e bond

WOOD * PAPER * COTTON examines artist e bond’s exploratory process while creating a fabric collection. This process-driven talk will focus on her two most recent surface design projects, COUNTER and PUNC*T, part of an ongoing series that thematically investigates aspects of language, letterforms, and the written word. Bond will share how the genesis of both collections began in the work she made during a two-week residency at Hamilton. COUNTER experiments with the interior spaces of letterforms, while PUNC*T celebrates the beauty of punctuation. Learn how e makes drawings, monoprints, and in this case, letterpress monotypes—that evolve into fabric patterns—and then ripple out into many other art expressions by other makers worldwide.

e bond is an artist + designer + writer + bookbinder & educator. Currently, she teaches workshops and creates art for fabric collections by day, makes handmade books by night, hangs out with trees on weekends, and writes something close to poems in the spaces between. Under the studio name roughdrAftbooks, she makes one-of-a-kind artists’ books, prints, and abstract drawings that blur the boundaries of art, craft, printmaking, and poetry. e holds a BFA in graphic design and an MFA in Book Art & Poetry. Her work is held in library collections across the US and has been published in numerous publications and books (about books).

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