Intro

Amy Pirkle
Ania Gilmore/Annie Zeybekoglu
Anne Twigg
Barbara Milman
Beata Wehr
Bryan Kring
C & C Press
Dea Fischer
Denise Stephenson
Elizabeth Holster
Elizabeth Sanford
Elizabeth Sheehan
Ellen Knudson
Emily Chaplain
Erin Paulson
Felicia Rice
Gail Smuda
Geirmundur Klein
Jamie Weaver
Jeff Nilan
Jessica Spring
Jody Arthur
Joshua Orr
Julie Russell-Steuart
Karen Hardy
Kimberly Maher
Lauren Rose Kinney
Linda Everson
Linda Morrow
Linda Piacentini-Yaple
Louisa Boyd
Louise Levergneux
Melissa Rick
Merike van Zanten
Michelle Ray
Ruth McCann
Sammy Seung-min Lee
Sarah Bryant
Servane Briand
Shana Agid
Sun Young Kang
Suzanne Sawyer
Tore Terrasi

Artist Biographies

 

Amy Pirkle

Amy Pirkle received her M.F.A. in Book Arts from The University of Alabama in 2007. During graduate school, she established Perkolator Press. As a printer and book artist, her primary media is letterpress and reduction relief. Although her work stems from a long-standing craft tradition of fine press and fine binding, she also enjoys integrating newer forms of technology and printmaking techniques into her books. Familial relationships and memory are the major inspirations for her work.

Ania Gilmore

Ania Gilmore Born in Warsaw, Poland Ania Gilmore is a graphic designer, painter and a mixed media artist. She works in her studio in Lexington, Massachusetts. Annie Zeybekoglu Born in New York City, Annie has taught drawing, painting and book design in the Boston area for over 20 years, and has worked for 18 years as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer.

Anne Twigg

Anne Twigg has been working in the field of books arts for the last 10 years. Her back ground in painting influences her treatmene of the page. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

Annie Zeybekoglu

Born in New York City, Annie has a BFA from Smith College and an MAT in Fine Arts from Harvard. She has taught drawing, painting and book design in the Boston area for over 20 years, and has worked for 18 years as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She has been a mixed media painter and book artist for most of her adult life. Her work is in collections in Boston, New York, Turin, and Istanbul.

Barbara Milman

Barbara Milman is a San Francisco Bay Area book artist and printmaker. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions and has exhibited work throughout the United States. Her work has won many awards. Milman’s artist books can be found in many university libraries and museums. Her prints are included in many public collections and publications, including The Best of Printmaking : An International Collection. Barbara Milman holds degrees from Harvard College and Columbia University School of Law.

Beata Wehr

Beata Wehr is an award winning visual artist from Warsaw, Poland, currently living in Tucson, Arizona. She paints and creates artist’s books and mixed media works examining the ideas of home, place, time, transience and multicultural experiences. Her books were shown nationally and internationally and are included in over 50 public collections.

Bryan Kring

Bryan Kring wanted to be a writer but he didn’t have any stories to tell. Instead he saw pictures so he traded his typewriter for a paint brush. He went to art school and filled his home with large painted canvases. When he ran out of space he turned to printmaking and fell in love with paper, ink, and the beauty of the small. He first explored etching and then later letterpress printing. Through it all he found a few stories and now has fun connecting the circle back to the writing.

C & C Press

C & C Press, co-founded in 2005 by Matt Cohen and Sher Zabaszkiewicz, is an evolving collaborative endeavor between two artists whose primary medium is the book. C & C Press has produced and published over twenty fine press, limited edition artists’ books and broadsides implementing a hands-on approach to design, page layout, typography, papermaking, platemaking, letterpress printing, bookbinding and related book arts. Their works are currently collected in Special Collections at over 70 public and private institutions throughout the United States.

