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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.[1][2]
Spring is the owner of Springtide Press in Tacoma, Washington.[3]
Spring has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.[4]
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.
- 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]
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