Ma’Cille’s Museum of Miscellanea, the book!

Ma’Cille’s Museum of Miscellanea
An incomplete catalog of the collection
Drawings by Glenn House, Sr.
Gordo, Alabama: Paper Souvenir Press, 2012.

This book is an attempt to catalog Ma’Cille’s Museum of Miscellanea…

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.

A document of slavery in upstate New York.

From July 27 to August 2, 2011 I will be an artist in residence at the Genesee Center for the Arts and Education.

During this time, I will be letterpress printing a limited edition pamphlet containing excerpts of chapter 11, Thought…

What I am doing right now.

I am going to be in Studio 150 for the rest of the summer, printing and binding my book entitled Ma’Cille’s Museum of Miscellanea. Above is photo of all the paper for the book,…

work from PBI 2011

I attended The Paper and Book Intensive in Oxbow, Michigan. In Andrea Dezsö’s class, I made four tunnel books in 4 days. Some of these will be on display at the Kentuck Gallery in Northport, Alabama in July.

Cause and Effect

This is an editioned artists’ book about how racial identity is formed through geography and history. It is an autobiographical story about the connections between a race riot in my hometown, my upbringing and my racial awareness. Cause and Effect is…

Ma’Cille’s Museum of Museum of Miscellanea

This artists’ book, which was researched, written and designed by Jessica Peterson, is a partial catalog of the collection of one woman’s museum of natural history, taxidermy and folk life, located on a rural back road near…