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Undergraduate Grants, School of the Art Institute

Lily Pennock, The Hypostasis of the Archons 

Dylan Shoaf, If You’re Dissecting it, it’s Already Dead 

MFA Graduate Awards

Chloe Yukun Ba, (Vossler Prize) School of the Art Institute, Perpetual

Poojana Prasanna, University of Iowa Center for the Book, A Portrait of Home

Grants Committee

Jackie Vossler, Chair

Hannah Batsel

Martha Chiplis

Kenneth Gerleve

Eileen Madden

Audrey Niffenegger

Diane Stilwell Weinberg

The Bibliographical Society of America Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers

Michael Johnston (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana), for research on manuscript copies of the Middle English poem, “The Prick of Conscience.”

T. Kimball Brooker/Caxton Club Scholarship, Rare Book School

Tammy Clemons is an early career independent scholar, having received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Kentucky in 2021. Already accomplished in visual anthropology and Appalachian studies, Tammy intends to use her Rare Book School training to “expand [her] potential as a scholar, teaching artist, zine-maker, and cultural organizer.”

In honor of Black History Month, the Caxton Club releases a program from our archives, Irvin J. Hunt on Dreaming the Present: 

Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbg8KStOPik

The Bibliographical Society of America Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers

Caxtonian, Nora Epstein (University of St Andrews, UK), “Visual Commonplacing: The Transmission and Reception of Printed Devotional Images in Reformed England.”

T. Kimball Brooker/Caxton Club Scholarship, Rare Book School

Amanda (Mandy) Choie is an early career special collections librarian at Michigan State University and aspires to use her Rare Book School training to further her knowledge of 19th and 20th century American book history.

This February marks the beginning of the 128th anniversary of the Caxton Club. To celebrate this anniversary, we share this keepsake prepared for our 125th anniversary. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cu0L-dFgTg2t2Tg4JD5GNu08vXftxNQc/view

Click here to read more about the grants recipients and their projects.