Barbara Brown
member since 2005
Barbara Brown has been a book artist for twenty-five years. She has taught book arts extensively, most recently at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, and she has exhibited work in book and paper shows around the country. She is an artist member of WSG Gallery where she presents a book arts show every two years.
Her work may be found in the artist’s books collections of the University of Michigan Harlan Hatcher Library, the State of Michigan Library in Lansing, Michigan, and Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, University of Michigan.
Prometheus | artist book: hand-cut board “flames”; pigment ink printed on archival paper, brass rods, clamshell box covered with silk book cloth | 8”h x 6”w x 1.5”d | by Barbara Brown
Cities II | artist’s book: Davy board, acrylic inlays, Italian silk cloth, edition of 2 | text by Marianne White | 4.5”h x 3.5” w x 3” d | by Barbara Brown
No. 47 | board, hand-surface designed covers with mono-printed pages, silk thread, includes clamshell storage box | 2”h x 1.75”w ( 6” when extended) x 1/2” deep | by Barbara Brown
27 | three wooden blocks surface designed with stitched and painted canvas, acrylic inlays and onlay, clamshell box covered with Italian book cloth | 6.75”h x 2.25”w x 2.25” d | by Barbara Brown
What is the Future of the Hand? | board, hand-painted canvas, found objects, brass rods, thread, beads I 16” x 21” framed | by Barbara Brown