08/22/2026
Congratulations to artist Jackie Milad on her book âShabtis Gather,â published by BMore Art, winning The American Instit ute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)âs 50 Books, 50 Covers Award 2025. The competition honors the fifty best-designed books and fifty best-designed covers of the year. This yearâs winners were selected by a jury from 536 entries submitted from 29 countries.
Winning books enter the AIGA collection at Columbia Universityâs Rare Book & Manuscript Library, in New York.
âShabtis Gatherâ is also available for purchase in SOCO Shop.
Jackie Milad (b. 1975, Baltimore, Maryland) received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA, and her MFA and a fellowship from Towson University, Baltimore, MD. She has received multiple awards, including the Creative Capital Award, the Ruby Artists Grant, the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize, and the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant (2010, 2016). Miladâs mixed-media, abstract paintings and collages address the history and complexities of dispersed cultural heritage and multi-ethnic identity. As a first-generation Honduran-Egyptian-American, Milad utilizes her process-driven work to explore the layering of transcultural history in Central American and Middle Eastern architecture and iconography. Miladâs compositions mimic not only her own upbringing, but also symbolize the way cultures are recorded and monumentalized in remaining fragments over time.
She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally including at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Academy Art Museum Easton, MD; Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro, NC; The Mint Museum Charlotte, NC; Arthur Ross Gallery University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; and Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC. Her work is included in several public collections, including, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Academy Art Museum, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Library, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Pizzuti Collection and Meta Open Art Program. Milad lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
