Artists’ Biographies

Adams, Maryline Poole.

Antrich, Ruth A. Ruth was born in London, England, and emigrated to the United States in the mid-1970s. She studied Fine Art at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Ruth is a musician, artist and book artist, who maintains a studio in Manhattan. Her interest in other ethnicities as well as explorations with vivid colour and unusual textures strongly influence her work. Her exhibitions include shows in the United States and Central America, among others. Visits to her New York City studio to see her works can be arranged by appointment.

Campbell, Ken. Ken Campbell studied letterpress printing and graphic design at the London School of Printing during the early 1960s. One of his teachers was H.C. Beck, designer of the London Underground map. Campbell is a printer, poet, artist, and teacher.

Chamberlain, Sarah.

Chen, Julie. Julie holds a BFA in printmaking and sculpture, and an MFA from Mills College. She is the sole proprietor of Flying Fish Press, a company that publishes limited editions artists’ books. She has participated in many exhibitions, including “Experiments on the Future of Reading” at the San Jose Technology Museum, which involved an experimental digital book arts lab.

Cummins, Maureen. Artist statement: “Maureen Cummins is a native New Yorker. She received a BFA from Cooper Union and has been making works-on-paper and artist’s books for over fifteen yearrs. Her work is held in over one hundred public and private collections in the US, as well as in collections in Canda, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and South America. Institutional collectors include The Brooklyn Museum, The National Gallery, Walker Art Center, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Ms. Cummins has received over a dozen major grants and awards and was recently invited to spend the summer as a resident artist at the Museum of Modern Art in Ireland. She currently lives and works in Park Slope, Brooklyn.”

Dixon, Tennessee Rice.

Doreen Dietzel, Tracy. Artist statement: “Tracy Doreen Dietzel earned her MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her BFA from Memphis College of Art. Tracy was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She lived in rural Missouri, Ann Arbor, Michigan and rural Kansas before returning to Memphis to attend art school. Tracy began reading at age three and was always fascinated by books and libraries. Her multi-discipline studio work includes artists’ books, performance and installation: work she calls Lifebooks. Theses works are paticipatory art that incorporate visual, aural, kinetic and other sensory experiences. Tracy’s home in Madison, Wisconsin, the ReaLibrary, serves as a resource center for Lifebooks and a library for her diverse press works. She teaches in the art departments at Edgewood College and Beloit College.”

Some of Tracy’s exhibitions include “Scorpio Moon Rising”, Artemisa Gallery, Chicago; and”Bali/WI Women’s Artists Book Exhibit”, Seniwati Sanggar Gallery, Bali, Indonesia; among numerous other shows. Her works are included in many permanent collections including the Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Special Collections at the Univeristy of North Carolina-Greensboro; and the Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Artist Book Collection, Racine, WI.

Dove, Toni. Artist statement: “Toni Dove is an artist who works primarily with electronic media, including virtual reality and interactive video laser disk installations that engage viewers in responsive and immersive narrative environments. She also creates linear narrative fictions. Her work has been presented in the United States, Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and television. Mesmer, Secrets of the Human Frame has been shown as an installation, aired as a radio show and was published by Granary Books as a limited edition book. Her current project under development isSpectropia, a supernatural thriller about the infinite deferrals of desire. It will be an interactive feature film performed for an audience in a theatrical setting or exhibited as a serial installation.”

Toni holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her artists’ books are held by many institutions including: Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; The Getty Center, CA; and many other public and private collections.

Drescher, Henrik.

Drucker, Johanna. Johanna was born in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts; a Masters in Visual Studies, and a Ph.D from the University of CA-Berkeley. Johanna Drucker has published and lectured extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists’ books, and visual art. She is currently the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia where she is Professor in the Department of English and Director of Media Studies. She has held faculty appointments at the University of Texas, Dallas (Visual and Performing Arts); Harvard University (Mellon Faculty Fellow, Dept. of Fine Art); Columbia University (Department of Art History and Archaeology); Yale University (Department of the History of Art). She has held University of California Regents’ Fellowships, Fulbright, and Getty Fellowships. She has lectured on contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Architectural Association in London, the Chicago Art Institute, the Yale Art Gallery, the Detroit Art Institute, and in many colleges and universities. She is Chair of the Board of the Art Journal, the publication of the College Art Association focused on contemporary art.

