Laura Young & Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Guild of Book Workers gives out two awards every year.
Laura Young Award: Established in 2003 and given to a member who has served the Guild in an outstanding manner.
Lifetime Achievement Award: The GBW Lifetime Achievement Award is given to anyone, member or not, for service to the profession of the book arts. Prior to 2007, the Lifetime Achievement Award was known as the Honorary Membership Award.
Mid-Career Award
This new award is generously funded through a grant from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation. The award will be given to two Guild of Book Workers members each year for at least the next three years. The award funding will allow the recipient to set aside time for study, reflection, opportunities, new projects, experimentation, and exploration, as well as attend the Guild’s annual Standards of Excellence Seminar. Awards are subject to state and federal tax guidelines.
The award includes registration and hotel at the Standards of Excellence Seminar (up to 4 nights), and a $5,000 unrestricted cash award to put toward your work (can be used for materials, travel, studio rent, website updating, conferences, workshops, anything to help your pursuit of the book arts). The GBW expects that the recipients will, at minimum, write something for the newsletter about how the grant money was used to help further their career.
BIPOC Grant
In partnership with the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, the Guild of Book Workers is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for any individuals who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) within the Book Arts community.
The scholarship is designed to help expand funding opportunities in the area of Book Arts to support creative projects, education and research.
Individual grants will be awarded in the full sum of $1,000 and a complimentary Guild of Book Workers membership for 1 year. Awarded funds will be payable to individuals with a US tax ID; alternatively, funds for a student's tuition can be paid directly to the institution hosting the class.
Dark Archives Scholarship Fund
The Guild of Book Workers is pleased to offer several micro-grants or scholarships to any individual identifying as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) to be used to take or teach a book arts class. The Dark Archives Scholarship Fund, is funded by the organizers (Ian Kahn of Lux Mentis Books and the author of Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom) and the six binders invited to create design bindings of the book, Dark Archives; A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Book Bound in Human Skin.
The grants will be awarded in sums up to $800. Funds can be paid directly to a host institution (for tuition payment, for example) or to individuals with a US tax ID. Proposals may include: Tuition for a workshop at an institution or to pay for private study, funds for materials needed to teach a class, travel expenses for classes, etc. The primary purpose is simply to encourage the participation of BIPOC individuals in book arts education, either as students or teachers. All specialties of the Book Arts are welcome.
Proposals will be reviewed for eligibility by a few members of the GBW Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and the GBW Board of Directors. Funds will be dispersed in the order applications are received until the donation for the Dark Archives Scholarship is depleted.