Girl Printers | ||
 Karen Pava Randall, Propolis Press, Why this Happiness  Marian Parry, Runcible Books, 8 Unhealthy Relationships | ||
Girl Printers is an exbhition of professional work done by thirty-seven women printers. The show aims to introduce college students and the visiting public to a wide variety of ephemeral and substantive printing and book arts work done by a sampling of women from across the United States. As curator of the show, Carol J. Blinn is in a perfect position to gather together such special talents. She has been designing with type, illustrating, letterpress printing, binding by hand, publishing books and doing commercial printing work for thirty years. Many of the women in the show she counts as friends and some have been highly recommended by others in the book arts field. All are professionals, some at the beginnings of their careers and some far along the printing path. All have stories to tell. Part of the show revolves around their answers to a long list of questions sent by Carol to each participant. Every printer has a love of a different tool; each one approaches the joys of making art with various methods; every printer tells of mentors or childhood-learned skills that helped her along the way; each printer addresses typefaces used; several printers wrote about their personal triumphs in running shop equipment; many of the printers have an opinion on being treated differently just because they are women; and every one of the printers explains her life's work as work she could not live without. EVENTS: Reading wtih Rebecca Brown Click here for: | ||
