Jessica Spring

Jessica Spring is an American letterpress printer and book artist known for her work with Dead Feminists and Ladies of Letterpress.^[1][2]

Spring is the owner of Springtide Press in Tacoma, Washington.^[3]

Education

Spring has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.^[4]

Career

Spring coined the term Daredevil Typesetting and has devised "furniture" to facilitate this process of setting type in curves and other forms.^[5][6]

Since 2008 Spring has contributed to The Dead Feminists project, a series of hand-made broadsides produced in limited editions.^[1][7] In 2016, the series was published in book form.^[8][9]

Spring has been teaching at Pacific Lutheran University since 2004.

In 2014 received an AMOCAT Arts Award from the Tacoma Arts Commission.^[10]

Her work is in the Massachusetts College of Art and Design,^[11] the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)^[12] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,^[13] the Rhode Island School of Design Museum,^[14] Rollins College,^[15] University of California Berkeley,^[16] and the University of Louisville,^[17] among others.

Publications

• Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA. ISBN 978-1632170576^[8]
• Ladies of Letterpress, Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated edition, 2015. ISBN 978-1616892739^[2]