Lindsey Hernandez – Focus on Book Arts

Kristen Doty – A Chance Encounter

Artist Statement This book brings together and challenged my skills in things that I truly enjoy: noticing details, painting, illustrating, calligraphy, writing, and bookmaking. The inspiration for the book is a true story written after a trip to Texas to…

Kyleen Greene – Sketch Note

Artist Statement This book combines scrap leather and fabrics, as well as new metal findings and drawing/writing papers. I designed an printed the wide rule writing paper on 70# stock and included drawing paper signatures of Strathmore 400 Series 80#…

Kyleen Greene – Neuro Sketch

Artist Statement I enjoy upcycling or recycling materials, and this sketchbook utilizes mostly reclaimed items. The leather was an offcut from a previous project, and the interior pages are recycled kraft packing paper. I really enjoy making projects from seemingly…

Jamila Rufaro – Warp & Weft

Artist Statement When people ask what I do, I say: “I’m an artist. A book artist. I create handmade books and I make things out of old books.” Technically I am a mixed media assemblage artist. My work is about…

Naomi Velasquez – Peace

Artist Statement I am intrigued with the process of creating layered compositions to communicate the depth of our complex, multi-faceted lives and ever evolving relationships. This book speaks to relationships affected by world events and hope for peace. The book…

Yoshi Nakagawa – Kingdom Plantae

Artist Statement My friend Danielle Harrington in Tacoma wrote the poem based on our friendship, and I designed & carved the image in response to her poem. We are gardeners and stewards of the land. The edition of 70 was…

Yoshi Nakagawa – Entre Naranjas

Artist Statement My friend Bryce Lillmars in Los Angeles wrote the poem based on our friendship, and I designed & carved the image in response to his poem. We were housemate in Oaxaca, Mexico—thus the Spanish title translated as “Between…

Pietro Accardi – Non-pareil on silk

Artist Statement A simple execution of a classic marbling pattern on a silk scarf. Materials & Technique Marbling on silk.

Shawn Sheehy – Wildflowers Sampler with Longstitch Binding

Artist Statement The wildflower sampler is a workshop model that features three native wildflowers from each of four U.S. habitats. It is potentially problematic to mount pop-ups into sewn bindings, so this model is slightly unusual for pairing those features.…

Shawn Sheehy – Early Bird Mechanical Postcard

Artist Statement Early Bird is one in a series of mechanical postcards that feature a bird idiom puzzle. The viewer turns the wheel, and parts of the postcard move, and puzzle clues emerge. Materials & Technique Paper engineering, commercial card…

Sarah Matthews – Homage to NMAAHC

Artist Statement “Homage to NMAAHC” is a flag book created to celebrate the National Museum of African American History & Culture. Sarah Matthews was inspired after several visits to the museum to create a work in response to what she…

Pietro Accardi – Secretary Box

Artist Statement A stylish box using combined features of the hatch top box and the 3 drawer box. Materials & Technique Decorative and functional box made using binders board and book cloth.

Margo Klass – Tanana Sun

Artist Statement Low on the horizon, branches of birch, aspen and alder cut sharp patterns against the short-lived light of midday. One feels surrounded. This unfolding box book captures this quality of January light in the arctic north.erge. Materials &…

Mary-Ellen Campbell – Homage to Bamboo

Artist Statement I completed this book on an artist residency in Costa Rica. It contains images of bamboo around my studio and poems about the sounds of the bamboo that I heard with the slightest breeze. I cut bamboo from…

Mary-Ellen Campbell – Memories of Aotearoa

Artist Statement This book was completed on an artist residency in New Zealand. It captures the flora and fauna if the environment in whimsical watercolors and haiku. Local abalone shells adorn the covers. Materials & Technique Crown binding, watercolor paper,…

Margo Klass – Looking Beyond

Artist Statement Looking Beyond is an exploration of integrating space with form and texture as a metaphor for bringing together disparate aspects of one’s being, melding grief with hope, past with present, dark with light. Materials & Technique Concertina album…

Laurel Herbeck – A Coptic Cross-stitch Journal

Artist Statement This Coptic stitch and cross stitch journal is a technique that appeals to my interest in a variety of stitching methods. Both the covers and the spine of the book reflect my fascination with color, pattern, fiber, and…

