VESSEL

Cathy Adelman
Jody Alexander
Brien Beidler
Sarah Bryant
Rebecca Chamlee
Taylor Cox
Coleen Curry
Cathy DeForest
Erik & Martin Demaine
Tim Ely
Anna Embree
Ethan Ensign
Don Etherington
Jennifer Evers
Jodee Fenton
Erin Fletcher
Madelyn Garrett
Jane Gryffith
Karen Hanmer
Rose Harms
Monica Holtsclaw
Deborah Howe
Susan Hulme
Lang Ingalls
Jill Krase
Dorothy Simpson Krause
Monique Lallier
Amy LeePard
Suzanne Moore
Melanie Mowinski
Jeff Nilan
Bonnie Thompson Norman
Jan Owen
Graham Patten
Todd Pattison
Michelle Ray
Sialia Rieke
Steph Rue
Tenille Shuster
Therese Swift-Hahn
Peter Thomas
Colin Urbina

Anna Embree
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Anna Embree is an Associate Professor for the MFA in the Book Arts Program in the School of Library and Information Studies at The University of Alabama. She teaches courses and workshops in bookbinding, box making, and special topics in book preservation and book history. Anna has a strong interest in the physical and material aspects of book structures. She has collaborated with printers and papermakers on limited edition handmade books, and has exhibited widely. In 1976 Steve Miller founded Red Ozier Press in Madison, Wisconsin, a fine press devoted to publishing handmade limited edition books of contemporary poetics and art. In 1979 he and Ken Botnick joined forces at Red Ozier in New York City. Miller moved to Tuscaloosa and The University of Alabama in 1988 to teach letterpress printing and hand papermaking. He is Professor and Coordinator of the MFA in the Book Arts Program. His current Red Hydra Press work includes ongoing collaborative book projects with Cuban print and papermakers.

Anna Embree

Rodney Jones, Twelve Fables, 2014

Twelve Fables is a book of fables by Rodney Jones accompanied by ten bird nests by Dana Moore. Book designed and letterpress printed by Steve Miller. Binding design by Anna Embree. Printed on dampened Arches Text paper and signed by both author and artist. Fifty-five copies. Semi limp binding.
Khadi Indian handmade paper and 2-ply museum board; Arches text paper and linen thread.
5 x 8.25 x .5 inches; 12.5 x 30 x 1 centimeters. Created 2014.