Igniting creativity & community through the book arts.

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.