Jessica Spring

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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][4][5]

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.

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