Books & Publications

 

Books are the most important part of my work. Here I present some very different approaches to books.

As part of a project with the Gallatin County Historical Society, my mother collected a number of stories and photographs, telling the tales of the early skiers near Bozeman, Montana. The concessions operator left the grill on and a note to folks to leave some money in a dish while he took a few runs, and the locals climbed the mountains with pick axes and shovels to dig the holes for the lift towers. My mother was the primary editor, while I fine tuned the stories and laid out the book for publication.
The book won a Skade Award from the International Skiing History Association in 1998.

For three years I worked with the ACA as its Publications Director, leading a small team to edit and design our newsletter. Each 24 page issue, which comes out four times a year, contains stories and images of the international calligraphy community. There is a calendar with exhibits and workshops world wide, and topics range from profiles of artists to techniques for working.

DO/TRY

A handmade book, with text that I wrote about the creative process:
the joy I have when things are going well
and the pain I have when trying to make things happen.

The page spreads alternate between doing and trying,
with doing in straightforward broad pen lettering, and. . .

. . . trying expressed in less structured marks
with more inventive lettering.

In 2001, I was asked to be a part of a panel at the international calligraphy conference, in which we explored the relationship between word and image. We were given a photo by Shelburne Thurber, a Boston photographer, to interpret calligraphically. I combined her compostion with text of my own and a poem by Chapel Hill poet Michael McFee to create this book, a piece that uses the changes in my aunt's handwriting
as a metaphor for the aging process.

 

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The Education of an Artist

As an artist-in-residence at ETSU in 1995, I produced this little book that includes many experimental drawings and a text by Ben Shahn from The Shape of Content. Drawn on a lithographic stone and printed on Rives BFK paper, the edition was limited to 20 copies. Bound by hand with painted Tyvek covers. There are still a few of these available.

 

 

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Stripes

With a short text by Paul Rand, this little book unfolds to show many kinds of stripes, from architecture and clothing to flags and zebras. A concertina with a piano hinged spine on dowels holds it together.

Watercolor on paper, 1995

 

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