MCBA FInal Annual Report

2010 annual report

Minnesota Centers for Books

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Minnesota Center for Book Arts 2010 Annual report

2010 annual report

Minnesota Centers for Books

Minnesota Center for Book Arts At Open Book 1011Washington Avenue South, Suite 100 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415Telephone: 612.215.2520 Fax: 612.215.2545 Email: [email protected] www.mnbookarts.orgCopyright © 2006 Minnesota Center for Book Arts All photos curtsey of Minnesota Center for Book Arts.This annual report covers January 1 through December 31, 2010. If you have any questions or need an additional copy of this report, please contact Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA). Thank you. The Board of Directors and staff of MCBA are pleased to present our 2010 Annual Report and acknowledge all those who contributed to its creation with generous in-kind donations. Letterpress printing and design: Words At Work Digital printing: Periscope Binding assistance: Bolger Concept to Print Hand-binding: MCBA staff and volunteers Paper support: Fox River Paper Company

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Table of Contents 3 Building an Annual Report6 A Letter from our Executive Director 8 A Letter from our Board Chair 12 The Center 13 Mission and Vision 14 A Broad Continuum 16 2010 Highlights 17 A Year of Alignment 17 Strategic Plan Extension 18 20th Anniversary 18 Symposium 18 Exhibitions 19 Winter Book 20 The Shop @ MCBA 20 Financial Stability 20 Renewed Emphasis on Artists’ Programs 21 Neighborhood Forum 23 The Programs 24 Artists’ Programs 25 Education Programs 28 Financial Statements 29 Income and Expenses 30 Balance Sheet 32 Acknowlegments 33 Financial Contributors 37 In-Kind Contributors 38 Collaborators and Partners 39 Board, Staff, Faculty and Artists

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building an annual report“Our creative staff enjoys collaborating with MCBA in producing its annual report. Most of our other work involves business-to-business marketing using traditional printing, so this project allows us to stretch our creativity while supporting MCBA in the passionate pursuit of its mission. As practitioners in both the literary and visual arts, we applaud that mission and will continue to support it.” Chuck Rottinghaus Principal Words At Work

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Building an annual report This annual report you are holding in your hands is the fruit of collaboration and devotion to books as an art form. Like our annual Winter Book, Minnesota Center for Book Arts' annual report emerges from the generosity and talent of individuals expressing their passion for MCBA and organizations demonstrating their belief in the work we do for the local, regional, and national book arts community. All the graphic design, paper, printing, binding preparation and assembly was either donated by corporations that support our work or performed by volunteers who enjoy serving our organization. As a result, the cost of producing our annual report belies its beauty. This year we spent just 59¢ per copy. Chandler O'Leary and Jenn Nienaber from Words At Work designed this annual report based on the theme Sharpening the Focus. Their clever and clean design creates a space both intriguing and restful for the reader's eyes. Black and white photographs printed on grey paper enhance a graphic approach using type as a design element. The cover of this annual report showcases the allure of letterpress printing. On a Vandercook 219 at MCBA, O'Leary and Nienaber printed the cover using photopolymer plates, with the assistance of By Design student Brita Light. Each sheet of the 500 covers was printed one at a time and sent through the press four times—requiring 2,000 cranks of the cylinder over the bed of the press. The cover features blind embossing, a grey title, and red text on both sides of white Fox River Sundance. The inside pages were printed on Fox River Smoke on a digital printer by MCBA's neighbor Periscope. After Periscope printed almost 16,000 pages, Bolger Concept to Print trimmed and collated the pages, drilled holes for the screw-post binding, and trimmed, scored and folded the covers. Many volunteers, including those from Target Corporation and Single Volunteers of the Twin Cities, worked together to hand-bind each of these MCBA annual reports by inserting screw posts into the drilled holes. With each annual report, MCBA strives to introduce a binding technique to the public. The screw-post binding is quick and easy—a plus when assembling 500 annual reports ‚ —while complementary to the stunning design of this year's report. We thank all the organizations and people who make it possible for us to continue the tradition of producing an annual report that is both functional and beautiful to behold.

Volunteers play a vital role in the fulfillment of the MCBA mission.

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A letter from our executive directorDear Friends, The year 2010 was an exciting one for Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA). We celebrated our 20th anniversary with a number of memorable events commemorating MCBA's evolution into a national book arts center. The showcase of our anniversary year, Symposium 2010, was a weeklong learning event attended by nationally recognized artists and teachers, as well as emerging book artists and people intrigued by the art form. Also notable in 2010 was the extension of our strategic plan through 2008. The plan structure and key strategies have served our organization well. Using the strategic plan as our guide, we were able to focus more clearly on the true opportunities that came our way after we moved to Open Book, and significantly increase both our audience size and visibility. With that sharpened focus, we reviewed the plan and found more value in rolling it forward, with modifications, instead of reinventing it.As we began our work on the plan extension, we considered the opportunities in front of us. It became clear that we best serve our mission by putting more emphasis on our artists' programs. The MCBA artists' community and their works of art are the inspirational engine behind all other programming at our center. Our children's programs are stronger when staffed by members of an energized artists' community. Adults choose to take more classes—both beginning and advanced—when our artists' programs are strong. Our organization attracts attention, a larger audience and more contributed income when the public perceives MCBA as a center of contemporary, relevant art. Most importantly, the book arts are strengthened when we use our influence as the largest center in the United States to nurture our current community and attract new and talented artists to the art form. We began to lay the foundation for this renewed focus on artists' programs in 2010. Jeff Rathermel, our artistic director, restructured our Artist-in-Residence program to attract a wider variety of artists for shorter timeframes and offer stipends for projects of exceptional artistic merit. He enhanced our Book Arts Roundtable, a monthly lecture and discussion series covering topics of particular interest to artists. In addition, Jeff began the groundwork on several artistic initiatives we will describe in future annual reports. You will notice that we ended 2010 with a slight financial deficit. While we carefully control expenses in all our program

Dorothy Goldie. Executive Director

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and administrative areas, a surplus is not always the ideal for an organization with ambitions like ours. We need to strategically invest in key initiatives like our first Symposium. As a result, spending will sometimes slightly overshoot revenue. We intend to continue to manage expenses responsibly while pushing for increased revenue when appropriate. The back of this book is filled with the names of people like you, who, through charitable donations and memberships, invested in our mission in 2010. I want you to know how much all of us appreciate your confidence in and enthusiasm for Minnesota Center for Book Arts. I encourage you to participate in the life of MCBA in a number of ways in the future. Each visit to our center will reveal that your investment is definitely worthwhile. Yours very truly, Dorothy Goldie Executive Director

