University of Iowa Center For The Book
216 North Hall • Iowa City. IA 52242-1223 • United States
+1 319 335 0447
center-for-the-book@uiowa.edu
uicb.uiowa.edu
The University of Iowa Center for the Book is an innovative arts and research program dedicated to the past, present, and future of the book. We pursue a distinctive mission, integrating the practice of the expressive power of the art of the book with a study of the book in history and culture. We offer studio-based coursework in the arts of letterpress printing, bookbinding and conservation, papermaking, artist book work, digital book design, and lettering arts. Studio book art courses offer sequenced training in these areas. Studio courses ground students in the creative practices, critical dialogue, and traditional precedents essential to art-making and skilled craftsmanship. Humanities courses afford extensive reading of primary texts and secondary sources and opportunities for applied scholarly writing. The courses provide broad contexts for understanding word and image in the various media of books, often through a focus on specific historical periods (such as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, or the digital age) and historical agents (such as scribes, readers, publishers, or the avant-garde). UICB offers three credentials: a Master of Fine Arts, a Graduate Certificate, and a joint MA/MFA with the School of Library and Information Science.
The UICB is small, dedicated, and collaborative cohort of faculty, staff, artists, and scholars engaged in a rigorous student-centered learning environment. We maintain dedicated studios in letterpress printing, bookbinding, papermaking, and digital print production. The UICB allies with the School of Art and Art History; UI Libraries conservators and special collections librarians; the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; the School of Library and Information Science; humanities departments such as English and History. These studios and alliances embody a larger ethic, one that makes all of our learning spaces a dynamic environment for collaborative education and individual development.
The UICB is small, dedicated, and collaborative cohort of faculty, staff, artists, and scholars engaged in a rigorous student-centered learning environment. We maintain dedicated studios in letterpress printing, bookbinding, papermaking, and digital print production. The UICB allies with the School of Art and Art History; UI Libraries conservators and special collections librarians; the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; the School of Library and Information Science; humanities departments such as English and History. These studios and alliances embody a larger ethic, one that makes all of our learning spaces a dynamic environment for collaborative education and individual development.
