2022 MCBA Prize Juror Bio: Megan N. Liberty

Jurors
Written By Shelley Dunville

Megan N. Liberty is an arts writer and editor in Brooklyn who writes about artists’ books, ephemera, and archives. She is the Art Books section editor at the Brooklyn Rail and co-founder of Book Art Review. Her writing appears in Hyperallergic, ArtReview, Artforum, art-agenda, Art in America, Frieze, and elsewhere. She has led and participated in public conversations on artist’s publishing with the Brooklyn Rail, Printed Matter’s Contemporary Artist Book 
Conference, Hill Art Foundation, and has been invited to speak to undergraduate and graduate classes at Boston University, Mills College, New School, and SMFA Tufts. She was a 2019-20 AICA/USA and Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writing Workshop participant and has an MA in Art History, with distinction, from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and a BA in English from Dickinson College, PA.

Currently she is curating a historical exhibition of artists’ books, Craft & Conceptual Art: Reshaping the Legacy of Artists’ Books, which will be accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue, and will open at Center for Book Arts in 2022 and travel to San Francisco Center for the Book and Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

 
See the 2022 MCBA Prize Entries
Entries & Jurors
Steven Daiber, “A Brother’s Keeper or so I thought”
Steven Daiber, “A Brother’s Keeper or so I thought”
Sarah Bryant, “Acts of Translation”
Sarah Bryant, “Acts of Translation”
Egidija Čiricaitė, “dangus*/dew (everything is true)”
Egidija Čiricaitė, “dangus*/dew (everything is true)”
Thad Higa, “This Land Is My Land”
Thad Higa, “This Land Is My Land”
Veronika Schäpers, “2^11 // grain morning raccoon peace job barrel hamster nature exercise unable fire crush image patrol pony aerobic key pet ship squeeze bargain move again ability”
Veronika Schäpers, “2^11 // grain morning raccoon peace job barrel hamster nature exercise unable fire crush image patrol pony aerobic key pet ship squeeze bargain move again ability”
Roni Gross & Peter Schell, “I Know How to be Helpful”
Roni Gross & Peter Schell, “I Know How to be Helpful”
Sophie Wang, “Do You Speak Second Gen?”
Sophie Wang, “Do You Speak Second Gen?”
Rhiannon Alpers, “Lichen: Rambles in the Colorado Front Range”
Rhiannon Alpers, “Lichen: Rambles in the Colorado Front Range”
Islam Aly, “Kinship”
Islam Aly, “Kinship”
Carletta Carrington Wilson & Bonnie Thompson Norman, “kNot free kNot human”
Carletta Carrington Wilson & Bonnie Thompson Norman, “kNot free kNot human”
Karen Kunc, “The Way of Water”
Karen Kunc, “The Way of Water”
Chris Fritton & Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, “Please Stay Until Doomsday”
Chris Fritton & Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, “Please Stay Until Doomsday”
Jenn Law, “Spent”
Jenn Law, “Spent”
Angelica Ong, “「俳句の箱庭」(Garden of Haikus)”
Angelica Ong, “「俳句の箱庭」(Garden of Haikus)”
Savannah Bustillo, “The History of Work”
Savannah Bustillo, “The History of Work”
Tom Virgin, “This Is My Body, Of Food and Freedom”
Tom Virgin, “This Is My Body, Of Food and Freedom”
Chantal Zakari, “Pictures from the Outside”
Chantal Zakari, “Pictures from the Outside”
Leah Willemin, “Depth Capture”
Leah Willemin, “Depth Capture”
Macy Chadwick, “Waiting for Rain”
Macy Chadwick, “Waiting for Rain”
Asuka Goto, “To Send a Telegram”
Asuka Goto, “To Send a Telegram”
Ravikumar Kashi, “Echoes of Loss: Remnants of a Mother Tongue”
Ravikumar Kashi, “Echoes of Loss: Remnants of a Mother Tongue”
2024 Entries
2024 Entries
Radha Pandey, “Flora of Mughal India”
Radha Pandey, “Flora of Mughal India”
Leonard Seastone, “A Long Hill Homeward”
Leonard Seastone, “A Long Hill Homeward”
Florence Lanxuan Liu, “Cured & Sealed”
Florence Lanxuan Liu, “Cured & Sealed”
2024 MCBA Prize Juror Bio: Yuka Petz
2024 MCBA Prize Juror Bio: Yuka Petz
Anne Covell, “In the Dark”
Anne Covell, “In the Dark”
Alisa Banks, “History of a People”
Alisa Banks, “History of a People”
2022 Entries
2022 Entries
2022 MCBA Prize Juror Bio: Megan N. Liberty
2022 MCBA Prize Juror Bio: Megan N. Liberty
Shelley Dunville

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