EXHIBITIONS
PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
RESIDENCIES & INTERNSHIPS
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Trivium, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY.
2021
Visual Evidence, Murray Art Guild, Murray, KY.
2020
Passwords at the Farm/Art DTour, Fermentation Fest, Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI.
2018
Book As Art: Flight Edition, Hartfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, GA.
2017
Fermented Words, Fermentation Fest, Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI.
Artists’ Book Cornucopia VIII, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO.
Weisman Award Winners Exhibition, Hokin Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, IL.
Constellations, Woolen Mill Gallery, Reedsburg, WI.
Lit: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Center for Book, Paper, and Print, Columbia College Chicago, IL.
2016
Weisman Award Winners Exhibition, Hokin Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, IL.
Texposition, C33 Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, IL.
Words | Matter, Arts on Elston Gallery, Chicago, IL.
20/20 Vision, San Francisco Center for the Book, CA.
Ink, Press, Repeat, William Paterson University, NJ.
Wanderlust, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR.
TheSis[ter] Show II, The Galley at CBPP, Chicago, IL.
Longitude, Latitude, Elevation, Focus on Book Arts, Forest Grove, OR.
Luminarts Finalist Exhibition, Union League Club, Chicago, IL.
Pulp, Ink, Thread, C33 Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, IL.
3 Projects, Faculty Center, Columbia College Chicago, IL.
Contemporary Book Arts, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH.
Knots/Not Knots, Solo installation at the Conaway Center, Columbia College Chicago, IL.
2015
Book Arts Preview Exhibition, Geisel Library, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH.
Words | Matter, Arts on Elston Gallery, Chicago, IL.
The Book As Art 3.0: No Jacket Required, Decatur Arts Alliance, Decatur, GA.
Mit de Data, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
TheSis[ter] Show, The Galley at CBPP, Chicago, IL.
Elevate, Columbia College Chicago elevator installation series, Chicago, IL.
The 11th Annual February Gala, The Galley at CBPP, Chicago, IL.
2014
New Works, The Galley at CBPP, Chicago, IL.
San Diego Book Arts 5th National Juried Exhibition, UCSD Geisel Library, San Diego, CA.
Artists’ Book Cornucopia V, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO.
Third Factory Closing Show, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY.
2013
The Book As Art: 21st Century Meets Tradition, Decatur Arts Alliance, Decatur, GA.
Feast! 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR.
Book As Art, Cooperative Gallery 213, Binghamton, NY.
2010
Faces On Fourth Street, installation on 4th Street, San Rafael, CA.
2007
whereabOuts: Music and Space, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
ARTIST'S BOOKS
2023
Ornithography
2019
Understanding Molecular Typography
Tiny Ideas #1: Some Definitions of Vegetables
Tiny Ideas #2: The Job
Tiny Ideas #3: Grocery Store Conversations
Tiny Ideas #4: Characters
Tiny Ideas #5: Hedge Funds
Tiny Ideas #6: Letters
2018
Bacon/Goyische Socks
2017
Words & Vegetables
2016
500,000 Seconds
Parsely
States I Have...
2015
To Criticize
Courier's Text Atlas of the United States Digital (Ugly Duckling Presse)
States United
A
Understanding Molecular Typography by H.F. Henderson
2014
Moon
One Minute
A Brief History of Underwear
Further Inspirations of the Interrobang
Keys
A Brief Guide to the Accurate & Responsible Celebration of Half-Birthdays
2013
Glat Azoy (Setting of an M.L. Halpern poem in Yiddish & English for Outside/In)
Fox Stories (with Malina Leslie)
Open & Closed: A Linguistic Approach to Vegetables
Courier’s Text Atlas of The United States of America
2012
Game, Set, Match
We All Change
Texts I Would Have Sent Malina
AMP / MAP / PAM (with Malina Leslie)
A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll (Commission book project for Roman Mars of 99% Invisible.)