In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. Since the early 1970s she has produced more than two dozen artists books, many produced with letterpress and using experimental typography. Her work has been exhibited and collected in special collections in libraries and museums including the Getty Center for the Humanities, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, the New York Public Library, Houghton Library at Harvard University, and many others.

Ely, Timothy. Tim earned his BA from Western Washington University, and his MFA from the University of Washington-Seattle. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowshop and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. His work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library, the Center for Book Arts, NY; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Boston Athaneum, MA; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His works are held by: Graphik-Sammlung, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the New York Public Library; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; among many others.

Escalante, Jim. Jim is currently a professor in the Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his BS from North Texas State University in Denton, TX, and his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work is held in many collections including the New York Public Library Special Collections; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Yale University Library; the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts; and Columbia University Library; among many others.

Fine, Diane. “Tracy Honn of Ragpicker Press and Diane Fine of the Moonkosh Press have been working collaboratively since 1987. Using a variety of print media, they have published four artist books and two ongoing series of letterpress print works: a set of broadsides and a large group of postcard size prints. Fine and Honn have evolved a collaborative model that is a blended identity. Decisions are made mutually and both artists participate fully in all aspects of the work’s production, from conception to editioning, to distribution. Their collaborative body of work is independent of each artist’s individual artistic efforts, though it is related to and, at times, informs their individual artmaking. The artists have said, “Our work is about healing, and humor and looking at truths.” (statement by Tracy Honn)

Flavin, Richard. Richard was born in Massachusetts, but currently lives and works in Japan. He is the proprietor of Jionji Press, an instructor of paper and print arts, and a paper and printmaker. His work has been seen in numerous exhibitions including: group exhibitions at Tamagawa Takashimaya in Tokyo and at Daimaru Department Store in Osaka; collaborative displays with Ryoko Haraguchi , and Mayumi Suzuki at Tamagawa Takashimaya in Tokyo; the Spring Group exhibition in Ogawamachi; and several personal exhibitions at the Art Robe Gallery, Tokyo, and the Seiun Shuzo Gallery, Ogawamachi.

Furtwangler, Felix Martin.

Golden, Alisa J. Statement from the artist: “Alisa Golden originally learned how to set metal type by hand in a graphic arts class in Junior High School. She rediscovered letterpress printing in 1983 at California College of Arts and Crafts and has been making handmade books under the imprint never mind the press since that time, merging writing and art. From CCAC she received a BFA with High Distinction in printmaking in 1985. After several years of teaching bookmaking, she authored two how-to books published by Sterlinf: Creating Handmade Books (1998), and Unique Handmade Books (2001). Recently, she curated a book show at the San Fransisco Public Library called Unique Handmade Books: The Creative Process. She has been a program director and a board member for the Pacific Center for the Book Arts. Her work can be found in many libraries, institutions and private collections.”

For more information see: http://www.neverbook.com/

Gomez, Marta. Artist statement: “Marta Gomez studied graphic design and book art in her native Colombia, then immigrated to the United States and gained a master’s degree in printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She now lectures, conducts workshops, and exhibits around the country. She has taught graphic design, typography, and book art at the University of Wisconsin, Clarke College, the Academy of the Applied Arts in Budapest, Hungary, the University of Auckland, and at various independent workshops. She also works as a book conservator, printer, and freelance bookbinder.”

Together with her husband Ivan Soll, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marta runs Tiramisu Press. They “produce letter-press books in limited editions, using a variety of handmade papers (some of them their own), often with innovative structures, bindings, and boxes, usually involoving graphic ornamentation and illustration. The bookart they have produced in close collaboration has been widely exhibited and collected in the United States and Europe.” Tiramisu Press books are held in collections around the world including: Princeton University, Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany; New York Public Library, Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Library of Congress; La Bibliotecca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy; La Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Auckland City Library, Auckland, New Zealand, among many others.

Gross, Roni.

Hamady, Walter. Walter is the proprietor of the Perishable Press, Mount Horeb, WI, and an emeritus professor of the Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walter helped bring the Silver Buckle Press to the University of Wisconsin Libraries in 1973.