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A letter from our board chair During my tenure with the MCBA Board, the organization moved to an exciting new building, substantially strengthened its financials, sharpened its strategic vision, raised its profile and broadened its artistic reach.I’m proud of all that, but I want to talk about finding love. Books have always been important in my life, but discovering MCBA propelled me in new directions that, 20 years later, continue to bring me joy and satisfaction. I share a few of these experiences in the hope that you, too, will seek out something new in your relationship with books and the visual arts. When I first encountered MCBA, it was located in a small, obscure space down the street from my office. Only the initiated knew of MCBA, the talent within or the rather obscure art form. I began stopping by for exhibitions that challenged my notions about book structure and influenced my professional work by encouraging new ideas about sequence, material, and the relationship between words and image. I purchased broadsides that still dignify my office.As a writer, I thought of books as the product of solitary mental activity, but after becoming exposed to the crafts of book arts, I began to appreciate how the artist's physical making of a book transformed the creation—and how the social environment of the studio, the printing press and the bindery encouraged happy accidents. As a staff development exercise for my company, we commissioned a workshop at MCBA, where we created a book from scratch. In the process, we gained deeper insight into the pitfalls of collaboration without leadership, of reflection without action and of creation without concepts. Over the years, I met book artists, purchased some of their work and admired even more of it. I attended lectures and shows that deepened my understanding of the art's history and variety. I studied with teachers whose dedication to their students' development inspired me to be more generous and patient. Slowly and not always surely, I acquired requisite book arts skills: binding and box making; letterpress and Gocco printing; polymer plate and pressure printing; paper marbling and folding. I have only begun to dabble, and yet have been treated with as much respect as the truly accomplished artists sitting next to me in the classes.

Charlie Quimby, Board Chair

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I made my first artist book as a mentor in the By Design teen artist mentorship program, and was spurred on to more while participating in the national MCBA-sponsored Book Arts Symposium. To this day MCBA continues to inspire me—as a student of the craft and lover of the art form. The annual Book Arts Festival and Winter Book continue to draw my eye and my wallet and encourage conversations that enhance the value of works acquired. MCBA made it easy to experience this highly democratic medium on my own terms. You can do it, too. Just show up. And let one experience lead naturally to another, like turning the pages of a love story that has no end. Charlie QuimbyBoard Chair

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Every By Design teenmentorship program session concludes

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the center“MCBA’s continuing presence in Minneapolis and its substantial, enduring activities in the community are a testament to the center's vitality. Its perseverance is nothing short of courageous. MCBA is a national treasure, and its existence is a courageous act. This act makes those of us in the national book-arts community sit up and take notice, always with an eye and ear to what is going on in the Twin Cities.”Max YelaSpecial Collections LibrarianUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Book arts are an accessible art form, in part, because their structure is recognizable; we all grow up reading books and being shaped by the ideas between their covers. Of course, book arts are more than a book. They’re art. As such, they transport the viewer and the maker beyond the familiar to a new way of seeing. Book arts are a friendly, democratic media for creativity and expression because their makers can enter the work as a writer, artist, papermaker, binder or printer at any stage of life.Since MCBA opened its doors 20 years ago, its teachers, exhibitions and staff have amazed the uninitiated with this vital and relevant art form. MCBA empowers individuals to see books in a fresh way and learn how to make them. Just as importantly, MCBA encourages, inspires and sustains artists who continue to explore, even defy, the shifting boundaries of book art.

Mission and visionThe mission of Minnesota Center for Book Arts is to engage diverse artists and learners in finding creativity, expression and inspiration through the book arts.Within the greater arts community, MCBA works to preserve the traditional crafts of bookmaking; advance the book as a vital contemporary art form; and interpret the book in its aesthetic, historic and cultural contexts. As the preeminent book arts center in the region and the largest center of its kind in the country, MCBA serves as a national catalyst and leader in revealing the value and relevancy of book arts to society.MCBA serves a broad spectrum of the artist community, including graphic designers, papermakers, paper pulp sculptors, bookbinders, letterpress printers and printmakers. MCBA attracts artists working in other media, as well, bringing writers, photographers, musicians, poets and performance artists into the book arts. Diverse participation strengthens the field and helps to advance the book arts as a vital contemporary art form.An important part of MCBA's mission is to provide lifelong, accessible opportunities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to explore the book arts. Through partnerships with schools and community organizations, MCBA broadens access to the arts, and uses bookmaking in education and social services. Involving youth and families in hands-on bookmaking stimulates interest in books and learning, and imparts lessons in self-expression and creativity.

An artist making a miniature box for her miniature book in the MCBA bindery.

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A broad continuumBook arts as a field ranges from traditional craft to contemporary art. Rather than embracing one side over the other, MCBA engages people along the full continuum. Our work expands an individual's appreciation for and understanding of the book arts with every experience at MCBA—a class, lecture, event, exhibition or artist book purchase—and guides the individual toward new avenues for engagement along the continuum.An important element of the book arts continuum is that it is fluid—members of one audience easily flow over into another. For example, a teacher may schedule a book arts program in her second grade classroom, participate in an in-service teacher workshop to learn how to incorporate the book arts into her existing curriculum, return to take a class on letterpress printing, purchase supplies in The Shop @ MCBA and visit the newest exhibition in the Gallery.

The Book Arts Continuum

traditional bookmaking contemporary book arts

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At a Symposium 2010 workshop, artists learn calligraphy techniques for making decorative forms.

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2010 highlights“From my visit on a Thursday through the workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday, everyone was friendly, welcoming. The entire staff recognizes the importance of being people friendly—a big plus. This visitor was very impressed.”A 2010 Symposium participantfrom Washington

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A year of alignmentFor 20 years MCBA has remained true to its mission. In 2010, MCBA reflected on its past, envisioned its future and—through these two lenses—insightfully sharpened its focus. The organization’s many successes—even some of its mistakes—have led to myriad opportunities. With a clear understanding of its strengths, resources and mission, MCBA was able to sort opportunities from diversions more astutely and prepare for unprecedented achievements.

Strategic plan extensionIn 2003, MCBA board and staff adopted a three-year strategic plan. Throughout 2010, in planning for the next three years, MCBA board and staff reviewed the original plan and the effectiveness of its three core strategies that guided the organization’s operations and programs. Ultimately, board and staff decided to extend the current strategic plan for another three years. New organizational goals within that strategic plan build on the momentum that began in 2003. Of the plan’s three core strategies, the second will garner the most attention over the next few years.Consolidate the gainTo stabilize our operations from the tremendous growth presented by the move to Open Book, we must balance our resources with current levels of activity; “grow into ourself ” by increasing effectiveness and efficiency; and refine our business models. For example, MCBA will be developing strategies to strengthen the structure and quality of existing artists’ programs and services, refining fund-raising plans and broadening its funding base.Optimize the MCBA modelAs a center dedicated to active involvement in the community and to serving diverse audiences, we will work to gain a deeper understanding of our strengths, audiences, community partners and programs, and how they relate to best advancing the organization’s mission. Two examples of organizational goals tied to this strategy are to increase diversity and outreach in adult, artist and teen programs; and to enhance the functionality of MCBA’s website to create a virtual book arts community.Expand and enrichMCBA will engage with the national and international book arts community to enrich experiences available in

Letterpress, screenprinting and bookbinding workshop are eligible for credit toward the Core or Advanced Certificate in Book Arts

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our region, and advance the book arts field through unique contributions based on our strengths as a center. For example, MCBA will increase opportunities to advocate for the book art form and develop marketing plans to raise MCBA’s profile among national and international audiences.

