STEVEN KENT MILLER • CURRICULUM VITAE
The University of Alabama
School of Library & Information Studies
527 Gorgas Library, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0252
205-348-1525, [email protected]
Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, the University of Alabama,
Appointed so August 2006.
Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, the University of
Alabama, Appointed so August 1988.
Education
BA-Sociology, with Honors, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972.
Experience
Coordinator of the MFA in the Book Arts Program. Teach letterpress printing,
typography, and hand papermaking at the beginning and advanced graduate levels.
Student recruitment, maintenance of the Typographic Laboratory and Lost Arch
Papermill, advising of incoming, new and continuing students. Give tours of the
facility to whomever is interested, and give presentations about the program, SLIS
and The University of Alabama. I create and publish handmade books/ephemera
under the Red Hydra Press imprint.
Writing poetry, public readings, Wisconsin Public Radio poetry program host, bartending
and restaurant work, 1972-76. Founder and Co-proprietor of the Red Ozier Press,
Madison, WI, and New York City, 1976-89, producing over sixty original limited
edition volumes of contemporary literature in first editions, often illustrated by
significant artists. Red Ozier Press was awarded a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts in 1981, and several other grants from the New York State
Council on the Arts. The archive of Red Ozier Press was purchased by the New York
Public Library for its permanent collection in 1988.
A retrospective exhibition of the complete works of Red Ozier Press was organized by
the Cooper Union, Humanities Gallery, New York, NY, and held from October 19November 19, 1993. The Red Ozier; A Literary Fine Press, by Michael Peich, copublished by the New York Public Library and Yellow Barn Press of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, was published in October of 1993. It is a complete history and bibliography of
the Press, including samples of typography and art work from Red Ozier Press books.
Awards and Honors
Honorary Guest Coach, Women’s Basketball, Alabama vs. S. Carolina, Jan 13, 2015.
Honored April 5, 2013 for significant contributions to the field of book arts at the New
York Center for Book Arts during its annual benefit celebration.
2012 Distinguished Career Award, College Book Arts Association, presented at the
biennial meeting in San Francisco, CA, January 6, 2012.
2011 Institutional Award for Distinguished Achievement, The American Printing History
Association. Presented at the New York Public Library, January 29, 2011.
Knox Hagood Faculty Award, College of Communication & Information Sciences, April
30, 2010. Awarded annually by the College to an outstanding faculty member.
Visual Arts Educator 2009, Druid City Arts Award from the Tuscaloosa Arts Council,
Tuscaloosa, AL Apr 16, 2009.
Visiting Artist, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, September 23-November 16,
2007.
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association
(GLBT), presented in Madison, WI, July 9, 2006.
Chosen, as a teacher of book art, by Birmingham Magazine (September 2003) as one of
The Best of Birmingham in its annual listing.
Outstanding Faculty Award, The Other Club, The University of Alabama, 2003.
Foundation Award 2002-2003, The University of Alabama Student Government
Association.
A Hero’s Recognition Award, The University of Alabama Division of Student Affairs,
2002.
External Support
$270,000 Grant, Windgate Charitable Foundation, 2015.
$100,000 Pledge, Patterson Family Foundation, 2014.
$1,000 CG-GC Material Scholarship. Donation for student support from Cleansing Tide
Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL, 2014.
$1,000 CG-GC Material Scholarship. Donation for student support from Cleansing Tide
Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL, 2013.
$4,000 Patterson Family Foundation, faculty support for a working visit to Havana, Cuba,
Feb 1-8, 2012.
$35,000 IMLS Planning Grant awarded May 2011, Co-PI with Prof. Robert Riter. This is
to plan a joint MLIS-MFA degree.
$500 Capstone International Center and the Office for Academic Affairs Williams Fund,
2011.
$10,700 The Penny McAllister Book Arts Endowed Support Fund, private donor, 2010.
$60,000 Windgate Scholarships, four years @ $15,000 annually. Private foundation,
2010-2014.
$1,500 CG-GC Material Scholarship. Donation for student support from Cleansing Tide
Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL, 2009-2011.
$4,000 Wordway Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Annual in-kind donation of negatives used
for photopolymer plate making in the Type Lab, 2009-2010.
$10,000 Student support for December 2008 bookmaking trip to Havana, Cuba. Patterson
Family Foundation.
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$1,000 CG-GC Material Scholarship. To be awarded once each semester ($500),
beginning Fall 2007. Ongoing donation for student support from Cleansing Tide Inc.,
Tuscaloosa, AL.
$4,000 Wordway Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In-kind donation of negatives used for
photopolymer plate making in the Type Lab, Spring 2007.
$27,000 Book Arts Endowment, for student support. Private individuals, Fall 2006.
$4,000 Wordway Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In-kind donation of negatives used for
photopolymer plate making in the Type Lab, Spring 2006.
$2,500 Student scholarships for bookmaking trip to Cuba. Carol & Thomas Patterson,
2005.
$50,000 Student scholarships and equipment. Private individuals, 2005.
$750,000 for Dept. of Art studio and student support. Private foundation, 2005.
$1M Endowment for graduate student support. Private foundation, 2005.
$500 UA International Program, for Cuba trip support, 2005.
$240 Kinko’s, Tuscaloosa, in-kind printing services for the Cuba book project.
$500 Laquita Thompson, in-kind donation of letterpress printing inks, 2004.
$1,850 Ruby King, in-kind donation of hand papermaking felts for the papermill, 2004.