Haynes, Ric.

Heft, Caren. Caren received her BFA, with honors, MA, and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has performed many roles in her career, among them: curator, lecturer, presenter, author, juror, working artist, and artist-in-residence. She has exhibited around the country at the Center for Book Arts, NY; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts; the San Antonio Art Institute, and in London, England. Her books are held by many institutions including the Bibliotheque Nationale de France; La Bibliotecca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy; Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Library of Congress; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the New York Public Library; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; among others.

Hepler, Anna.

Herman, Adriane. Adriane studied at Smith College in Massachusetts, and at the Univeristiy of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been seen at the Center for Book Arts in New York City and the Smithshonian’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others.

Honn, Tracy. Artist statement: “Tracy Honn is a book artist and letter press printer living in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the director of Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of letter press printing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also maintains a private letterpress studio and publishes under the imprint “Ragpicker Press”. Additionally, since 1987, Honn has collaborated with Diane Fine of (the) Moonkosh Press to produce an on-going series of books and broadsides. She currently teaches “Art of the Printed Book” in the Art Department, UW-Madison. In 2000 and 2001 Honn travelled to the Maquipucuna Nature Reserve in northwest Ecuador to consult with women’s cooperative craft groups on their papermaking production, and she taught bookbinding workshops to the same groups.”

Tracy was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She holds a BA in Art History from Indiana University, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hood, Mary. Mary Hood, originally from Wisconsin, received her BFA in Printmaking/Painting from the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL, and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Dallas in Irving, TX. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas in Denton. She taught intaglio (etching) and book arts courses. Mary has exhibited her art throughout the United States.

More information about Mary Hood may be found at: http://artsyard.tripod.com/weststudio/id3.html

Hutchins, Ed. Ed holds a BS in Government Administration from the University of Arizona, and studied at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. He has been the proprietor of Editions, a studio for producing artist book multiples, since 1989. He has exhibited around the world, at such locations as Harvard Univeristy, the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. His works are in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Sackner Archive, Miami Beach, Fl.

More information about Ed can be found at http://artistbooks.com

Katz, Babette. Artist statement: “Babette Katz is a relief printmaker and a book artist. As a book artist her strong interest has been in visual narrative. Most of her artist’s books are in black and white linocut. MY FLAG is an exception. The colors in this linocut book are red, white, blue, and black. As in all her books, it is the imagery that drives the narrative.

Babette Katz’s artist’s books are in many museum and library special collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her most recent show called “Linocut Stories,” an exhibit of linocout prints and artist’s books, was held at the Donnell Library Center of the New York Public Library in 2001.”

Keeley, Shelagh. Shelagh was born in Ontario, Canada. She currently lives and works in New York City. Shelagh holds a BFA from York University in Toronto, Ontario. She has worked around the world, and her books have been exhibited in numerous places including Amsterdam; The Drabinsky Galler, Toronto; the David Jones Gallery, Sydney and Adelaide, Australia; the Embassy Cultural House, London, Canada; the Galerie Annette de Keyser, Antwerp; and the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Kelly, Bill. Artist statement: “Bill Kelly is a printmaker, painter, and book artist. He is the founder and co-director of Brighton Press, an internationally recognized publisher of artist’s books which brings together the work of artists, poets, and craftsmen. Brighton Press books have been aquired by over seventy public collections nationwide. Kelly is often asked to exhibit, lecture, and do workshops at various universities and art institutions. He currently teaches drawing and printmaking in the art departments of the Univeristy of San Diego and Palomar College and, during summers, he teaches painting in the Putney School Summer Arts Program in Putney, Vermont. While in Vermont he assumes duties as the artist in residence for The Yellow Barn Music Festival held in Putney, Vermont each summer. As an artist, Kelly creates work that combines his own poems/writings and images. He is currently collaborating with poet Peter Everwine on an artist’s book and related paintings.

His work has been exhibited recently at the Art Museum of Missoula, Montana, the University of California, San Diego, the Athenaeum Music and Art Library, La Jolla, California; the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, and Artists Forum Gallery, San Fransisco. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, California; the Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California; the New York Public Library; Stanford University, Stanford, California; and the Mandeville Special Collections Library, Univeristy of California, San Diego, where the archives of Brighton Press are held.”

