Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Your support today shapes the future of MCBA. Help us grow and expand access to book arts for all.

 Jerome Book Arts Residency Reception.Jerome Book Arts Residency Reception.Community printing at Wordplay.

A gift today enables families and community members to enjoy MCBA’s free exhibitions, improves access to our virtual and in-person workshops, and supports programs that cultivate a fierce community of creative voices. Help us reach our Give to the Max Day goal of $9,000.

Your generosity will: 

Spotlight underacknowledged practices through exhibitions and workshop series like Paper Is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures, which featured works by local, national, and international artists, offering a new definition of paper­ within a global and decolonial framework. 

 Guests at Paper Is People reception.Co-curators, Stephanie Sauer and Tia Blassingame.

Connect artists with resources, support, and visibility for their work through our Shop, galleries, and relationships with special collections.  In the past twelve months, MCBA helped generate more than $120,000 in sales for working artists.

 Guests and artists at New Editions Preview Night.Zine display at New Editions.

Root communities in our studios, workshops, and artist programs. Since our last Give to the Max Day, we hosted over 1,769 students in workshops, both virtual and in-person.

Screen printing at Love Local.Garden Monotypes workshop.Iron Hand Press workshop.

Thanks to the Windgate Foundation, all new and increased donations will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000. Double the impact of your commitment to foster a love of book arts for all. Increase your gift, and invite friends, family, and community to join us in expanding the possibilities of MCBA.

Donations of $75 or more made between November 1st and November 16th will receive a gift from MCBA's studios.

Donate $75 or more and receive a patch from MCBA’s Shop.

Patches designed by Katie Kirk (@eighthourday)

Donate $150 or more and receive a set of letterpress holiday cards printed in MCBA’s studios. Please note the image is a work in progress. We're hitting the press soon!

Donate $250 or more and receive a swag bag! This includes MCBA’s newest tote, a sticker, marbled paper buttons, and a hand-bound letterpress notebook made in our studios.

Tote designed by Alex Prince (@theartofaprince)

Donate $500 or more and receive all three gifts. You will receive a patch, a set of letterpress holiday cards, and a swag bag featuring items made in our studios.

About MCBA 

Founded in 1983, Minnesota Center for Book Arts is a nonprofit visual arts center that ignites creativity and community through the book arts. We practice letterpress printing, bookbinding, hand papermaking, paper marbling, screen printing, and more! We believe that creativity is a basic human impulse that should be recognized and encouraged in all of its forms, and we are deepening our commitment to catalyzing opportunities for education, enrichment, and engagement for all. Through in person and virtual workshops, exhibitions, and opportunities for artists of all levels, we invite you to explore your own creative impulse. 

Be sure to check out our online Shop, where you can find unique artwork, art supplies, and bookish gifts!