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Alice Austin
Andrea Peterson
Beata Wehr
Candace Hicks
Ellen Singer-Vine
Erin Sweeney
Gail Smuda
Heather Doyle-Maier
Heidi Zednik
Leah Virsik
Macy Chadwick/Lisa Hasegawa
Rhiannon Alpers
Sandra C. Fernandez
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Alice Austin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Tides

Twinrocker handmade paper, linoleum prints, hand-set type, paste paper

6 x 4 x 1/2

© 2007

$ 600

The text is illustrated with linoleum prints, printed with silver ink on dark blue paste paper, and unfolds into one page. Contained within the book is an additional small book of text. Both books are held in a hand knit linen bag.

Alice Austin is a printmaker and book artist who has a studio in Philadelphia, PA. She is a lecturer at the University of the Arts, teaching book structures, and also works as a book conservator at the Library Company of Philadelphia, a rare book library. She earned a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and has been an active member of the Guild of Bookworkers for ten years.