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2021 Board of Directors Bios
Ruth Bardenstein received her MFA from Eastern Michigan University in Studio Art (Graphic Design and Installation). She has studied bookbinding, book arts and historical bindings with Daniel Kelm, Julia Miller, and other master teachers at PBI and Hollander's School of Book and Paper Arts. Her work includes installation, book art, collage, typography, assemblage and graphic drawings which explore the connections and relationships across scientific, mathematical and literary disciplines. Ruth's work has been exhibited both locally and nationally. She has taught Book Arts courses at EMU and has published research on the historical Samaritan manuscript bookbinding. Ruth also has a long career in management consulting and strategic planning through her Burns Park Consulting business practice. She has a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and a M.S. in Operations Research from MIT.
Tia Blassingame is a book artist and printmaker exploring the intersection of race, history, and perception. Blassingame often starts her artist's book projects with archival research and incorporates her own poetry for nuanced discussions of racism in the United States. She holds a B.A. in Architecture from Princeton University, M.A. in Book Arts from Corcoran College of Art + Design, and M.F.A. in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. Blassingame has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, the International Printing Center New York (IPCNY). Her artist's books and prints can be found in library and museum collections including Library of Congress, Yale University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cornell University, Swarthmore College, and State Library of Queensland. Blassingame is an Assistant Professor of Book Arts at Scripps College and serves as the Director of Scripps College Press.
Aaron Cohick is the proprietor of the NewLights Press, a small press focused on the intersection of experimental writing and artists’ publishing. He is also the Printer of The Press at Colorado College, a letterpress studio that creates an interdisciplinary space within the liberal arts curriculum. Aaron received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College (Painting, 2002) and his MFA from Arizona State University (Printmaking, 2007). Aaron's work is held in public and private collections all over the world, including the Library of Congress, the British Library, Yale University, the Letterform Archive, the Newberry Library, the Tate Britain Library, and the SFMOMA Library.
Amanda D'Amico is a book artist working under the imprint Tiny Revolutionary Press. She is the Master Printer at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, and teaches at the University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She serves on the boards of the Philadelphia Center for the Book and The Soapbox: Community Print Shop and Zine Library, is the Vice Chair of Meetings for the College Book Art Association, and is an artist member of the Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts. Her artist's books have been collected and exhibited nationally.
Sue Carrie Drummond is an Assistant Professor of Art at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS and received her MFA in book arts and printmaking at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Drummond was a recipient of the Artist's Book Residency Grant at WSW in 2017. She was a studio assistant for papermaking at Penland and the artist-in-residence at Minnesota Center for the Book Arts in 2015. She exhibits her work regularly and is included in several special collections.
Bridget Elmer is an artist living in Saint Petersburg, Florida. She is the co-founder of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA), co-owner of The Southern Letterpress, and founding member of Print St. Pete Community Letterpress. She received an MFA in the Book Arts and an MLIS from the University of Alabama and has taught at Colorado College, Florida State University, Ox-Bow School of Art, Penland School of Crafts, and Ringling College of Art and Design, where she served for seven years as Coordinator of the Letterpress and Book Arts Center and co-founded The Makerspace. Her work can be found internationally in collections including Yale University, Tate Britain, UCLA, and the Brooklyn Museum. Bridget currently serves as the President of the College Book Art Association.
AB Gorham is a book artist and writer from Montana and holds MFAs in Book Arts and Poetry from The University of Alabama. She is the Manager at Black Rock Press where she teaches book arts, letterpress, and papermaking in the Book and Publication Arts Program. Recently, Gorham edited a collaborative reading experience of Frank Stanford’s The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, published by Third Man Books. Her poems have been published in American Letters and Commentary, DIAGRAM, and Gulf Coast, among others.
Heather Green's projects and installations examine historical and ecological narratives of the Northern Gulf of California and Sonoran Desert. The collaborative nature of her work has allowed her to ally with a diverse range of individuals including scientists, poets and fishermen. Green is a recipient of the 2011 Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant, the 2010 Community Foundation of Southern Arizona/Buffalo Exchange Arts Award, and the Oregon College of Art & Craft Emerging Artist Residency in Book Arts. Her work has been shown in Spain, México, Uruguay, and in museums and galleries both regionally and across the United States. A native of Tucson, Heather currently works in Tempe as Assistant Professor of Book Arts at Arizona State University.
Virginia Green teaches graphic design, letterpress printing, and bookbinding at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She holds a BFA at The University of Texas at Arlington and MFA at the University of North Texas, both degrees in the area of Communication Design and Printmaking. She is the Principal and Creative Director for VGreen Design, a freelance design studio and BlackHare Studio, a letterpress, artist book, and fine art studio. Her creative passions include typography and letterpress printing, a medium that allows for custom graphic design and fine art editioned prints and artist books.