20th AnniversaryWe celebrated this milestone with a number of special events, including the commissioning of an oral history captured on videotape, and a Founders Tea attended by many of our original board members and employees. The 20th anniversary also influenced many of our public programs and events.

SymposiumThe showcase of our anniversary year was Symposium 2010, a weeklong learning event. Through Symposium, highly motivated adult and teen learners and artists gained access to nationally recognized artist/teachers for intensive single and multi-day learning sessions. One quarter of the attendees traveled from outside the Twin Cities. This pioneering event at MCBA was successful in several ways. It enhanced our national reputation, offered our local community an opportunity to learn from and with national talent, and provided significant earned income to our organization. We plan to offer Symposium every other year.

ExhibitionsIn 2010, our Gallery featured a series of exhibitions that captured the full range of artistic expression within the book arts and brought new audiences to MCBA.20 Fine YearsThe year’s inaugural exhibition honored the fine press printers whose eye toward excellence helped to shape the success of this organization over the decades. Many had served as faculty, artist-in-residence and printer of MCBA’s annual Winter Book publication. The exhibition’s curators were individuals with long-standing MCBA relationships: Betty Bright, Paulette Myers-Rich and Regula Russelle.Spot OnThe second exhibition dramatically reshaped the discourse on books and book arts. Spot On featured the art of zines and graphic novels—the antithesis of fine press books. While the contrast of the two genres of book arts was striking, so were the similarities: both depend on independent publishers—

Friends of MCBA gather in the back parking lot for Bookish Bash, a 20th anniversary party held during Symposium.

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individuals!—expressing their ideas freely via the printing press or photocopy machine; and both genres rely on narrative conveyed through text, image or artful integration of the two.BookishThe third exhibition celebrated the idea that anything created in the studios at MCBA qualifies as “bookish.” This open-call show required only that the entry’s dimension be 12” x 12” x 12” or smaller. Work ranged from an illuminated manuscript made by 7th graders to exquisitely bound books from the most prestigious book artists in the country.The Press at Colorado College and To Have and To HoldThese paired exhibitions served as vital teaching tools. The Press at Colorado College showed the diversity of fine press printing and the relevance of fine press curriculum and equipment within a teaching institution. To Have and To Hold, an open-call exhibition that invited gallery visitors to pick up and engage with the books on display, demonstrated the diversity of book arts.Plane and FormThe year’s final exhibition celebrated papermaking as a component of book arts. Of the three major book arts centers in the United States, MCBA is the only one with a papermaking studio. Plane and Form featured paperwork from more than 20 national artists, emphasizing contemporary applications of a traditional medium, including installation, sculpture, pulp painting and assemblage.

Winter BookAs with the exhibitions, MCBA’s 20th anniversary influenced the development of the 2010 Winter Book. There Is No Other Way to Speak brings together the poetry of writers previously celebrated at MCBA and those we have newly befriended. Bill Holm, author of the 1997 Winter Book, selected the poets and edited the anthology. The book features the work of Robert Bly, Philip S. Bryant, Leo Dangel, Phebe Hanson, Tom Hennen, Adrian Louis, Freya Manfred, Anna Meek, Wang Ping, John Rezmerski, Thomas R. Smith and Susan Steger Welsh. For the first time in Winter Book history, we published an audio recording of the authors reading their own works. The 2010 publication party was a joyous event with 12 of the writers in attendance, reading to a standing-room-only crowd. We are pleased to report that this book quickly outsold any previous effort to date,

MCBA’s Plane and Form exhibition demonstrated paper as an art form, not just a surface used for another medium such as printing.

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with earned income up more than 54 percent from 2009. In addition, There Is No Other Way to Speak was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in the Fine Press category. The 17th in an annual series celebrating the handmade book, There Is No Other Way to Speak was produced in three versions, all printed by Artist-in-Residence Wendy Fernstrum and Robyn Stoller, under the direction of MCBA Artistic Director Jeff Rathermel.The Deluxe Edition, designed and bound by Regula Russelle and Cori Sherlock, features tipped-in limited edition prints by Derek Black, Wilber Schilling, Sara Langworthy, Richard Stephens and Kent Aldrich. The Standard Edition, designed and bound by Jeff Rathermel, features a series of illustrations by Jody Williams. The Chapbook was designed, illustrated and bound by Wendy Fernstrum and Robyn Stoller.

The Shop @ MCBAThis unique book arts retail store located inside our entrance serves a number of functions for our organization, including visitor and customer service. In 2010, The Shop @ MCBA provided our organization with $114,000 in revenue, covering its expenses for the first time and increasing its revenue by 17 percent. As the Washington Avenue Arts Corridor grows in residents and visitors, we look forward to an increased financial contribution from this important program.

Financial stabilityIn 2010 MCBA continued to stabilize its financial position, a critical strategy for fully realizing our mission. We cut our debt in half, grew earned income and strengthened our cash reserves. MCBA continues to experience earned income growth in its education programs, especially those serving children from Twin Cities schools. Individual giving increased by almost 30 percent. This was primarily due to a successful year-end appeal and to solicitation of close friends and board members for gifts to our cash reserve. Diversifying our contributed income base is an important part of our strategic plan and we intend to continue these efforts in 2006.

Renewed emphasis on artists’ programsWith financial stability comes an obligation to invest in mission critical programs that rarely generate revenue but keep our organization vital, relevant and interesting. In addition to the opportunities we currently provide for artists to sell and exhibit their work, to teach, and to have access

Minnesota Center for Book Arts reviews book artists interested in selling work through The Shop on a rolling basis

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to equipment, in 2010 we began to greatly enhance the services we provide to this community. MCBA significantly expanded a monthly lecture and roundtable series aimed at artists. In addition, a more robust Artist-in-Residence program now includes stipends for work of particular merit.

Neighborhood forumMCBA is a member of the Neighborhood Forum, a group of nonprofit and public institutions in the northeast downtown area that have joined to build a more literate Twin Cities community. The forum’s 2010 Read Across America event included several programs. “Field’s Go Read Day,” a public family program, attracted more than 2,000 people. Over 500 urban, English Language Learners and at-risk students participated in a school day program. Also participating in the event were 200 preschoolers from Head Start classrooms and 300 K-2 students from Minneapolis and St. Paul public and charter schools. Key event sponsors for the Forum event in 2010 were Marshall Field’s, Verizon and the Star Tribune Foundation.

The inking mechanism of a Vandercook printing press.

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A teenager in the By Design teen mentorship program with her final project on display in the end-ofsession exhibition.

