Dorothy Simpson Krause
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Dorothy Simpson Krause's work combines traditional and digital media in large-scale mixed media pieces, artist books, and book-like objects that bridge between the two forms. She is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art and a member of Digital Atelier, an artists' collaborative. She has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, an Artist in Residence at Harvard's Countway Library and on Oceania Cruise Lines, the Von Hess Visiting Artist at the University of the Arts Borowsky Center in Philadelphia, and the Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence at Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Krause is the author of Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books (North Light in 2009) and co-author of Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials (Watson-Guptill in 2004).

Website: dotkrause.com

Vessel

Vessel is a single signature of 30 contact printed pages using botanic specimens. The book has a soft cover of dark purple Katie McGregor handmade paper, and is housed in an eco printed silk bag, placed in a black fabric covered phase box lined with botanic contact prints. An Emily Dickinson poem, written in bronze acrylic ink, reads: Where ships of purple gently toss/ On seas of daffodil,/ Fantastic sailors mingle,/ And then - the wharf is still.
Arches text wove paper, tea bag paper, Katie McGregor handmade paper, silk bag, fabric, bronze acrylic ink.
5.25 x 6.5 x 25 inches; 13.5 x 16.5 x .5 centimeters. Created 2015.