An artist's statement is a brief description of your artwork that helps the viewer understand your art. It is written in the first person, while artists' bios are written in the third person.
2025 Artists' Book Competition
Date of Competition: May 9th, 2025
Submission: April 14th-28th, 2025
Journeying, Mary V. Marsh and Tony Bellaver, 2011 Ha Ja, Jee Su Kim, 2023
Calling all SCAD students!
The annual SCAD Libraries Artists' Book Competition is open to all current SCAD students at any location. Enter up to two artists' books. Winning books may be selected for purchase and included in SCAD Library's Artists' Book Collection. There will be cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
What is an artist's book, and what can I enter?
Artists' books are works of art that utilize, challenge, defy, reference, or embrace the book as a mode of artistic expression. They can be sculptural, traditional, textual, visual, personal, political, drawn, sewn, conceptual or literal. If you can make a successful argument in your artist's statement that your work is a book, it can be entered into the competition.
We are looking for fine press, performative, altered, and object books. Scrolls, pop-ups, zines, comics, hardback, paperback, perfect bound, and unbound books are all welcome. Categories will be dictated by entries received.
For more information, watch the recording of the Artists' Book Competition Information Session.
Collaborative entries are encouraged.
Did your class or group make an artist's book or minicomics or zines or miniature books? We want to see them all!