2021 Members' Showcase: Dorothy Simpson Krause

 This week for the 2021 Members' Showcase we feature Dorothy Krause.

Dorothy Simpson Krause

Krause is Professor Emerita at Massachusetts College of Art, author of Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books and Digital Art Studio. She has been a Visiting Artist or Artist in Residence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Academy in Rome, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University. Her work, which is in the collections of more than three dozen museums/ universities, combines traditional and digital media in large-scale mixed media pieces, artist books and book-like objects that bridge between the two forms.

More of Krause's work and books can be seen at www.dotkrause.com.

Agent Orange, 2019-20

Casuarina, 2019-20

Lockdown, 2020

2021 Members' Showcase: Audrey Pinto

This week for the 2021 Members' Showcase we are featuring member Audrey Pinto!

Audrey Pinto

I make handcrafted decorative boxes, paper, and books. In my work, I use a variety of forms including folded and cut paper, pop-ups, paste papers, and mark making to explore how different forms can be exhibited and presented within the structure of the box.

The 8-sided star books, which sit inside the 8-sided box, were hand painted on Arches 300 lb watercolor paper using gouache, ink, and watercolor pencils; the panels were hand cut, and the cut designs were inspired by a NASA satellite photo of the vanishing land mass (due to climate change) in the Sundarbans mangroves in West Bengal.

Box: book board, handmade book cloth, and Iris lilac bookcloth.

2021 Members' Showcase: Sabrena Johnson

We continue the 2021 Members' Showcase, featuring work from book artists here in the Southeast, with Sabrena Johnson.

Sabrena Johnson

Sabrena Johnson is the Conservation Librarian for Tulane University. Alongside in-house special and circulating collections conservation for the libraries, she experiments on her own collection to develop bindings that reflect the contents in a way that shows character with a bit of lateral thinking. Book arts provide a meditative outlet where each book becomes distinctive, a unique object in its own right that breaks the rules wherever possible while giving the best aesthetic fit for the volume. She also makes some very, very tiny blank books that you can wear!

Mega Nanos

Punk Girdle Book

Richard III Reburial Pamphlets (work in progress)

2021 Members' Showcase: Sharon Sharp

 Continuing with the 2021 Members' Showcase, we have member Sharon Sharp!

Sharon Sharp

Sharon A. Sharp (Winston-Salem, NC) writes poetry and creates multifaceted artist’s books. Her work has been recognized in volumes 1–2 of 500 Handmade Books, 1,000 Artists’ Books, the Italian fine-arts journal TECA—Exploring the Book as Art (2013), Bind-O-Rama 2014 (online), and Art & Science Collaborations’ “Featured Member” section (online, June 2014). 

Sharon’s books, represented by Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, are held in numerous universities’ special collections libraries. Drawn to nature-related themes, she has served as an artist-in-residence at two National Parks. Sharon delights in using nontraditional book forms to enliven both written and visual content.

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Interwoven, 2019

Season's Sight, 2014