2011
The Adventures of Super Café Douche Bag Man
A Year In Sandwiches
2010
The Leslie Family Dictionary (with Averill & Malina Leslie)
2008
Transcontinental Snailway
One Page Productions (2008-2012):
All Shook Up
At Nilanjana’s [Cooking Poems]
Banana Porn
The Baker’s Half-Dozen Blues
Blue Telephone with a Red Cord
Henderson’s Concise Illustrated English Dictionary
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
Recipes for Disaster
Tiny Stories
Tinier Stories
Tiniest Stories
The Ukulele Pocket Chord Companion
Why I Hate Cooking for Myself All the Time
You’re In the Top 15 Baby!
ARTICLES & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
"Door Book." A physical book which compiles conceptual books by various artists. Partial Press, 2022.
"Characters" Red Butte Press blog, January 2020.
"Future Farm Manifesto" Fermentation Fest Event Guide, The Wormfarm Institute, August 2018.
“Eggslicer.” Journal of Artists’ Books. Cover of issue 40, Fall 2016.
“WordBlocks.” Found Poetry Review. April, 2016.
"Bridging the Gap: Artist's Books & Design Bindings by Karen Hanmer." JAB. Issue 39, Spring 2016.
"Interview with Michael Kasper." Journal of Artists’ Books. Issue 38, Fall 2015.
"Books Received." Journal of Artists’ Books. Issue 38, Fall 2015.
"Documenting Documenting." Journal of Artists’ Books. Issue 37, Spring 2015.
"Books Received." Journal of Artists’ Books. Issue 37, Spring 2015.
"Sab se Acche Jivan." Varispeed blog, September 30, 2011.
AWARDS
2017
Holle Award for Excellence in Creative Transformation, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Luminarts Fellow Award, Chicago, IL.
Albert P. Weisman Award, Columbia College Chicago.
2016
Luminarts Fellow Award, Chicago, IL.
Albert P. Weisman Award, Columbia College Chicago.
2015
Lya Dym Rosenblum Award, Columbia College Chicago
College Book Arts Association National Travel Grant
The Book As Art 3.0, Honorable mention award
2014
Founders Fellowship, Columbia College Chicago
Nell Meldahl Scholarship, Paper & Book Intensive, Oxbow, MI
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Baylor University, Waco, TX
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Clapp Library, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Daniel Burke Library, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University, New York, NY
Fleet Library Artists’ Book Collection, Rhode Island School Design, Providence, RI
Gorgas Library, University of Alabama, Tuscalossa, AL
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
John Peace Library, UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Kenyon College Library, Gambier, OH
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
Monmouth University, Long Branch, NJ
National Museum of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Oberlin Fine Arts Library, Oberlin, OH
Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
Paper Machine Artist Book Collection, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Paul M. Scott Library, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY
Robert B. Haas Family Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnia University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Robert Frost Library, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Seeley G. Mudd Library, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Sherman Art Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Sojourner Truth Library at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Tisch Library, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
University of California Los Angeles, Fine Art Library, Los Angeles, CA
University of Denver Library, Denver, CO
University of Iowa Library Special Collections, Iowa City, IA
University of Oregon Library, Eugene, OR
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
University of Rochester Library, Rochester, NY
University of Washington Library, Seattle, WA
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Wells College Book Arts Center, Aurora, NY
Wesleyan University Olin Library, Special Collections & Archives, Middletown, CT
Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
RESIDENCIES & INTERNSHIPS
2017
The Wormfarm Institute residency, Reedsburg, WI.
2016
Wells College Summer Book Art Institute intern, Aurora, NY
2015
Wells College Summer Book Art Institute intern, Aurora, NY
2014
Third Factory Artist-in-residence, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Ugly Duckling Presse intern, Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
MFA Columbia College Chicago, Interdisciplinary Book & Paper, Chicago, IL
BA Wesleyan University, Music, Middletown, CT.
TEACHING & SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 – Present
Studio Tech / Instructor, Murray State University, Murray, KY
2015 – 2016
Instructor "Beginning Bookbinding," Columbia College Chicago
Curator, The Galley, student gallery space at Columbia College Chicago
2014 – 2016
Print Production Fellow, Journal of Artists’ Books, Chicago, IL
2014
Production manager, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY
2011-2014
Freelance workshop instructor, at various venues including the Brooklyn Brainery, NY Public Library, and the Brooklyn Museum.
2008-2014
Founder and operator, One Page Productions.
2007-16
Workshop faculty, the Governor’s Institute on the Arts, Castleton, VT