New Small Press Incubator Fellowship
The Center for Book Arts’s new fellowship program supports BIPOC creatives with essential resources to start a small press, planting seeds for a more diverse and equitable vision of publishing.
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The Written Image: BiblioQuilts
Inspired by traditional and contemporary quilt patterns, artist Larry Clifford crafts each of his BiblioQuilts from hardcover books rescued from libraries, basements, and attics.
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The Written Image: Crystallized Books
Inspired by books and magazines she found discarded on the street, Oakland-based artist Alexis Arnold explores the vulnerability of printed media by transforming books into sculptures with crystallized borax.
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The Written Image: Contemplation Bowls
To create her delicate book sculptures, Swedish artist Cecilia Levy considers the history, materiality, and composition of old books sourced from her surroundings.
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The Written Image: Unburnable Book
A special “unburnable” edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was crafted to raise awareness about recent efforts to ban books from schools and libraries.
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The Written Image: Cara Barer
A Houston artist turns outdated manuals, phone books, and encyclopedias into visually striking sculptures.
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The Written Image: Kerry Mansfield’s “Expired”
Ex-library books are catalogued in a new home.
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The Written Image: “Sabrina” by Nick Drnaso
A new graphic novel out from Montreal comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly.
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American Writers Museum
Through innovative and dynamic state-of-the-art exhibitions, as well as compelling programming, the American Writers Museum (AWM) educates, enriches, provokes, and inspires the public. A museum focused solely on the nation's writers and writing, the AWM is the first of its kind in the United States.
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The Written Image: Library of the Infinitesimally Small and Unimaginably Large
South African artist Barbara Wildenboer transforms old reference books into delicate sculptures that evoke their sources’ subject matter.
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