Category: Announcements

Meggendorfer Artists Book Prize

My book Oscar Wilde: In Earnest and Out, has been selected as a finalist for the Meggendorfer Artists Book Prize, awarded by the Movable Book Society. The winner will be announced at the MBS Conference in Denver, CO, on October 2, 2021. For more information on my book, click on the Books link above.

My contributions to the Artists Book House Conversation series

I had the great pleasure of participating in the Conversations series for the Artists Book House this spring. The video is of a conversation between Jamie Thome and me. The written conversation is a set of questions posed by Shawn Sheehy and my responses. Both conversations are posted here, the link to the video first, then written conversation:

https://artistsbookhouse.org/news/2021/5/11/ep-40-emily-martin?fbclid=IwAR16NnO89mpK2Hvf-r2CsaK-Q6Tlo0D8IeOk4ZkSTzbEJhSQm64LSY2oq9k

My Fine Press Book Association Keepsake

I have printed a keepsake that will appear in the upcoming deluxe edition of Parenthesis from the Fine Press Book Association https://fpba.com/about/. The idea was sparked by my work in progress titled Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Time of Covid-19 and Other Plagues. The keepsake is letterpress printed from polymer plates with pressure printing using a Vandercook SP-15 on Sakamoto heavy paper. The character depicted is Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, and she is speaking one of her lines from the play. The keepsake has given rise to a side project called Gertrude Has a Few Questions.

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.