Thursday, March 27
Hear from the recipients of the 2024-2025 MCBA/Jerome Foundation Mentorship: Yasmin Yassin, Drew Arrieta, and Gabi Estrada.
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!
Saturday, March 29
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!
Main Gallery
January 21, 2025–March 30, 2025
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
Shop small and support independent artists this holiday season. Check out artists’ books, prints, zines, gifts, and more!
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.
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.
Join us in MCBA’s studios for a day of book arts and earn your Book Artist Badge!
February 1, 2025–March 29, 2025
January 21, 2025–March 30, 2025
January 25, 2025–March 23, 2025
