The College Book Art Association supports and promotes academic book art education by fostering the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism.
President’s Welcome
Welcome to the College Book Art Association!
This is a national organization for academic professionals working in the field of book art. Formed and chartered in 2008 after years of informal exchanges, we are friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and strangers brought together by our mutual interests in books - book making, printing, binding, literature, art, history - and our love of teaching.
Our website is being expanded, so there's much more to come. Membership is growing and plans are underway for our next meeting. Watch this space for announcements and more information. And welcome. We're glad you found us.
John Risseeuw, President
CBAA Annual Meeting and Seminar in Book Arts Pedogogy
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland Oregon
January 8-10, 2010
Please join us for the 2010 CBAA Annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. The program will focus on pedagogy and consist of presentations and open discussion sessions engaging participants in a range of pedagogical issues. A members’ exhibit entitled 'The Assignment' will be mounted in conjunction with the meeting. A call for exhibition entries will be posted July 14 on this website. Further details on the program and logistics will be available in August. Please note that the next full CBAA conference will be held in January 2011.
GRABHORN FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009
The inaugural class of Grabhorn Scholars has been selected by the CBAA. These students will travel to San Francisco to be in residence at the Arion Press August 10-14, 2009. The program is jointly sponsored by the CBAA and the nonprofit Grabhorn Institute. The M&H type foundry, letterpress shop (composing room and pressroom), and bindery operations will be explained in detail as current projects are executed. Presentations on project development, text selection, rights, editing, collaboration, design, typography, and other elements of publication will be made by members of the Press. Selections from the archives of over eighty Arion Press books will be viewed. In addition, visits will be arranged to the Logan Collection of Artist Books at the Legion of Honor, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, and Special Collections at the San Francisco Public Library.
The Grabhorn Fellows Class for 2009:
Matthew Aron - Columbia College Chicago
Joshua Falconer - College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Steve Garst - Ball State University
Katy Govan - University of Nevada, Reno
Andrew Huot - The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Margaret Kimball - University of Arizona
Wesley Kloss - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lee Marchalonis - The University of Iowa, Center for the Book
Jennifer Sands - Arizona State University
Jessica White - University of Iowa, Center for the Book
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland Oregon
January 8-10, 2010
Please join us for the 2010 CBAA Annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. The program will focus on pedagogy and consist of presentations and open discussion sessions engaging participants in a range of pedagogical issues. A members’ exhibit entitled 'The Assignment' will be mounted in conjunction with the meeting. A call for exhibition entries will be posted July 14 on this website. Further details on the program and logistics will be available in August. Please note that the next full CBAA conference will be held in January 2011.
GRABHORN FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009
The inaugural class of Grabhorn Scholars has been selected by the CBAA. These students will travel to San Francisco to be in residence at the Arion Press August 10-14, 2009. The program is jointly sponsored by the CBAA and the nonprofit Grabhorn Institute. The M&H type foundry, letterpress shop (composing room and pressroom), and bindery operations will be explained in detail as current projects are executed. Presentations on project development, text selection, rights, editing, collaboration, design, typography, and other elements of publication will be made by members of the Press. Selections from the archives of over eighty Arion Press books will be viewed. In addition, visits will be arranged to the Logan Collection of Artist Books at the Legion of Honor, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, and Special Collections at the San Francisco Public Library.
The Grabhorn Fellows Class for 2009:
Matthew Aron - Columbia College Chicago
Joshua Falconer - College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Steve Garst - Ball State University
Katy Govan - University of Nevada, Reno
Andrew Huot - The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Margaret Kimball - University of Arizona
Wesley Kloss - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lee Marchalonis - The University of Iowa, Center for the Book
Jennifer Sands - Arizona State University
Jessica White - University of Iowa, Center for the Book