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the programs“I have the privilege of working with a three-time By Design graduate, who is now a student in one of my classes at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. This student is one of the best prepared freshman I have ever had. Not only is he skilled in his technique and craftsmanship, and clearly able to comprehend the concepts and particulars of the assignments, but he is amazingly articulate about his process and goals. I know that By Design is responsible for getting him started on this path through adulthood not only as an artist, but as an engaged citizen who will have a positive impact on everything he touches.”Jody WilliamsBy Design MentorProfessor at Minneapolis College of Art & Design

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Artists’ programsSince 1985, MCBA has celebrated and promoted the vibrant role of book arts in our lives by nurturing and connecting artists, writers, printers, binders, papermakers and designers. Through MCBA’s Artists’ Programs, book artists in our community are preserving the traditions of bookmaking, advancing the contemporary genre and receiving national attention. Their works inspire us, challenge our notion of what a book is and attract attention from book lovers around the world. MCBA also engages artists who work in other media, such as graphic design, photography, painting and sculpture, and encourages their exploration of the book as art. For example, a group of cartoonists now meets at MCBA once each month, as a result of the Spot On exhibition that broadened our audience.Winter BookEvery year, MCBA publishes a work by a regional author in three editions, all completely handmade and created in our studios through a collaboration of letterpress printers, binders, printmakers and papermakers from our artists’ community. Past Winter Books have included works by Robert Bly, Louise Erdrich and Patricia Hampl, among others. Winter Books have won the Minnesota Book Award inthe Fine Press division several times.ExhibitionsAs the visual arts anchor of Open Book, our Gallery showcases the full diversity of the book arts, from traditional through contemporary, and highlights the works of regional, national and international artists. For the nearly 11,000 visitors to Open Book each month and the nearly 65,000 individuals that MCBA serves, our free and open-to-thepublic exhibits offer unique opportunities to explore the book as art.By Design teen artist mentoring programIn 2010, we celebrated the completion of our fourth successful year of the By Design mentoring program for teens. Funded primarily by the Surdna Foundation, By Design intentionally serves a small group of highly motivated teens who are not receiving the level of art education they desire in their schools through current art programming. The By Design program curriculum is rigorous and intensive, requiring a substantial time commitment.Students first participate in an introductory session, learning basic bookmaking techniques, working with visiting artists to

MCBA / Jerome Foundation Book Arts Fellowship Series X. November 12, 2010 through February 6, 2011

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create collaborative book/print projects, and proposing and completing an individual final project for inclusion in the By Design Exhibition. Next, in the advanced level, each teen is paired with an artist mentor. Teen/mentor relationships support teens in complex artistic endeavors requiring mastery of technique, craftsmanship, project conceptualization and working in a cooperative studio environment.Artists’ cooperative and equipment/studio rentalsMCBA offers access to equipment and studios for artists interested in exploring the book arts genre, including two papermaking studios, one printing studio and a bindery workshop. Each of the three areas contains an extensive array of equipment and tools. For greater studio access, artists may apply for membership in an artists’ cooperative, in which members pay monthly rental fees, share technical expertise and collaborate on book arts projects.Artist-in-ResidenceMCBA’s Artist-in-Residence program nurtures selected artists by providing resources for producing and promoting their work. In turn, artists provide MCBA with technical and educational assistance in the artists’ fields of expertise. Resident artists work for two weeks to four months in one of three studio areas: bookbinding, papermaking or printing.

Education programsMCBA’s Education Programs provide an engaging and educational introduction to the book as an artistic medium for personal expression, creativity and inspiration. Lessons learned through such experiences open exciting doors for creative expression and encourage an abiding love of books. Following are some examples of our offerings:Adult educationWe offer adult classes, as well as group tours, individual tutorials and custom workshops for private groups. Classes include beginning letterpress or basic book binding, plus instruction for more advanced learners and artists. In 2010, 886 adults participated in 89 classes, including Symposium. MCBA also hosted 427 college students for tours or project workshops. Adult Education classes showed 9 percent growth in earned income in 2010.Teacher workshopsMCBA’s teacher workshops offer instruction in basic techniques and integration of book arts into classroom

Adult classes offered in the paper studio. Join them for a day of fellowship and fun as you mix pigments, dampen, and pattern papers!

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curriculum. During the academic year, MCBA regularly presents customized programs at teacher conferences, during school in-service days and in the evening. Programs explore the co-curricular potential of book art projects, as well as literacy applications. In 2010, MCBA presented in-service workshops for 799 teachers, helping them integrate the book arts into classroom curriculum.Youth and in-school residenciesWorking in partnership with teachers, MCBA’s youth programs for preschool through grade 12 provide integrated, interdisciplinary learning opportunities through hands-on papermaking, printing and bookbinding. We use the book arts as an educational tool to enhance student learning; develop artistic, imaginative and communication skills; make connections to traditions, cultures and beliefs; and build life skills such as problem-solving, working collaboratively and following instructions. In 2010, nearly 13,000 children were served via our workshops, with the majority visiting our studios. A number of workshops were also conducted in residence at the schools. These programs, in addition to allowing us to fulfill our mission of engaging learners in the book arts, also provide the organization with a growing source of earned income. In 2010, our youth programs income grew by 12 percent over 2009.Preschool and family classesMCBA’s studios provide a warm, inviting atmosphere for parents and caregivers to experience the book arts with young children. Programs are offered at MCBA’s studios, as well as in collaboration with our community partners. Educational bookmaking activities for preschool children and family classes focus on developing pre-literacy and visual art skills.Community partnershipsMCBA has found that one of the most efficient ways to serve our diverse community is to form partnerships with community groups, cultural institutions and social service agencies. We use hands-on, educational bookmaking activities to inspire creativity, literacy and love of learning, and highlight the value of the book as a reflection of culture and history. Partnerships emphasize the relevancy of the book arts and facilitate MCBA’s goal of serving a broad audience with diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. MCBA’s regular partners include the Youth Farm and Market Project, YWCA, Minneapolis Public Library, Mill City Museum, Walker Art Center and The Loft. MCBA is also a member of the Neighborhood Forum and the Centers for Art.

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Japanese character meaning “brightness.” Calligraphy by MCBA faculty member Michael Waltz.

