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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

women artists, printmakers, hand bound books, traditional book

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

Within our local working art community there seems to be minorities. Women artists being one and Printmakers being another. By organizing a print exchange and having a exhibition including 25 women the hope was to work collaboratively and establish unity as women artists and printmakers. The participants were carefully chosen, with the help of my mentor Gary Barton, out of professional artists, faculty of the surrounding universities and MFA and BFA students from Brigham Young University and The University of Utah. The diversity of the participants resulted in a eclectic collection of prints for our exchange. To further individualize this project the exchange was letterpressed with text and hand bound into books which each of the participants received. The advantage of having the prints bound into books was to make the art more accesible as well as to make the exchange more unique. Each artist had the option to have a paragraph of text accompany their work which gives the viewer further insight into their work as well as tying the exchange to the traditional book form.

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