The Print Center is a nonprofit gallery whose mission is to support printmaking and photography as vital contemporary arts and encourage the appreciation of the printed image in all its forms. 

83rd Annual International Competition: Printmaking
Postmarked Deadline: November 14, 2008
Jurors: Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett
Publishers of Art on Paper magazine and founders of Triple Candie

The competition is open to all artists. All forms and variations of printmaking are acceptable including digital art, mixed-media and artists’ books.

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The College Book Art Association supports and promotes academic book art education by fostering the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship, and criticism. As part of this mission, the CBAA is offering awards for two outstanding student books. The finalists’ entries will be judged and, as space permits, exhibited at the CBAA bi-annual conference, January 10–11, 2009 at the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa. Download application here.

The first biennial conference of the College Book Art Association seeks to bridge the worlds of book art, book history, cultural criticism, and curatorial work through appreciation of the book as an aesthetic sensorium. Scholarship, artistic practice, and the digital age have evoked for us the multimedia nature of the book experience. At a time when the book arts have never been more vital, ART, FACT, AND ARTIFACT builds from these energies and will offer presentations, papers, studio demonstrations, and exhibits from artists and scholars interested in the future, present, and past of the book as an expressive form. More information here.

This an open call to participate in the generic ZINE exchange. More information here.

Maryland Printmakers is proud to present a new initiative open to all student printmakers. Serious printmakers are invited to participate in the Maryland Printmakers Student Folio Exchange.  The theme of the 2008 Folio, “OLD AND NEW” is open to your creative interpretations.  MICA, Towson University, Montgomery County Community College are just a few of Maryland’s colleges and universities invited to participate in this event. Typically They have had an annual folio exchange availble to dues-paying members of Maryland Printmakers. They are looking for fresh ideas within Maryland Printmakers and have chosen to sponsor a Student Folio Exchange for 2008. Download application