San Francisco Center for the Book

Rhiannon Alpers, a new transplant to the bay area, has an MFA in Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Book Arts from UCSB. She has taught workshops at Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, Paper Source stores in Chicago and San Francisco, and Santa Reparata in Florence Italy. She is a papermaker, letterpress printer and book artist. For more information visit rhiannonalpers.com

Nicole Andersen Martin began her training in bookbinding at Mills College with Julie Chen, and then studied French design binding with Eleanore Ramsey. She owns and operates a bindery where she produces custom-bound books, albums, portfolios and boxes for a varied clientele.

You can see some of Nicole's work on her website.

You can see Julie's work on her web site.

Dyana Curreri-Ermatinger, the Executive Director of SFCB, has over 28 years experience as an administrator, educator, curator, grantwriter and consultant. In addition to providing strategic planning and grantwriting support for independent artists and artist run organizations, she has directed museums and galleries in California, Pennsylvania and Washington State. She received a BA in Fine Art and Related Technologies and an MA Fine Art from California State University, Sacramento. She has been a Kellogg Foundation Fellow. Additional relevant training includes a certificate in Arts Administration and Management- UC, Berkeley and related course work: JFK University/Western Museum Conference Institute Strategic Planning for Non-Profits; Museum Management Institute, Berkeley, CA- J.P. Getty Leadership Institute; The Grantsmanship Center Los Angeles, CA- Grantsmanship Training Program.

Lara Durback writes and prints. She is the Book Art studio manager at Mills College, and is a contributing editor to www.deepoakland.org.

Carrie has driven around 47 of the 50 States, sailed across the Pacific Ocean, taught sailing in Hawaii, studied art in Poland and traveled by bus and train throughout the UK, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey.

Her work combines her passion for history and archeology with her interest in memory - collective and personal. She uses writing, drawing, lithography, screenprinting and photography in creating her prints and artists' books. Her works belong to such collections as the Tate Britain, Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, the Bancroft Library and the Columbia University Book Arts Collection, among others. She publishes her books under the imprint of Ketone Press.

c.j. grossman, MFA California College of Arts and Crafts, teaches mixed media and book-arts classes to adults and children. She exhibits her books and mixed media works nationally. She is former editor of Kids Making Books.

Paul Johnson is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in developing literacy through the book arts and as a book and paper artist. Author of A Book of One's Own, Literacy Through the Book Arts, and Words and Pictures Together, he ran the Book Art Project from Manchester Metropolitan University from 1986 to 1997. His work is in the collections of the Cooper-Hewett Museum in New York, the National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the University of California at Berkeley and Yale University, among other institutions. He exhibits widely and is on the UK Craft Council's select list of British craftspeople.

Tina Kay has followed the rise in popularity of altered books, visual journals, collage and assemblage since 1998. She has an AS in Graphic Design from the Southeast Center for Photographic Technology.

Mike Magee is a long time lover of old technologies and machines, and he began applying that mechanical perspective to letterpress printing in 2004. Running Playland Press with his wife, Christina, they deal exclusively in handset type. Mike is continuously looking for new and innovative ways to push the boundaries of that restrictive medium by creating innovative custom lockup techniques that allow him to bridge this near-obsolete technology and a modern sensibility. Examples of Mike and Christina's work can be found at www.playlandpress.com.

Leigh McLellan has been printing letterpress since 1974. Her work is widely exhibited and collected by many libraries and individuals. She has taught letterpress printing, bookbinding, decorated papers and typography at Mills College, CCAC and elsewhere.

You can see some of Leigh's work on her website.

Lisa Rappoport publishes poetry broadsides and artists' books under the imprint Littoral Press. Since 1998 she has produced a series of broadsides by the poets who teach at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers; she has also printed poetry broadsides for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books, Lyric Poetry Review, and many others (last but not least, the Poets Pulling Prints series of the SFCB). Her poetry has appeared in Five Fingers Review, Literal Latte, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 1998 Icarus Poetry Competition and the recipient of a poetry residency at Centrum. Lisa has taught at the New College in San Francisco, at a middle school in Lafayette, and in her own studio. Her work has been displayed nationally and is in collections throughout the U.S.  You can visit her website at http://littoralpress.com

Dominic Riley learned bookbinding at age 16 from Benedictine monks and at the London College of Printing. He spent the last 10 years in San Francisco teaching, lecturing and restoring rare books. He now has a bindery with Michael Burke in England's Lake District and serves as vice chairman of the Society of Bookbinders.

Andrew Rottner received a BFA from Wittenberg University in 2001 and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. He has studied and worked as a bookbinder in the Bay Area for several years and brings a diverse group of technical and critical skills to his teaching of bookbinding. He has exhibited his paintings, prints and books both locally and internationally and has worked closely with former artists in residence at SFCB over the last several years.

Marsha Shaw was born in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Oakland California. She received a B.A. and M.A. in Studio Art from California State University Northridge and an MFA in printmaking from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has lectured and taught courses in bookmaking and printmaking at California College of the Arts, San Francisco Center for the Book, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and The Museum of ChildrenOakland California. Shawbited both regionally and nationally.

Peter works both individually and collaboratively, with Donna Thomas, under the imprint of Peter and Donna Thomas: Santa Cruz. They have created numerous one-of-a-kind books and over sixty limited editions. Their "Real Accordion Book" was featured in a recent Time magazine article and their book "Forty" was given the Distinguished Book Award for the year by the Miniature Book Society. In 2004 their book More Making Books by Hand was published by Rockport. They are active in the leadership of both Friends of Dard Hunter, the National Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists, and the Miniature Book Society. Their books have been featured in both individual and group exhibitions in the USA and abroad, and are found in collections around the world, including the National Gallery of Art, the Huntington Library and the Getty Museum.

You can see their work on their website.

Kim Vanderheiden runs a mixed media letterpress and printmaking shop, Painted Tongue Studios, in Oakland California. At Painted Tongue Studios, Vanderheiden focuses on combining applied arts and fine arts, using presses and multi-media applications. She also teaches workshops there. Before opening her business, Vanderheiden studied illustration and book arts at the University of Wisconsin, served as letterpress apprentice to Mary Laird at Quelquefois Press and studied under Sherry Smith Bell at the Lafayette Printmaking Workshop. She's a member of the California Society of Printmakers, and the PCBA. You can see more of Kim's work on her web sites: www.paintedtonguepress.com for letterpress applied arts by all of the staff of Painted Tongue Studios, or www.kimvanderheiden.com for Vanderheiden's personal work, with a focus on fine art.