Cathy DeForest

Cathy DeForest is a book artist inspired by found objects and nature. She works in a broad range of media integrating etchings, letterpress printing and photography on surfaces as diverse as paper and silk. She enjoys using the age old presses and techniques of printmaking, like the artists who began this work in the fifteenth century. Her artist books integrate each of her forms of art including original poetry.

The Call of the Village, an artist book created by Cathy DeForest comprised of intaglio etchings and a prose poem written by Nancy Bardos and Cathy DeForest. The poem is an invitation to weave a village together to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The intaglio etchings of indigenous figures representing the Four Directions evoke the ancestral origins of the local and global village. Cathy designed and printed the book in an edition of 12 books at her new farmhouse studio, Jubilation Press, in Ashland, Oregon. (30.5x12x.5 inches)

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