Jessica Spring began her interest in typesetting and printing as a phototypesetter in the 1980s. Her introduction to letterpress printing paralleled the birth of desktop publishing: an exciting time to explore graphic arts. She has been a letterpress printer ever since, researching historic type composition and inventing Daredevil Furniture to help other printers set type in circles, curves and angles. Her work at Springtide Press—artist books, broadsides and ephemera where typography plays a central role—is included in collections around the country and abroad. Collaborations are an important part of her work, either printing for other artists or teaching traditional letterpress printing, typography and book arts. She collaborated on the Dead Feminists series, and co-authored Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color. Spring has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and teaches workshops virtually and in person around the country.
See Jessica’s Portfolio

Collections

  1. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
  2. Baylor University
  3. Boston Athenaeum
  4. Bowdoin College
  5. Brigham Young University
  6. The British Library
  7. Brown University
  8. California State University
  9. Cal Poly Kennedy
  10. Center for Book Arts
  11. Cleveland Institute of Art
  12. Columbia College Chicago
  13. Columbia University
  14. Cornell University
  15. DePaul University
  16. Emory University
  17. Evergreen State College
  18. Florida State University
  19. George Mason University
  20. Getty Research Library
  21. Harvard University
  22. Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography
  23. Indiana University
  24. International Printing Museum (Carson, CA)
  25. Kyungbok University (Daegu, Korea)
  26. Lafayette College
  27. Library of Congress
  28. Longwood University
  29. Massachusetts College of Art
  30. Marlboro College
  31. Michigan State University
  32. Minnesota Center for Book Arts
  33. Middle Tennessee State University
  34. Multnomah County Library (Portland, OR)
  35. Museum of Printing (Haverhill, MA)
  36. National Museum of Women in the Arts
  37. The Newberry Library (Chicago, IL)
  38. Northwestern University
  39. NOVA Southeastern University
  40. Ohio State University
  41. Ohio Wesleyan
  42. Otis College
  43. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  44. Queens College
  45. Rhode Island School of Design
  46. Ringling School of Art & Design
  47. Rochester Institute of Technology
  48. Rollins College
  49. San Jose State University
  50. San Francisco Public Library
  51. San Francisco–MOMA
  52. Santa Reparata Int'l School of Art (Florence, Italy)
  53. Savannah College of Art & Design
  54. Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College
  55. School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  56. Scripps College
  57. Southern Connecticut State University
  58. SUNY Purchase
  59. Swarthmore College
  60. Tacoma Public Library
  61. Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
  62. Tulane University
  63. University of Alberta
  64. University of Arizona
  65. University of Arkansas
  66. University of California–Berkeley
  67. University of California–Los Angeles
  68. University of California–Santa Barbara
  69. University of California–Santa Cruz
  70. University of California–Davis
  71. University of California–Irvine
  72. University of California–Riverside
  73. University of California–San Diego
  74. University of California–San Jose
  75. University of Chicago
  76. University of Colorado
  77. University of Connecticut
  78. University of Delaware
  79. University of Denver
  80. University of Florida
  81. University of Georgia
  82. University of Iowa
  83. University of Louisville
  84. University of Maryland
  85. University of Miami
  86. University of Michigan
  87. University of Mississippi–Oxford
  88. University of North Carolina–Charlotte
  89. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
  90. University of Northern Texas
  91. University of Oregon
  92. University of Puget Sound
  93. University of South Carolina
  94. University of Southern California
  95. The University of the South
  96. University of Utah
  97. University of Vermont
  98. University of Washington
  99. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  100. University of Wyoming
  101. Washington University in St. Louis
  102. Wellesley College
  103. Wesleyan University
  104. Washington State Library
  105. Whitman College
  106. Whitworth University
  107. Williams College
  108. Yale University
See Jessica’s CV