Elizabeth Castaldo is a New York based artist, printmaker, and bookbinder. Working with collage, drawing, and printmaking she creates multi-layered and visually abundant works on paper and artist’s books that explore nature, the divine feminine and interconnectivity. She is currently an art-in-ed workspace resident at Women’s Studio Workshop and has completed residencies at Proyecto ‘Ace in Buenos Aires Argentina, Arquetopia in Oaxaca Mexico, the Center for Book Arts, NYC and Printmaker’s Open Forum, Oxford PA. In 2023, her work was included in an illustrated edition of The Awakening by Kate Chopin published by Kasini House and Kolaj. Her work has been exhibited internationally including with Proyecto ‘Ace, Saint-Paul de Mausole at Saint-Rémy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Empty Set Gallery, Zucker man Museum of Art, Center for Book Arts, Saint Joseph’s College, and Landing Contemporary. She teaches printmaking and book arts at Parsons School of Design and the Center for Book Arts. Castaldo received her MFA from SCAD Atlanta where she was a Dean’s Fellow in Printmaking and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Her work is held in many private and institutional collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, SCAD, The University of Alberta, Carnegie Melon University, Yale University and others. Follow her work online: www.elizabethcastaldo.com
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2025 Artists' Book Competition
Date of Competition: TBD
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 three artists' books. Winning books may be selected for purchase and included in SCAD Library's Artists' Book Collection.
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.
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!