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financial statementsMCBA has its act together. It has survived ups and downs, and that takes clarity and focus. It has a nice balance of the artistic with credible structure and administrative framework to make sure it sticks around. I have become much more strategic about where I put my philanthropic dollars and MCBA has impressed me. This is why I continue to be a donor.”Monica LittleFormer board member

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Income and expenses(For the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2010)

2010 2009Contributions Unrestricted

TemporarilyRestricted Permanently

Restricted Total Total

Individuals $78,094 $1,215 $13,000 $92,309 $68,188

Corporate and Foundation Grants

$106,861 $25,358 – $132,219 $484,935

Government Grants $26,928 – – $26,928 $35,094

In-Kind Contributions $40,709 – – $40,709 $10,736

Satisfaction of Temporary Restrictions

$154,115 $(154,115) – – –

Total Contributions $406,707 $(127,542) $13,000 $292,165 $598,953

RevenueMembership Fees $15,278 – – $15,278 $13,200

Program Service Fees $229,624 – – $229,624 $218,987

Sales $131,294 – – $131,294 $111,725

Investment Income $100 – – $100 $118

Miscellaneous $15,955 – – 15,955 24,312

Total Revenue $392,251 – – $392,251 $368,342

Total Contributions and Revenue

$798,958 $(127,542) $ 13,000 $684,416 $967,295

ExpensesProgram ServicesArtist Programs $212,093 – – $212,093 $187,358

Education $259,970 – – $259,970 $243,214

Sales, Visitor Services & Jobbing

$124,186 – – $124,186 $125,942

Total Program Services $596,249 – – $596,249 $556,514

Support ServicesManagement & General $148,717 – – $148,717 $117,365

Fundraising 73,544 – – $73,544 $65,380

Total Support Services $222,261 – – $222,261 $182,745

Total Expenses $818,510 – – $818,510 $739,259

Minnesota Center for Book Arts experienced an operating loss for the year ended December 31, 2010, resulting in a decrease in net unrestricted assets of $19,552. The ensuing cash shortfall is currently being met by the long-term cash reserve fund. Although earned income increased in 2010 over 2009, it fell below budget largely due to a one-time weekly event in celebration of the organization’s 20th anniversary. This event, which produced nationwide positive publicity for MCBA, did not generate the expected amount of revenue and consequently contributed to the operating loss. Management continues to carefully monitor expenses while working to increase contributions and revenue. During the first two quarters of 2006 major grants were awarded from the Bush Foundation ($177,214), the Jerome Foundation ($40,000), the Surdna Foundation ($45,000), and the Target Foundation ($50,000). Earned revenue during the first two quarters of the year has met budget expectations. No special events are planned for 2006.

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Balance sheet(As of December 31, 2010)

2010 2009AssetsUnrestricted Cash – $17,750

Restricted Cash $11,500 $28,000

Total Cash $11,500 $45,750

Investments 26 62

Receivables $30,424 $5,765

Contributions Receivable $13,758 $119,800

Inventory $30,693 $27,250

Prepaid Expenses $4,264 $3,774

Equipment—Net of Accumulated Depreciation of $107,990 in 2010 and $94,903 in 2009

$24,797 $32,919

Long-term Cash Reserves $73,000 $65,000

Other Assets $6,883 $6,883

Total Assets $195,345 $307,203

Liabilities and Net AssetsLiabilitiesChecks issued in excess of available cash $13,887 –

Accounts Payable $39,795 $39,081

Accrued Payroll $7,401 $5,741

Accrued Payroll Taxes $596 $476

Prepaid Tuition $14,071 $5,515

Other Liabilities $1,757 $2,791

Line of Credit Advances $53,333 $55,000

Total Liabilities $130,840 $108,604

Net AssetsUnrestricted $(33,753) $(14,201)

Temporarily Restricted $20,258 $147,800

Permanently Restricted $78,000 $65,000

Total Net Assets $64,505 $198,599

Total Liabilities & Net Assets $195,345 $307,203

Annual audits of Minnesota Center for Book Arts’ financial statements were performed by Mahoney Ulbrich Christiansen Russ, P.A.

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A teenager in the By Design teen mentorship program with her final project on display in the end-of-session exhibition.

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acknowledgementsOn behalf of the entire Board of Directors and Staff of MCBA, we thank the many donors and members who provided vital support for our operations and programs last year. Gifts from members and contributors listed on the following pages were received between January 1 and December 31, 2010.

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Gifts to the cash reserveEllen L. and Jan BreyerJennie CarlsonJay and Page CowlesDorothy GoldieCharles R. Quimby and Susan Cushman

Gifts to annual operationsPartnersGifts of $50,000 or moreBush FoundationMcKnight FoundationTargetGifts of $25,000 to $49,999Fred C. and Katherine B.

Andersen FoundationMinnesota State Arts BoardGifts of $10,000 to $24,999Jay and Page CowlesCharles R. Quimby and

Susan CushmanSt. Paul Travelers FoundationGifts of $5,000 to $9,9993M FoundationEllen L. and Jan BreyerCOMPAS General FundGeneral Mills FoundationDorothy GoldieMarbrook FoundationJames R. Thorpe FoundationGifts of $2,500 to $4,999Nash FoundationStar Tribune FoundationWet PaintFoundersGifts of $1,000 to $2,499Elmer L. and Eleanor J.

Andersen FoundationMary K. Austin and

Brewster C. Kahle ofThe Kahle/Austin FoundationBest Buy Children’s FoundationJennie CarlsonCOMPAS Medtronic

Arts Access Program

Richard and Susan CrockettSandra and Lynn DavisJames and Megan DaytonJulia W. DaytonCy and Paula DeCosse Fund ofThe Minneapolis FoundationGeneral Mills Foundation

Gift Matching ProgramSusan Gray and Paul WaytzJostens FoundationSusan LeafJames P. and Susan LenfesteyDaniel and Suzanne LevittMonica L. Little and

Mark AbelnLarry M. O’ShaughnessyLawrence M. and Elizabeth

Ann O’ShaughnessyCharitable Income TrustR.C. Lilly Foundation: Bruce

Lilly, David and Perrin Lilly,David, Jr. and Diane Lilly,

Susanne and ZenasHutchesonCathy Ryan and Doris EngibousWilliam SimpsonWest Community

Partnership ProgramWood-Rill FoundationPatronsGifts of $500 to $999AnonymousEleanor ArnasonPatricia CanneySponsorsGifts of $250 to $499AdsokaDavid and Mary Ann

Barrows WarkRenee and Pete BelinaCarol and Judson Bemis, Jr.dik Bolger and Carmen

Gutierrez-BolgerSusan BorenMarney and Conley BrooksDarlene and Richard CarrollElizabeth A. and Kevin

C. Dooley

James P. Eastman and Cynthia Kriha

Rosemary FurtakMadeline GraggThomas L. HochSylvia and Sam KaplanLinda KoutskyChris and Daniel MahaiNancy and Rodney MasonSusan MoldowSallie NeallHilary ReevesRyan Companies US, Inc.Andrew and Kathleen ScottHarriet and Edson

Spencer Fund ofThe Minneapolis FoundationJanette SweasyCurtis SwensonWheelock Whitney through The Whitney Foundation

FriendsGifts of $100 to $249Aiko’s Art MaterialsMarjorie and Harold AlexanderErna W. BachtoldHarriet BartJulie BaugnetJohn and Cecelia BeecherScott Berry and Kate

Johnson, in honor of theLogan Knox Book Club: Paul

Waytz and Susan Gray,Bill and Eleanor Pederson,

Ann and Andy McGinn,Frank and Meg ConnollyBetty Bright and Jay P. WhitePhilip and Carolyn BrunelleJanet and Francis CarrollWilliam CaseyWendy and David CogginsJohn and Kathryn ColwellJohn and Sage CowlesD.C. Cushman, in honor

of Dr. Susan CushmanJo DavisonSamuel DemasLinda S. DonaldsonMary Drabik and Howard Ojalvo

