👏🎊 Congratulations to our 2025 McKnight Book Artist Fellows, Ellen Mueller and Sarah Evenson! Ellen Mueller is an interdisciplinary artist who examines how capitalist systems affect everyday life, with a particular focus on environmental issues (work pictured on slides 2-4). Sarah Evenson is a gay, transgender artist whose work highlights themes of resistance, queer joy, and the strength and creative potential of the transgender body (work pictured on slides 5-7). Ellen and Sarah will be awarded $25,000 in unrestricted funds to explore and deepen their art practices thanks to our partnership with the #McKnightFoundation, which annually supports two exceptional Minnesota-based book artists. The finalists were selected by esteemed jurors Helen Hiebert, Sarah Matthews, and Catherine Alice Michaelis. They shared their impressions of the artists and their work following virtual studio visits with the finalists. “Sarah Evenson's innovative book work—incorporating the hand (illustration) and technology (animation and printing)—excites me,” shared Helen Hiebert. “Their poignant insights about the body, encapsulated in bright colors, bring queer joy to light.” Catherine Alice Michaelis noted, “Ellen Mueller's work engages the broader community as well as the artist, leaving me energized and hopeful.” In addition, Sarah Matthews stated, "It was fascinating to encounter an artist book in textile form. I was especially impressed to learn that Ellen transformed her photographs into custom fabric and then hand-sewed the book herself." Learn more about the work of our 2025 fellows and to view their winning portfolios: https://mnbookarts.org/news/announcing-our-2025-mcknight-book-artist-fellows (fb)

⏰️ Only THREE MORE DAYS to submit your work for New Editions 2025! 🧑‍🎨️📕We want to see YOUR work in MCBA's showcase of zines, artists' books, photo books, chapbooks, broadsides, and hand-printed work! Submit 1-5 pieces for consideration by May 31 at 11:59pm CT. If your submission is accepted, it will be displayed for sale in our gallery over two weekends from October 10–26. PLUS, artists retain 60% of their sales! Apply TODAY: https://mnbookarts.org/new-editions (fb)