CBAA Grant awarded

I have been awarded a 2021 Member Support grant by the College Book Art Association. I will be working to bring Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Age of Covid-19 and Other Plagues to final form. The grant will allow me to use the wonderful papers of papermakers Andrea Peterson and Mary Hark in the pages of what is planned as an edition of a letterpress printed accordion book with puppet inclusions. At the start of my pandemic year, I discovered to my horror, I was too unsettled to be able to read. I adopted all sorts of coping behaviors instead. I copied the play out word by word on a 55 foot long roll of paper and I made dancing paper puppets called the Solitude Squadron among other activities. This book has been shaped in so many ways by all the events of last year and is as much about the year as the play. I am still working on the various text elements so stay tuned.