Kristi Galbraith – White Weave on Waves

Artist Statement I created the hand made paper in this weaving from recycled cotton rags. It was fun creating the sheets of paper with the threads spread out with just the right spacing. Then came the step of exposing the…

Kristi Galbraith – Montana Dreamin’

Artist Statement I wanted a place to showcase my favorite Montana photos – as well as experiment with a variety of paper weavings, and have a place to write out my feelings for the place that always seems dreamy to…

Jean Wyatt – Stitched Flower Bouquet

Artist Statement Decorative paper flower pieces are collaged onto heavy St. Armands paper. The flowers and pages are enhanced with stitching using embroidery floss. The 3 different flower sections are bound into a book using a wrapped tacket binding. Materials…

Helen Shafer Garcia – Pod Variations

Artist Statement I describe these Collagraph books as “Variations on a theme” due to the repetitive print shapes appearing throughout the book. The shapes are altered with watercolor washes. Color pencils enhance the values and colors. Geometric and organic collage…

Helen Shafer Garcia – Danza de los Pajaros

Artist Statement This book is best described as a tribute to Mexican color, designs, and culture. I have traveled throughout the heart of Mexico and Baja, CA for 30 years or so. The sense of place speaks to my heart.…

Heather Doyle-Maier – Toaster

Artist Statement Toaster was inspired by an aging appliance with an erratic tendency to scorch whatever food was popped into it and the discussions of fault that then ensued in our kitchen. With room for only a single phrase on…

Heather Doyle-Maier – Riptides

Artist Statement Riptides explores mother and daughters across four generations, telling layered stories of women as they embrace/reject these critical relationships. Moving from infancy and girlhood to leaving home, and from marriage and motherhood to her own daughter leaving home,…

Ginger Burrell – The End of the Handshake

Artist Statement The pandemic made us re-think so many behaviors: grocery shopping, in-person offices, public transit. Most of all, the pandemic changed the way we greet and comfort one another. Handshakes became nods, or salutes, hugs became crossed arms over…

Genevieve Kaplan – a symmetry

Artist Statement This broadside series invites the type of curious interaction that I want for my poems; rather than presenting a legible text alongside a complementary image, they present a poem that is also itself a visual experience. The words…

Fran McReynolds – The Butterfly Book

Artist Statement This book included a series of first-time experiences for me, including working with wooden covers, binding on cords, heat transfer images, and a somewhat challenging headband. I enjoyed the process. Materials & Technique This is a collection of…

Erin Fletcher – A Little Book of Birds by Gaylord Schanilec

Artist Statement The wisps of color scattered across the binding are reminiscent of feathers, but are also meant to mimic the carefully carved lines found within the wood engravings done by Gaylord Schanilec. The binding is constructed with a handmade…

Elsi Vassdal Ellis – Relative Navigations

Artist Statement I view families in the quantum sense, collaborative quantum entanglements in the multiverse of time and distance. Immediate and extended families are collaborative efforts, some active, some passive, some positive, some negative. The stories in this collection all…

Elsi Vassdal Ellis – Maribelle’s Compulsion

Artist Statement Having experienced traditional domestication when young, I return to working with quilting fabrics to share stories of women working in the same way. The fabrics used for Maribelle’s Compulsion are scraps too large or beautiful to throw away.…

Cindy Luxhoj – Window to a Gift

Artist Statement My fascination with excavation as a book art form lead me to take a private lesson from James Allen, a master of the craft. After adapting the technique to my own style, I chose to excavate this first…

Brenda Gallagher – Wild Aloof Rebel

Artist Statement This book is a collection of quotes from the television sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” created by Dan Levy and Eugene Levy. Illustrations of sweaters worn by David Rose were drawn by the binder. The design of the binding is…

Brenda Gallagher – Typographic Terms

Artist Statement This book is an abecedarian book of typographic terms that describe the shapes of letterforms. The glossary was compiled and designed by the binder, illustrations for each glossary term were created by the binder. Printed on an offset…

Ann Kronenberg – Interactive Book-Painting #57: Pastel Marbling

Artist Statement For several decades, my bookworks included visuals and texts which were representational—told a literal story. Approximately 20 years ago, I created my first abstract book—a pop-up—essentially a painting in book form. Currently, the vast majority of my bookworks…