Our members include artists, librarians, book dealers and collectors, teachers, writers, and people who simply love books.
We are developing this page to offer our members an opportunity to connect with each other and with people of like interests. If you are a member of PCB and would like to be listed on this page with a link to your website, please click here to let us know.
Pat Badt website
Pat Badt is Professor of Art at Cedar Crest College. She received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has been the recipient of many awards and prizes including an NEA for painting. She has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and most recently Brussels, Belgium. Her work is inspired by location, filtered through experience and sensibility. Her studio in Lehigh County is in a white barn along the Jordan Creek, surrounded by apple orchards, low mountains and the convergence of two creeks.
Teresa Lea Bonaddio website
Teresa Lea Bonaddio is a book artist and writer, with experience as an editor in children's and gift book publishing. After growing up in the locale home of the popular TV show "The Office" (AKA Scranton, PA), she moved to Philadelphia, PA, where she graduated from the University of the Arts with a BFA in Printmaking/Book Arts. Having trained all of her life to "make stuff," she authored her first DIY book, Stick It! 99 DIY Duct Tape Projects, and currently creates work that combines memorable snapshots with tangible textures of everyday life.
Amanda D'Amico website
Amanda D'Amico is a book artist working under the imprint Tiny Revolutionary Press. She is also a printer, managing the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts and the Digital Imaging Labs at the University of the Arts. Amanda's enthusiasm for artists' books has led her to publish several articles in JAB: The Journal of Artists' Books, to co-organize The Hybrid Book: Intersection + Intermedia, an international book arts conference in Philadelphia in June 2009, and to blog about local book arts events and work at phillybookartist.blogspot.com. Her artists' books have been collected and exhibited nationally.
Caroline Garcia website
Caroline Garcia of the Candy Coated Press earned a BFA in printmaking from Louisiana State University in 2006 and an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in 2008. Often self-effacing, she explores themes of play, communication, narrative, collection, and discomfort through seemingly nonsensical texts and images. In recent work, she explores fibers and mixed media in unique books. Caroline assists the Archives Director at Drexel University, and teaches book arts and illustration to children at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Donna Globus
Donna Globus earned a BS degree from Duke University and a Master of Architecture degree from North Carolina State University College of Design. In 2010 she completed an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts. Donna balances her time as a book artist and printmaker with her career as a registered architect and construction professional. She was a volunteer letterpress printer and educator at Bowne & Company Stationers at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City for over ten years, and produces her own work under the imprint Dark Room Press. She recently exhibited work at Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT. Donna is a Board Member of Philadelphia Center for the Book.
Regan Gradet website
Regan Gradet is a book artist, printer, art director, and graphic designer, with over 15 years of professional print design experience. Her current work centers around using hand-drawn and computer-generated text and image as the basis for letterpress and screenprinted books. Regan earned a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Maryland and an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Kay Healy
Kay Healy is an artist and educator originally from Staten Island, NY. Healy received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from the University of the Arts in Book Arts and Printmaking. Healy has been the recipient of the Leeway Art and Social Change grant. She is currently the Education and Outreach Manager for Philadelphia's Magic Gardens and the Art Teacher for the Cultural Arts Center of PDDC. Healy works in many media including silkscreen and woodblock printing, books, installation, ceramics, and web-based art. She has a studio at Space 1026 in Philadelphia.
Suzanne Reese Horvitz website
Suzanne Reese Horvitz holds a BFA and MA from the University of the Arts and a Doctorate in Fine Arts from Columbia University. Founder and former Executive Director of NEXUS Gallery, she has received numerous grants, and collaborates with her partner Robert Roesch on large-scale public and corporate art projects. Suzanne has had solo exhibitions around the world, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, Corning Museum, Museum of American Glass, Paper Museum, Tokyo and Glasmuseum, Denmark, among many others.
Sun Young Kang website
Sun Young Kang received a BFA in Korean Painting from Ewha Woman's University and an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in 2007. She has presented her works in solo and group exhibitions around the world, and her work is in many collections. Sun uses delicate Asian paper in a meditative and sensual way, and explores book and installation structures to create spaces that reflect and embody her cultural, spiritual, and personal experiences. She creates for the viewer a place for introspection by transforming Asian paper into a physically and emotionally moving environment, and is deeply committed to process as a path to personal transformation.
Valeria Kremser website
Valeria Kremser was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. From an early age she showed interest in the arts and nature. She graduated from Loyola University New Orleans receiving a BFA in Printmaking, then headed to the MFA Book Arts/Printmaking program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She currently works as a Book Technician at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts. Before her time in the book section she interned at the Gladys Brooks Book and Paper Conservation Lab at The New York Academy of Medicine. She is the Vice President of Positive Space, a local arts group.
MaryAnn Miller website
MaryAnn Miller is an award-winning book artist and painter. Her artists' books are included in many special collections including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Her work has been exhibited in Italy, Costa Rica, England, Mexico, France, and in numerous galleries and museums in the United States. MaryAnn exhibited work in the 2008-2009 Pacific States Print Biennial at the University of Hawaii. She writes on women in the arts for Garden State Woman magazine and lives in Clinton, NJ.
Jessica Myers website
Jessica Myers studied at Tyler School of Art. Her current work centers around woodcuts and book making.
