CBAA Journal: Current Issue

The journal is now open access!

Our most current issue, Volume 7, Number 1 (2024) of Openings: Studies in Book Art can be accesses by clicking on the link. 

Call for Papers

Click here for the Call for Articles Announcement: https://journals.sfu.ca/cbaa/index.php/jcbaa/announcement/view/13

About the CBAA Journal: Openings

Openings is an annual, online publication that constitutes one of CBAA’s major outreach platforms. The journal publishes critical, historical, and theoretical peer-reviewed articles, book and exhibition reviews, interviews about book art and its pedagogy, and art features. Contributions from diverse perspectives are welcome as are interdisciplinary and international explorations of the relationship of book art to the broader art world including graphic design, printmaking, digital media, creative writing and other textual and/or visual disciplines.

Editorial Board 2025

Editor: Peter Tanner, University of Utah

Editorial Board

  • AB Gorham (Chair, Publications Committee), University of Nebraska, Omaha 
  • Kyle Holland, University of Alabama 
  • Emily P. Tipps, University of Utah 
  • Katherine M. Ruffin, Wellesley College
  • -vacant- 
  • -vacant-

Subject (Genre) Editors:

  • Peer Reviewed Scholarly Articles Editor: Peter Tanner, University of Utah 
  • Book Reviews Editor: Ruth Thomas, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center 
  • Exhibition Reviews Editor: -vacant- 
  • Student Perspectives Editor: Savannah Bustillo, University of Iowa 
  • Studio Praxis and Pedagogy Editor: Sara Rieger, Book Artist

Copy Editor: Matt Runkle
Layout Editor: Bryn Michelson-Ziegler

Previous Issues

Volume 1, Number 1 (2012) of Openings: Studies in Book Art can be accessed through the archives on the journal website.

Volume 2, Number 1 (2016), of OpeningsStudies in Book Art can be accessed through the archives on the journal website.

Volume 3, Number 1 (2017), of OpeningsStudies in Book Art can be accessed through the archives on the journal website.

Volume 4, Number 1 (2021), of OpeningsStudies in Book Art can be accessed through the archives on the journal website.

Volume 5, Number 1 (2022), of OpeningsStudies in Book Art can be accessed through the archives on the journal website.

Volume 6, Number 1 (2023), of OpeningsStudies in Book Art can be accessed through the archives on the journal website.

If you have trouble accessing the site, please contact journal@collegebookart.org.

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