Kelm, Daniel E. Daniel holds a BA in philosophy, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. His exhibitions include the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; The Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal, Paris, France, “Contemporary American Bookbinding”; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, “Bound to Vary”; The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA, “Artists of the Book 1988: A Facet of Modernism”; and many others around the nation and in Canada. Dan’s works are held by many institutions both public and private, including public: New York Public Library, Library of Congress, Houghton Library, Harvard; Smith College, MA; and privately in Canada, Switzerland, and around the nation. Dan owns and operates The Wide Awake Garage, Easthampton, MA, an artist’s studio and hand bookbinding business.

Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Amos received his master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He runs a fine printing press in Milwaukee, WI, and works with at risk-children, teaching bookmaking workshops.

King, Susan Elizabeth. Artist statement “Susan E. King is an artist and writer who started making books after she moved to Southern California in the 1970s to be part of the experimental Feminist Studio Workshop. She went on to become the studio director of the Women’s Graphic Center at the Woman’s Building. She grew up in the South, in a family of storytellers. Southern oral tradion and history, and writing about place often appear in her work. Trained as a sculptor, she brings sculptural aspects to making printed and one of a kind artist’s books. Her current work, I Dream Atget, and Family Album, explores the history of photography and the use of the photo album in the early part of the 20th Century.

Her work is in major collections including The Getty Center Research Institute Library, Bel Air; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London. She divides her time between Los Angeles and rural Kentucky. Chronicle Books in San Fransisco recently published a trade edition of her artist’s book, Treading the Maze, an artist’s journey though breast cancer.”

Susan received her BA in sculpture from the University of Kentucky, and her MA in ceramics from New Mexico State University.

Koch, Lewis. Artist statement: Lewis “lives in Madison, WI. For the past twenty-five years he has been working independently as a visual artist and documentary photographer. His personal work has been shown in solo exhibitions in London, New York City, Rotterdam, Brussels, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere, and in numerous group exhibitions. His photographs are in permanent collections throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (Paris, France), Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. As a recent artist-in-residence at the Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, Koch created the web project, Touchless Automatic Wonder. Located at www.digitalroom.org it provides a comprehensive overview of his work in photography, installations and temporary public artworks.”

Lewis studied at Copenhagen Univeristy, Copenhagen, Denmark, and received a BA in History and Philosophy from Beloit College.

Kuehn, Katherine. Kathy Kuehn is a printer, printmaker, and proprietor for the Salient Seedling Press. A student of, and later assistant to, Walter Hamady at his Perishable Press in Madison, Wisconsin, Kuehn started the Salient Seedling Press in 1978. Her editions, the collaborative work of artists, writers, and the printer are notable for the use of her own handmade papers and her versatility in employing a number of typographical styles. For 25 years Kuehn has been a printer. Nine years of that have been spent at Pace Editions in New York City where she collaborates with contemporary artists and a small team of printers on the publication of limited edition etchings and relief prints. Kuehn has developed programming and taught book arts and printmaking at Whitman College and the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts. Her artist residencies include the Sitka Center for Arts and Crafts; her workshop instruction includes eight summers teaching letterpress printing to poets in the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University’s – Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Kunc, Karen S. Artist statement: “Artist Karen Kunc, also variously known as Blue Heron Press, has been making unique bookworks and limited editioned artists books for over 20 years. Kunc lives and works in Nebraska where she is a Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her MFA from Ohio State University and her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kunc is best known for her large scale, elaborately colored, abstract woodcut prints, and has a parallel diversion in her ongoing investigation of the expressive possibilities of the 3-D book form. Her books incorporate vital, richly hued shapes with timeless textural language, leading to a sense of intimacy and detail, with the tactile resonance of wood, paper and impression. Kunc’s works are represented in many public and private collections, including: the Museum of Modern Art (NY); the Library of Congress; the National Museum of American Art; Walker Art Center; Allen Library of the University of Washington; the New York Public Library; the National Art Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Recent exhibitions include: solo shows at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, and the Museum of Art, University of Iowa; Athenaeum Music and Art Library, La Jolla, CA; Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY; Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe; Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York; Gallery of Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City; Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, Ontario Craft Council Craft Gallery, Tononto, Canada.”

