KBAC Memberships & Support

The KBAC offers special benefits if you enroll as supporting members. Your support advances our mission of establishing a creative center for the Book Arts here in west Michigan. In return you receive discounts on workshops, can have access to KBAC studio facilities, receive invitations to participate special events and have opportunites to share creative experience and skills with other members.

CLICK HERE FOR A MEMBERSHIP BROCHURE AND REGISTRATION FORM.

General Memberships:

Individuals can support the Kalamazoo Books Arts Center by becoming members.
$35 a year
$20 a year for students and seniors
Members receive these benefits:
• Members will automatically receive KBAC class catalogs and invitations to special events such as poetry readings, lectures, field trips, and our annual Edible Book Festival
• Members Appreciation Day: One Saturday a year the KBAC invites members to come and mingle with the artists and instructors and try out papermaking, printing and other processes and techniques.
• 10% off classes offered by the KBAC

Artist Memberships:

Professional book artists looking for a community and a place to work may want to consider an Artist Membership with the KBAC.
$50 a month
due on the first of the month / 12-month contract
Artist Members receive these benefits:
• All the benefits of General Membership
• Access to both wet (papermaking) and dry (printmaking) equipment (once “licensed” on the equipment by a licensing instructor)
• Storage shelf for materials
• Website listing, along with contact information and/or a linking to the artist’s website
• Opportunity to participate in juried exhibitions
• Display space with other Artist Members at the fall and spring Art Hops*
*Items sold at the KBAC: 80% to artists, 20% to the KBAC.

Group Memberships:

Not-for-profit arts groups can obtain a yearly group membership with the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. A group membership gives each member the same benefits of a general membership to the KBAC as well as a once-a-month meeting space for the group.
Talk to the Director for more information. Contact him by phone at 269/373-4938 or by email at info@kalbookarts.org

 

Internships with the KBAC:

Interns are responsible for keeping the studio and equipment clean and tidy, helping instructors during classes, and assisting during events. Interns can use the dry and wet equipment (once they’ve earned their “driver’s license”) for as long as they remain interns. Eligible students wishing to intern at the KBAC should apply to the Director. You can contact him by phone at 269/373-4938 or by email at info@kalbookarts.org