bookish lady

Ok, so here’s the backstory.  Lithuanians love Zappa!  In 1995 a bust of the man was placed in the Vilnius city center.  Recently some Lithuanians decided to bestow the city of Baltimore, birthplace of the musician, with a matching bust.  It will be dedicated on September 19, the 15th anniversary of Zappa’s testimony on Capitol […]

I also received my (letterpressed!) ILSSA membership materials back in June.  So fun!

I went away for the summer and now that I’m back I can’t wait to get more involved with their projects.

This is a resource library, kept on paper.  I’m still deciding which of my favorite resources I’d like to submit.

It’s about time I caught you up on what I’ve been up to this summer!  In June, I headed to Massachusetts with Julia and Leslie for a class with Vandercook guru Paul Moxon at the Museum of Printing in North Andover.  The topic was “Letterpress Finesse,” so we messed around with makeready, ink additives, paper […]

I just returned from a month in Paris, where one of my favorite places to go was the Musée de Cluny, the National Museum of the Middle Ages.  I liked these fancy books:

and especially these leather book cases:

Francisco Campos-Lopez of CityDance produced the following mini documentary about my book, your body will know.

The book is part of Moving Parts, a collaboration between CityDance Ensemble and Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.  I was one of 10 artists asked to produce an edition of 50 miniature artist books inspired by CityDance’s last season.  Limited edition […]

About a year ago I was invited to participate in a large-scale collaborative project between Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and CityDance Ensemble, our area’s most fascinating modern (and sometimes ballet) dance company.  10 visual artists (including me) were asked to attend CityDance performances and get to know their performers and their work, and then produce […]

When I started working at Pyramid I decided that one of the first things I wanted to do was make a type catalog showing examples of all the typefaces there.  But with 88+ cases of type, that job was wayyyyyy easier said than done.  (I just learned from this New Yorker article that your average […]

Last night I went to the second meeting for Moving Parts, a collaboration between Pyramid Atlantic and CityDance.  The idea was to make an edition of artists’ books, and I was invited to be one of ten artists to contribute.  We will each design and produce 50 (!) copies of a miniature art book inspired […]

I’ve had wolves on the brain.  I forget where the obsession started.  I know Sabeth made a great etching of a wolf during our workshop a few weeks ago.  Around the same time I had the urge to track down Maxine Kumin’s poem “After Love” to quote it to someone:
Afterwards, the compromise
Bodies resume their boundaries
These […]

I recently acquired this set of woodblocks from the ’40s, and made my first poster with wood type (courtesy of Anthony from Dirty Pictures, whom I just re-met at Adams Morgan Day).  It took forever (five runs!) because of all the overlapping elements, but I’m very pleased with it!  I messed up a few figuring […]