Dea Fischer

With a growing reputation for crafting beautiful artist’s books, Dea Fischer left a demanding professional career to make time and room for art. After a decade working in bookbinding and collage techniques, Dea is the conservator for a public library and teaches sold out courses in bookbinding, altered books and collage. Dea has a slow-burning love affair with books, collage and low-tech photography. In her off hours, she engages her community in acts of random creation.

Denise Stephenson

Denise Stephenson’s artistic endeavors center around writing and collaboration. She’s abstract and conceptual. Denise thinks of herself as a 3-D artist. For the last decade, experimenting with book arts has occupied her creatively. Expanding beyond the short form, she just wrote a novel: Isolation. Denise is also Faculty Director of the MiraCosta College Writing Center in Oceanside, California.

Elizabeth Holster

Elizabeth Holster received her undergraduate degree in art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Masters degree from Northern Michigan University, and MFA from Goddard College. She has been making book forms since the early ‘70s when she studied with Walter Hamady. Her books include handmade paper, printmaking and drawing. Much of her work examines the way we view our surroundings and the places we find ourselves. She is a visual arts Professor at California State University Fullerton.

Elizabeth Sanford

Elizabeth Sanford is a watercolor painter who was seduced by the book arts and now creates watercolor sculptures. She has been teaching art for more than twenty years and is currently an adjunct instructor at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film in Nashville. Her work is in many collections including the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, the Tennessee State Museum, John Hopkins University and the Ringling College of Art and Design.

Elizabeth Sheehan

Elizabeth Sheehan was born and raised in upstate New York. She recently graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Printmaking and a minor in Art History from Memphis College of Art (MCA). While at MCA she also developed strong interests in papermaking, book arts, and sculpture. Following graduation, she moved back to Brooklyn to pursue her passion for art.

Ellen Knudson

Ellen Knudson is a book artist / designer producing handmade books under the imprint Crooked Letter Press. She is currently an Associate in Book Arts at The University of Florida. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from The University of Alabama. Her work is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yale University, Duke University, and other national and international collections.

Emily Chaplain

Emily Chaplain was raised near New Orleans, Louisiana and is a 2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate at Memphis College of Art. She explores themes of femininity and religion through printmaking, book arts and paper making.

Erin Paulson

Erin Paulson is an artist currently pursuing an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her interdisciplinary work includes the use of fiber techniques and materials, bookbinding structures, containers encouraging viewer interaction, printmaking, and photography.

Felicia Rice

Felicia Rice set Moving Parts Press in motion in 1977. A student of the history of the book and typography, with a futurist streak, she now utilizes digital technology in her letterpress artists books and prints. Her collaborations with visual and performance artists, writers and philosophers have led to an exploration of the book as performance art. Her work is held in numerous collections and has been the recipient of multiple awards.

Gail Smuda

Currently showing her artist’s book at UMASS Lowell, Smuda has exhibited her work throughout the US as well as several foreign countries. Her work has been recognized recently in magazines including Fiber Arts and Cloth, Paper, Scissors. Smuda resides in Concord, New Hampshire and teaches at Southern New Hampshire University.

Geirmundur Klein

Geirmundur Klein is a photographer living in Rotterdam,the Netherlands. He works with the dutch bookbinder Anne-Mieke Boonstra in making handmade books in small editions of his work.

Jamie Weaver

Jamie Weaver is a book artist living in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in rural West Virginia, and finds herself inspired by the complex geography, history, and culture of Appalachia. She writes stories, participates in folk rituals, and wanders her native landscape, seeking to legitimize her Appalachian experiences by forcing hard truths to the surface and offering them simply as relics of the human experience, as variations of the myths and motivations that are common to us all.

