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 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 attend.…

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2012/01/cocktails-and-printing 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.

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

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2012/01/the-southern-and-the-movable-type-truck 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.

 

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/12/etsy-store-now-open 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

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/10/agents-of-change-at-the-corcoran 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/

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/08/ladies-of-letterpress-conference 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.

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/08/pamphlet-in-hand-set-type-twenty-two-years-a-slave-and-forty-years-a-free-man 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/

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/work-in-progress-in-rochester-at-the-genesee-center-for-arts Crossroads Arts Alliance at The Kentuck Gallery in Northport, AL 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 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…

]]> http://papersouvenir.com/2011/07/twenty-two-years-a-slave-and-forty-years-a-freeman 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,…

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