You have landed at the submission manager for the College Book Art Association, where you are able to submit applications, proposals or exhibition entries.
There are very specific guidelines for each type of application, proposal or entry. Please review the guidelines for submitting materials under individual categories.
Please note that you may need be a current member of CBAA in order to submit materials. In order to become a new member, or to renew your membership, please go to this CBAA web page: http://www.collegebookart.org/page-363225
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For questions about the submission process in any category, please contact: meetings@collegebookart.org
Call for Demonstration Submissions
CBAA National Conference, June 10–12, 2027
Baylor University
Waco, Texas
BOOK AS CATALYST: From Object to Impact
An artist’s book is more than its pages and binding. It can start a conversation, provoke a question, or set events in motion. CBAA’s 2027 conference theme, Book as Catalyst: From Object to Impact, explores how book art reaches beyond the page; moving into dialogue, community, research, and exchange among different people and different ways of knowing.
DEMO NOTES:
We welcome teachers, students, artists, librarians, conservators, art historians, writers, studio managers and anyone with experience in book art, printmaking or related fields to submit proposals for practical demonstrations related to the practice of book art. Demonstration sessions are 1.5 hours and submitters may opt to give 1 long (1 hour or longer) demonstration or give a 35-45-minute demonstration twice within the 1.5 hour session. Please explain which type of presentation you plan to give in your proposal. Proposals should be no longer than 250 words and include a list of materials, tools and equipment that will need to be provided by the hosting institution. Please note that proposals should be for demonstrations only and not for workshops that include audience participation. Proposals should be limited to demonstrations that can be given using tools and equipment on the following list:
Letterpress Printing
- Challenge Platen Jobbing Press
- Washington-style iron hand press (R. Hoe & Co., New York and London, 1870)
- Washington-style iron hand press (F. Wesel Mfg. Co., New York)
- Vandercook Universal III
- Vandercook No. 4
- Potter Model 2 cylinder proof press
- Book Beetle tabletop press
- Baltimorean No. 12 Tabletop Clamshell Platen Press
- 5 Provisional Presses
- Challenge proofing press
- Chandler & Price Pilot Tabletop Platen Press
- Assorted metal and wood type
Bookbinding
- Nipping presses
- Hand tools
- Calligraphy supplies
- Marbling supplies
- Typewriters
Riso Printing
- Risograph MH9450 (2-drum machine) with Yellow, Blue, Black, Light Lime, Sunflower, Green, Orchid & Fluorescent Pink
Digital Fabrication
Laser Cutting
- 2 Epilog Fusion Edge 36 laser cutters — 24" × 36" cutting area
- Epilog Fusion Maker 12 laser engraver — 12" × 24" cutting area
- Rotary attachment for cylindrical objects
3D Printing
- 6 Bambu Lab H2D Pro filament 3D printers — 12.8" × 12.6" × 12.8" build volume
- Formlabs Form 4 resin 3D printer
- Formlabs Form 4L resin 3D printer
CNC + Woodworking
- Carvey CNC Router
- ShopBot CNC Router
- Assorted hand tools
- Wood carving kits
Digital Cutting + Finishing
- Cameo Plus cutting machine
- Cameo Pro cutting machine
- Vinyl cutters
- Button presses — 1" and 2.25" dies
- Gold foiling machine
- Heat press
Textiles + Embroidery
- 2 Singer Heavy Duty sewing machines
- Brother combination sewing and embroidery machine
- 2 Persona PRS100 single-needle embroidery machines
- Singer 14T948DS serger
- Leatherworking tools and station
Painting + Other Studio Equipment
- Dual-action airbrush
- Painting supplies
- Drawing and rendering supplies
- Clay sculpting tools
- Paper, scissors, tapes, and adhesives
SUBMISSION NOTES:
1. Membership is not required to submit a proposal. If accepted, all presenters must become current CBAA members by February 1st, 2027, the deadline to confirm participation. To become a new member, or to renew your membership, please visit https://www.collegebookart.org/page-363225
2. In an effort to promote original scholarship in the field of academic book art, abstracts submitted to CBAA should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.
3. Please limit abstracts to no more than 250 words; longer abstracts will not be considered.
4. Bios, synopses and abstracts must be submitted as Word docs.
5. This is a blind jurying process; please do not include your name or the names of any other potential participants on any of the uploaded files.
