{"id":8998,"date":"2017-01-18T08:31:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2017-01-18T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:31:08","slug":"30-years-of-bookmaking-at-bloodroot-press-march-8th-6pm-library-rm-020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/30-years-of-bookmaking-at-bloodroot-press-march-8th-6pm-library-rm-020\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Bookmaking at Bloodroot Press, March 8th, 5:30-6pm coffee\/conversation, 6pm presentation, Library 020"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jean<\/a>

Jean’s two one-of-a-kind books from “Webster\u2019s Pictorial Suite”, and “I Was on My Way up the Stairs to See You”<\/p><\/div>\n

Wednesday, March 8, 2017<\/strong>
\n University of Puget Sound
\n<\/strong>Presentation in Library room 020.<\/em>
\n5:30 \u2013<\/em> 6:00:\u00a0 Coffee and Conversation<\/em>
\n6:00 \u2013 7:00: Presentation<\/em><\/p>\n

How does one sustain a lifetime of studio practice? Jean will talk about where she gets ideas and how she has incorporated them into her limited edition letterpress and one-of-a-kind artists\u2019 books over the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

Jean Buescher Bartlett <\/strong>is the founder and owner of Bloodroot Press, an Ann Arbor-based studio and bindery. For the past 30 years Jean has published and produced a range of limited edition, letterpress printed, illustrated books, including The Day the World Began <\/em>by Fay Weldon, Porch Swing <\/em>by Alison Swan, and An Alphabet Book <\/em>that contains 26 original gouache paintings. She hand bound the 175 copy deluxe edition of Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon: Stories of Pork Bellies, Hush Puppies, Rock ‘n’ Roll Music<\/em> and Bacon Fat Mayonnaise <\/em>by Ari Weinzweig.<\/p>\n

Jean has actively exhibited her work in the United States and Europe since 1981. It is housed in major collections worldwide, including the Hoole Library Book Arts Collection at the University of Alabama, the New York Public Library, Dutch Royal Library, Stanford University Special Collections, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. The University of Michigan Special Collections has a complete collection of all of the books and broadsides produced by Bloodroot Press. A full catalogue of Jean\u2019s work and activities can be found at her website: www.bloodrootpress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, Jean has been teaching Book Arts and the History of Modern Design at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit since 2006. When Jean is not working you can find her reading, gardening, rummaging through a thrift store, or watching movies with her husband, Tom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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