Jeff Nilan

Jeff Nilan received his MFA from Indiana University where he also taught for a number of years. His work has been shown throughout the United States and is in multiple Artists’ book collections. Growing up in Nebraska, his art draws influence from his roots and upbringing, as well as the landscape and culture of the Midwest. Jeff currently resides in Delaware, Ohio and is an Associate Professor of Photography at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Jessica Spring

Jessica Spring is the proprietor of Springtide Press in Tacoma. She designs, prints and binds artist books, broadsides and ephemera incorporating handmade paper and letterpress printing. Small finely-craft editions consider historical topics and popular culture from a unique perspective and collaborative work is an important aspect of the Press. Spring has an MFA from Columbia College Center for Book & Paper Arts and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.

Jody Arthur

Jody Arthur is a book artist, printmaker, and poet. She was born in American Samoa, and has lived in Oregon, California, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii. She earned a bachelor’s degrees in English literature at Lewis and Clark College, a Masters in Fine Art in creative writing at Mills College, and a Masters in Fine Art in printmaking and book arts at the University of the Arts. Her books can be found in many special collections, including the New York Public Library and at Stanford University.

Joshua Orr

Joshua Orr is currently a student at Memphis College of Art in Memphis, Tennessee as a 2013 candidate for a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in printmaking and minor in art history.

Julie Russell-Steuart

Julie Russell-Steuart is an artist in Iowa with a BFA in Fine Art from Maryland Institute, College of Art. Her work spans multiple mediums with a particular interest the synthesis of word and image. She has shown installation, artist’s books, painting, and experimental video. She publishes books of poetry and artist’s books on a Vandercook printing press under the imprint Caveworks Press. Her books are collected privately and by several universities.

Karen Hardy

Karen Hardy is in her final semester in the Book Arts & Printmaking MFA Program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she has focused on the medium of handmade paper. She has served as Letterpress Associate at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and Artist-in-Residence at The Southwest School of Art. Her work has been part of national and international exhibitions, including the Seoul International Book Fair (Korea) and the Artists’ Book Project International (France).

Kimberly Maher

Kim Maher is a MFA Candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book in Iowa City, where she studies letterpress printing, hand papermaking, and sculptural bookwork. Hoping to entice the viewer into a false sense of pacification by subtly revealing a much darker illusion she examines defense mechanisms-notions of escape, breaking free from restraints or oppression. She incorporates the pop-up format to capitalize on the wonderment one first experiences when opening this type of book.

Lauren Rose Kinney

Lauren Rose Kinney is from Santa Rosa, California. Kinney received her BA in printmaking from Humboldt State University in 2008, and her MFA in printmaking from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University in 2012. Kinney currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas, and teaches printmaking at the Lawrence Art Center.

Linda Everson

Linda majored in Fine Arts at UND, did graphic design in New York, and now lives in Colorado. Photography based printmaking is her primary medium but she also does mixed media work and bookmaking. Linda was involved in an art co-op and was the Co-President and Co-Chair for Exhibitions of the Women’s Caucus for Art / Colorado Chapter for several years. Her artwork has been shown locally, nationally, and internationally. She has won several awards and done public art commissions.

Linda Morrow

Linda Morrow, a fine-art photographer in Long Beach, California took up photography after a workshop at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico twenty years ago. Most of her work is in portraits and still life as she likes doing multiple exposures with various light sources in a darkened studio. But feeling a deep connection to the natural world as well, she also does landscape. She retired early from teaching college English in order to spend more time behind the camera. She loves making images that raise questions.

Linda Piacentini-Yaple

Linda Piacentini-Yaple,a published writer,poet and artist created her first book about Alaska at the age of eight. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and the Pacific Northwest. Several books are held in library and private collections in Washington and California.

Louisa Boyd

Louisa Boyd graduated in 2001 from the Manchester Metropolitan University after studying Embroidery and showed a series of artists’ books relating to landscape as her final pieces. In 2001 she won The Paperchase Future of Design Award and a high commendation from the judges of the New Designer of the Year. Louisa has continued to design and make artists’ books since, and now incorporates printmaking processes into her practice.

