05/29/2026
🎉🥳 Congratulations to our 2026 McKnight Book Artist Fellows, Christopher Selleck .selleck and Brooks Turner ! Christopher is an artist, photographer, and book artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores masculinity, identity, and vulnerability through photographs, sculpture, and intimate book-based forms. Brooks is an artist, writer, educator, and parent. Through methodologies that include archival research, collage, drawing, and installation, Brooks engages histories of labor, fascism, and resistance in Minnesota. Christopher and Brooks will be awarded $25,000 in unrestricted funds to explore and deepen their art practices thanks to our partnership with the McKnight Foundation , which annually supports two exceptional Minnesota-based book artists.
The finalists were selected by esteemed jurors Imin Yeh , Anthea Black .black, and Benjamin Rinehart .
“I was drawn to Brooks’ lifelong research, passion, advocacy, and teaching in anti-fascist histories. The work exploits a large range of the history of print and paper and their relationship to stories, news, propaganda.” -Imin Yeh
“Christopher’s sense of craft, objecthood, and representation of q***r masculinity in the artist’s book form is meticulously considered; this McKnight award is both a recognition of his work, and my expression of excitement for what’s coming next in his practice.” -Anthea Black
We are excited for them both!
