Split Case Artist's Book by Shift-Lab
This piece is currently featured in MCBA’s Main Gallery as part of the exhibition “Shift-Lab: Ten Years of Collaboration”, and is featured in a special issue of The Fore Edge (March 2024), a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“Split case was collaboratively printed by Denise Bookwalter, Sarah Bryant, and Macy Chadwick during a Shift-lab residency at Hamilton WoodType and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Produced using type and maple rounds available in the collection and colors found in the immediate surroundings. A response to the museum, its purpose, and the intersecting interests of three artists. Bound by Sarah Bryant and Katie Baldwin on Thanksgiving day in Huntsville, Alabama. Letterpress-printed from wood type, metal type, and uncut maple on Zerkall book paper. Sewn into a translucent Pergamenta cover.”
13” x 14”
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Shift-lab is a collective of five artists who expand their studio practices to collaborate on artist books and multiples. Shift-lab is Katie Baldwin (Huntsville, AL); Denise Bookwalter (Tallahassee, FL); Sarah Bryant (Tuscaloosa, AL); Macy Chadwick (Petaluma, CA); and Tricia Treacy (Lebanon, NH). These women work from across the US to expand dialogue through exhibitions and projects investigating narrative, communication, and the book. Shift-lab continues to study the shift in contemporary perspectives relating to studio practice, collaboration, and both digital & analog experiences.
