:

$75 - Patch by Katie Kirk (Eight Hour Day)
$150 - Set of letterpress holiday cards printed in our studios
$250 - MCBA’s newest tote, a sticker, marbled paper buttons, and a hand-bound letterpress notebook
$500 - All 3 gifts above!

Every dollar counts and we have less than 14 hours to reach our $9,000 goal. (Check the progress in our stories!) Let’s celebrate our community!

DONATE >> https://www.givemn.org/organization/Minnesota-Center-For-Book-Arts

🌟 Join us in making a difference! 🌟 When you donate $75 by November 16th, you not only contribute towards maintaining 12,000 square feet of studio space where students of all ages can find community and grow roots, but you'll also receive this patch by Katie Kirk (Eight Hour Day) as a token of our gratitude. 🎁✨

Click the link below to help us reach our Give to the Max Day goal of $9,000! 🧡
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Minnesota-Center-For-Book-Arts

Check out these one-day-only freebies and activities at the Shop at MCBA (shopmnbookarts.org) on November 25! We're open from 10am–5pm.

🌲 Learn how to use a tabletop Provisional Press to print gift tags (12–3pm only)
🌲 Get a free print when you spend $50 or more in the Shop
🌲 Cross gifts off your list! Find handmade books, journals, cards, prints, zines, holiday decor, and art materials in our Shop

Our exhibitions are 🔸FREE 🔸 and open to the public five days a week. If you’ve wandered these wonderful spaces, you know how special they are. Please support MCBA so we can keep bringing you exhibitions like the one pictured here, Paper Is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Culture.

Give before November 16 and be entered into a drawing for a $500 Early Giving Golden Ticket!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Minnesota-Center-For-Book-Arts