The Shop is Online!
I have a new and improved shop that’s now online! Here, you can, or will be able to, purchase aquatint screens for the polymergravure process as well as small, special print editions. What I’m really excited...
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The Great Plains Project
I’m currently in the middle of a great project for a local artist, Peter Latner, (a photographer who still works with medium and large format film) as part of his Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant that he...
Read MoreThe Ese’ Eja People of the Amazon
I’ve just finished making several clamshell cases for Professor Andrew Bale at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Each of the cases holds a framed Daguerrotype in the base and a small portfolio of...
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Earlier in the year I bit the bullet and bought a Kwikprint hot foil stamping machine. This is used to foil stamp or blind deboss the names and titles onto books, portfolios and cases, pencils, matchbooks and napkins. Although...
Read MoreClamshell Portfolio Case
Here’s the case I made for Twin Cities photographer Chuck Avery recently. It’s for his Roadside Anthropology series and is a 16″ x 20″ clamshell case covered in a steel grey Canapetta book cloth....
Read MoreWorking with Enrico Giannini in Florence
“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The White Rabbit and Alice at Prof. Agostino Dessi’s. I’ve...
Read MoreDrop Spine Boxes at MCBA
I spent last Thursday and Friday at MCBA in a workshop with seven others making rounded drop-spine boxes with Jana Pullman. It was a good group of people and I had the privilege of having as a ‘paste partner’ Karen...
Read MoreClamshell Portfolio Case
During this past weekend’s snow storm in Minneapolis (just over 17″) I decided to make a clamshell portfolio case following instructions from a book by Tom and Cindy Hollander. It’s constructed from 0.08″...
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