Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, filmmaker, and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she went into exile in the early 1970s, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña began creating "precarious works" and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard."

Her multi...

Granary Books proprietor and publisher Steven Clay joins English Professor Jennifer Buckley for a public conversation in the Main Library Gallery.

Professor Buckley curated the current gallery exhibition, Seeing Seeking Feeling Reading: Granary Books. For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts. Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of...

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts. Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most significant independent publishers in the US. Selected items include...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Moxon is a Vandercook whisperer and printer extraordinaire. He runs the most helpful Vandercook Press information site Vanderblog (https://vandercookpress.info). He prints under the imprint Fameorshame Press. Moxon is an independent educator, author of Vandercook Presses: Maintenance, History and Resources and website editor for the American Printing History Association.

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Please see the Main Library Gallery site for specific exhibit times.

For three decades, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers committed to exploring and expanding the relations among the verbal, visual, and other arts.

Presenting a selection of UI Libraries’ comprehensive collection of Granary editions, this exhibition traces Granary publisher Steven Clay’s career from his beginnings as a UI undergraduate in the 1970s to his present position as one of the most...

Join us for Iowa Bibliophiles with guest speaker Cheryl Jacobsen!

"What a Scribe Notices, Up-close and Personal"

Come learn about the beauty and precision of calligraphy from one of the best. Cheryl Jacobsen is an artist/calligrapher and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa, where she teaches a range of courses in calligraphy and the lettering arts. She was a visiting faculty member for the 2015 NEH Summer Seminar The Materiality of Medieval...

Join us for Iowa Bibliophiles with guest speaker Cheryl Jacobsen!

"What a Scribe Notices, Up-close and Personal"

Come learn about the beauty and precision of calligraphy from one of the best. Cheryl Jacobsen is an artist/calligrapher and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa, where she teaches a range of courses in calligraphy and the lettering arts. She was a visiting faculty member for the 2015 NEH Summer Seminar The Materiality of Medieval...

Join us for Iowa Bibliophiles with guest speaker Cheryl Jacobsen!

"What a Scribe Notices, Up-close and Personal"

Come learn about the beauty and precision of calligraphy from one of the best. Cheryl Jacobsen is an artist/calligrapher and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa, where she teaches a range of courses in calligraphy and the lettering arts. She was a visiting faculty member for the 2015 NEH Summer Seminar The Materiality of Medieval...

Exhibits from UICB studio classes in lettering arts, papermaking, bookbinding, artist books, and letterpress printing will be on display. Work from UICB Faculty will be on display in the K.K. Merker Gallery. Ladies Typographic Union 2018 calendars will be available for purchase. $25 gets you a full year of beautiful prints! Food and drink will be served—all are welcome!

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Books and single-sheet prints with moving parts date from the beginning of printmaking practice. Drawing on the holdings of the Newberry Library, and collections worldwide, this talk will discuss the ways early modern printers and designers laid out, printed, and assembled these flaps, dials, and constructible objects. Evidence survives in the form of manuals, paper evidence, woodblocks, uncut sheets of movable parts, and in the constructed...

The combination of papermaking and printmaking processes can produce beautiful, unusual results. We will look at some memorable editions and unique works made at the Pace Paper workshop in Brooklyn, New York, including works by contemporary artists Donald Baechler, Will Cotton, Leonardo Drew, Tomoo Gokita and Li Songsong, among others. The talk will wrap up with discussion of trends in the paper and art worlds, and projections of the future direction of both.

Vendors include:

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Join us for the 5th Annual William Anthony Conservation Lecture

Deborah Howe discovered bookbinding at the University of Cincinnati working in the Conservation Lab under Gabrielle Fox. During this time she also studied at the Atelier d ‘Arts Appliqués du
Vésinet with Sun Evrard. In 1987 she was hired as a Conservation...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Katie Baldwin is a printmaker and book artist living in Huntsville, AL. Under Queen Anne’s Revenge Press, Baldwin produces artist’s books and woodblock prints. She has exhibited extensively and her work can be found in collections including the Library of Congress in Washington DC. She has received grant funding to travel internationally as an artist-in-residence and was one of seven artists selected to learn traditional Japanese woodblock printing (mokuhanga) from master carvers and printers at...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Please join us to hear brief presentations from the seven UI Center for the Book students who received Summer Fellowships in 2018. The program will take place in 332 North Hall on the afternoon of September 21st, 1:30 to 3pm.

On Thursday afternoon, September 20th, for a talk on "Multilingualism and Post-Anglophone Fiction," the English Department will host Rebecca Walkowitz, Professor of English at Rutgers University, author of last year’s Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in the Age of World Literature (Columbia UP) and, from 2006, Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation.

She will be followed a month later, on Thursday, October 16th, with a lecture on the monumental audiobook version of Joyce’s Uly...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

The annual Midwest and Great Northern Printer's Fair event to be held in Midwest Old Threshers Heritage Museum B in Mt. Pleasant and it is specifically geared to people practicing or curious about letterpress printing.

This event is geared towards letterpress printers, from beginners to professionals. It is a great opportunity for letterpress people to get together and talk, see demonstrations, get practical training on various pieces of equipment, and be able to buy (or sell-off) equipment and...

A Garden of Forking Paths: How to Read a Fifteenth-Century Venetian Herbal

Dr. Sarah Kyle is an art historian and associate professor of humanities at the University of Central Oklahoma. Her research and teaching reflect her interest in how illustrated books of botanical medicine, or "herbals", negotiate Greco-Arabic medical traditions and artistic currents in Italy and connect to knowledge cultures of the wider Mediterranean world. Dr. Kyle earned her PhD from Emory University and is author of...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...

Manuscripts in Special Collections

Come join the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections for special open houses featuring unique manuscripts dating from the 13th through the 19th century. Explore the artistry and craftsmanship that went into every object and witness the evolution of book production over the centuries. This is a very special opportunity to see manuscripts temporarily on loan to the University alongside some staff favorites from our own collection.

These open houses...