Main Gallery
January 21, 2025–March 30, 2025
Saturday, February 8, 2025
A transformative fellowship for mid-career artists
Mar 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!
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.
In this virtual workshop, learn experimental techniques to understand the concept of “translation” as a tool that includes different ways of communication that go beyond language, including sound, movement, smell, words, etc.—in ways that we don’t usually expect.
In this virtual workshop, learn techniques for generating text for artist's books through conceptual approaches: text as image, as narrative, and as lyrical expression.
Photoshop is the perfect way to convert your photographs to screen-printable positives and to preview your layers before ink hits the screen!
Do you have an idea for a book arts project, but you aren’t sure where to start? Learn practical skills to guide you in taking actionable steps to move your project forward confidently, in this in-person workshop.
Get familiar with MCBA’s screen printing studio and practice the photo emulsion process, from positive creation and screen coating to exposure and reclaiming.
This in-person letterpress workshop focuses on setting metal type and building familiarity with printing on the Vandercook press.
In this in-person workshop, learn foundational skills in bookbinding while making three book structures: pamphlet binding (single- and double-section), slotted tape binding, and a hardcover, flat-back book with three-piece case
Learn the tools, terminology, and procedures of European-style papermaking in this in-person studio workshop.
In this in-person workshop, learn foundational techniques and methods to care for aged and damaged paper.
October 12, 2024–January 25, 2025
