Minnesota Center for Book Arts is a hub of creativity where interesting, passionate, and knowledgeable people like you learn, share ideas, and get inspired. Join the conversation by attending our Book Arts Roundtables. They're FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, and they take place in MCBA's spacious studios.

Tuesday, April 28; 7pm
Interaction: Word & Image
Award-winning illustrator Lauren Stringer and Milkweed Editions managing editor Jim Cihlar talk about the process of illustration and revision and what drives the interaction between editor, illustrator and writer. Q&A encouraged! Presented in association with the exhibition Reflections.

Tuesday, May 12; 7pm
Artist Mentorships and Expanding Horizons
Participants in the 2008-09 MCBA / Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship program present a peek at their past work, discuss the mentorship process and share how their current explorations into the book arts help them enhance, expand, document and reflect upon their “native” disciplines of poetry, ceramics, textiles, painting, drawing, photography, mixed media and installation art.

Tuesday, June 9; 7pm
Print-On-Demand Meets the Artist's Book
Bolger Vision Beyond Print president dik Bolger leads a discussion on print-on-demand and offset printing options for artists’ books.

Saturday, July 11; 3:30pm
Pentimento: The Bookworks of Claire Jeanine Satin
We hope you will join us for a presentation and meet-and-greet with internationally acclaimed book artist and sculptor Claire Jeanine Satin. Satin opens Pentimento, a solo exhibition at Susan Hensel Gallery, on Friday, July 10, and in her Roundtable at MCBA on July 11 she will guide us through several of the unconventional, multilayered and beautiful bookworks in her Pentimento series, and the motivations and inspirations behind them.

Susan Hensel Gallery assistant coordinator Zach Pearl explains that "Satin's books examine language, the possibility of transformation, layers and the absence of certainty, until they are no longer books at all, but prototypes for storytelling. To make Pentimento, Satin took cues from methodologies of her longtime friend the artist/composer John Cage, implementing oblique strategies into her process, and examining how we as 'readers' make meaning."

"As a faculty member at Broward Community College, Satin had the privilege of meeting Cage when he taught a student workshop in 1974. Satin immediately fell in love with his approaches to sound and his insight across many disciplines. Eventually, Satin was introduced to Cage's theory of 'chance operations', a process of assigning a new system of arbitrary values (i.e. colors, shapes, numbers etc.) to a known sequence such as the alphabet, or a musical scale. The result of this is an original language arranged in 'nonsyntactic configurations and relationships'." (Guild of Bookworkers Online, 2006)

Tuesday, August 4; 7pm
Meet Springboard for the Arts
Kathleen Richert, Director of Artist Services at Springboard for the Arts, gives an overview of Springboard’s resources and services, including the emergency loan program, healthcare access and legal assistance. Q&A session will follow.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is open to the public:
Tuesdays: 10 am to 9 pm
Wednesdays - Saturdays: 10 am to 5 pm
Sundays: 12 to 4 pm
Mondays: closed

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is located in
the Open Book Building in downtown Minneapolis
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612.215.2520
Fax: 612.215.2545
Email: mcba@mnbookarts.org

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