BOOKS + CHAPTERS

2017

Monograph Essay. Lines of Force: The Hand, The Book, & the Body Electric. CODE(X)+1, Monograph Number 14, published by The CODEX Foundation.

2011 

Chapter. “Handwork and Hybrids: Contemporary Book Art,” in Extra/ordinary: Craft Culture and Contemporary Art, ed. Maria Elena Buszek. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

2005

Book. No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America, 1960 to 1980. New York: Granary Books. The first comprehensive history of book art in America.

Monograph Essay. “To Have and To Hold: Why We Need Book Art,” in ABC: The Artists’ Books Conference at Wellesley College, the jenny-press, New Haven, CT.

ESSAYS + ARTICLES

2021

Catalogue Essay. For Reclamation: Artists’ Books on the Environment, in conjunction with a juried exhibition for San Francisco Center for the Book, with a concurrent showing site at San Francisco Public Library.

Essays. For Materialia Lumina, to be published by Stanford University and The Codex Foundation in 2021. Essays on five artists and one artist collective, as well as discussions of their books shown at CODEX Book Fairs, that were purchased by Stanford University Special Collections Library. 

2020

Essay. “MCBA Prize 2020: Traverse the Starry Vault,” to be published in The CODEX Papers, Volume Three, in 2021. Written on the occasion of jurying the sixth MCBA Prize, which also celebrates MCBA’s 35th anniversary.

Catalogue Essay. “Plumb Bob,” in Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection, ed. Laura Wertheim Joseph, Weisman Art Museum.

2015

Article. “StoreHouse,” profile of Claire Van Vliet, featuring her work with paper, in American Craft 75:6 (December/January 2016): 64-71.

Catalogue Essay. “Risk and Resilience: Works by Sas Colby, Betsy Davids & Jaime Robles,” in Sisters of Invention: Forty-five Years of Book Art by Sas Colby, Betsy Davids and Jaime Robles, San Francisco Center for the Book.

2012 

Catalogue Essay. “Letterpress in the Second Millennium,” in the catalogue Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Keynote Lecture. “History as Fable, Helix and Aperture,” from APHA conference in 2010, published in Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association (New Series Number Eleven, January 2012): 3-29.

2011 

Essay. “From Feast to Fault Lines: Charting the Territories of Doug Beube’s Bookworks,” in Doug Beube: Breaking the Codex, Bookwork, Collage and Mixed Media (New York). 

2010 

Monograph Essay. “Break-through (Resoluteness): Work by Robin Price,” in Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artist’s Books by Robin Price, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. 

2007 

Essay. “Page by Page: The Art of Gaylord Schanilec,” in brochure to accompany exhibition at James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota. 

2004 

Essay. “The Press at Colorado College,” in the catalogue, The Press at Colorado College: The Pressroom as Classroom, Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

1993 

Essay. “Dialogue: Alchemy of the Word,” catalogue essay on work in a two-person show by Harriet Bart of Minneapolis and Helmut Löhr of Dusseldorf. 

1992

Essay. “Beyond the Illuminated Manuscript: An In-Depth Look at Work by Calligraphic Book Artists Leavitt and Moore,” in Calligraphy Review magazine.

1990

Essay. “Writer as Book Artist: Risk in Three Dimensions,” in The Loft Writers Center newsletter.

Essay. “Artists’ Books: Art’s Least Fragile Vehicle,” in Art Papers, May Issue, Atlanta.  

BOOK + EXHIBITION REVIEWS

2007 

Review. Fine printer Paulette Myers-Rich’s book, Ghost Poems for the Living, in Parenthesis journal. 

2002 

Review. Fine printer Robin Price’s books, in Parenthesis journal. 

Review. Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation, eds. Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton, in SHARP News, the publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.

1993 

Review. William S. Peterson’s The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure, for Publishing Research Quarterly.

1992 

Review. “Book Arts in the USA: A VHS Video Catalog,” in Hand Papermaking magazine.

ARTIST INTERVIEWS

2008 

Interview. Artist Betsy Davids at the University of Arizona-Tucson, to mark the founding the College Book Art Association. 

2006

Interview. Conducted by Patrick Masterson at the University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, taped during a Book Arts Educators Meeting, discussing the writing of No Longer Innocent: Book Arts in America, 1960 – 1980.