Alumni

Denise Carbone teaches the Book Arts: Concept and Structure and Book Methods classes at the University of the Arts and also many workshop on various binding structures both historical and conceptual as well as classes on preservation enclosures and unusual box structures. She is currently the book conservator at the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia, the first learned society founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. The books range from printed 15th century astrological, medical and religious text to 20th century manuscripts. Her background in printmaking and papermaking inform her investigation into the tactility and visual and mechanical ingenuity of books and paper. She takes interns on a regular basis, inspired by her mentor Hedi Kyle and her many other teachers to impart the knowledge she has learned in her seventeen years of study.

She has a studio in New Jersey where many unusual experiments happen. Lately her interests are in the alchemical concoctions of manuscript inks. The process is compulsive and requires taking risks, which result in unpredictable outcomes. Intrigued by the reactions and the unsuitability of the material, she looks forward to seeing change in twenty years. She also experiments with non-silver processes in combination with the book object and uses a Vandercook #3 letterpress for both experimental and traditional letterpress printing. She exhibits her work periodically; her books and prints are in a number of private and public collections.

Amanda D’Amico came to the program with a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied visual art and European history. Upon receiving her MFA, she took over the Imaging Labs at UArts and two years later became the head printer in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts where she works with students and artists from multiple disciplines. In 2009 she co-organized the Hybrid Book conference, an International book arts conference and fair held at UArts, to coincide with the MFA Book Arts Printmaking program's 20th anniversary. She has served as President of the Board of Philadelphia Center for the Book since 2010.

Website at: www.tinyrevolutionarypress.com

Brad Freeman is a photographer, offset printer, book artist, and the founder (in 1994) of JAB, the Journal of Artists’ Books. The mission of JAB is to raise the level of critical inquiry in artists’ books. JAB is now published at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago where Freeman is Studio Coordinator. The current issue is JAB29 (spring 2011). He has had numerous residencies including Visual Studies Workshop, Djerassi Foundation, Institute for Electronic Art, and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Recent exhibitions and book launches include Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and San Francisco Center for the Book. His work is held in many national and international collections. His recent artist’s books include Wrong Size Fits All (2010), Nether Wallop (2008), and CUBA, a collaboration with Johanna Drucker (2006). His current book project which he is offset printing at CBPA is titled Annotated Amusement Guide Magazine; it explores the idea of looking.

Websites:

http://www.bradfreemanbooks.com/

http://journalofartistsbooks.org/index.php

Jim Hinz is presently Director of Book Conservation at the Conservation Center of Art and Historical Artifacts in Philadelphia. He worked as a conservation intern at the American Philosophical Society in 1994, and as a conservation technician at CCAHA from 1996-1998. He was hired as a library conservator at the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware in 1998. He was appointed head of library conservation at Hagley in 2003, where he had overall responsibility for conservation and preservation, and he supervised a staff of technicians and volunteers. While there he co-curated and designed the exhibition Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture, which received a NEA American Masterpieces Grant in 2005 and toured nationally. He rejoined the staff of CCAHA in 2005. At CCAHA he has provided conservation treatment on rare books from the collections of Bryn Mawr College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, among others.

In addition to his work as a conservator, he is also a recognized fine artist; he was awarded the highly competitive Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2003. He is a Professional Associate member of AIC and is the Managing Editor of AIC’s The Book and Paper Group Annual. He lectures on book conservation and teaches workshops on book repair.

website at: http://blog.zsr.wfu.edu/pd/2008/07/28/conservators-toolkit/

Upon graduating from the program, Chad Johnson worked at the Conservation Center in Philadelphia as a book technician. After relocating to the Bay Area in 2000, he pursued a career in letterpress printing and bookbinding. He worked for a brief period with Richard Siebert and Peter Koch at Peter Koch’s studio as well as doing edition work at Emeryville’s Havilah Press. Additionally, he worked at UC Berkeley’s Conservation Department preparing for the move of the Bancroft Library’s rare book collection. Ultimately, he became the master printer at One Heart Press in San Francisco where he continues to run prepress and production. He has taught letterpress and bookbinding at multiple institutions including the San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco State University, Mills College and others. He has been the president of the Hand Bookbinders of California, has done design work for the American Printing History Association, and consults various institutions on the maintenance of their presses and equipment. He displays his own original work with local galleries and exhibits in national group shows. Additionally, he does typesetting work for the Guild of Bookworkers and freelance print and web design.

