End Paper: NCMA Art Book Fair is a celebration of book arts and print communities. On September 20 and 21, 2025, North Carolina Museum of Art presents over 70 vendors and exhibitors who feature original art books, prints, comics, zines, and more for sale.
The event is free to attend and takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
As well as the art book fair there will be both ticketed and free events. See them all here. We are listing some of the free events below. Then keep reading for a list of the exhibitors each day.
Free Events at End Paper
Some of the free events still require registration. Make sure to follow each link for details and registration, if required.
End Paper Screening: Out of the Picture
Saturday, September 20, 2025
2 to 3:30 p.m.
East Building, SECU Auditorium
Free
The first documentary film about art critics in the United States, Out of the Picture follows a handful of writers from across the US through a critical time of cultural reckoning and historic transformation to both art and media.
Print Jam with Triangle Screen Printers Guild
Saturday, September 20, 2025
11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
East Building, Level B
Free
Join the Triangle Screen Printers Guild for a live screen-printing demonstration and take home a print. Free while supplies last.
Zine Workshop: Fostering Local Communities
Saturday, September 20, 2025
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
East Building, Joyce W. Pope Gallery Atrium
Free
Join Taylor Wolford, outreach librarian of the State Library of North Carolina, for a casual drop-in zine-making workshop about community building. All supplies are provided.
Tar River Poetry Live Reading
Sunday, September 21, 2025
11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
East Building, SECU Auditorium
Free (registration required)
Live reading of submissions and winners from the Tar River Poetry Contest during End Paper, the NCMA’s art book fair.
NCMA Printed Matter Tour of The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Sunday, September 21, 2025
11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
East Building, Meymandi Exhibition Gallery
Free (registration required)
Join curator Michele Frederick on a tour of the exhibition The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt. The tour highlights printing and bookmaking, including printed books and pamphlets, manuscripts, book bindings, book parts, and a number of Esther scrolls that combine traditional printing techniques with hand-drawn text blocks.
NCMA printed Matter Tour with Lyle Humphrey
Sunday, September 21, 2025
2 to 3 p.m.
West Building
Free (registration required)
Join curator Lyle Humphrey for a special tour of the European galleries, with special highlights of works on paper and manuscript leaves.
Drop-In Linocut Station
Sunday, September 21, 2025
2 to 4 p.m.
East Building, Joyce W. Pope Gallery Atrium
Free
Linocut is a relief printmaking technique in which designs are carved into blocks of linoleum, inked, and printed. Stop by to carve your own blocks of linoleum and experiment with printing. All materials are provided. Free while supplies last.
Crankie Performance with Jessica C. White
Sunday, September 21, 2025
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
East Building, SECU Auditorium
Free (registration required)
Crankies are illustrated scrolls encased in wooden boxes that act as “moving panoramas.” Though supposedly originating in as early as the 18th century, crankies continue to be fun and imaginative modes for sharing folklore, oral histories, and stories.
In this performance Asheville-based artist Jessica C. White provides a brief introduction to crankies, followed by a performance of her latest work accompanied by live music. White holds a BFA in sculpture from Eastern Carolina University, an MA and MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa, and a graduate certificate in book arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book.
Saturday Exhibitors
- 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 Exhibitors
- 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
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