Jessica Spring is an American letterpress printer and book artist known for her work with Dead Feminists and Ladies of Letterpress.[1][2]
Spring is the owner of Springtide Press in Tacoma, Washington.[3]
Education
editSpring has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.[4]
Career
editSpring coined the term Daredevil Typesetting and has devised "furniture" to facilitate this process of setting type in curves and other forms.[5][6]
Since 2008 Spring has contributed to The Dead Feminists project, a series of hand-made broadsides produced in limited editions.[1][7] In 2016, the series was published in book form.[8][9]
Spring has been teaching at Pacific Lutheran University since 2004.
In 2014 received an AMOCAT Arts Award from the Tacoma Arts Commission.[10]
Her work is in the Massachusetts College of Art and Design,[11] the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)[12] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,[13] the Rhode Island School of Design Museum,[14] Rollins College,[15] University of California Berkeley,[16] and the University of Louisville,[17] among others.
Publications
edit- Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA. ISBN 978-1632170576[8]
- Ladies of Letterpress, Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated edition, 2015. ISBN 978-1616892739[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Dead Feminists – Letterpress broadside series by Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring". Dead Feminists. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ a b "Ladies of Letterpress Homepage". Ladies of Letterpress. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Vouchered by Jessica Spring". Quarantine Public Library. 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ Carey, Brainard (June 21, 2018). "Jessica Spring". Interviews from Yale University Radio. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ "Springtide Press Daredevil". International Printing Museum. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
- ^ "Long Distance Letterpress: Daredevil Typesetting". June 29, 2024.
- ^ "Ep. 13 : Jessica Spring". Artists Book House. July 27, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ a b O'Leary, Chandler; Spring, Jessica (2016). Dead feminists : historic heroines in living color. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books. ISBN 978-1632170576.
- ^ "Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color". Microcosm Publishing. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ Lunka, Taylor (September 28, 2014). "Resident Artist, Jessica Spring, Wins Major Award From Tacoma Arts Commission". Pacific Lutheran University. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ "Honey B Hive by Jessica Spring | Artists' Books at MassArt". MassArt. March 16, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ "ANCHORED". NMWA Library & Research Center. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
- ^ "Curiousity Killed the Pussy". Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ Spring, Jessica (January 1, 2018). "Memory Lame". Artists' Books. Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ Spring, Jessica (January 1, 2019). "Xenagogy X". Rollins College Book Arts Collection. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ "Memory lame". Artstor. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ Blair, Trish. "Spring, Jessica: Home". UofL Libraries. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
