Events
February - March 2023: The Illustrated Accordion
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Gallery
Reception March 3 from 5-8 p.m.
Artist Meet Up via Zoom
Wednesday, March 8 at 3:00 p.m. ET
Join the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center for our 15th annual Illustrated Accordion exhibition.
Each year the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (KBAC) sponsors a non-juried exhibition The Illustrated Accordion, showing in the KBAC Gallery in spring. Open to all emerging and established artists, this exhibition focuses on books created in the accordion form.
MaryBeth Boone, ”SWIFT Encounters,” Floating Accordion book of handmade and Mohawk Superfine papers. Relief and pressure prints with Garamond type were letterpress printed. Painted papyrus adorns the covers, 2022, $160, 4 1/8"x12"x2", Greensboro, NC, @PurplePumpkinPress, www.marybethboone.com
The Illustrated Accordion exhibition focuses on books created in the accordion form. The structure of an accordion book is simple: a long piece of paper is folded into pages that can be read like a book or spread open and displayed like a banner. Featuring works of book artists from all over the world, the books in this exhibit take this book form to a new level. Every book that has been entered in previous Illustrated Accordion exhibits are available to view through our website.
Please click on the image to expand and see information about the books. This works best on a computer.
There are three galleries of images. Please make sure to check out all of them! If you are looking at the images in full screen mode, once you start to see repeated you will have to scroll down on the page and click the second and third galleries.
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Gallery 3, Emerging Artists
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
or by appointment
The KBAC is committed to inclusion of all members of the community regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, age, or ability.
Thank You!
KBAC’s educational and artistic programming is made possible through the generosity of these organizations, other private funders, and people like you.
