Jessica Spring

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]

Education

Spring has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.[4]

Career

Spring coined the term Daredevil Typesetting and has devised "furniture" to facilitate this process of setting type in curves and other forms.[5][6]

Since 2008 Spring has contributed to The Dead Feminists project, a series of hand-made broadsides produced in limited editions.[1][7] In 2016, the series was published in book form.[8][9]

Spring has been teaching at Pacific Lutheran University since 2004.

In 2014 received an AMOCAT Arts Award from the Tacoma Arts Commission.[10]

Her work is in the Massachusetts College of Art and Design,[11] the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)[12] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,[13] the Rhode Island School of Design Museum,[14] Rollins College,[15] University of California Berkeley,[16] and the University of Louisville,[17] among others.

Publications

• Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA. ISBN 978-1632170576[8]
• Ladies of Letterpress, Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated edition, 2015. ISBN 978-1616892739[2]

References

1. "Dead Feminists – Letterpress broadside series by Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring". Dead Feminists. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
2. "Ladies of Letterpress Homepage". Ladies of Letterpress. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
3. "Vouchered by Jessica Spring". Quarantine Public Library. 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
4. Carey, Brainard (June 21, 2018). "Jessica Spring". Interviews from Yale University Radio. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
5. "Springtide Press Daredevil". International Printing Museum. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
6. "Long Distance Letterpress: Daredevil Typesetting". June 29, 2024.
7. "Ep. 13 : Jessica Spring". Artists Book House. July 27, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
8. O'Leary, Chandler; Spring, Jessica (2016). Dead feminists : historic heroines in living color. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books. ISBN 978-1632170576.
9. "Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color". Microcosm Publishing. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
10. Lunka, Taylor (September 28, 2014). "Resident Artist, Jessica Spring, Wins Major Award From Tacoma Arts Commission". Pacific Lutheran University. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
11. "Honey B Hive by Jessica Spring | Artists' Books at MassArt". MassArt. March 16, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
12. "ANCHORED". NMWA Library & Research Center. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
13. "Curiousity Killed the Pussy". Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
14. Spring, Jessica (January 1, 2018). "Memory Lame". Artists' Books. Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
15. Spring, Jessica (January 1, 2019). "Xenagogy X". Rollins College Book Arts Collection. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
16. "Memory lame". Artstor. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
17. Blair, Trish. "Spring, Jessica: Home". UofL Libraries. Retrieved March 24, 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Jessica Spring - Twitter