Emily McVarish (born 1965) is an American writer, designer, book artist and professor at

California College of the Arts The California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996, it opened a second campus in ...

. She lives and works in San Francisco and her work primarily takes the form of books.

Career

McVarish's books are die-cut, handset, printed, and bound. Her book ''Quickstead'' was selected as the Alastair Johnston Award Winner in 2014. Clifton Meador says "she uses the form of the book to explore things that cannot be explored any other way". Her work is held by the

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

's artist's book collection,

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of between 170 and 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit li ...

's American Collections and

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's Printing and Graphic Arts Collection. Her work has been exhibited at

Lesley University Lesley University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1909 to educate teachers. Originally founded as a women's college, male students were admitted beginning in 2005. History 1909–1998 Th ...

in Cambridge the

Center for Book Arts Center for Book Arts (CBA) is a non-profit arts organization, founded in 1974. It is the first organization of its kind in the United States dedicated to contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object while preserving traditional prac ...

in New York, and the San Francisco Public Library

Bibliography

* ''Graphic Design History'', with

Johanna Drucker Johanna Drucker (born May 30, 1952) is an American author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital art a ...

, Pearson, 2012. * ''MySearchLab'', with

, Pearson, 2012. * ''Quickstead,'' Granary Books, 2011–2013. Edition of 45 * ''A Thousand Several'' ,Granary Books, 2011 * ''The Square,'' Granary Books, 2009 * ''Was Here,'' Granary Books, 2001 * ''From the air'' E. McVarish, 2000 * ''At the wheel'' ,Granary Books, 1997 * ''Felicity,'' Letterpress, 1993. Edition of 50.

References

External links

Emily McVarish's ''S'' (2005) on YouTube
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