Website at: www.uninsane.com

After receiving his MFA, Matt Liddle remained in Philadelphia, working as the Typography Lab supervisor and teaching a book arts class at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1995, he moved to North Carolina to teach at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, where he is currently a Professor in the School of Art and Design and the studio coordinator for the printmaking and book arts area. From 2001-2005 he served as Head of the Art Department. During that period, the department underwent significant changes, including the construction of a new Fine and Performing Arts Center, the inauguration of the WCU Fine Art Museum, and the launching of an MFA program.

In addition to teaching, he continues to produce and exhibit his studio work, which is a mixture of prints, artist’s books and bookworks in a variety of media. His most recently exhibited work, in the show Courier at the University Art Museum in Albany, NY, deals with the typewriter as an image making tool and the materiality of print media. He is involved with the local book arts community centering around Asheville Bookworks, and serves as a co-director of the national Paper and Book Intensive.

Trained as a printmaker and book artist, Katie Murken coordinates site-specific installations that position her hand-made objects, books and drawings in relationship to diverse environments and audiences.  In 2011 she was awarded the Alumni Travel Grant from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists for a residency at the Babayan Culture House in Cappadocia, Turkey. In 2008 she was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship to support the Public Author Project and received a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship for a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York. She has shown her work regionally and nationally, including exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas; the School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University, Bloomington; The Print Center in Philadelphia; the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; and the 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Oregon.  Her work is included in the special collections of the Temple University Library in Philadelphia, PA, and the J. Edgar Louise S. Monroe Library in New Orleans, LA. She currently teaches Book Arts, Printmaking and 2D Foundations at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Besides her MFA from UArts, Maria G. Pisano has an MFA in Printmaking from Brooklyn College. She is the director of MGP Studio Arts. She had many exhibits including Maria Pisano: Books and Prints at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as part of the Book FOR(u)Ms Book Artists Series, where she also curated the exhibit Book Artists' Response to Death and Memory and delivered the accompanying lecture. Her artist’s book See Time Run: A Primer was shown in the 26th Print National Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and her Vita Defuncta was part of the Guild of Bookworkers 100th anniversary exhibit. Her works are in many collections including the Library of Congress, the University of Connecticut, University of Delaware, the New York Public Library, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been the recipient of a number of artist-in-residence awards and also received the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship. She has written articles in Bound and Lettered and other book arts publications. She has curated over twelve exhibits, including the The Elements: Creative Energy at the Hunterdon Museum of Art.

She teaches all aspects of book arts, papermaking, printing, bookbinding and conservation and is adjunct faculty at Rosemont College in PA and at Raritan Valley Community College in NJ. She has taught at Rutgers University Library School, Mason Gross and at the RCIPP, and given numerous workshops in book arts, printmaking and conservation at The Center for Book Arts in NY, Oklahoma Arts Institute, the Printmaking Council of NJ, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, at her studio, and other venues.

Website at: www.mariagpisano.com

Paul Trautwein lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a graphic and web designer. He is currently the Web Specialist at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles where he also teaches Computer Graphics, Web Design, and Photography.

Since leaving the University of the Arts, he has experimented with digital media, developing and learning about different web based programming, or as he likes to call them: Online Books. He has maintained a list of regular freelance clients and does web production for various graphic design companies.

He continues to take pictures and show his work in both digital and traditional galleries.

Website at: www.paultrautwein.com