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. 

With a photograph by Rochester-based photographer Joshua Rashaad McFadden, the New York Times featured our VOTE print installation on Open Book’s front windows in the midst of the 2020 presidential election. Prints are by MCBA Studio Technician Molly Poganski.

Elysa Voshell, Executive Director here at MCBA, is also an outstanding book artist. Read about how she first got involved with book arts and why she finds the art form so compelling, as well as how MCBA makes artmaking accessible to the Twin Cities community and beyond.

Jenna Ross sheds light on our inaugural McKnight Fellowships for Book Artists award by speaking with fellowship winners, Paula McCartney and Lisa Nebenzahl. Both artists use photography and paper to examine their worlds and unfold something new.

Get an overview of the book project that helped this group of artists, led by Gaylord Schanilec, win the 20202 Minnesota Book Artist award for My Mighty Journey: A Waterfall’s Story, authored by John Coy.

A group of 14 artists led by Gaylord Schanilec won the Minnesota Book Artist award for My Mighty Journey: A Waterfall’s Story, a 4.5-foot-wide handmade book that brings the history of St. Anthony Falls to life. Learn how Schanilec used unconventional materials to print illustrations for this poignant narrative authored by John Coy.