Susan E. King
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University of New Mexico (MA in art)
National Endowment for the Arts Small Press Grant; Vesta Award from the Woman's Building[1]
Susan E. King | |
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| Born | April 5, 1947 Lexington, Kentucky, United States |
| Education | University of Kentucky (BA) University of New Mexico (MA in art) |
| Known for | Artist, author, educator |
| Awards | National Museum of Women in the Arts Book Fellowship, 2001; National Endowment for the Arts Small Press Grant; Vesta Award from the Woman's Building[1] |
| Website | susankingart |
Susan E. King (born 1947) is an American artist, educator, and writer who is best known for her artist's books.
King grew up in Kentucky.[2] She received a B.A. degrees in ceramics from University of Kentucky; and a master's degree in art from University of New Mexico.
Career
Artist and educator
At the University of New Mexico, she taught one of the first Women and Art courses[3][better source needed] in the U.S. in 1973. For several years she taught letterpress printing at Otis College of Art and Design. She lectures, teaches workshops and has been an artist-in-residence[4] at numerous art centers and universities around the U.S.[5]
She came to California to be part of the Feminist Art Program at the Woman's Building, where she held the position of Studio Director of the Women's Graphic Center.[6][7][8]
Author
She publishes books through the Paradise Press imprint and currently divides her time between Kentucky and California.[2][9] Her books are often memoirs about travel.[10] One of her well-known books, Treading the Maze, An artist's journey through breast cancer,[11][12][13] published by Chronicle was created as what she calls "a journey through the land of cancer."[14] King has been written about in The Penland Book of Handmade Books: Master Classes in Bookmaking Techniques, representing master craftsmen at the Penland School of Crafts.[15]
A National Endowment for the Arts grant was awarded to a collaborative team with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Bettye Saar.[16] She was awarded a book production grant from the Women's Studio Workshop[17][18] and the Visual Studies Workshop in 1984.[19] She also won a book production grant from Nexus Press.[20] In 2000, she was awarded the Early Times Scholarship Travel Grant from the Kentucky Arts and Craft Foundation.[21] She was awarded a book fellowship in 2001 from the National Museum of Women in the Arts.[22][23] She was awarded a Small Press Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.[19]
Her artist books are included in the collections of major libraries, like those at Harvard University,[24] and the Getty Research Library.[25][26] They are also among the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum London,[27][28] Brooklyn Museum of Art,[29] and Otis College of Art and Design Library in Los Angeles.[30]
Exhibitions
- "Paradise Meets Purgatory The Watson Library," the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986[31]
- "Books Without Bounds," Irvine Fine Arts Center, 1987[32]
- "Unseen Hands: Women printers, Binders and Book Designers," Princeton University Library, 2002[33]
- "The Artist Turns to the Book," Getty Research Institute, The Getty Museum, 2005[34]
- 30 years of Innovation: A Survey of Exhibition History at the Center for Book Arts, 1974–2004 / organized by Jae Jennifer Rossman, guest curator, April 15 through July 1, 2005.[35]
- "Doin' It in Public: Feminism and the Art of the Woman's Building," Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2011[36]
- Exploding the Codex: The Theater of the Book, San Francisco Center for the Book,[37] June 1 - August 31, 2012.
- "Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California," Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2017[38][39][40]
- Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books[41]