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Monica Edwards LarsonJohn EngelbartWilliam and Kathy FarleyWendy FernstrumAlice B. FjelstulSheila ColganDavid and Mary CostJohn W. and Arlene DaytonThomas and Patricia FletcherJulie GerendPaul and Lynne McDonoughCarla McGrath and Cole RogersBonnie and Donn McLellanDiane A. MerrifieldColleen FrankhartNancy GaschottRobert and Renee GibsonGeorgia A. GreeleyGreg and Nancy HansonRandy Hartten and Ron LotzL. Scott HelmesLarry HendricksonBeverly HlavacJim and Elizabeth HochRegina HopingardnerSteve and Virginia HusteadMona IsaacsArt and Martha KaemmerAmy KirkpatrickJudith KlingsickPeggy Korsmo-Kennon

and Mike KennonAnne Larsen SimonsonCharles W. Leer, Jr. and

Mary Kelley LeerMary LiljaJoyce LombardAndrea MartinJames McCarthy and

Gloria PetersonAndrew McCulloh and

Amanda Stanton GeddesNora Lee McGillivrayTom Meyer and Martha

Meyer-Von BlonKingsley H. Murphy, Jr. and

Katherine MurphyPaulette Myers-RichSherelyn OgdenJudith and J. B. Overmier

Steven J. and Robin PachutaPadilla Speer BeardsleyDaniel R. PennieStephen PittelkowSally B. PolkRichard and Joan QuimbyJerry and Lou RichardsonWalter and Jodell RockensteinRegula and Michael P. RusselleEllen Mary SaulWilber and Trish SchillingLinda and Leonard SchloffJane G. Severns and

Wood R. FosterJim SitterJoseph G. SitterRichard Sveum and

Jennifer OlsonEmily Anne and Gedney TuttleUnited Arts Workplace

Giving CampaignMary W. VaughanJoanne and Philip Von BlonEdward F. WagnerMaxine WallinHarry WalshTom WarthJill Weese and Steven VincentCatherine Weyerhaeuser MorleyJ.D. Wicklatz and

Elisabeth A. SövikFrank and Frances WilkinsonJody WilliamsBill and Willie Mae WilsonWilliam Myers and

Virginia DudleyPatricia J. NelsonLyn Parker and Ann BitterPatricia Ploetz and Ed MattheesErica and Kraig RasmussenWalter C. Rasmussen —

Northeast Bank FoundationRehael Fund — Roger

Hale/Nor Hall ofThe Minneapolis FoundationGail and Henry SeeKathryn SextonJane Tilka and Mike ReedMembers

Gifts up to $99AnonymousKaren AakreSharon AgerMichael AllenJennifer and Jo AmieChristine AndersonJenny AndersonLois AndersonLynda AngelisAnna ArnarStephen ArnottSheila AsatoDonna L. Avery Kiginand Thomas J. KiginBeth BackenAlicia BaileyBeth BakerDiane BaldwinSari BankPatricia BarrettMichael BartschCatherine BasarabaSandra BeckerRenee BeerCarla Benderand Kim GarretsonDiane BennionLinda BerganSarah BergerJohn BergquistAdele Bergstromand Jeff LightSheldon Berkowitzand Carolyn LevyLynn BerningShelly BersonPaul BeverageScott BeyersMargaret BicekKristin BickalCarol Chase BjerkeSue BjerkeNina BlieseKirsten BoehneJackie BohrerJennifer BolanosGenevieve G. BolgerBetsy Bowen

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Kristi BradfordMandy BrannanMolly BrantonMarcy BrekkenMargaret BreslinLiz BrineMary BrunoA.S. BuchananPamela BurkleyCrawford CampbellDonald G. CarlsonRyan CarlsonJon CarverSusan Cary-Hansonand Stephen HansonMaggie CatambayLaura Chambers-KershAnne ChapmanSarah ChevaillierDr. Sherman ChildKathy ChristensonTara ChristophersonMary CoffmanEileen CohenPat Collinsand Gary ThompsonDaniel CookEmily CooperMike CoughlinKathy CoulterKitty CrainMary Jo CrillRobert L. CrumpAndrea and Jim CueneMary CunnienAimee CunninghamAndy CurrieKaren CysonJeff DahlinNancy O. DaleyDawn Darnerand David WhitcombBarbara DavelooseMargaret DeanTeresa andVeronica DeckardSuzanne DeglerMary Ellen DercksGayle DeutschLucinda DeWitt

Deborah DillawayChristine DockryWilliam H. DrendelStephen DunkerTom Dunnwaldand Sonja PetersonAnn Christyand Bruce DybvikArdie EckardtDiana EicherIna ElliottJody ElmasryKaren EngelbretsonDavid EsslemontKelly Everdingand Eric LorbererLeslie FaricyEdward L. FarmerFran FateAnastasia FaunceJudith FaviaLynn FellmanHeidi FergusonEllen Ferrariand Stewart CornGary FeyenSuzanne FilbinSteven FillerRandall and Laura FindlaySusan FinleyRachel FishCarole FisherSandra Fjerkenstad BudelKirsten FordFelicia ForderJean FormoElizabeth FosterCharles Fowlerand Jenny NellisMark FreeseLaura GajdostikEllen and Gary GallagherBart GalleCarol GarnerHeidi GeimerDonna GellmanJanice Gepnerand Eric NewmanRay and Elissa GetsugBarb Gibson

Barbara Gilhoolyand Teri BennisDianne GinsbergJeanne C. GoesslingCarolyn GolbergNancy GoldbergJoan N. GordonChris GorneyAndrea GotzAnn GrahamMerle GreeneSandra and Eston GrossStefanie andMax HailperinUve HamiltonLinda and MichaelHancherNanette HanksKaren HanmerKristin HansenBarb and Kent HansonBarbara HarmanCathy HarmsRichard HarringtonKarna and Bob HauckLinda HennemanMichelle Henry-StanleySusan HenselSheryl HessJennifer HibbardJanet HigginsJon HinkelSandy HitchinBrad HokansonMary and Edward HollandTheodore J. Holsten, Jr.Roberta HonlSam HoolihanMark HoplinKaren HoranDeborah HornerLeah HughesMary Benton HummelIBM InternationalFoundationSharlene andMelvin Lee JacobsonElinor JensenMarcia Jensenand Steve Goranson

