Congratulations to the winners of MCAD Library’s 2026 Student Artists’ Book Competition!
First Prize - $250: Matchbook for the Heart by Gabriella Heath
Honorable Mention - $100: hunger, and other small aches by Kaia Carter
Honorable Mention - $100: From (a)(b) by Henry Williamson
And thanks to our jurors for this year’s competition, Diana Eicher and Christopher Selleck
About the jurors:
Diana Eicher is a printmaker, papermaker, and teaching artist whose work explores the intersection of identity, lived experience, and material process. Working in both printmaking and papermaking, she bridges the intimacy of solo studio practice with the energy of collaborative environments. Her work transforms personal narratives into tangible forms that invite connection, reflection, and dialogue. Diana serves as Director of the Printmaking and Paper Studio at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and is a member of the Speedball Professional Artists Network. In 2025, she was awarded an Artist Residency at Lakewood Cemetery and received the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Next Step Grant. Diana has been an artist and teaching artist for over forty years.
Christopher Selleck was born in Augusta, GA. He has spent the last 20+ years working in and around the art scene of the Minneapolis area. He received his BFA in Photography from the University of MN-Twin Cities in 2013 and his MFA in Visual Studies and Photography from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2016. Using sports and masculinity as a lens to view identity, his various projects of the last few years have focused on this area of identity construction. His current projects address issues of hyper-masculinity, sexuality and the male body.
His work has always had an affinity for traditional forms of photography but with a more conceptual approach. Working with film, instant and digital processes his practice has tended to focus on portrait and self-portrait based projects. Photographic prints and books have been central in his practice, but his work has also incorporated video, sound, installation, printmaking and sculpture. He has been exhibited and published both Nationally and Regionally.