Laird, Mary Louise. Mary Laird was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She currently lives in Berkeley, California. Artist statement: “The letterpress books she prints and publishes are not commissioned, but she will engage in printing projects with people if they hire her to teach them the hand setting/printing process and are actively engaged in creating, sustaining and finishing the work under her tutelage: the mediaevalist approach of exchange of energy.

In attempting to break down barriers, my work links opposites, suggesting the interconnectedness of all things, the energy that transpires behind that which appears. I gather images from dreams, visions and ideals, each providing a plank for the bridge: between male/female: the East/West: known/unknown: visible/invisible: light/dark: simplicity/complexity: conscious/unconscious: order/chaos: all of which comprise what we know as the final pairing: Life/Death. I believe the outer reflects the inner. Recognizable influences in my work are drawn from the Sufi, Tibetan, Kabalistic, and other esoteric schools of thought.”

Lee, Jim. Artist statement: “Artist and printmaker Jim Lee is the proprietor of Blue Moon Press, a private press issuing limited edition books, prints and broadsides. It is an outgrowth of his other work in prints and drawings. Some of these books contain poetry and work by other writers, while some are purely visual, Each is printed by hand using letterpress, carefully designed and set to amplify the text. The imagery is printed from original woodcuts or type high relief blocks made specifically for the project and are printed on a 1960’s era Vandercook proofing press by the artist/printer. The book sizes and formats vary according to the content and imagery, with some in the traditional codex format, while others are accordions. Binding is often done in-house, but is sometimes sent to craftspeople specializing in edition binding. Each of these works is made slowly, with great attention to detail, to produce beautiful, visually sensitive and surprising books.

Jim Lee was born in 1954, grew up in Kansas, where he attended Bethany College, eventually doing graduate work in printmaking and book arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Receiving an MFA in 1980. He has taught printmaking, drawing and book arts at the Hartford Art School/University of Hartford since 1982. His work has been included in many important exhibitions of prints and books, such as the International Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Portfolios, Leipzig, Germany; Third and Fourth International Biennal Print Exhibitions, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Republic of China; New American Woodcuts, Galerie Im Hollental, Buchenbach, Germany; ColorPrint USA(simultaneously exhibited in all 50 states); Rare Books of the Future, Center for the Book, NY, NY; Growing Books, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Boston Printmakers’ 43rd North American Print Exhibition, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Center, NY,NY. His books and prints are in many major collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The National Gallery , Washington, DC; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Brooklyn Museum; The Getty Art Center, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Boston Atheneum; The Wustum Museum, Racine, WI; and The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.”

Lingen, Ruth.

McGibbon, Phyllis. Artist statement: “Phyllis McGibbon is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in printmaking and foundations. She travels frequently as a visiting artist/speaker and has taught for the graduate print program at RISD, the University of Georgia Study Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy, and the Vermont College MFA program. Prior to moving to the Boston area, McGibbon served on the faculty of Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate School in Southern California, and was the first artist to hold the Luther Gregg Sullivan position at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Ms. McGibbon (aka Isolde Press) works in a range of media including prints, drawings, and site built installations. Her lithographs and artist books are in many public collections, including the Getty and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has built installations on site at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, among others. Awards for her work include an individual artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshield foundation, the WESTAF Regional NEA, Art Matters, Inc and most recently, the Howard Foundation at Brown University. McGibbon has been an artist in residence at print studios in England, Scotland, Belgium, and Canada and has held fellowships at the Kala Art Institute, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Millay Colony and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

Ms. McGibbon received her BFA and MFA from the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department.”

McGraw, DeLoss. DeLoss was born in Oklahoma. He received a BA from California State University, Long Beach, CA, and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI. DeLoss has had numerous solo exhibitions including: Wings, at the A.S.B. Gallery, London, England; and Romance: DeLoss McGraw at the Simard, Halm, & Shee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, among others.

Morin, Jeffrey W. Jeff holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and an MFA from the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison. Jeff currently teaches at UW-Steven’s Point, where he is the chair of the Department of Art and Design. His prints and book art work have been displayed throughout the country as well as in Belguim and the former U.S.S.R. His works are held in many collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Library of Congress; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; among many others. Since 1983, Jeff has run the sailorBOYpress.

