Events

the KBAC was one of only 21 organizations in Michigan to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2021.

The grant allowed us to complete three book projects, host poetry readings, and award studio memberships. This exhibition will focus on that work, giving our studio artists a place to show what they created, as well as showcasing our newly produced books, and the Poets in Print broadsides from 2021/2022.

The NEA Grant allowed us to offer two studio memberships to encourage creative work in the book arts during 2021-2022. We focused on emerging artists and, after an open call for proposals, chose Laura Citino and Rachel Stickney. Laura will work on a chapbook of flash fiction pieces and two broadsides, and Rachel, a former KBAC intern and current instructor, will use her time to experiment and prepare a series of collagraph prints.

Two limited-edition chapbooks coinciding with April’s Poets in Print reading will also be on view. Vicki Cook designed linocuts for Lauren Alleyne’s book, (Un)Becoming Gretel, and Vicki VanAmyden to make images for Mónica Gomery collection of poetry. Both books are hand bound and hand set and printed on our Vandercook press.

The final book on display will be Truth Comes Slowly by Los Angeles writer Jervey Tervalon with linoleum cut images by artist Mary Proenza. This book is also handset and printed on our press and will be bound by hand including several in a deluxe edition.