Sarah Bryant designs and produces artist books under the imprint Big Jump Press. Her work often incorporates analytical imagery, reference material, and innovative binding structures. Books from Big Jump Press have won numerous awards, including the 2011 MCBA Prize. They can be found in dozens...
I am currently working on my next book project, Terre Firma, the impetus of which began while I was in an artist residency in May, 2016 at the Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve in central Kansas. I received my undergraduate degree in the Flint Hills of...
Tricia Treacy is a Philadelphia-born interdisciplinary designer, artist and educator. Her creative practice is actively engaged in the field of design with an emphasis on collaborative practices and experimental bookmaking. Combining design, printmaking, typography, writing, bookmaking and digital fabrication, her work has been collected and...
“The Rhinoceros Project” is an ambitious and absurdist endeavor inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s print of the same name. Through a series of participatory sewing circles and papermaking happenings, we are translating Dürer’s Rhinoceros into a life-size watermark in handmade paper (a “papermaking happening” is the...
The idea for the book I am currently thinking about originated during my residency at the Women’s Studio Workshop. I was in the studio everyday during the winter of 2015, and there was snow everywhere. Everything was covered in it. Every few days, some of...
Red Butte Press announces Invisible Shores by Danielle Dubrasky, the fourth imprint of the Book Arts Program (BAP), a division of Special Collections at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. BAP imprints are designed, printed, and bound in-house; they feature collaborations with University...
The Annotated Bibliography of Clearcutting is an ongoing interdisciplinary forest habitat and natural resource focused ecological database of worldwide clearcutting and deforestation. This compilation of user-submitted site photographs, GPS coordinates, satellite images, maps, and physical descriptions is available to researchers as a searchable database to...
I am an African American artist. Transforming Hate is essentially an eight-year meditation on a beautiful art piece that I made from white supremacist books. As I folded origami cranes from pages of hateful texts, I set aside my feelings about what I read. Drawn...
What are the main differences/challenges in translating Maureen’s paintings into polymer plates, as opposed to translating other art media? My interests live in between things— ideas, techniques, systems, people. Intermedia, as Dick Higgins so aptly named this space. Thus, the challenge to translate Maureen O-Hara...
Bumpers is a collection of twelve genuine crack-‘n-peel bumper stickers designed and printed letterpress by Kyle Schlesinger with the assistance of Hannah King in two or three colors each. The contributors who were commissioned to compose poems specifically for this project are David Abel, Bill...
