End Paper: NCMA Art Book Fair
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 End Paper Juried Competition!
Zine: Isabel Lu, Li-Lan Hsiang Weiss, FIRE
Broadside: Dean Marshall Tuck, Terry Schupbach-Gordon, Toby Gordon, After St. Matthew and the Angel
People’s Choice: Gerard Lange, Coffee Tourism
Best in Show: Angaea Cuna, Balat Triptych
End Paper: NCMA Art Book Fair is a multiday celebration of book arts and print communities. This September 20–21, the NCMA presents over 70 vendors and exhibitors who feature original art books, prints, comics, zines, and more for sale.
Our 2025 calendar of events includes hands-on art-making workshops and open studios, special printed matter tours of the People’s Collection and exhibition The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, and the return of our juried competition, which includes a People’s Choice winner chosen by End Paper visitors. Selected winners of the juried competition are purchased for the NCMA Research Library’s collection.
End Paper 2025 Exhibitors
Saturday, September 20, 10 am–4 pm
- ACLU of NC
- Appalachian State University, Art Department
- Appalachian State University, Experimental Publishing Students
- Serenity Doran, North Carolina State University
- Cassandra Hawkins, Center of the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi
- Kyra Heyder
- Valeria Homayden
- Audi Kelly
- Meredith College Art Department
- Blu Moody
- NC State University, Department of History
- Sarah Nowell
- Joseph Rafferty III, Cornell University, Image Text MFA Program
- Erin Secosky
- Rebecca Speas
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Art and Art History
- Wake Tech Community College
- Western Carolina University
- Leo Wilkie
- Leilei Xia, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Sunday, September 21, 10 am–4 pm
- Anna Lena Phillips Bell
- Katie Bell
- Big baby small press
- Micah Cash
- Comics Blogger Books
- Kevin Curley, Scary Pitcher Press
- Giancarlo D’Alessandro, Milk & Honey Comics
- Emerson Doom
- DoubleCross Press
- Justice Dunne
- Yumeng Fu
- Ria ‘Air’ Garcia
- Julia Gootzeit
- Olivia Gravenese (Poison Olive Studio)
- Sam Greene
- Jessica Greenfield
- Matia Guardabascio (Secret Astronomer)
- Helen Spielman Book Arts
- Josh Hockensmith
- Alice Holleman
- Patrick Holt / Triangular Comics & Zines
- Ann Marie Kennedy, Linea Paper
- Janet Guertin Design & Book Arts
- Meg Lentz
- Natalia Lopes, MystoPress
- Jason Lord
- Marianne R. Petit Books
- Sylvia Miller
- CJ Martin, Further Other Book Works (& Friends)
- Susan Martin
- Lindsay Metivier, Peel Gallery
- Andrew Neal, Added Value Books
- NewLights Press
- Stephen Parks (Constant Ritual)
- Trace Ramsey
- Rebekah Evans Art
- Jennifer L. Sandry
- Drew Sisk, Utilities Included
- SamLevi Sizemore
- Barrett Stanley
- Lindsay Starr, Cattywampus Press
- Matthew Tauch
- Triangle Book Arts
- Catherine Cross Tsintzos
- Gerald Ward (Bibliopathologist)
- Jessica C. White, Over Yonder Press
- Caroline Wingerd
- Mary Yordy
Satellite Programs
This year, the fair expands into North Carolina communities beyond Raleigh through satellite programming, including an artist book viewing, panel discussion, and workshop.
Satellite Program Schedule
Sunday, August 24, 2–4 pm, NCMA
Join the Photobook Dummies, a Triangle-based group of photographers and enthusiasts, to view photobooks from the NCMA’s Art Reference Library in an informal, drop-in gathering.
Optional: bring your own photobooks to share!
Fireside Chat: Art Criticism in Focus
Thursday, September 4, 6:30–8 pm, NCMA Winston-Salem
Panel discussion exploring art criticism and the need for local and regional arts writing with Sarah Higgins (Art Papers), Robert Alan Grand (Burnaway), and Colony Little (Culture Shock Art)
Community Zine Making at ECU
Saturday, September 6, time TBD, Eastern Carolina University School of Art and Design, Greenville
End Paper: Preface at App State
Friday, September 12, 11 am–3 pm, Appalachian State University, Boone
Panel discussion with End Paper co-organizers, artist book viewing in Belk Library Special Collections, and exploratory zine, collage, and print workshop in the makerspace
Leave Your Mark: A Zine Making Workshop
Saturday, September 13, 2–5 pm, Knight Theater Lobby, Charlotte
Presented by Charlotte International Arts Festival, a Blumenthal Arts Original
Artists’ Books Book Club: Show-and-Tell
Wednesday, September 17, 2–4 pm, Sloane Art Library, UNC–Chapel Hill
Optional: bring your own artists’ books and zines to share!
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