Peter and Donna Thomas, book artists from Santa Cruz, California, will speak at a joint meeting of the Baxter Society and the Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts at 5:00 pm on Wednesday October 8, in the University Event Room on the 7th floor of Glickman Library, at 314 Forest Ave. in Portland.
Peter and Donna work collaboratively, making both editions and one-of-a-kind books. They make the paper, print, illustrate, and bind their books, combining the precision of the fine press aesthetic with the structural creativity found in contemporary artists’ books. Between 2009 and 2019, they made four cross-country road trips, traveling in their artistic tiny home on wheels as the “Wandering Book Artists,”
teaching classes and giving talks about the book arts as they visited universities and community-based book arts centers around the country. They are authors of More Making Books by Hand, and editors of 1000 Artists’ Books, and in 2021, The Legacy Press published a descriptive bibliography of their work: Peter and Donna Thomas: Bibliography, 1974–2020.
Their topic will be “Making Books by Hand in the Digital Age.” The meeting will be held in-person only.