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Cocktails and printing
Yeah, so… I also like cocktails. When I first moved to NYC in 2001, I went to bartending school because I couldn’t find a job. Now, I use my skillz to represent at academic conferences that I otherwise couldn’t…
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The Southern and The Movable Type Truck
The amazing Kyle Durrie and her Movable Type Truck visited my printshop in Columbus Mississippi this week. It was an awesome event, full of students and letterpress lovers.
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Etsy store now open
Please visit my new etsy store.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/PaperSouvenir?ref=ss_profile
It’ll be expanding in the next few weeks.
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Agents of Change, at The Corcoran
My book Habitat is included in an exhibition in The Corcoran in Washington DC.
http://www.corcoran.edu/exhibitions-events/view/upcoming/agents-change
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Ladies of Letterpress conference
I will be speaking about my work at the most fabulous, first-ever Ladies of Letterpress conference, this weekend in Asheville, North Carolina.
http://www.loflcon.com/
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Pamphlet in hand-set type: Twenty-two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Free Man
This project was the result of a one week residency in Rochester NY at the Genesee Center for the Arts and Education, July 2011. See previous posts for more information.
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Work in progress in Rochester at the Genesee Center for Arts
Here are some images of the work from my residency at the Genesee Center for the Arts in Rochester NY. I’m setting the type for and printing a short excerpt of Austin Steward’s autobiography.
Press coverage:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011107230311
http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/events/choice/2011/07/ART-LITERATURE-Jessica-Peterson-Through-8-2/
