Jessica Spring is an American letterpress printer, book artist, and owner of Springtide Press in Tacoma, Washington.[1] She attended Columbia College Chicago.[2] Since 2008 she has contributed to the Dead Feminists project, a series of hand-made broadsides produced in limited editions.[3][4] In 2016, the series was published in book form.[5][6] She has been teaching at Pacific Lutheran University since 2004, and in 2014 received an AMOCAT Arts Award from the Tacoma Arts Commission.[7]

Her work is in the Massachusetts College of Art and Design,[8] the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)[9] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,[10] the Rhode Island School of Design Museum,[11] Rollins College,[12] University of California Berkeley,[13] and the University of Louisville.[14]

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  1. ^ "Vouchered by Jessica Spring". Quarantine Public Library. 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  2. ^ Carey, Brainard (June 21, 2018). "Jessica Spring". Interviews from Yale University Radio. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  3. ^ "Dead Feminists – Letterpress broadside series by Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring". Dead Feminists. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  4. ^ "Ep. 13 : Jessica Spring". Artists Book House. July 27, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  5. ^ O'Leary, Chandler; Spring, Jessica (2016). Dead feminists : historic heroines in living color. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books. ISBN 978-1632170576.
  6. ^ "Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color". Microcosm Publishing. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  7. ^ Lunka, Taylor (September 28, 2014). "Resident Artist, Jessica Spring, Wins Major Award From Tacoma Arts Commission". Pacific Lutheran University. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  8. ^ "Honey B Hive by Jessica Spring | Artists' Books at MassArt". MassArt. March 16, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  9. ^ "ANCHORED". NMWA Library & Research Center. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  10. ^ "Curiousity Killed the Pussy". Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  11. ^ Spring, Jessica (January 1, 2018). "Memory Lame". Artists' Books. Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  12. ^ Spring, Jessica (January 1, 2019). "Xenagogy X". Rollins College Book Arts Collection. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  13. ^ "Memory lame". Artstor. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  14. ^ Blair, Trish. "Spring, Jessica: Home". UofL Libraries. Retrieved March 24, 2023.

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