Use the title of your talk as your file name. You should enter a short bio in the biography section of the submission form.
6. A CBAA member may make more than one submission but only one submission will be accepted per member.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
You will be asked to submit the following information when prompted by the online submission manager for each entry separately:
Member’s address
Member’s phone number
Job title, institution, city and state of institution
50-word bio (this can include the member’s name and will be included in the printed program if accepted)
Title of proposal
50-word synopsis (to be printed in the conference program if accepted)
250-word abstract (no names)
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
Abstracts MUST be received no later than November 30th, 2026. Submissions received after this date will not be considered for acceptance.
November 30th, 2026: Deadline for submission of proposals
January 15, 2027: Notification of acceptance or rejection of proposals
February 1st, 2027: Deadline for confirmation of acceptance by presenters
CONTACT:
For questions about the submission process in any category please email:
Erin McAdams
CBAA Vice President for Programming
emcadams@collegebookart.org
Call for Individual Presentation Submissions
CBAA National Conference, June 10–12, 2027
Baylor University
Waco, Texas
BOOK AS CATALYST: From Object to Impact
An artist’s book is more than its pages and binding. It can start a conversation, provoke a question, or set events in motion. CBAA’s 2027 conference theme, Book as Catalyst: From Object to Impact, explores how book art reaches beyond the page; moving into dialogue, community, research, and exchange among different people and different ways of knowing.
We invite presenters to think beyond what a book is and consider what a book does. Books can open new exchanges, activate spaces, fuel collaboration and dialogue, expose and expand ideas, or offer a call to action.
We welcome proposals for papers, discussions, pre-formed panels, roundtables, facilitated conversations, and demonstrations that explore how book art functions as a catalyst. We are interested in what your work activates, who it brings into conversation, and how its materials, structure, process, or circulation create impact beyond the object itself.
In addition, the conference will include a juried CBAA members exhibition, members showcase, and vendor fair.
Possible topics include:
· Community Engagement and Collective Making: Book projects that gather people, encourage participation, share authorship, respond to community needs, or build relationships that extend beyond a single event.
· Research as Material Practice: Making as a method of inquiry, including what structure, material choice, touch, time, repetition, or the experience of viewers and makers can reveal that text or analysis alone may not.
· Learning in Many Forms: Book arts as a tool for teaching, mentorship, discovery, access, and knowledge-sharing in classrooms, studios, libraries, museums, community spaces, and beyond.
· Activating Archives, Collections, and Memory: Creative engagement with archives, collections, histories, institutional memory, gaps, silences, and questions surrounding whose knowledge is preserved, interpreted, or made accessible.
· Expanded Forms, Collaboration, and Impact: Book art in conversation with performance, installation, sound, film, technology, public space, interdisciplinary collaboration, and social, cultural, political, or environmental work.
We welcome teachers, students, artists, librarians, conservators, art historians, writers, studio managers, and anyone interested in the field to offer unique perspectives and pose additional questions and approaches related to the conference theme.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Please note that you must be a CBAA member in order to make a submission through the Submittable platform. and that the only way to submit proposals is through this online submission manager. All categories are open to all CBAA members except for the student lightning round which is only open to undergraduate and graduate students.
Individual Paper Presentation proposals:
Please include a proposal title at the top of the page. Proposal should take the form of a 200–250 word abstract for a 10-minute talk or artist presentation. Accepted proposals will be grouped into panels of talks with compatible themes or approaches.
SUBMISSION NOTES:
1. Membership is not required to submit a proposal. If accepted, all presenters must become current CBAA members by February 1st, 2027, the deadline to confirm participation. To become a new member, or to renew your membership, please visit https://www.collegebookart.org/page-363225
2. In an effort to promote original scholarship in the field of academic book art, abstracts submitted to CBAA should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.
3. Please limit abstracts to no more than 250 words; longer abstracts will not be considered.
4. Bios, synopses and abstracts must be submitted as Word docs.
5. This is a blind jurying process; please do not include your name or the names of any other potential participants on any of the uploaded files.
Use the title of your talk as your file name. You should enter a short bio in the biography section of the submission form.