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Carol A. JohnsonCharlotte Johnsonand Bill HarroffElaine JohnsonJeff JohnsonMary B. and Keith W.JohnsonRoy A. JohnsonWalter H. andHarriet W. JohnsonJennifer JonesSue KaaseKaren KarstenLea KasunAnnette Kavanaughand Greg RuffaSharon KaylenMiriam and Erwin KelenJan and Jennifer KellyG. Dale Kennedyand Gwen SchagrinMonica KentonSarah and Matt KirkwoodLouise KlasMary KokernotPhil KostolnikMarit Lee KuceraEllen KuhfeldJo KuntzKathi KyroLora LandersAmy LangeJackie A. LanninFred J. LarsonSusan Larson-FlemingSarah LehmanHeather LeideChad Lemkeand Jennifer CarlquistSuzanne LeRoyNancy LeuJohn and Rachel LevittGayle Foster LewisHarriet LievanTristen and SteveLindemannMary LindnerGayla LindtGail LipeLori Lippert

James Livingston andJanet CourtNance LongleyAnnette LopezJeff LotzEric Lunde and Julia CrossDavid and Beth LymanJoyce LyonMichelle MackBob MacNealJohn Mader andKristen TreutingChrissie andBrian MahaffyRebecca MaherJessica MallonNancy MambiPaul MaravelasDoris MarchukHelen M. MarnEmily Martin andNils R. VarneyKate MartinsonRonna MashJennifer MateerChristine MatimbaBarbara MaukMelissa MayJennifer MayerBill McGarryLisa McGivernJennifer MenkenSara MergensFrank MillerMary Louise MillerAna MirandaJoel D. MolineMarilyn K. MooreJohn Moriarty and JoAnneWetherell-MoriartyBarbara MosmanMichelle MouginJim MulfingerAnn MyersMary NaganCatherine M. NelsonNaomi W. NelsonSusanne NevinGarry NordenstamJean Nordgren

Craig and Karen NormanDawn NygrenDeb and John O’HalloranChandler O’LearyDee Ann OlsonChristine OsmanEileen O’TooleMilly OudhoffAnn PageElizabeth PageMark and Margie PallerSue and Jerry PalsMarcia J. PankakeJohn ParkerJoanne and WilliamPattersonBen PaulusAnna Marie PavlikElla Jean PeploeE.A. PepperwolfDawn PeraultLaura PereriaNatasha PestichDeb PetersonKristin Maija PetersonNicole PetersonSarah Petersonand James MaertensStephen and Lisa PetersonAnn and Nicholas PiferJeremy PillerDr. Julian G. PlanteLisa Pogoff andJeffrey ZuckermanMichele PollockMarsha C. PorterSandra PotterSally PowerLarissa PreshoKatie ProndzinskiJeff RathermelTimothy RayTami ReedRoger and Colleen ReistadPaula ReiterDiane RemingtonRoselyn RezacMargaret andZach RichardsElizabeth Richardson

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Wendy RichardsonSally RiglerDavid RileyPierre RiouxMartina RisingJanet and SteveRith-NajarianNancy and Dave RobbinsGeorge RobertsJohn and Sandra RoeMary and Harvey RoloffMaribeth RomsloRichard and Marjorie RothMary RouleauJames and AndreaRubensteinMarilyn Rushenbergand Susan FarnhamNancy RussellMarlene Russum ScottSue RutfordDennis Ruud andStephanie NowakNaomi SackAnn SargentRichard A. ScarlettJulie SchaperSister ThomasetteScheelerTherese SchellerMeridith SchifskyChristi SchmittHelen SchneiderKay Lara SchoenwetterAvrom SchwartzEmily SebaskyJen ShafferFran SheaStanley and Lucy ShepardCori-Beth Sherlockand James PolakowskiRobert SilbermanLeo and Delores SitterSuzanne SkorichCarrie SmallGary SorensonHugh SparksMarla M. StackPatrice StauffacherNancy Steinke

Delores andDavid SteinlichtHeidi, Judyand Larry SteltznerRoslyn M. StendahlAlison SternMary Ellen StewartPolly StivlandRobyn StollerGail StonemarkCatherine StuberFaith SullivanSheila SummerfieldMary SunderlandKatherine and Jeffrey TaneRobin TapleAmy TaschThomson West BecauseWe Care EmployeeGiving CampaignDenise ThurmonBetty Tiseland Sarah FarleyLisa Tollefson-Larsonand Richard L. LarsonMarie TorkelsonLois TorvikRussell TroyerDiane TsurutaniMichelle TuckerClaire Van VlietJeanne VergerontAnn ViitalaElizabeth and Marvin ViklaMelinda VilleriusJanice VochoskaDiane M. von ArxNancy WaldenCarol WaldronJulia F. WallaceMichael and Anna WaltzJoAnn WatsonKathryn Weeseand Helen BondKay S. WelschLois WelshonsLynnette WesterlundRuth Wikoff-JonesTracy WilkinsCarol Wilkinson

Margot Willettand Bob MillerJody Wingerand William RosenfeldThomas WintersteinBrenda WolfeEllyn Wolfensonand Mick BelzerVirginia WoodruffAnn WyniaXcel Energy FoundationMatching Gift ProgramRuth Youngbergand Stephanie KunzeJulie YoungrenKirstie ZahanskyAnn ZiebarthLouise ZieglerKathleen ZuckermanIn-kind contributors$15,000 and aboveWords At WorkDesign, production and projectmanagement for the 2009 Annual Report

$5,000 to $14,999Steve Goranson Video, Inc.20th Anniversary DVD Production$1,000 to $4,999AnonymousPaper for MCBA program usePaper for the 2009

Annual ReportLaurel Feddema ofSteppingstone Consulting, Inc.Consulting servicesPeriscopePrinting of the 2009

Annual ReportJeffrey C. SearsWebsite maintenance

and trainingTilka DesignDesign and production$500 to $999Bolger Concept to PrintPrinting services forthe By Design Program

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Trimming and collating servicesfor the 2009 Annual Report$250 to $499A.C. BerkheiserPieces of book art for our librarySally EngelhardtBookbinding suppliesLiquor DepotBeveragesPrecision PowerhouseFilm prep and duplicationfor 20th Anniversary DVDBarbara RosenthalPieces of book art for our libraryClaire Van VlietPieces of book art for our library$100 to $249Frank BrannonBook art for our libraryMacy ChadwickBook art for our librarySam HoolihanBook art for our libraryKaren Kunc and Twyla HansenBook art for our libraryWet PaintPaper for the By Design ProgramUp to $99Alice AustinBook art for our libraryHans Koch and Amelia KennedyBook on typography

for our libraryMagers & Quinn BooksellersBooks for the By

Design ProgramJill WeesePolaroid camera for theBy Design Program

Collaborators & partnersAdams Spanish

Immersion SchoolAmerican Institute of

Graphic Arts(AIGA)Ampersand ClubAnderson Center

Big Brain ComicsBlake SchoolBuffalo High SchoolChildren’s Theatre CompanyThe College of St. CatherineCommunity Programsin the Arts (COMPAS)Emmet Williams

Elementary SchoolFlying Paper PressGreater Twin Cities United WayGreenwood Elementary SchoolHennepin County

