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The Center for the Book is an innovative, interdisciplinary arts and research unit located within th
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The University of Iowa Center for the Book is a distinctive degree-granting program that integrates training in book arts practice and technique with research into the history and culture of books.

10/26/2026

🍁🍂💥MFA Monday spotlight: meet Zahra Momeni!

Hi everyone!
I’m Zahra, an Iranian interdisciplinary artist currently pursuing an MFA at UICB. After earning my MFA in Photography from Temple University, I’m excited to dive into book arts and see where this new medium takes my work!
My practice uses alternative processes, layered materials like cyanotypes, transparent film, and fabric, alongside light and projection to explore memory, migration, and the feeling of home. I love building open-ended spaces that navigate states of in-betweenness. So happy to be here!

10/23/2026

3rd year MFA student, Ollie Oliver, led a marbling demonstration for Graduate Book Arts Workshop this week! There’s always something interesting going on in UICB classes. If you’d like to find out how you can get involved, see the link in bio to register for our online MFA in Book Arts Info session coming up on Nov. 6.

10/09/2026

Curious about the MFA in Book Arts? 👀 📚 💖

Join us Friday, November 6 at 12 p.m. CST for a virtual info session with the UICB!

We’ll share details about the program, show videos and slides from faculty and students, and answer your questions — whether you’re just beginning to explore or already planning to apply.

🔗 Register through the link in our bio!

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07/17/2026

On view in the K. K. Merker Gallery through August 8th! Luxurious Paste: Work from Bookbinding Four Featuring work from Louisa Eastley, Melanie Landsittel, Ollie Oliver, Ellie White, and Paige Wilkinson. Louisa Eastley Paige Wilkinson Ellie White Lily “Ollie” Oliver Melanie Landsittel Giselle simon

05/19/2026

Congratulations to our Spring 2026 MFA graduates, Clara, Harper, Louisa, Pagie, and Poojana! We are so proud of you and all of the beautiful work you created while you were here. You are all amazing and we will miss you around North Hall!

05/15/2026

Congrats to our MFA students who participated in their first-year review! It is such a treat to be able to see all that you have accomplished this year. We can’t wait to see what you do next!

05/06/2026

I N L E T : A READING & BOOK ARTS EXHIBITION ✨📖🌀
Thursday, May 7th

Open at 4:30, reading at 5pm

at the Lagoon House
230 N. Riverside Drive

Join us for a celebration of words & books at the Lagoon Shelter House 💌📚

The Lagoon House is rarely open to the public, so this is a special chance to experience the space as well as the work 👀🌿

Featuring work by Maya Arthur, Molly Brown, Abra Conn, Mari Johnson, Poojana Prasanna, Frances Sleger, Bella Spilotro, Audrey Tawdry, and Shelby Welte ✨

Guests may make a print to take home! 🖨️🎉

05/05/2026

The Last Rodeo 🐎📚

Join the UI Center for the Book as we celebrate our graduating MFA class and their exhibition The Last Rodeo, now on view in the K.K. Merker Gallery! Featuring work by Louisa Eastley, Harper Folsom, Poojana Prasanna, Clara Reynen, and Paige Wilkinson, this show marks the culmination of their time at UICB!

🗓 Friday, May 8
🕓 4:30–6:00 PM
🎤 Graduation remarks at 5:15 PM (North Hall lawn, weather permitting)

🤠 The UICB First Year Rodeo will also be on view in UICB classrooms, featuring work by Molly Brown, Abra Conn, Tyler Lofton, Jenna Ross, and Mel Ware!

Come celebrate this incredible milestone and send off our graduates in style!

05/02/2026

Congratulations to UICB MFA student Abra Conn on being awarded the MFA Summer Research Fellowship!! 💙🤑🎉

This summer, Abra will travel to Ireland, England, and France to visit medieval castles, including their dungeons and lower spaces, conducting on-site research that will directly determine the structure and physical form of OUBLIETTE, a completed poetry manuscript now being realized as a letterpress-printed artist book.

We’re looking forward to seeing this work come into its final form!! 🤩

04/30/2026

UICB MFA student Mari has been awarded an MFA Summer Research Fellowship!! 🎉🌟📄

“Mari is going to stay put in Iowa City for the summer to make a whole lot of handmade paper in the studios and then fashion some of those papers into little creatures. She plans to make a handful of nearby pilgrimages to gather inspiration for an upcoming writing/performance project.”

Congratulations, Mari!! We can’t wait to see what emerges from a summer of paper, creatures, and wandering ✨

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