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Press Play 2025!
Join us for this FREE Printing event at MCBA! Letterpress print, screen print, and make buttons!
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 1–4 PM
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2024-2025 Jerome Mentorship Artist Talk
Hear from the recipients of the 2024-2025 MCBA/Jerome Foundation Mentorship: Yasmin Yassin, Drew Arrieta, and Gabi Estrada.
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Outlook Gallery Call!
Submit a proposal to have your work showcased in MCBA’s Outlook Gallery. Applications are open until Wednesday, March 31.
Selected artists will receive a three-month exhibition!
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The 2022 & 2023 McKnight Fellowship Exhibition
Main Gallery
January 21, 2025–March 30, 2025
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Sensing Wonder: Artwork by Cathy Ryan
January 31, 2025–March 23, 2025
An exhibition in the Open Book Literary Commons to honor and celebrate the life and work of Cathy Ryan
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Book Artist Badge Day
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Badge Day is designed to fulfill the requirements of the Girl Scouts Book Artist Badge and is open to all girls ages 10–18 interested in book arts!
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The Shop at MCBA
Shop small and support independent artists this holiday season. Check out artists’ books, prints, zines, gifts, and more!
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Book a Private Workshop!
Bring your group for a hands-on letterpress printing or suminagashi marbling workshop.
Igniting creativity & community through the book arts.
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.
Upcoming Workshops
What is visual poetry (VISPO)? Visual poetry incorporates multiple forms of experimental poetry and literature.
Letterpress 4 focuses on planning and printing an edition (or a group of identical prints).
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.
This in-person letterpress workshop focuses on setting metal type and building familiarity with printing on the Vandercook press.
Learn the tools, terminology, and procedures of European-style papermaking in this in-person studio workshop.
Letterpress 3: Two-Color Prints focuses on printing multiple layers and building printers’ confidence using Vandercook presses through practice.
Step into the world of bouquet comb artistry with this immersive, in-person workshop!
Learn to create drawers that slide and divisions within the box in MCBA’s studios.
Let’s explore collage through Artist Trading Cards! Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are small two- dimensional works of art about the size of a playing card.
Current Exhibitions
February 1, 2025–March 29, 2025
January 21, 2025–March 30, 2025
January 25, 2025–March 23, 2025
Upcoming Public Programs

Your support connects artists, students, and booklovers of all ages with programs that celebrate the art of the book.
Your generosity keeps our educational programs accessible, our studios world-class, and our exhibitions free to the public.