Medical CenterHighpoint Center for

PrintmakingInternational Cartoonist

ConspiracyThe Juno Collective:Teens Rock the MicKenwood SchoolLake Harriet Lower SchoolLake Harriet Upper SchoolThe Loft Literary CenterMarine Elementary SchoolMeadow Lake

Elementary SchoolMendota ElementaryMidnight Paper SalesMilkweed EditionsMill City MuseumMinneapolis Collegeof Art and DesignMinneapolis Institute of ArtsMinneapolis Public LibraryMinneapolis Public Schools:Arts for Academic Achievementand Teacher Instructional

ServicesMinnesota Center for

PhotographyMinnesota Humanities

CommissionMinnesota Museum of

American ArtMinnesota Retreat for the ArtsMinnesota Society ofBotanical ArtistsMississippi CreativeArts Magnet School

Northern Clay CenterOtter Lake ElementaryParkview Center SchoolPeople Serving PeoplePerpich Center for

Arts Education:Professional Developmentand Arts High SchoolPillsbury Math &

Technology SchoolPratt Community SchoolProjet Mobilivre

Bookmobile ProjectRainTaxi’s Twin Cities

Book FestivalRamsey County Public LibrariesRochester Young Writers

ConferenceRosalux GallerySaint Paul Public LibrariesSaint Paul Public

Schools: Arts 25Sheridan Global Artsand Communications SchoolSkyview Community SchoolSouth High SchoolSpringboard for the ArtsSt. Paul Festival &Heritage FoundationStar TribuneTextile Center of MinnesotaTraffic Street PressUniversity of Minnesota:Department of ArtWalker Art CenterWayzata East Middle SchoolWet PaintYouth Farm and Market ProjectZenon Dance Company

Board of directorsCharles R. Quimby, ChairRichard B. Crockett, Vice ChairDaniel Levitt, TreasurerSusan A. Gray, SecretaryRenee BelinaEllen L. BreyerJennie P. CarlsonSheila ColganMadeline Gragg

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Diane A. MerrifieldThomas MoePaulette Myers-RichSallie NeallConnie RemeleWilliam SimpsonJane Tilka

StaffEleanor Arnason,

Finance DirectorLori Brink, Book Artsin the Schools Artist/InstructorBeth Carls,Visitor Services AssociateEmily Carr Moore,Community Programs

CoordinatorAllison Chapman, Book Artsin the Schools Artist/InstructorMonica Edwards Larson,Education Program AssociateHarleigh Gabrielson,Visitor Services AssociateDorothy Goldie,

Executive DirectorTiffany Kramer,Teen Programs CoordinatorLin Lacy,Education Program AssociateFlora Marden, Shop ManagerCandida Pagan,Education Program AssociateSteve Pittelkow,Adult Programs CoordinatorJeff Rathermel, Artistic DirectorJenea Rewertz-Targui,Education Program AssociateBrianne Sampson, Developmentand Communications AssociateGretchen Thayer,Education Program AssociateEma Thoen, Assistant

Shop ManagerAnna Tsantir,Teen Programs CoordinatorJill Weese, Youth WorkshopsProgram CoordinatorInternsElizabeth Belz

Lucia CowlesKaitlin FrickJenessa JensenSarah Jo KienitzMelissa KilleanAna MusachioZach PearlBetsy PopelkaAnna-Lisa Swank

FacultySusan Bjerke: printer, book artistJanet Carroll: marbler,

bookbinderKathy Coulter: book artistDiana Eicher: printmakerEllen Ferrari: youth art educatorJean Formo: calligrapher,

book artistGeorgia Greeley: printmaker,book artistSusan Hensel: book artistVanessa Hoff: printerLinda Koutsky: book designer,book artistSara Langworthy:printer, bookbinderPaulette Myers-Rich:printer, book artistBridget O’Malley: papermakerMary Jo Pauly: book artistJana Pullman: papermaker,bookbinder, conservatorJenea Rewertz-Targui:printer, book artistRegula Russelle: printer,

bookbinderDennis Ruud:calligrapher, bookbinderWilber “Chip” Schilling:printer, book artistC.B. Sherlock: printer,

bookbinderErica Spitzer Rasmussen:papermakerRoslyn Stendahl: bookbinderDiane von Arx: calligrapherNancy Walden: printer, poetMichael Waltz: calligrapherJody Williams:

bookbinder, printer

Artists’ cooperativeBeth CarlsSteven FillerGeorgia GreeleySara LangworthyGail LipeAndrew McCullohC.B. SherlockRichard StephensRobyn StollerNancy Walden

Artists-in-ResidenceWendy Fernstrum:printmaker, book artistGeorgia Greeley:printmaker, book artistRegula Russelle:printmaker, book artistRobyn Stoller:printmaker, book artist

By Design mentorsAmanda DegenerHeather DelisleWendy FernstrumLin LacySara LangworthyGail LipePaulette Myers-RichChandler O’LearyBridget O’MalleySarah PetersJana PullmanRegula RusselleDenny RuudC.B. SherlockJody Williams

By Design teen artistsBritta AndersonJordyn ArndtDanielle BaillyElizabeth BelzKatie BlockMark BremelJoe BrownNoelle BullockAllison Connell

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Kaitlin DeCarloNatalie ElsasserJohn FagerholmRebecca FletcherSam GroshensHannah HallJing HanAnne HigginsStephanie KunzeBrita LightAndrea LimingPJ MaracleDana MarksJessica OlingerBrianna ParryIlana RadovskyJenna ReitmulderSamantha SangKellie SchweichCamille Alisa SummersSam Young

Visiting artists and lecturers

Loretta Bebeau:papermaker,Minneapolis, MNBetty Bright: book artsscholar, Deephaven, MNNancy Daley: papermaker,Lutsen, MNBill Drendel: designer andbook artist, Chicago, ILHelen Hiebert:papermaker, Portland, ORStuart Klipper:photographer,Minneapolis, MNMonique Lallier:bookbinder,Summerfield, NCMary Longley:papermaker, St. Paul, MNEmily Martin: book artist,Iowa City, IAKitty Maryatt: printer andbook artist, San Diego, CADiane Maurer-Mathison:paper marbler,Spring Mills, PA

Jim Moore: writer,St. Paul, MNSuzanne Moore:calligrapher,Cleveland, OHPaul Moxon: printer,Montgomery, ALWilliam Myers:printer and woodengraver, St. Paul, MNBridget O’Malley: papermaker,Minneapolis, MNHooshang Partovi:musicologist and bookartist, San Diego, CAGaylord Schanilec:printer and woodengraver, Stockholm, WIWilber “Chip” Schilling:printer, book artist,Minneapolis, MNMickey Smith:photographer,Minneapolis, MNRichard Stephens: printer,Minneapolis, MNBarbara Tetenbaum:printer and book artist,Portland, ORBen Trissel: type designer,Seattle, WAMC

BA made every effort to acknowledge all those listed in this report accurately and provide proper recognition for artists and organizations. If we have made any errors or omissions, please notify Dorothy Goldie at (612) 215-2525 or [email protected].

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