Mid-Career Grant

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.

Applications accepted April 1 - 30, 2026