A unique collection of alluring imagery on distinctive paper, these individual and collaborative efforts present an uncommon integration of the historic arts of photography and papermaking. Seventeen juried works produced by twenty-five respected papermakers and photographers are showcased in a custom clamshell box.
Accompanied by a handbound booklet containing statements from each of the artists and a commissioned essay by John Risseeuw (Professor of Art at Arizona State University).
Artists in the portfolio: June Bonner, Inge Bruggeman, David Carruthers, Irene Chan, Peg Conlon, Amanda Degener, Dean Ebben, Michael Fallon, Berwyn Hung, Patrick Kelley, Joan Kopchik, John Laudenslager, Tom Leech, Mary C. Leto, Jared Porter, Blair Rainey, Keith Sharp, Robbin Ami Silverberg, Wendy Simon, S. Gayle Stevens, Marilyn Sward, Mina Takahashi, Peter Thomas, Melanie Walker, and Prim Young.
Juried by: Barbara Crane (distinguished photographer and Professor Emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago); Susan kae Grant (independent curator, artist, and head of Photography and Book Arts at Texas Woman’s University); Judy Natal (artist and photography instructor at Columbia College); Bea Nettles (artist, writer, and Chair of the Photography Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign); Marilyn Sward (artist, writer, and Director of the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts).
The edition of 100 is now sold out.
Designed by Steve Miller. Edited by Michael Durgin.