Skylight Book Launch
A handmade Limited edition letterpress book launch
ARTSPACE at Untitled is pleased to host a book launch to present Skylight, a handmade limited edition book of poems by local poet Jane Vincent Taylor.
Skylight is a twenty-four poem narrative told in the voice of a woman — a teacher and poet — spending her final days in an assisted living facility. Though physically failing, the narrator continues to read, observe, communicate, and dream.
Denise Brady edited and designed the book. She hand set and printed the letterpress edition and also completed the non-adhesive sewing into handmade paper covers. Nolan Bennett assisted with this edition through a University of Nebraska at Omaha Fine Arts Press/Gibraltar Editions Fellowship.
Hanna Demma created a unique drawing on her handmade over-beaten abaca paper for each copy, which has been tipped into the title page spread.
Published by Gibraltar Editions in Omaha, Nebraska, Skylight is limited to 55 copies, each signed by the poet, visual artist, and book artist.
The book launch is scheduled for Thursday, October 10, 2024, 5-7 p.m. at ARTSPACE at Untitled, NE 3rd Street in Oklahoma City and will feature a short reading by the poet and comments by the book artist.
Copies will be available for sale. $65.00 each.
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Contributors:
Jane Vincent Taylor
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Jane Vincent Taylor is a poet and teacher who thrives on collaboration. She has been poet-in-residence at Michigan State University several times, is a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow, and taught creative writing at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico for fifteen years. Taylor has six books of poetry, one of which, The Lady Victory (Turning Point Press) was adapted for the stage by Ann Folino White at MSU. She curated Pencil Light, an Art and Poetry Exhibit, and The Hiding Place, Artists Working from Poetry at Artspace / Untitled in Oklahoma City.
Hannah Demma
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Hannah Demma is a multimedia artist specializing in papermaking. Using the immersive nature of repetitive craft, her abstractions stir the imagination with the accumulation of color and pattern. Hannah has maintained a busy studio practice as well as lecture and exhibition schedules and also works as a papermaker and papermaking instructor at Constellation Studios in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2017, with an emphasis on printmaking and her Masters in Fine Art at her alma mater in 2022.
Denise Brady
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Denise Brady is a book artist who has made letterpress limited editions of contemporary poetry for forty years. She has printed and published new
works by poets including Ted Kooser, Hayden Carruth, Marilyn Hacker, Greg Kosmicki, Jonis Agee, Nomi Stone, Susan Aizenberg, and Michael Skau and others. Her books have been exhibited regionally and nationally and are held in libraries and private collections in the U.S., England and The Netherlands. Her work was recently recognized in Sara Simms’ article titled “Much Unseen Is Also Here: A Brief Review of Fine Press in North America” published in the Fine Press Book Association periodical Parenthesis, Spring 2024.
