Jessica Peterson, a book artist from Gordo, Alabama, just completed an artist-in-residency in the hand papermaking studio. She pulled over 400 18” x 24” sheets of paper for her upcoming letterpress book. She spoke on Monday night about her work and her residency at BookWorks. We hope to have her back for a workshop in the coming months. A thanks to the BookWorks Co-op for supporting her residency.

Philip Bell, graphic designer, and Amy Jacobs, papermaker, partnered on a piece for the Hand Papermaking Society 2010 Portfolio, Paper in Motion. It was an enormous project completed with many hours of assistance from BookWorks interns and volunteers, as well as a mountain of fibers, X-acto blades and a few well earned blisters to make an edition of 152 pop-ups!

Philip Bell created a pop-up mask design called Cardinal / Shaman using Amy Jacob’s handmade paper. The design was submitted last year and selected by the judges (including Robert Sabuda) to be included in this year’s annual portfolio. The mask is a unique design that rotates 180 degrees from Cardinal to Shaman or the ‘Spirit of the Bird.” The paper is cotton fiber using pigments, surface design techniques and walnut dye.

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