Kate Cheney Chappell 83 Center for Book Arts
The Center for Book Arts celebrates the innovative and engaging nature of book arts through lectures and workshops by national and regional book artists, and through exhibits of artists’ books. Learn more about Kate Cheney Chappell 83 Center for Book Arts.
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Events at the Center
This year, events and workshops, including the Book Arts Bazaar, are offered once again in-person for celebrating the innovative and engaging nature of book arts.

Summer Book Arts Program
Spend 7 days studying Book Arts at the Wishcamper Center in Portland, Maine. Participants work with 7 different instructors in Book Arts related workshops.
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Book Arts Workshops
The KCC'83CBA offers a range of dynamic and engaging book arts workshops, with the resumption of in-person Workshops Fall 2021 & Spring 2022.

Pope-Cheney Art Studio
The Pope-Cheney Art Studio in USM's Wishcamper Center is host to ongoing exhibitions of artists books, and re-opens to the public Fall 2021.

Minor in Book Arts
Expand your visual book knowledge and skill by Minoring in Book Arts.

New Scholarship Honors Esteemed Retiring USM Professor and Book Artist, Rebecca Goodale
The Rebecca Goodale Book Arts Scholarship will provide support for a student in the visual arts, with preference given to a declared Book Arts minor.
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Artist's Book by Rebecca Goodale in Exhibition at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Rebecca Goodale Artist's Book in Exhibit, Borderlands, at Iceland National Library, Reykjavik

Rebecca Goodale & Sissy Buck in virtual exhibition, "Structure and Narrative", hosted by Camden Public Library

Remarkable Maine Women, Collaborative Book by KCC’83CBA Critique Group

Rebecca Goodale in Exhibition, Darkness and Light, at Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art

Maine Poet Laureate highlights ‘Students’ by USM’s Goodale on Maine Public

Book Arts is in the News: Art New England and Portland Press Herald Reviews

ON BOOKS: SCULPTURE - at the Portland Public Library Lewis Gallery from March 1-23, 2019.

USM KCC’83CBA Critique Group Book Arts exhibit at Centre St. Gallery, Bath
