Jessica Spring
American printer and book artist
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Education
Spring has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.[6]
Career
Spring coined the term Daredevil Typesetting and has devised "furniture" to facilitate this process of setting type in curves and other forms.[7][8]
Since 2008 Spring has contributed to The Dead Feminists project, a series of hand-made broadsides produced in limited editions.[1][9] In 2016, the series was published in book form.[10][11]
Spring has been teaching at Pacific Lutheran University since 2004.
In 2014 received an AMOCAT Arts Award from the Tacoma Arts Commission.[12]
Her work is in the Massachusetts College of Art and Design,[13] the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)[14] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,[15] the Rhode Island School of Design Museum,[16] Rollins College,[17] University of California Berkeley,[18] and the University of Louisville,[19] among others.
Publications
- Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA. ISBN 978-1632170576[10]
- Ladies of Letterpress, Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated edition, 2015. ISBN 978-1616892739[2]
