Members
Aimee Lee
Artist, papermaker, writer, and the leading hanji researcher and practitioner in North America.
Ashley Hairston Doughty
Visual storyteller, explaining personal experiences through verbal and visual language.
Akua Hope
Papermaker and creator who uses sound, words, fiber, glass, metal, and wire to create poems, patterns, stories, music.
Ben Blount
Detroit born graphic designer and letterpress printer that loves books, type, and putting ink on paper.
Alisa Banks
Visual artist who creates sculptural books, textile collage, and mixed-media work to address identity politics.
Colette Fu
Photographer and pop-up paper engineer whose books overlap boundaries between people, the book, installation, photography, craft, and sculpture.
Allison Leialoha Milham
Book artist, musician and proprietor of Morning Hour Press whose work is influenced by indigenous social movements in Hawai‘i.
Colette Gaiter
A multimedia artist and writer who makes artist books and digital projects, and writes about artists and activism.
Curtis Small, Jr.
Special Collections librarian interested in African American literature, book history and print culture.
Irene Chan
Multidisciplinary artist who works conceptually in print media, papermaking, installation, storytelling performance, and book arts.
Daniel Minter
Artist exploring displacement and diaspora, ordinary/extraordinary blackness; spirituality in the Afro-Atlantic world; and the (re)creation of meanings of home.
Islam Aly
Artist, teacher, and researcher exploring the possibilities of historical bindings in contemporary book art practice.
Janelle Washington
Paper cut artist from Virginia who explores history, identity, family, and beauty of African-American culture using paper as her medium.
Hong Hong
Interdisciplinary artist whose practice sits at the intersection between craft, painting, performance, and earthwork.
Jenn Graves
Letterpress printer, book artist, and instructor.
Jennifer Mack-Watkins
Printmaker and educator whose work examines how society defines femininity based on a pre-defined pattern.
Kellee Elizabeth Warren
Singer/songwriter, educator and Special Collections Instruction Librarian.
Jerushia Graham
Papermaker, printmaker, book artist, and fiber artist based in Atlanta, GA.
Kinohi Nishikawa
Scholar with a special interest in Black print culture, Black book design, and Black printmaking and book arts.
Jesse Erickson
Scholar-librarian researching ethnobibliography, African American publishing and printing, and American Ouidiana.
Krista Franklin
Writer and visual artist, author of Too Much Midnight, the artist book Under the Knife, and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body.
Jose Guerrero
Librarian based in northern California. His research is on the relocation of the private libraries of Latin American intellectuals to U.S. institutions.
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator whose work is informed by a commitment to craft and to community, engagement with society, and interests in storytelling and cultural geography.
Melissa Blount
Licensed clinical psychologist, writer, and artist working with textiles to examine
Radha Pandey
Book artist, papermaker and letterpress printer based in India & Norway.
Myron M. Beasley
Scholar, curator and performance artist exploring the intersection of cultural politics, art, and social change.
Rejin Leys
Mixed media artist and papermaker based in New York.
Nabil Gonzalez
Studio artist whose works have been focused on social and political views affecting the borderland area of the United States and Mexico.
Rob Montoya
Educator, author focused on classification theory, philosophy of information, documentation studies, book history.
Robyn Phillips-Pendleton
Visual storyteller, designer, and educator.
Sun Young Kang
Book and installation artist who uses paper to create physical or metaphorical spaces ranging from large installations to small books.
Shu-Ju Wang
Painter, installation and book artist.
Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty
University librarian and scholar of medieval manuscripts, collective memory, and historical trauma, artists’ books, book arts, and paper-making.
Skye Tafoya
Indigenous artist working in printmaking and book arts whose tribal heritage and lineage are significant components within her work.
Tia Blassingame (Founder)
Book artist, printmaker, educator, and proprietor of Primrose Press.
Steph Rue
Artist and papermaker, working primarily with paper and books as her medium.
Tiffany E. Barber
Scholar, curator, and critic of twentieth and twenty-first century visual art, new media, and performance.