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Meet Our Directors

 

Hand Papermaking Board of Directors

Cathleen A. Baker is a Senior Paper Conservator at Univ. of Michigan Libraries. She was a teacher of the conservation of works of art on paper for fifteen years before retiring in 1993 to write By His Own Labor: The Biography of Dard Hunter, published in 2000. She teaches conservation and preservation workshops. She has an MFA in Book Arts and a PhD in Mass Communication with a specialization in media history.

Sid Berger has been making paper for more than 35 years. He gives many book-arts-related workshops, also publishing and speaking widely. He is presently leading an international group of libraries in the production of a thesaurus of terminology of decorated and decorative paper. He is a Professor at Simmons College, and the director of The Phillips Library at The Peabody Essex Museum.

Shannon Brock has been the Art Director of Carriage House Paper since 1996. She holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has taught papermaking at Montclair State University, BookWorks in Asheville, NC, and throughout the east coast. She maintains her paper mill and studio, Gaptoothed Studio, in Brooklyn, NY, and exhibits her pulp paintings and sculptural work nationally.

Inge Bruggeman (Treasurer) has been making and publishing fine press artist's books under her imprint INK-A! Press for over 10 years. Her work is shown and collected internationally. Inge is an Adjunct Professor at Oregon College of Art & Craft. She also runs a small business, Textura, a commission letterpress printing studio in Portland, Oregon.

Georgia Deal is the Chair of the Printmaking Department at Corcoran College of Art & Design. She has worked with handmade paper in different ways for over 30 years. Her work is collected and exhibited widely.

Gail Deery teaches printmaking at Maryland Institute College of Art, and previously taught at Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper and Harvard University. A master printer and expert on papers, she exhibits, lectures, and consults in the US and abroad. She received her MFA from Rutgers University.

Jim Escalante is on the faculty of the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches courses in book arts and papermaking. He founded Iguana Press in 1978.

Helen Hiebert (Vice Chair) is the proprietor of Enlightened Papers and a well-known author. She worked for six years at Dieu Donné Papermill in New York City. She now teaches and lectures about papermaking and lamp making throughout the country and maintains her studio in Portland, Oregon.

Ann Marie Kennedy works with handmade paper to create both wall-sized works of art and large-scale sculptural environments, and collaborates occasionally to produce paper for editioned book works. Ann Marie was a resident artist at Penland School of Crafts. She is currently a full-time faculty member at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, NC, and teaches workshops throughout the U.S. Her MFA is from the University of Iowa.

Bobbie Lippman has been making paper since 1982. She founded the papermaking program at Historic RittenhouseTown in Philadelphia, and was co-editor of Hand Papermaking magazine from 1992-94. She is currently a Program Officer for Culture at The Pew Charitable Trusts. Her paper paintings are in numerous public and private collections. 

David Marshall is assistant director for communications policy at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC, where he oversees print and web-based publications. He became interested in handmade paper through studies at the Corcoran School of Art.

Margaret Prentice began papermaking in 1971, co-founding Twinrocker Handmade Paper with Kathryn and Howard Clark. She studied printmaking at the University of Arizona (BFA: 1966) and the University of Colorado (MFA: 1980). She is currently teaches printmaking and papermaking at Univ. of Oregon. She has studied traditional papermaking extensively in Japan, and recorded indigenous papermaking techniques in Mexico. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and may be found in many noted collections.

Andrea Peterson is an artist, papermaker, and educator, with an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She teaches papermaking at Columbia College Chicago and Ox-bow, a summer school for the Art Institute of Chicago. At her studio in Indiana she conducts paper research and creates her widely-exhibited artwork and production paper that is sold internationally.

John Risseeuw (Chair) is Professor of Art at Arizona State University where he teaches book arts, papermaking, and printmaking. He is Director of Pyracantha Press, ASU's book arts press, and proprietor of the Cabbagehead Press. His books and prints have been widely exhibited and collected.

Beck Whitehead has been working with artist-made paper since 1984. Since 1985 she has served at the Southwest College of Art & Craft in San Antonio, Texas, and is currently Paper & Book Arts Department Chair. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1972.

 

 

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