Louise Levergneux

Levergneux’s work incorporates photography as a device that express her interest in the concepts of memory and identity. Individual references are characteristic of the work, which centers on the act of collecting, storing and disseminating personal information.

Melissa Rick

Melissa Rick is a freelance graphic designer and artist currently living in Denver. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado and an M.S. in Design from the College of New Rochelle, New York. She then moved to L.A. and worked in book publishing for 8 years and later started Design Republic, a print design studio. Now back in Denver, Melissa continues to work as a graphic designer and design consultant on a freelance basis.

Merike van Zanten

After a career in business in Europe, Merike van Zanten got her BA (Hons) Ceramics. In 2002 she came to the USA, and began working in the book arts. Now her main area of interest is (sculptural) artists’ books. Van Zanten has done commissioned work in Europe, and has work in private collections in Europe and the USA.

Michelle Ray

Michelle Ray is the 2012-2013 artist in residence at Small Craft Advisory Press and an MFA candidate in the Book Arts program at The University of Alabama. She currently teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the printmaking department at Florida State University. Ray’s work explores experience, memory and the mnemonic/symbolic space that exists in between.

Ruth McCann

Ruth McCann is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Educated at the University of the Arts London, Ruth experiments with materials and form in her work. Her fascination with surface and texture combined with her fine binding skills guide her practice. Ruth’s book art can be found in various collections including the Tate Modern. She teaches bookbinding in North Tyneside.

Sammy Seung-min Lee

Sammy Seung-min Lee is a book artist and proprietor of Studio SML | k in Denver, Colorado. Sammy incorporates her diverse studies in fine art, design and architecture to push the boundaries of her books by investigating and experimenting with spatial, narrative, and sequential qualities. She studied bookbinding under master bookbinder and book artist, Daniel Kelm in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Sarah Bryant

Sarah Bryant is a letterpress printer and bookbinder

specializing in the production of editioned artist’s books

under her imprint, Big Jump Press. Her books have been

featured in exhibitions around the United States and have

been acquired by special collections libraries internationally,

including The Yale Arts Library, The Houghton Library at

Harvard University, The New York Public Library and The

Darling Bio-medical Library at UCLA. She currently lives in

the UK.

Servane Briand

A French native, Servane first came to California in 1985 before completing her business degree in New York. Since then, she has lived in San Francisco, Paris, and Palo Alto. She has worked in various fields and made a radical move from high tech to arts & crafts when she discovered printmaking and book arts. Her books may be an attempt to gentle the information overload and make a pause in time, while she welcomes the wealth of data and ideas that are today’s constant source of inspiration.

Shana Agid

Shana Agid is an artist, teacher, writer, and activist whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference, and sexuality, race, and gender in visual and political cultures. Her artist books are in collections at the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and New York Public Library. He is an Assistant Professor at Parsons the New School for Design in New York, and has an MFA in Printmaking & Book Arts and an MA in Visual Criticism from California College of the Arts.

Sun Young Kang

Sun Young Kang is a book and installation artist currently living in Pennsylvania. From small intimate books to room size installations, she uses paper with its duality of strength and delicacy to create physical and conceptual space. She has presented her work in selected and invitational solo shows and many group exhibitions in galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally. Her work is also represented within libraries and museum special collections throughout the world.

Suzanne Sawyer

Suzanne Sawyer is currently an MFA candidate in Book Arts at The University of Alabama. She is a native of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and is a practicing book artist, letterpress printer, papermaker, and sculptor. She is proprietor of Down Home Girl Studio.

Tore Terrasi

The overarching element uniting all Tore Terrasi’s creative works is that of words. The written and implied forms of texts, visual aesthetics, typography and design, has yielded especially fertile ground for his pieces. Terrasi’s ambitions as a communicator are to reconsider the conventional patterns of experiencing text and images by exploring the aesthetic and conceptual dimensions of words and language. Terrasi holds an MFA from Umass Dartmouth and teaches Art at

U of Texas Arlington.