Caitlin Harris is a multidisciplinary artist, printer, and designer. Her work engages with political and social justice issues and utilizes printmaking as a tool for expression and interpretation. Cait is interested in community interactions that facilitate change through dialogue and collaboration. Cait has taught printmaking classes at the Oregon College of Art & Craft, Boise State University, and the Boise Art Museum. She is currently a Visual Arts MFA candidate at Boise State University.
Kyle Holland is a visual artist who was born and raised in Memphis, TN. His work draws on his experiences growing up in the South and examines his identity within the context of a masculine subculture. His work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, The Center for Book Arts, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, and UC Berkeley among others. Holland earned his BFA in fine arts with a concentration in printmaking from the Memphis College of Art in 2012. He received his MFA in book arts and printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2019. He has taught papermaking, printing, and book arts courses for the University of the Arts, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and numerous book art centers and studios in the United States. Holland is currently an instructor and studio manager for the MFA Book Arts Program at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Andrea Kohashi is a Teaching & Learning Librarian in Special Collections and Archives at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is interested in book art production, research, and scholarship and exploring innovative ways to engage with primary source materials. She currently serves as CBAA's Vice Chair of Membership and received her MFA in Book Art and MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa.
Emily Larned has been publishing as a socially engaged art practice since 1993, when as a teenager she made her first zine. She is co-founder of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA, est. 2008), a union for reflective creative practice, which to date has counted over 400 members in 37 states and 6 countries. Through her imprint Alter & Frankia (est. 2016), she publishes new collaborations and reissues of feminist archival material. Emily's award-winning artist books, zines, and publications are collected by over 70 institutions internationally and are exhibited around the world. Her work has received accolades form AIGA, the Type Directors Club, and the Connecticut Art Directors Club. She graduated from Yale School of Art with an MFA in Graphic Design and is currently Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Richard Minsky is an American scholar of bookbinding and a book artist. He is the founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City. In 1960, Minsky obtained his first printing press at the age of 13 to replace rubber stamps he had been using. In 1968, he graduated cum laude in economics from Brooklyn College. Minsky was awarded a fellowship at Brown University, where he received his master's degree in economics. He pursued a Ph.D. at The New School for Social Research, but left after two years to pursue bookbinding, art and music. He studied bookbinding in Providence, Rhode Island with master bookbinder Daniel Gibson Knowlton, whom he met at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library at Brown University.
Candida Pagan is an artist living and working in Iowa City, IA. By day, she is Project Conservator at the University of Iowa Libraries, adjunct faculty at the University of Iowa Center for the Book (UICB), and teaches workshops at the local community art center, Public Space One. She earned an MFA in Book Arts from UICB in 2015. Candida is a member of the Iowa Museums Archives and Libraries Emergency Response Team (IMALERT) and serves on the board of directors of the Iowa Conservation and Preservation Consortium (ICPC). She has served on the board of the College Book Art Association since 2016 and is chair of the Development Committee.
Jessica Peterson is a letterpress printer, book artist and teacher. She operates The Southern Letterpress in New Orleans’ lower Ninth Ward. Jessica holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999) and a MFA from the Book Arts Program at University of Alabama (2009). Her artists’ books are collected in private and public libraries around the country. She currently teaches letterpress printing and graphic design at Tulane University.
Suzanne Powney is an associate professor for the BFA Program in Graphic Design at Mississippi State University. Since 2005, Powney has printed and produced artist books, prints and broadsides under the name BlackDog Letterpress. Her work uses color, texture and pattern to create a tactile experience for the viewer that are researched in the history of architecture, art and design. Her work can be found in dozens of libraries and private collections in the United States and abroad, including Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University and The Yale Arts Library.
Sara Rieger is a writer, artist, and book artist living in Iowa. Rieger is interested in the concept of play and how games and nonsense contribute to creativity and the artist's process. She makes autobiographical artists books. Rieger has taught classes in public schools, college, and in art museums for students ranging in age from 5-85. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book.
Lisa Beth Robinson is Somnambulist Tango Press, making artists books, fine art, chapbooks, and broadsides. Media include handmade paper, letterpress printing, linoleum carving, and fused glass. Robinson’s research presents Colony Collapse Disorder as the metaphor for global sociopolitical acts. Her ongoing collaboration with sculptor Kristin Thielking examines ocean health/conservation, wave science, and shipwrecks as a reflection of the human condition. She is interested in the interconnectedness of things, particularly with regard to the environment. Robinson, an associate professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, is a member of the Catching a Wave collective. Recently, her work has been purchased by institutions such as Emory University and the New York Public Library and exhibited at Science Gallery Dublin (Ireland), the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (GA), and she recently presented with Thielking at the Glass Art Society conference (FL) and the Art in the Anthropocene conference (Dublin, Ireland).
Amy Thompson is an Assistant Librarian and the Designer for the Book Arts Program and Red Butte Press. She is also the proprietor of Paper Boat Studios. She holds a BS in Studio Art & Biology from Willamette University and an MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis. Amy has taught book arts, typography, bookbinding, printmaking, painting, and a breadth of design courses at the college level. Amy has won multiple awards, has exhibited widely, and her work is held in multiple institutional collections.
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