Morrison, Lois. Lois was born in (the Belgian Congo) Zaire. She currently lives and works in Leonia, NJ. Lois holds a BA from Mary Baldwin College for Women, Staunton, VA. She did graduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, and received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. She taught art at Mary Baldwin College for Women for four years. In the 1980s, Lois began making books has been obsessed with them ever since, finally to the exclusion of any other kind of work. Her exhibits include: Book as Art VII, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Miniature Book Exhibition, The Miniature Book Society, Ottowa, Canada; Bookwards, New Zealand Book Arts Society, Wellington, Auckland, NZ; Envoys, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand;Mysterious Worlds, Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY; Animal Tales, Contemporary Bestiary, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT; Libros realizados por Artistas Plasticos, Librerio Pegaso en Casa Lamm, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico; Lois Morrison, Books by the Artist 1990-1999, Adam and Sophie Gimbel Library, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY; The Fabric Books of Lois Morrison, John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newak, NJ; Rare Books of the Future, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; and many more.

Her books held by the Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Library of Congress; Bruce Peel Special Collection Library, University of Alberta, Canada; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; New York Public Library, NY; Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, England; Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK; among many more.

Osborn, Kevin. Kevin studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Art Decoratif in Nice, France. He received his BA, cum laude, from the University of Vermont, and his MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop at the State University of New York-Buffalo. Kevin has lectured and participated in workshops all over the world at such disparate places as Barcelona, Spain; Dakar, Senegal; Yaounde, Cameroon; Monrovia, Liberia; Washington, DC; and Atlanta, GA. His many exhibits include the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; the Center for Book Arts, NY; and the Los Angeles Institute of Comtemporary Art, CA; among many others. His work is held in numerous collections, among them the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Getty Museum Library, Los Angeles, CA; the Library of Congress; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Tate Gallery, London, England; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

Pappas, Sam.

Phillips, Tom. Tom Phillips was born and still lives in South London. He studied at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and Camberwell School of Art. Tom is an artist, writer, and composer, who is involved in many creative endeavors in all media – film, music, painting, sculpture, wire construction, stage design, furniture, literature, criticism, curator (he curatedAfrica: The Art of a Continent in1995), translator, writer (he is a columnist for BBC Music Magazine), and portratist, to name a few. Tom’s work is well-known around the world. Tom became an Associate Member (1984), and a Full Member (1990) of the Royal Academy. He is an Honorary Fellow of the London Institute, an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and a trustee of both the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

Tom’s work is held by the Tate Gallery, London; the British Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Library of Congress; Bibliotheque Nationale, France; the National Portrait Gallery; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; among many others. His work has been exhibited around the world, including such places as The Hague, Netherlands; the National Gallery, Australia; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Gallerie BaMa, Paris, France, to name a few.

To learn more about Tom’s Humument see https://www.humument.com

Poehlmann, JoAnna. Artist statement: “My work has progressed in media from trompe l’oeil silverpoint and graphite/watercolor/collage drawings to handcolored lithographs and etchings. Many of the prints are expressed in series and collected in folios and boxes. From these three-dimensional pieces has evolved my present focus on artist’s books as art objects. Most are limited editions – some are unique, incorporating various combinations of the aforementioned media with handmade papers, found objects, pen and ink, Xerox, collage, stamps, stuffed animals, preserved insects, etc. If I can’t find an object I need, I make it out of clay, wood, papier-mache or other malleable materials. I place my work in no particular “movement,” although its literary aspect which has always been concerned with pun-entitled parodies of nature, art history and the old masters, generally reflects my interest in the Dada people. The book allows me to pull past work together in a more refined expression with definite statements and explore new ways with which to voice them.”

JoAnna Poehlmann was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is an associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her works are found in many collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; the New York Public Library; the Museum for Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Istvan Kiraly Muzeum, Szekasfechevar, Budapest, Hungary; Permanent Collection-Embragel, Cabo Frio, Brazil; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Modern Art Library, NY; and Dartmouth College, NH. Her works have been exhibited in many shows around the world.