Nancy H. Nitzberg website
As proprietor of Book-Care, I provide a wide range of book conservation treatments and related library consultation services to rare book libraries, historical societies and sites, cultural organizations, private business and individuals. Conservation treatments range from basic stabilization and rehousing to page washing, deacidification, resewing, and rebinding. My formal training at Columbia University's School of Library Service and as an intern at the Library of Congress Rare Books Conservation Office is continually enhanced by attending workshops and conferences on bookbinding and conservation subjects.
Sarah Pohlman website
Sarah Pohlman is a Philadelphia-based artist with a BFA from the University of the Arts in Book Arts/Printmaking. She is currently in the MAT graduate program for Art Education at UArts and teaches adults and high school students at the University. In 2007 she was awarded the Library Fellows Grant from The National Museum of Women in the Arts to create an edition of 125 books. Her work varies from mixed-media collage to printmaking to artist's books and has been exhibited nationally.
Amee J. Pollack website
Amee J. Pollack is a mixed media artist who received an MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia and a Fellowship from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She has taught printmaking and bookbinding at Teacher’s College of Columbia University, the College of New Rochelle and for the Department of Education of New York City. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows throughout the United States and Canada.
Amee has collaborated for the past five years with Laurie Spitz under the banner of Spitz & Pollack. Their work together is in permanent collections such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Smithsonian, The New York Public Library, The Getty Research Institute and numerous public libraries and universities.
Maria G. Pisano website
Maria G. Pisano is the director of MGP Studio Arts and publishes artists' books and prints under the Memory Press imprint. In 2007 she had a solo exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as part of the Book FOR(u)Ms Book Artists Series, where she also curated an exhibit and delivered an accompanying lecture. Maria teaches papermaking, printing, bookbinding and conservation, and has taught at Raritan Valley Community College, Rutgers University Library School, Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Brodsky Center for Print and Paper, the Center for Book Arts, Oklahoma Arts Institute, and at many other venues.
Maddy Rosenberg website
Maddy Rosenberg received her BFA from Cornell University and MFA from Bard College. She divides her time between New York City and Europe, where she maintains an active international exhibition and curatorial career. She was also the curator of artists' books at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Europe. Maddy's artists' books are in numerous collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Fogg Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Austrian National Library, and Salzburg Museum.
Miriam Schaer website
Miriam Schaer is a multimedia book artist. She has exhibited steadily and extensively in solo and group exhibitions, and her work has been mentioned in a long list of articles and reviews. She is a recipient of a NYFA Artists Fellowship and her work has been included in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at Douglass Library. Her work can be seen in many public collections including Arts of the Book at Yale University, The Mata & Arthur Jaffe Collection, and The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University. Her work is also online in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for the Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum.
Esther K. Smith website
Esther K Smith wrote and co-designed How to Make Books, Magic Books & Paper Toys, and The Paper Bride. She collaborates with hand-typographer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers at Purgatory Pie Press in New York City. Solo exhibitions include London's Victoria & Albert Museum and Metropolitan Museum libraries, RISD, Harvard, Pyramid Atlantic, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and San Francisco Center for the Book. Museum collections include MoMA, the Whitney, the National Gallery of Art, Walker Art Center, SF MoMA. Smith is a member of Linda Montano's Seven Years of Living Art performance as the EK Smith Museum, including the Apron Collection.
Lori Spencer website
Lori Spencer is a book artist and printmaker living in Philadelphia. She is an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts where she teaches graduate and undergraduate book arts and printmaking classes. She has been the Master Printer in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at the University of the Arts since 1991, where she has worked with countless artists to produce artists' books and offset lithography prints. Recent shows include Production, Not Production: Offset Printed Artist's Books, at the Center for Book Arts, and That's Not How I Remember, at the Salve Regina Gallery at Catholic University of America. Lori's work is in collections at Cleveland Institute of Art, Walker Art Center, and Yale University. She received her BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase and her MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts.
Laurie Spitz website
Laurie Spitz had been the Executive Story Editor at 20th Century Fox Film Company in Los Angeles and a freelance writer before moving back to New York. Classes at The Center for Book Arts enabled her to make a handmade novel based on one of her essays for The New York Times, which opened up a new creative path for her.
Laurie has collaborated for the past five years with Amee Pollack under the banner of Spitz & Pollack. Their work together is in permanent collections such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Smithsonian, The New York Public Library, The Getty Research Institute and numerous public libraries and universities.
Mary Tasillo website
Mary Tasillo is a book, print, text, and paper artist based in Philadelphia. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her books and prints are owned by collections both public and private. Mary teaches workshops around the country. She writes about hand papermaking and book arts for publications such as Journal of Artist's Books, Hand Papermaking Newsletter, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She participates in the book arts, paper arts, print culture, and interactivity
Thomas Parker Williams website
Thomas Parker Williams lives and works in Philadelphia. Primary areas of work include hand-made artist book editions, painting, and printmaking. Some of his artist book editions contain an audio element -- music or sound work -- composed, performed, and recorded by the artist. Tom's paintings, prints, and artist books have been exhibited in Philadelphia, New York, and throughout the country, and are in numerous private collections.
Michelle Wilson website
Michelle Wilson is a papermaker, printmaker, book and installation artist. Her works are in various collections, including Yale University (New Haven, CT), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.), and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts (Boca Raton, FL). She has been featured in numerous exhibitions. In her work, she uses narrative to examine relationships between environmental and sociopolitical issues. Her numerous teaching experiences include Cumberland County College, Bryn Mawr College, the Fleisher Art Memorial, and Appel Farm Arts and Music Center. Wilson has a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of the Arts. Her imprint is Rocinante Press.