6. A CBAA member may make more than one submission but only one submission will be accepted per member.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
You will be asked to submit the following information when prompted by the online submission manager for each entry separately:
Member’s address
Member’s phone number
Job title, institution, city and state of institution
50-word bio (this can include the member’s name and will be included in the printed program if accepted)
Title of proposal
50-word synopsis (to be printed in the conference program if accepted)
250-word abstract (no names)
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
Abstracts MUST be received no later than November 30th, 2026. Submissions received after this date will not be considered for acceptance.
November 30th, 2026: Deadline for submission of proposals
January 15, 2027: Notification of acceptance or rejection of proposals
February 1st, 2027: Deadline for confirmation of acceptance by presenters
CONTACT:
For questions about the submission process in any category please email:
Erin McAdams
CBAA Vice President for Programming
emcadams@collegebookart.org
Call for Pre-formed Panel Submissions
CBAA National Conference, June 10–12, 2027
Baylor University
Waco, Texas
BOOK AS CATALYST: From Object to Impact
An artist’s book is more than its pages and binding. It can start a conversation, provoke a question, or set events in motion. CBAA’s 2027 conference theme, Book as Catalyst: From Object to Impact, explores how book art reaches beyond the page; moving into dialogue, community, research, and exchange among different people and different ways of knowing.
We invite presenters to think beyond what a book is and consider what a book does. Books can open new exchanges, activate spaces, fuel collaboration and dialogue, expose and expand ideas, or offer a call to action.
We welcome proposals for papers, discussions, pre-formed panels, roundtables, facilitated conversations, and demonstrations that explore how book art functions as a catalyst. We are interested in what your work activates, who it brings into conversation, and how its materials, structure, process, or circulation create impact beyond the object itself.
In addition, the conference will include a juried CBAA members exhibition, members showcase, and vendor fair.
Possible topics include:
· Community Engagement and Collective Making: Book projects that gather people, encourage participation, share authorship, respond to community needs, or build relationships that extend beyond a single event.
· Research as Material Practice: Making as a method of inquiry, including what structure, material choice, touch, time, repetition, or the experience of viewers and makers can reveal that text or analysis alone may not.
· Learning in Many Forms: Book arts as a tool for teaching, mentorship, discovery, access, and knowledge-sharing in classrooms, studios, libraries, museums, community spaces, and beyond.
· Activating Archives, Collections, and Memory: Creative engagement with archives, collections, histories, institutional memory, gaps, silences, and questions surrounding whose knowledge is preserved, interpreted, or made accessible.
· Expanded Forms, Collaboration, and Impact: Book art in conversation with performance, installation, sound, film, technology, public space, interdisciplinary collaboration, and social, cultural, political, or environmental work.
· Shop/Lab Talks: Best practices for lab and studio management for both traditional and digital equipment
We welcome teachers, students, artists, librarians, conservators, art historians, writers, studio managers, and anyone interested in the field to offer unique perspectives and pose additional questions and approaches related to the conference theme.
Pre-formed Panel proposals:
Include a panel title at the top of the page. Each pre-formed panel will be assigned a moderator. You may use one of the following formats: 4 presenters each giving 15-minute talks or 5 presenters each giving 10-minute talks. The proposal should take the form of a 200–250-word overview plus individual 200–250-word abstracts from each of the participants.
SUBMISSION NOTES:
1. Membership is not required to submit a proposal. If accepted, all presenters must become current CBAA members by February 1st, 2027, the deadline to confirm participation. To become a new member, or to renew your membership, please visit https://www.collegebookart.org/page-363225
2. In an effort to promote original scholarship in the field of academic book art, abstracts submitted to CBAA should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.
3. Please limit abstracts to no more than 250 words; longer abstracts will not be considered.
4. Bios, synopses and abstracts must be submitted as Word docs.
5. This is a blind jurying process; please do not include your name or the names of any other potential participants on any of the uploaded files.
Use the title of your talk as your file name. You should enter a short bio in the biography section of the submission form.
6. A CBAA member may make more than one submission but only one submission will be accepted per member.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
You will be asked to submit the following information when prompted by the online submission manager for each entry separately:
Member’s address
Member’s phone number
Job title, institution, city and state of institution
50-word bio (this can include the member’s name and will be included in the printed program if accepted)
Title of proposal
50-word synopsis (to be printed in the conference program if accepted)
250-word abstract (no names)
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
Abstracts MUST be received no later than November 30th, 2026. Submissions received after this date will not be considered for acceptance.