Rice, Felicia. Since 1977 Felicia Rice has been the sole proprietor of Moving Parts Press. Artist statement: “Felicia Rice collaborates with visual artists, performing artists and writers to create book structures in which word and image meet and merge. She employs traditional typography and bookmaking methods in conjunction with digital technology, bringing the flexibility of screen-based design to the texture and history of the letterpress-printed page.

Work from the Press has been included in exhibitions and collections both nationally and internationally, from AIGA Annual Book Shows in New York and Frankfurt to the Victoria & Albert Museum. Moving Parts Press has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including an Elliston Book Award, a Stiftung Buchkunst Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt Ehrendiplom, and grants from the NEA, CAC and the French Ministry of Culture.”

Other collections holding her work include the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England; Rare Books and Manuscripts, New York Public Library; Whitney Museum, New York; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz; and the Library of Congress, Washington DC.

For more information about Felicia Rice, please see her website at: https://movingpartspress.com/

Risseeuw, John. Artist statement: “John L. Risseeuw received his BS, MA, and MFA degrees in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1968, 1972, and 1973, respectively. Risseeuw’s prints and books have been exhibited nationally and internationally in over 310 competitive and invitational exhibitions throughout the world. His work is in public collections in London, Budapest, The Hague, Montreal, Edmonton, Offenbach am Main, Oxford, Birmingham, Shanghai, Xian, Chengdu, Washington, New York, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Chicago, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle, New Haven, and numerous university libraries. At Arizona State University he teaches courses in Fine Printing & Bookmaking, Papermaking, Artists’ Books, and Photo Processes for Printmaking. He is the Director of ASU’s Pyracantha Press and proprietor of his own Cabbagehead Press.”

Scobey, Pati. Artist statement: “For the past eighteen years her professional activities have focused on studio work and have included exhibiting her work as well as conducting printmaking and bookmaking workshops for individuals of all ages. In 1984 Pati received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work in printmaking and bookmaking has evolved toward the incorporation of non-traditional techniques with traditional ones. She comes to the press bed armed with etched copper plates depicting a narrative, linoleum cuts based on patterns found in nature, a vocabulary of shapes and characters in the form of stencils and a palette of color. There she works through ideas in a spirit as akin to drawing as to printing. This approach allows her to follow unanticipated avenues.

Pati has produced a body of work which evokes a sense of animated space, strong color and forms distilled to reflect the essence of their origins. This work is the result of an intertwining of inspirations derived from sources as disparate as readings in physics to walks in the woods. The book production in which Pati has been involved encompasses one-of-a-kind books, artists’ books, private press books and collaborative projects. Pati’s work has been exhibited widely and is represented in major collections including The Getty Center, New York Public Library, Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Kohler Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and The Haague, The Netherlands. In 1999 Pati was a MacDowell Fellow and recently she received a grant to collaborate with a choreographer and a composer on a performance.”

Sligh, Clarissa T. Clarissa received a BS from the Hampton Institute, her BFA from Howard University, her MFA from Harvard, and her MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. Artist statement: “The work of artist/photographer Clarissa Sligh is based on personal and community narratives created in photographs, artists’ books, installation, and mixed media. Her installations have been created at sites including The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN; the National African American Museum Project of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; and the Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Toronto, Canada.

Sligh is the recipient of numerous awards including Anonymous Was a Woman Award; the Andrea Frank Foundation; the International Center for Photography Infinity Award, the National Women’s Caucus for Art Annual President’s Award; the Artiste En France Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; and many others. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Australian National Gallery, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.”

Soppe, Joan M. Joan’s books are held in many private and public collections, including The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN. She teaches workshops and works from her studio in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Spector, Buzz. Buzz received his BA in Art from Southern Illinois University, and his MFA from the Committee on Art and Design at the University of Chicago. He has been awarded both a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Tetenbaum, Barbara. Barbara Tetenbaum received her BS in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her MFA in printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1979, Barbara has been the sole proprietor of Triangular Press. Barbara has received numerous honors and awards including two Fulbright lectureships. She has exhibited around the world. Her works are held in many collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany; the Rijksmuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands; the New York Public Library, NY; the Getty Art Center, San Francisco, CA; and the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Barbara notes ” I continue to publish my artist books, have been creating conceptual work surrounding the nature of reading, and share my knowledge through teaching full-time at Oregon College of Art and Craft, giving workshops around the country and abroad, and lecturing (I’ll be going to Prague next year [2003] as a Fulbright lecturer to teach bookarts at the College of Art and Design in Usti).”

