Letterpress Printer and Book Artist Jessica Spring with Jamie Thome

On 09 July, 2020 we visited letterpress printer and book artist Jessica Spring, of Springtide Press in Tacoma, WA.  

Ms. Spring began her interest in typesetting and printing as a phototypesetter in the 1980s. She has been a letterpress printer ever since, most recently inventing Daredevil Furniture to help other printers set type in circles, curves and angles.   

Her work at Springtide Press—artist books, broadsides and ephemera where typography plays a central role—is included in collections around the country and abroad.  

She has collaborated on the Dead Feminists broadside series since 2008 and co-authored Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color. Spring has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and teaches letterpress printing and book arts.  

To view more work by Springtide Press, please visit their website.  

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