UICB’s Tim Barrett receives
2009 MacArthur Fellowship




UICB Open House
Friday, December 11

Coming attractions for spring 2010:
The papermakers of Combat Paper, calligrapher and library
historian David Levy,
and workshops by visiting artists

 

 

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The Center for the Book is an innovative, interdisciplinary arts and research unit located within the University of Iowa Graduate College. The UICB pursues a distinctive mission, integrating practice in the art of book production with the study of the book in society. We offer curricula in book technologies and book history, available to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as to the eastern Iowa community.

The UICB administers a Certificate program, whereby graduate students, upon admission, enroll in a 24 credit set of roughly 8 classes, distributed amongst our letterpress printing, paper making, bookbinding, artist books, calligraphy, and historical/cultural courses. The Center serves students who earn the Certificate as a stand-alone credential, mastering skills in book arts, technologies, and histories. The Center also serves a number of students who knit their degree work in a traditional graduate department into the Certificate program, preparing them with a singular education in the production of paper, the history of binding, the practice of printing, or the labor of letterforms.

The UICB also offers a joint degree with the School of Library and Information Sciences and affiliates with book scholars in UI departments and programs such as History, English, Journalism and Communication Studies, Religious Studies, the Writers’ Workshop, and American Studies. The Center sponsors as well visiting speakers and weekend workshops, with special attention given to our annual Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book and Mitchell Lecture on the Arts of the Book.

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