The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is thrilled to announce that our 2025 anthology As for Protocols (co-published by Amherst College Press and the VLC) has been selected for the Association of University Presses‘ (AUPresses) 2026 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. The annual exhibition honors the recent thoughtful and creative work of design and production teams, extending a long tradition of excellence in design in the university press community. The selected publications will be exhibited during the 2026 AUPresses Annual Meeting in Seattle from June 13 to 15, followed by a traveling international exhibition accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.

As for Protocols was selected for the Scholarly Typographic section of the exhibition. The book, which emerged from our 2020–2022 Focus Theme of the same name, is the first publication to look at protocols across a wide range of disciplines—bringing together essays, interviews, artistic interventions, and scores by 24 international contributors who explore protocols across various fields, foregrounding opportunities for creating new protocols that are inclusive and equitable. View the exhibition below, and read/order As for Protocols on Amherst’s website.