Join our collaborative team as an intern and play an essential role in shaping our work!
Applications are due on Friday, November 21, 2025 at 11:59pm CT.
Explore new work by Jerome mentees Yasmin Yassin, Drew Arietta, and Gabi Estrada in MCBA’s Main Gallery.
November 14, 2025–January 25, 2026
Check out the new line-up of November-January workshop release!
Explore our new membership levels with better benefits, deeper community connections, and expanded access to book arts!
As a member, you can support community access to the book arts through education, public programming, studio access for artists, and curated exhibitions.
Shop small and support independent artists. Check out hand-printed greeting cards, prints, journals, zines, artists’ books, and more artful gifts!
Bring your group for a hands-on letterpress printing or suminagashi marbling workshop.
Whether you’re pulling your first print or knotting your hundredth hand-bound book, we believe in your creative potential. As a nonprofit arts center with spacious studios, two galleries, and a book arts-themed shop, we provide access, educational opportunities, and room to explore.
This in-person workshop is perfect for anyone new to book arts who would like to learn something a little different.
Learn the tools, terminology, and procedures of European-style papermaking in this in-person studio workshop.
In this virtual workshop, learn how to create a simple, non-adhesive binding with a mechanical spine that collapses when the book is opened on a flat surface.
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.
Immerse yourself in the oldest form of marbling, Suminagashi 墨流し (“spilled or floating ink”).
The drum leaf binding—developed by Tim Ely—is a simple yet elegant design that uses folio pages printed on one side and not sewn through the fold.
In this in-person workshop, you'll discover lettering techniques through a guided approach to drawing letters and short words, and walk away with a set of your own hand-lettered seasonal cards!
In this in-person workshop, learn how to create repeating patterns and carve a linoleum block to print on fabric.
November 14, 2025–January 25, 2026
September 11, 2025–January 11, 2026
