Membership Benefits

The CBAA is a nonprofit organization fundamentally committed to the teaching of book art at the college and university level, and supporting other modes of education concerned with the practice and/or analysis of the medium. CBAA engages in a continuing reappraisal of the nature and meaning of book art education. Membership in CBAA is for all persons interested in the furtherance of the book arts, as well as those with parallel or intersecting goals and interests.

Benefits

Membership in the association includes the following benefits:

• Recieve Project grants, awards, scholarships, and stipends for artists, teachers, and scholars
• Access and contribute to CBAA’s Book Art Theory blog, Openings: Studies in Book Art journal, Book Art + Social Justice Resource List, and pedagogy resources
• Participate in and present papers, talks, and other events at Biennial Conferences and National Meetings
• Search our bulletin boards for residency, internship, and employment opportunities, and join the CBAA member directory to share bios, websites, and contact info with other book artists
• Join any of CBAA’s working committees and be nominated to the CBAA board of directors
• Recieve limited-edition prints and ephemera by mail
• and much more...

Membership Types and Dues

Persons shall be admitted as members upon payment of dues. Membership is for a calendar year. Membership initiation or renewal received after October 1 shall apply to the remaining calendar year as well as the next calendar year. 

• Regular: Variable (sliding scale)
• Student: Free
• Passport Membership with the Fine Press Book Association (FPBA): $90
• Sustaining: $100
• Patron: $150
• Standard Institutional (4-member bundle): $150
• Patron Institutional (9-member bundle): $300

To Join or Renew