McKnight Fellowships for Book Artists 2026 Awarded to Christopher Selleck and Brooks Turner

The 2026 McKnight Book Artist Fellows are artist, photographer, and book artist Christopher Selleck and artist, writer, andn educator Brooks Turner.

Christopher's interdisciplinary practice explores masculinity, identity, and vulnerability through photographs, sculpture, and intimate book-based forms, while Brooks focuses on histories of labor, fascism, and resistance in Minnesota through archival research, collage, drawing, and installation.

They will both be awarded $25,000 in unrestricted funds to explore and deepen their art practice. The pair will also receive a range of professional benefits through Minnesota Center for Book Arts including studio visits from a national arts professional, stipends for travel, residencies, educational support, the opportunity to participate in an artist panel at Open Book, 24/7 studio access for two years, and and a group exhibition in MCBA’s Main Gallery.

“During the fellowship, I plan to develop artists’ books and sculptural container forms that integrate archival research, ephemera, and tactile structures, while continuing to experiment with systems that support both small editions and unique artists’ books," said Christopher Selleck.