STUDENT WORK

Title: Devoured Horae
Media: monotype, silkscreen, and letterpress with hand set lead and wood type; accordion book structure
Dimensions: 8" x 5" closed; 16.5' x 5" fully extended
Edition size: 7
Course: Advanced Book Studio
Prompt: In advanced book studio, students develop a project proposal. They write a project outline, production calendar, and a budget (note: project proposal guidelines can be found in the submitted syllabus for Advanced Book Studio). The project concept is open but book projects must fulfill the following technical requirements:

  • the book must include at least one element of hand printing (e.g. letterpress, silkscreen, intaglio, lithography, monoprint)

  • printed in an edition of 5-10 copies

  • the book should include a title and a colophon

  • the full edition should be bound by the due date

Title: Pursuit
Media: digitally printed images & text; pamphlet book structure
Dimensions: 5" x 8"
Course: Introduction to Book Arts
Prompt: Text Mining. Using a page from Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez, students use only the words on that page to craft a new narrative text from the restricted vocabulary. Using their written text, students create a book that combines text and image. This is the first project of the semester.

Technical Requirements:

  • any book structure is acceptable

  • any media is acceptable

  • vocabulary should be drawn from the supplied text page

  • do not use any two words in sequence from the text; select individual words and arrange them in a new, original composition

Title: Untitled
Media: photography, accordion book
Size: 4" x 6" closed; 80" x 6" fully open
Course: Introduction to Book Arts
Prompt: Artist Book Ideation Cards. Using the deck of ideation cards developed by Barb Tetenbaum & Julie Chen, students draw cards as a starting point for a book using card parameters as guidelines. The student had the following card draw as their technical requirements:

  • Text: none

  • Image: self-generated

  • Structure: accordion

  • Technique: digital (photocopy, inkjet, laser print, etc.)

  • Layout: centered on the page

  • Paper: neutral

  • Color: monochromatic

  • Adjectives: mysterious or coded, sequential, poetic, fragmented or mosaic, sentimental or nostalgic

Title: Place Stamp Here
Media: montype, collage, and handmade paper; Coptic binding
Size: 7" x 10"
Course: Introduction to Book Arts
Prompt: Research & Artist Book (note: project sheet can be found in the submitted syllabus for Introduction to Book Arts).

In this project, students visit the special collections library to view at least five artist books. Each student selects one book to present to the class and submits an annotated bibliography of all five books they viewed.

The second component of the project is to create an original artist book. This work does not need to be directly or indirectly inspired by the books seen in the library.

In this example, the student explored several works by Walter Hamady and drew inspiration from his use of collage, layering, interactive elements, and humor in his Gabberjab series.

Title: The Sky Went From Light to Dark and You Were Staring at Me
Media: hand set lead type, pressure printed image; folded book structure
Size: 5" x 11.5" folded; 35" x 11.5” fully open
Course: Introduction to Letterpress
Prompt: Design and print a book form folded from a single sheet of paper.

Technical Requirements:

  • book structure should be folded from a single sheet of paper

  • text and image should be self-generated, words or images you have copyright permission to print, or from works in the public domain

  • text should be hand set lead or wood type

  • image can be comprised of lead ornaments, pressure printing, photopolymer plates, linoleum or wood cuts

  • use a minimum of two colors

  • the book should include a title and a colophon

Title: Anni Albers
Media: letterpress printed pressure print
Size: 9" x 12"
Course: Introduction to Letterpress
Prompt: Create a pressure print portrait of a person of your choice.

Technical Requirements:

  • the design must be composed of four layers

  • image area is 6” x 8” and should be a vertical composition

  • the print is achieved in one run through the press

Title: Kacey & Dolly
Media: letterpress printed using photopolymer plates
Size: 10" x 14"
Course: Introduction to Letterpress
Prompt:Create a broadside poster inspired by the Dead Feminists series by Jessica Spring and Chandler O’Leary. Choose a person, or multiple people, you wish to celebrate, highlight, or educate others about. The design should use visual symbolism and/or text that relates to, represents, or is personally associated with the person(s) you have chosen. In this instance, the featured women are Kacey Musgraves and Dolly Parton.

Technical Requirements:

  • the poster must use at least three colors

  • colors must be trapped beneath a key layer

  • at least one area of the design must show two colors overlapping to create a third color, demonstrating the use of transparent ink layering

  • imagery may be hand-drawn and scanned or created digitally using a drawing application

Dead Feminists

Title: Decay, decay! Life, life! Decay, decay, life!
Media: handmade paper pulp painting using abaca, cotton, natural pigments, and natural dyes
Size: 6'x 4'
Course: Introduction to Papermaking
Prompt: Create an installation or sculptural work that uses handmade paper as its primary medium. This student is particularly active in environmental issues and used only natural fiber (abaca is the leaf stalk from the banana tree), natural dyes and pigments so the paper can eventually decompose back into the earth.

Technical Requirements:

  • the artwork must use handmade paper as the main material

  • the final piece must function as either an installation or a sculptural work

  • the installation method should be intentional and thoughtfully considered

  • there are no size restrictions; the work can be any scale

Title: Dress
Media: fabric, silkscreen printed design, garment constructed from student’s original hand drafted dress design
Course: Thematic Inquiry: Research & Creative Practice
Prompt: This is course is not discipline specific; students work in media of their choice to create a body of work around a research question. The course is based in the special collections libraries: the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. Throughout the semester, students develop research skills and formulate their own lines of inquiry and then complete a body of work informed by their research. Additional details about this course design can be found on my CV.

For this project, the student researched traditional Japanese pattern motifs, garment construction (drawing from books, archival materials, and the historic textiles collection), and traditional dress styles. She designed an original motif inspired by traditional patterns and hand-printed the yardage using silkscreen techniques. The garment was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of a traditional Japanese dress, informed by family photographs and her research.

Title: Suck, Spit, Flick, Stick
Media: four channel video
Course: Thematic Inquiry: Research & Creative Practice
Prompt: This is course is not discipline specific; students work in media of their choice to create a body of work around a research question. The course is based in the special collections libraries: the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. Throughout the semester, students develop research skills and formulate their own lines of inquiry and then complete a body of work informed by their research. Additional details about this course design can be found on my CV.

For this project, the student conducted research on themes of visible and invisible boundaries, femme representation in media, zine culture, and women’s history. Drawing from archival materials, feminist publications, and media resources, she examined how women’s voices have been expressed, muted, or reshaped through time. She investigated ideas around personal space and bodily autonomy, as well as the broader reach of safety and security for individuals and communities. A short clip is embedded below.