Covid-19 Exchange
2020
This exchange was held between members of the chapter. Each created a piece using the
Covid-19 Pandemic as the theme. Participants created small posters, postcards and artists books.
In an exchange each participant receives an edition.
Artist
Bonnie Thompson Norman
Title
Title 1: Leonard Cohen and Anne Frank and the Windowpane Press 2017
Title 2: Black Lives Matter
Description
Dimensions: 8 x 6 inches
Structure: Broadside
Reproduction techniques: Letterpress printed with interlinear narratives in black and gold inks
Dimensions: 8.25 x 7.25 inches
Structure: Broadside
Reproduction techniques: Collage of newspaper/magazine text digitally printed
Artist
Elsi Vassdal Ellis
Title
Yohaku Not
Description
Dimensions: 3.75 x 8.38 inches (closed)
Structure: Oblong letter fold booklet with bellyband
Reproduction techniques: Letterpress printed bellyband in the form of a pleated mask on tissue paper with pattern and hand set lead type for title; narrative printed front and back on letter fold with two panels left for recipient to record thoughts about Covid-19 and how they filled their space.
Artist
Jessica Spring
Title
Title 1: The secret of our success is that we never, never give up. Chief Wilma Mankiller
Title 2: None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
Title 3: KNOW JUSTICE KNOW PEACE
Title 4: I MISS U
Description
Dimensions: 4 x 6 in (2); 4.25 x 5 in (2)
Structure: Postcards
Reproduction techniques: Letterpress in two colors on various cover weight papers.
Artist
Karen Hanmer
Title
Covid Journal
Description
Dimensions: 5.875 x 4.875 in (closed)
Structure: Pamphlet
Reproduction techniques: Digitally printed cover of bookbinding tools; text block of 70# text; hand sewn pamphlet stitch.
Artist
Laura Russell
Title
Also Highly Contagious Is:
Description
Dimensions: 5.25 x 5.25 inches (closed)
Structure: Folder with pocket to hold cross-flexagon; handmade envelope
Reproduction techniques: Digital printing on two sheets of 65# cover stock; sheets cut in half, folded, and glued at corners.
Artist
Mel Hewitt
Title
Breaking
Description
Dimensions: 6 x 4 inches (closed)
Structure: Singer sewn style binding; crepe paper dust cover with window on front cover revealing title.
Reproduction techniques: Hand cut and folded back cover window; matching hand cut window on first page of text block; narrative printed blind and punching into paper using Goudy Medium 14 point.
Artist
Paula Jull
Title
Title 1: Riding the waves, afloat together
Title 2: Thank You
Description
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (closed)
Structure: Four-page short fold with open edge at head; bellyband of marbled paper suggesting moving water
Reproduction techniques: Letterpress card; interior features an engraved illustration of an ocean wave in blue and narrative in black referencing impact of Covid-19.
Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 inches
Structure: Broadside
Reproduction techniques: Letterpress printed using wood type and ornaments in three colors.