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Center for Book Arts (CBA) is planning to observe its 40 th anniversary in 2024 with a collection-based exhibition, “Book Arts as Intersection,” exploring CBA’s role in the evolution of the book arts from 1974 through the 1980s. Curated by field expert Kathy Walkup, the exhibition will tap both CBA’s expansive artist’s books collection and its newly researched archive to shed light on the unique and diverse community of artists who produced the field’s earliest, provocative works. These seminal figures, many of whom remain little-known today, included women, people of color, individuals lost early in the AIDS epidemic, and others who worked outside of mainstream practices. Opening in April 2024, the exhibition will run for 12 weeks at CBA and is expected to attract about 7,000 visitors. It will potentially travel to venues with significant holdings of artist’s books. A previous AAP special grant to CMA (2016) supported the outfitting of a collection and study storage room.