Tuscaloosa, USA · est. 1985

University of Alabama MFA Book Arts Program

A graduate program in making books by hand, offering a 60-credit MFA covering letterpress printing, typography, hand bookbinding, hand papermaking and book history. It describes itself as the oldest dedicated book-making program of its kind in the country.


About the press

Based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the University of Alabama Book Arts Program offers a 60-credit MFA emphasizing the book as an integrated unit combining materials, processes and format with visual and textual voice. Its facilities include a type lab, bookbindery and the Lost Arch Papermill, and faculty and students produce letterpress fine press editions and hand-bound artists' books.