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List of artists

(alphabetized by first name)

Carol Erickson
Carol Es
Cheryl Bailey/Deborah Henson
Connie Norman
Danielle Feliciano
E. Brooke Lanier
Elizabeth McKee
Ellen Wiener
Friedrich Kerksieck
Heidi Zednik
Jan Owen
Jennifer Hines
Justin Quinn
Kristen Catlett
Mamiko Ikeda
Marí Emily Bohley
Marina Soria
Stephen Sidelinger
Sun Young Kang
Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
Turner Hilliker

 

 

 

Friedrich Kerksieck

Memphis, Tennessee

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Abandoned Tales

handmade paper, ink

61/2 x 5 x 1/4 closed, 61/2 x 10 x 1/8 open

edition of 65

© 2009 - $45

 

Abandoned Tales is a book of folk tales told by Michael Lee, illustrated by Cherie Weaver and printed by Small Fires Press. It is a letterpress printed chapbook on handmade cotton/flax paper. Images and typefaces (Bernhard Modern and Rosewood) are reproduced with photopolymer plates on a Vandercook #4 at the University of Alabama. The book is pamphlet bound with handmade linen/hemp endsheets and cover wraps of handmade paper from wool, linen, cotton, mule dung, and modal.

 

Friedrich Kerksieck lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he works as a freelance printer and binder. He operates Small Fires Press.