AWARDS
Grand Purchase Prize | $500 Voyager Stephanie Van Riet MFA 26 SC Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize | $375 Recall Sadie Almand 27 IL American Printing History Association - New England Chapter Purchase Prize | $375 The Violet City Longwen Miao MFA 26 IL Librarian's Choice Purchase Prize | $375 Seas Away Airien Ludin MFA 26 IL Innovative Structure Purchase Prize | $375 Under the Feathers Shawn Wang MFA 27 IL Honorable Mention | $100 Diagrams of the Queer Psyche Robin Goldfarb 29 EFSOPENING RECEPTION
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, 1st Floor, Fleet Library - moved to Zoom due to Blizzard '26ENTRIES
View all entries and read more here: 12th Annual Student Artists' Book Contest 2026.JUROR
We are pleased to announce that Gabrielle Reed is this year's juror.Gabrielle Reed is an art librarian and photographer. She has worked at Massachusetts College of Art and Design for the past 18 years. There she teaches artists’ books and photobooks from the MassArt library special collections.
She was born and raised in Jamestown, RI – Conanicut Island, which is the focus of much of her artistic work. Her current work revolves around the aquaculture of where she lives. The main focus of her research is on the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians.
She has a BFA in photography from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and an MS from Simmons College.
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