Events

Please watch this video of our reading to celebrate our new publication VALLEYFOLK

Over the past year three Western Michigan University students, Camille Day, Hana Holmgren, and Rozlin Opolka, who are former interns and participants in the Book Arts in Italy study abroad trip, worked in the KBAC studio to produce the limited-edition handmade book VALLEYFOLK. This book consists of eleven poems by young local writers with original linocut prints. Day, Holmgren, and Opolka compiled and edited the poems and designed the book, including making handmade paper for the cover and inserts, hand-setting the poems using lead type, printing the text and images on a Vandercook press, and hand-binding the edition. Ten copies were hard bound with Coptic covers and the remaining 25 copies have soft covers. They are available for purchase on the KBAC website. VALLEYFOLK was funded by a Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, New Leaders Grant.