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

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Spring has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.[4]

Career

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Spring 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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "Dead Feminists – Letterpress broadside series by Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring". Dead Feminists. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Ladies of Letterpress Homepage". Ladies of Letterpress. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  3. ^ "Vouchered by Jessica Spring". Quarantine Public Library. 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  4. ^ Carey, Brainard (June 21, 2018). "Jessica Spring". Interviews from Yale University Radio. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  5. ^ "Springtide Press Daredevil". International Printing Museum. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
  6. ^ "Long Distance Letterpress: Daredevil Typesetting". June 29, 2024.
  7. ^ "Ep. 13 : Jessica Spring". Artists Book House. July 27, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  8. ^ a b O'Leary, Chandler; Spring, Jessica (2016). Dead feminists : historic heroines in living color. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books. ISBN 978-1632170576.
  9. ^ "Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color". Microcosm Publishing. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  10. ^ Lunka, Taylor (September 28, 2014). "Resident Artist, Jessica Spring, Wins Major Award From Tacoma Arts Commission". Pacific Lutheran University. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  11. ^ "Honey B Hive by Jessica Spring | Artists' Books at MassArt". MassArt. March 16, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  12. ^ "ANCHORED". NMWA Library & Research Center. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  13. ^ "Curiousity Killed the Pussy". Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  14. ^ Spring, Jessica (January 1, 2018). "Memory Lame". Artists' Books. Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  15. ^ Spring, Jessica (January 1, 2019). "Xenagogy X". Rollins College Book Arts Collection. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  16. ^ "Memory lame". Artstor. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  17. ^ Blair, Trish. "Spring, Jessica: Home". UofL Libraries. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
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