Diane Jacobs

Portland, Oregon
Diane Jacobs received her MFA in printmaking from San Francisco State University. She is the recipient of the James D. Phelan Award in printmaking from the San Francisco Foundation, an ArtistsĄŻ Book Residency Grant from the WomenĄŻs Art Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and a Kala Art Institute Fellowship (Berkeley, CA). She has exhibited nationally for the last ten years and her books appear in the collections of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the New York Public Library, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She currently lives in Portland and teaches letterpress at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts.

The Black Hole
2003
Edition of 45
Accordion fold with letterpress text on hand-made paper, 8 pt. Weiss roman and italic, hand watercolor around holes, sewn human hairball, wooden covers with parchment strap and burned hairball drawing on wooden cover.
Alphabet Tricks
2000
Edition of 120
Accordion fold book with hand-set letterpress text, Weiss roman and italic and wooden type on Stonehenge paper; silk-screened images on kozo paper and machine sewn slip cases.
Special note: created under an Artist Residency Grant from Women's Studio Workshop