Paper Souvenir http://papersouvenir.com Website of book artist Jessica Peterson. Broadsides, Binding, Letterpress, Postcards, Placecards, Civil Rights, Book Arts, Gordo, Alabama, Book Design, Printing Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:17:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Cocktails and printing http://papersouvenir.com/2012/01/cocktails-and-printing http://papersouvenir.com/2012/01/cocktails-and-printing#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:16:37 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=787 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 attend.…

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2012/01/cocktails-and-printing/feed 0 The Southern and The Movable Type Truck http://papersouvenir.com/2012/01/the-southern-and-the-movable-type-truck http://papersouvenir.com/2012/01/the-southern-and-the-movable-type-truck#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:11:52 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=785 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.

http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=15161

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2012/01/the-southern-and-the-movable-type-truck/feed 0 Etsy store now open http://papersouvenir.com/2011/12/etsy-store-now-open http://papersouvenir.com/2011/12/etsy-store-now-open#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:27:21 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=780 Please visit my new etsy store.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/PaperSouvenir?ref=ss_profile

It’ll be expanding in the next few weeks.

 

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/12/etsy-store-now-open/feed 0 Agents of Change, at The Corcoran http://papersouvenir.com/2011/10/agents-of-change-at-the-corcoran http://papersouvenir.com/2011/10/agents-of-change-at-the-corcoran#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:43:48 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=694 My book Habitat is included in an exhibition in The Corcoran in Washington DC.

http://www.corcoran.edu/exhibitions-events/view/upcoming/agents-change

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/10/agents-of-change-at-the-corcoran/feed 0 Ladies of Letterpress conference http://papersouvenir.com/2011/08/ladies-of-letterpress-conference http://papersouvenir.com/2011/08/ladies-of-letterpress-conference#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:29:47 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=688 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/

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/08/ladies-of-letterpress-conference/feed 0 Pamphlet in hand-set type: Twenty-two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Free Man http://papersouvenir.com/2011/08/pamphlet-in-hand-set-type-twenty-two-years-a-slave-and-forty-years-a-free-man http://papersouvenir.com/2011/08/pamphlet-in-hand-set-type-twenty-two-years-a-slave-and-forty-years-a-free-man#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:27:27 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=681 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.

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/08/pamphlet-in-hand-set-type-twenty-two-years-a-slave-and-forty-years-a-free-man/feed 0 Work in progress in Rochester at the Genesee Center for Arts http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/work-in-progress-in-rochester-at-the-genesee-center-for-arts http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/work-in-progress-in-rochester-at-the-genesee-center-for-arts#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:40:22 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=677 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/

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/work-in-progress-in-rochester-at-the-genesee-center-for-arts/feed 0 Crossroads Arts Alliance at The Kentuck Gallery in Northport, AL http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/crossroads-arts-alliance-at-the-kentuck-gallery-in-northport-al http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/crossroads-arts-alliance-at-the-kentuck-gallery-in-northport-al#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:32:40 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=672 Get on over to Kentuck to see my work and the work of other fabulous Gordo artists

Kentuck’s next Art Night, July 7 from 5pm to 9pm, opens a group show by the Crossroads Arts Alliance of Gordo, live music…

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/crossroads-arts-alliance-at-the-kentuck-gallery-in-northport-al/feed 0 A document of slavery in upstate New York. http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/twenty-two-years-a-slave-and-forty-years-a-freeman http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/twenty-two-years-a-slave-and-forty-years-a-freeman#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:01:43 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=663 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…

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/twenty-two-years-a-slave-and-forty-years-a-freeman/feed 0 What I am doing right now. http://papersouvenir.com/2011/06/what-i-am-doing-right-now http://papersouvenir.com/2011/06/what-i-am-doing-right-now#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:36:58 +0000 admin http://papersouvenir.com/?p=648

 

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,…

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