November 30th, 2026: Deadline for submission of proposals
January 15, 2027: Notification of acceptance or rejection of proposals
February 1st, 2027: Deadline for confirmation of acceptance by presenters
CONTACT:
For questions about the submission process in any category please email:
Erin McAdams
CBAA Vice President for Programming
emcadams@collegebookart.org
Call for Round Table Discussion Submissions
CBAA National Conference, June 10–12, 2027
Baylor University
Waco, Texas
BOOK AS CATALYST: From Object to Impact
An artist’s book is more than its pages and binding. It can start a conversation, provoke a question, or set events in motion. CBAA’s 2027 conference theme, Book as Catalyst: From Object to Impact, explores how book art reaches beyond the page; moving into dialogue, community, research, and exchange among different people and different ways of knowing.
We invite presenters to think beyond what a book is and consider what a book does. Books can open new exchanges, activate spaces, fuel collaboration and dialogue, expose and expand ideas, or offer a call to action.
We welcome proposals for papers, discussions, pre-formed panels, roundtables, facilitated conversations, and demonstrations that explore how book art functions as a catalyst. We are interested in what your work activates, who it brings into conversation, and how its materials, structure, process, or circulation create impact beyond the object itself.
In addition, the conference will include a juried CBAA members exhibition, members showcase, and vendor fair.
Possible topics include:
· Community Engagement and Collective Making: Book projects that gather people, encourage participation, share authorship, respond to community needs, or build relationships that extend beyond a single event.
· Research as Material Practice: Making as a method of inquiry, including what structure, material choice, touch, time, repetition, or the experience of viewers and makers can reveal that text or analysis alone may not.
· Learning in Many Forms: Book arts as a tool for teaching, mentorship, discovery, access, and knowledge-sharing in classrooms, studios, libraries, museums, community spaces, and beyond.
· Activating Archives, Collections, and Memory: Creative engagement with archives, collections, histories, institutional memory, gaps, silences, and questions surrounding whose knowledge is preserved, interpreted, or made accessible.
· Expanded Forms, Collaboration, and Impact: Book art in conversation with performance, installation, sound, film, technology, public space, interdisciplinary collaboration, and social, cultural, political, or environmental work.
· Shop/Lab Talks: Best practices for lab and studio management for both traditional and digital equipment
We welcome teachers, students, artists, librarians, conservators, art historians, writers, studio managers, and anyone interested in the field to offer unique perspectives and pose additional questions and approaches related to the conference theme.
Roundtable Discussion Proposals:
Roundtables are facilitated conversations around a shared topic or question. Please include a discussion title at the top of the page. The proposal should include a 200–250-word description of the topic or question, the goals of the discussion, and who may be interested in participating. The submitter will serve as the moderator and give a brief 5-minute introduction to begin the conversation.
SUBMISSION NOTES:
1. Membership is not required to submit a proposal. If accepted, all presenters must become current CBAA members by February 1st, 2027, the deadline to confirm participation. To become a new member, or to renew your membership, please visit https://www.collegebookart.org/page-363225
2. In an effort to promote original scholarship in the field of academic book art, abstracts submitted to CBAA should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.
3. Please limit abstracts to no more than 250 words; longer abstracts will not be considered.
4. Bios, synopses and abstracts must be submitted as Word docs.
5. This is a blind jurying process; please do not include your name or the names of any other potential participants on any of the uploaded files.
Use the title of your talk as your file name. You should enter a short bio in the biography section of the submission form.
6. A CBAA member may make more than one submission but only one submission will be accepted per member.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
You will be asked to submit the following information when prompted by the online submission manager for each entry separately:
Member’s address
Member’s phone number
Job title, institution, city and state of institution
50-word bio (this can include the member’s name and will be included in the printed program if accepted)
Title of proposal
50-word synopsis (to be printed in the conference program if accepted)
250-word abstract (no names)
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
Abstracts MUST be received no later than November 30th, 2026. Submissions received after this date will not be considered for acceptance.
November 30th, 2026: Deadline for submission of proposals
January 15, 2027: Notification of acceptance or rejection of proposals
February 1st, 2027: Deadline for confirmation of acceptance by presenters
CONTACT:
For questions about the submission process in any category please email:
Erin McAdams
CBAA Vice President for Programming
emcadams@collegebookart.org