MCBA instructor and artist Erin Maurelli discusses the  MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Residency exhibition and one of the featured artists, Christopher Selleck, whose work centers around themes of masculinity, sexuality, and identity.

MCBA Prize exhibition selected for Star Tribune’s Critics’ Picks: The 15 best things to do and see in the Twin Cities this week

An ode to the literary artists, books, and locations from all 50 states. In Literary Hub’s Minnesota feature, MCBA is highlighted as a literary landmark that celebrates and explores book arts!

It’s 2024 Pride Week in Minneapolis! Read Racket’s suggestions for the best events to attend. MCBA will be present at Meet at MIA: Pride Party with letterpress activities for all!

From NYT’s Travel, read about the best food,  activities and scenic spots to check out in Minneapolis in just 36 hours. These great recommendations include none other than our very own Minnesota Center for Book Arts!

Whether you’re settling into a new apartment in Minneapolis, MN or renting a house in the city, you’ll quickly find that this city boasts an art scene that’s as diverse as the city itself. For those ready to explore, check out this Redfin article we were featured in highlighting the Minneapolis, MN art scene.

Listen to a seven-minute interview with MCBA’s Director of Exhibitions and Artist Programs, Anika Schneider, who provides information about MCBA’s offerings in general and the McKnight Fellowships for Book Artists in particular.

Read an overview of Paper Is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures and how it’s redefining the concept of handmade paper—by both exploring different cultural traditions and demonstrating how those traditions are being pushed forward by contemporary artists.

Hear from curators Tia Blassingame and Stephanie Sauer on why they started interrogating the definition of paper, and why bark, cloth, and pottery qualify. The show upends expectations while shining a spotlight on traditions that have been systemically erased.

“A handmade sheet of paper the size of a trailer. Rubbery-looking fauna. Intricate basketlike weavings,” lists the article to illustrate the assertion that Paper Is People is rethinking the definition of paper.

Paper Is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures is an Editor Pick alongside Carla Christenson’s solo glass show at Foci. Read about the impact of our limited understanding of paper and how this show broadens that definition by displaying Hawaiian kapa, Mexican acate, Indigenous paper basket-weaving, birch bark biting, and more.

MCBA and its bookmaking studio was included on this list of museum tours, art classes, and other excursions, indoor and outdoor, to get teams interacting in fun and interesting ways outside of the workplace in the Twin Cities.

Find out what these paper cast bottles, cans, glasses, and jars represent to artist Sun Young Kang in her new installation, In Between Presence and Absence: The Illusionary Reality.

Learn more about Corinne Teed and how they plan to spend their McKnight Fellowship year. Corinne is an Assistant Professor in the Art department at the University of Minnesota.

Jenna Ross of the Minneapolis Star Tribune draws a beautiful portrait of our new Hebrew, Spanish, and Arabic wood type and what it means to its practitioners. Hear from the people involved in its production and learn about our plans for future projects!

Liv Martin speaks with Evanston, Illinois-based artist Ben Blount about his installation of 148 black-and-white prints at MCBA, each one displaying a different truth about how white supremacy operates in the world. With their straightforward language, these prints are rooted in the tradition of protest movements and printmaking. MCBA’s Director of Exhibitions & Artist Programs, Torey Erin, relays the positive reactions of onlookers.

Artist and letterpress printer Ben Blount describes the brainstorming process and intention behind his powerful print installation, Eyes Wide Shut. Read about why the use of the phrase “white supremacy” has increased in recent years, why Ben prefers its directness to “racism,” and how MCBA wants to increase accountability in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis and the white supremacist mob that attacked the Capitol.

Coincidentally installed just five days after the white supremacist insurrection at the Capitol, Ben Blount’s print show, Eyes Wide Shut, is timelier than ever. Read about an earlier version of Ben’s exhibition mounted in his current hometown of Evanston, Illinois, and how plans for the current installation in MCBA’s street-facing windows expanded over time.