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Artists' Books and Supporting Resources: Other Collections & Organizations

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The Directory of Artists' Books Collections
A comprehensive directory of artists' book collections in libraries and other institutions. With links to their web sites and supporting research materials.

College Book Art Association
"The College Book Art Association is a non-profit organization fundamentally committed to the teaching of book arts at the college and university level, while supporting such education at all levels, concerned with both the practice and the analysis of the medium. It welcomes as members everyone involved in such teaching and all others who have similar goals and interests. The association aims to engage in a continuing reappraisal of the nature and meaning of the teaching of book arts."

The following lists include selected teaching centers, workshops / presses, and artists' book vendors.

Book arts centers and organizations in North Carolina

Triangle Book Arts

John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC

The Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC

Book arts centers, organizations, and collectives outside NC

Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective

Booklyn Artists Alliance 

Center for Book Arts 

Jaffe Center for Book Arts 

Guild of Book Workers

Minnesota Center for Book Arts 

Printed Matter 

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 

San Francisco Center for the Book 

Virginia Center for the Book 

Visual Studies Workshop 

Women's Studio Workshop 

Institutions Offering Graduate Studies in Book Arts

University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL

University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA

University of Iowa Center for the Book in Iowa City, IA

Intrusion, by Ellen Knudson

Page of an artist's book featuring a woodcut image of a hybrid animal-rowboat.