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

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

Photobook Dummies Gathering

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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