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.

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,…

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…

Ex-Slave

The contents of this book are from the Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Included are two narratives of former slaves, Amy Chapman and George Young, as well as the guidelines and interview questions provided by the Federal Writers’ Project to assist their staff with the interview process…

Habitat

Habitat is a letterpress printed artist book about the effects of Hurricane Katrina on Biloxi. I used image and personal narrative, as well as historical and scientific facts to evoke the emotional side effects of a natural disaster. Habitat is a thirteen-fold accordion structure, made entirely of handmade paper. Experimental papermaking techniques, such as pulp painting and collage, are used to enhance the content.

Wonder

Wonder follows the journey from Manhattan to the water front of Coney Island. The journey is a nostaglic one, celebrating Coney Island before the planned re-development.

Pamphlet, 6 folios. Letterpress printed with photopolymer type and image, and colographs. 4.25″ x5″.…