About Us
The Interdisciplinary Arts Department has a sustained commitment to excellence in graduate arts education that has shaped the development of eminent arts professionals for thirty-five years. Our three graduate degrees: the MA in Interdisciplinary Arts, MFA in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts, and MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts & Media allow for permeability across the programs. In 1993, the Center for Book and Paper Arts was created within the Interdisciplinary Arts Department, with a mission of advancing research and innovation in the interdisciplinary practices of the artist’s book and hand papermaking, providing support for our graduate programs, and engaging the public through lectures, workshops, exhibitions and events. Together, we share the principle that interdisciplinarity is a defining characteristic of contemporary art practice, and a necessary prerequisite for those artists who will shape the future.
Interarts Newsfeed
CALL FOR ENTRIES: A Response Exhibition to Poems & Pictures:
PIT and IMAGe Unit announce a call for artwork submissions for the CBPA Galley Space. ...
Interarts Faculty Miriam Schaer's work reviewed in Hand/Eye Magazine
Schaer's work demonstrates that conventional considerations, such as paper, binding or printed type, are not always what defines a book....
Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project
We invite artists and those who seek justice of all kinds to submit proposals for a speculative monument to memorialize the Chicago Police torture cases. Our...
CBPA Newsfeed
Announcing the Alumni Studio Access Award
The Interdisciplinary Arts Department is pleased to announce the Alumni Studio Access Award, a new residency initiative at the Center for Book and Paper Arts....
Book and Paper MFA Featured in Spring 2012 Artists' Books Exhibitions
Jamie Weaver, Going Home, 2011 Jamie Weaver's work expands on the concept of "home."...
Publishing of Aram Saroyan's Four Monologues Creates Interdisciplinary Events ACross Campus
The recent publication of an artists' book authored by poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright Aram Saroyan provides the perfect nexus for collaborative art making across...
