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Graduate study opportunities
The UICB offers an MFA degree and a graduate certificate in book studies or book arts.
The Center for the Book is an innovative arts and research program dedicated to the past, present, and future of the book. The Center pursues a distinctive mission, integrating practice in the art of the book with a study of the book in society. We offer curricula in the arts of printing, binding, papermaking, and calligraphy, in the history and culture of books as a field of study, and in the expressive power of the book form. The Center also supports an active program of visiting lectures and workshops with renowned book scholars and artists.
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Iowa Bibliophiles: The Poison Book Project
The Poison Book Project: The Mysterious History of Victorian-Era 'Poison Books' and Their Legacy Today
Are there really old books full of arsenic and other toxic heavy metals? How common are they? How dangerous are they? Why were they made at all? Melissa Tedone, co-founder of the Poison Book Project, will share the colorful history of Victorian bookbinding and its legacy on our bookshelves today.
Dr. Tedone is an Assistant Professor in the University of Delaware Department of Art Conservation and...