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Jessica Spring is an American letterpress printer and book artist known for her work with ''Dead Feminists'' and ''Ladies of Letterpress''. Spring is the owner of Springtide Press in
Tacoma, Washington Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, southwest of Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue, northeast of the state capital, Olympia ...
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Education

Spring has an MFA from
Columbia College Chicago Columbia College Chicago is a Private college, private art college in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1890, it has 6,493 students (as of fall 2021) pursuing degrees in more than 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It i ...
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Career

Spring coined the term ''Daredevil Typesetting'' and has devised "furniture" to facilitate this process of setting type in curves and other forms. Since 2008 Spring has contributed to ''The Dead Feminists'' project, a series of hand-made broadsides produced in limited editions. In 2016, the series was published in book form. Spring has been teaching at
Pacific Lutheran University Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) is a Private university, private Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran university in Parkland, Washington. It was founded by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants in 1890. PLU is sponsored by the 580 congreg ...
since 2004. In 2014 received an AMOCAT Arts Award from the Tacoma Arts Commission. Her work is in the
Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation's oldest art schools, and the only publicly funded independent art sch ...
, the
National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openi ...
(NMWA) the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art gallery, art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of A ...
, the
Rhode Island School of Design Museum The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum) is an art museum integrated with the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island, US. The museum was co-founded with the school in 1877. It is the 20th-largest art m ...
,
Rollins College Rollins College is a Liberal arts college, private liberal arts college in Winter Park, Florida. It was founded in November 1885 and has about 30 undergraduate majors and several master's programs. Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institut ...
,
University of California Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley ...
, and the
University of Louisville The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university, public research university in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. Chartered in 1798 as the Jefferson Seminary, it became in the 19t ...
, among others.


Publications

* ''Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color'', Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA. * ''Ladies of Letterpress,'' Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated edition, 2015.


References


External links


Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spring, Jessica Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American women book artists 20th-century American women artists Columbia College Chicago alumni Pacific Lutheran University faculty 21st-century American women educators 21st-century American educators Letterpress printmakers Artists from Washington (state) People from Tacoma, Washington