Tisdale, Walter.

Van Vliet, Claire. Claire was born in Ottawa, Canada. She received her BA from San Diego State University, and her MFA from Claremont Graduate School. She has exhibited all around the country and the world. Her works are held in numerous collections including the Library of Congress; National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the New York and Boston Public Libraries; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the Rijksmuseum Westreenianum at the Hague; the University of Amsterdam’s Labarre Collection; and McGill University; among many others. In 1989, Claire won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.

Veroni, Ral. Ral was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He holds an MA in Muiltidisciplinary Printmaking form the University of the West of England, Bristol. He currently lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland, and is a visitng lecturer in printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art. Ral has exhibited around the world including the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, the Universidad del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, RASA Cultural Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands; the Barbican Centre, London, England, and the University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM. Currently Ral’s work is presented in an ongoing exhibition in Glasglow (For more information see: https://www.sl-photoworks.demon.co.uk). Ral has also created a web book which may be viewed at www.veroni.fsnet.co.uk

Wagner, Mark. Mark received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1997 he has been the owner and proprietor of BirdBrain Press. Currently Mark is the Production Director of the Booklyn Artists Alliance in Brooklyn, NY. Mark’s work is held by the Library of Congress; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Smithsonian Institution; Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; the New York Public Library; Stanford University, CA; and the Corcoran Museum in Washington, DC; among many others. His work has been exhibited at such venues as the Center for Book Arts, NY; 16 Beaver Group, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Bryn Mawr College, PA; Gallery 214, Madison, WI; and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; among many others.

To learn more about Mark and the Booklyn Artists Alliance please see their website at www.booklyn.org

Weiss, Dianne.

Wirth, Karen. Karen received her BFA, magna cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and her MFA in sculpture from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has worked as the chair of the Fine Arts and Foundation Department at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN; and taught at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Karen has received many awards and honors throughout her career. Her work has been exhibited all around the world – including Canada, Mexico, Africa, Brazil, and Colombia; and all around the country – at the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of American History, Washington, DC; DePaul University, Chicago, IL; the Minnesota Center for Book Arts; the San Antonio Art Institute, TX; and the Center for Book Arts, NY; among many others. Karen’s work may be found in numerous collections, among them the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta, Canada; El Archivero Artists’ Books Archives, Mexico City, Mexico; Getty Center for the History of Arts and Humanities, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY; and the Walker Art Center Library, Minneapolis, MN.

Xu, Bing. Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China and grew up in Beijing. He studied printmaking in the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, and later received an MFA from there. In 1990 he moved to the United States where he still lives today, making his home in Brooklyn, New York.

His work as been shown in the 45th Venice Biennial; MOMA, New York; Museum Ludwig, Koln; The Reina Sofia Museum (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia), Madrid; V&A, London; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Sydney Biennial; Kwangju Biennial, Korea; Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; ICC – International Communications Center, Tokyo; in addition to many solo exhibitions around the world. In July, 1999 Xu Bing won the MacArthur Award.

For more information about Xu Bing and his works, please see his website at http://www.xubing.com/

Zelevansky, Paul. Artist statement: “Paul Zelevansky is an artist and wrtiter who teaches courses in visual culture, cultural studies and artists books at the University of California-Irvine and California Institute of the Arts. His books include: The Book of Takes (1976), The Case for the Burial of Ancestors trilogy (1981, 1986, 1991). The Shadow Architecture at the Crossroads Annual 19__ (1987) and Monkey & Man (1992). In March of 2002, he exhibited computer animations and electrostatic prints from his “Great Blankness That Inspires Awe” project at Lemon Sky Gallery in Los Angeles. Two critical essays will be published summer 2002 in the UCLA journal Emergences, and the British Journal of Visual Culture, respectively.”

Paul holds a BFA in printing from Carnegie Tech. in Pennsylvania; an MA in painting from the University of Iowa; an MA in computers, communication and instructional technology from Teacher’s College at Columbia University; and an Ed.D in Art Education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

Zimmermann, Philip.