$13,200 Individuals’ support of MFA Program’s ongoing Cuba initiative, 2003.
$400 Tommy Hester, program support, 2003.
$799 P22 Type Foundry. Software donation of digital typefaces, 2003.
$500 Weyerhauser Corp. in-kind donation of Tri-wall Cardboard for the drying system in
the papermill, 2001.
$399.90 H.W. Caslon & Company, London, England, donation of Founder’s Caslon Text
and Founder’s Caslon Display digital, 2001.
$12,000 Wordway Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, in-kind gift [negatives, $2000 annually since
2000].
$6,200 Book Arts 2000 and Beyond. With income from the conference we were able to
purchase an Orbital photopolymer plate maker ($2,200 cash plus the manufacturer’
$4,000 donation for the remaining cost of the equipment), 2000.
$7,850 Paper & Book Intensive. One scholarship awarded annually since 1999 to a UA
Book Arts student to attend this summer workshop event.
$1,500 Sales of Thomas Rabbitt’s Transfiguration of Dread, 1998.
$756 Donation of Griffen Mill handmade paper, Bookbinder’s Warehouse for William
Faulkner broadside New Orleans, 1997.
$5,000 Sales of New Orleans broadside, 1997.
$5,405 Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View, CA, digital type software donation,
1993.
$68,195 Gulf State Paper Corporation, for production of Wild Birds of America; The Art
of Basil Ede, and program support, 1991.
Professional Affiliations:
Trustee, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, 2014-2018.
Chair, Penland Transition Committee (transitioning from one Director to the next)
Penland Committee on Trustees
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Penland Finance Committee
Penland Personnel Committee
Penland Strategic Planning Committee
College Book Arts Association Board of Directors, 2014–2016.
Communication Committee and former CBAA Board Member, College Book Art
Association, 2007-2009, committee member 2009–present.
Co-director, Paper and Book Intensive, 1990 to May 2013. Six Co-directors from across
the United States plan and direct the resident workshops in the book arts, taking place
at a different locale for two weeks each summer. Approximately sixty-five
participants from the United States, Europe, and Asia attend every year.
Chair, Advisory Board, The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking,
Institute of Paper Science & Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,
GA., 2001-2011.
President, National Council of Book Arts Programs, 1999-2006, elected by acclimation.
President, Friends of Dard Hunter (1994-96). The largest group in the United States
devoted to the art and craft of hand papermaking.
Vice-president, Friends of Dard Hunter (1992-1994).
Teaching
Classes regularly taught are:
Fall Semester
BA 520 Printing — Elements of Printing
BA 522 Printing III — Parallel Editions and Printing
and working with individual students:
BA 594 Practicum in Teaching the Book Arts
BA 597 — Internship
Spring Semester
BA 521 — Printing and Typography
BA 523 — Printing and Publishing
BA 541 — Hand Papermaking
and working with individual students:
BA 594 Practicum in Teaching the Book Arts
BA 595 Independent Project
BA 596 Directed Research in the Book Arts
BA 599 Creative Project Production
Artist to Artist Cuba research trips. Organized/did logistics for/and team taught with
Associate Professor Anna Embree. Funded by supportive individuals, through book
sales, and with the support of SLIS and UA, these working visits put the finishing
touches on book-making collaborations of faculty and students in the Book Arts
Program with Cuban artists, a Havana traditional hand papermill, Cuban and
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American authors, and a translator. Graduate students accompanied the Book Arts
faculty to collaborate on various book projects in the February 2004, November 2005,
April 2007, November 2009, February 2012, and February 2014.
Taught BA 543 Advanced Topics in Hand Papermaking, for the first time, giving student
an opportunity to work on larger and more sophisticated papermaking projects, Fall
1994-95.
Created/team-taught, with professors Paula Gourley and Marion Laplante of the UA Art
Department, Interim course, Three Views of a Book, Spring 1991.
Created and taught a new course Topics in Black & White, BA 593, Spring 1991.
Thesis Committees, UA
Ashley Chambers, MFA-Creative Writing, 2015.
Christopher McCarter, MFA-Creative Writing, 2015.
Ashley Gorham, MFA-Creative Writing, 2012.
Kirsten Jorgenson, MFA-Creative Writing, 2010.
Erik Wennermark, MFA-Creative Writing, 2009.
Cade Collum, MFA-Creative Writing, 2007.
Bard Cole, MFA-Creative Writing, 2005.
Mindy Wilson , MFA-Creative Writing, 1997.
John Sisson, MFA-Creative Writing, 1996.
Stanley Whatley, MFA-Creative Writing, 1996.
Robbie McCay, MFA-Creative Writing, 1996.
David Sorrell, MFA-Creative Writing, 1996.
Tony Brusate, MFA-Creative Writing, 1995.
Ashley Gibson, MFA-Creative Writing, 1995.
Mark Drew, MFA-Creative Writing, 1995.
Linda Neuer, MFA-Creative Writing, 1995.
David Zimmerman, MFA-Creative Writing, 1995.
Inman Major, MFA-Creative Writing, 1995.
Ray Murray, MFA-Creative Writing, 1995.
Roger Scott, MFA-Creative Writing, 1993.
Matthew Kopka, MFA-Creative Writing, 1992.
Jeff Hardin, MFA-Creative Writing, 1992.
Glenn Mott, MFA-Creative Writing, 1992.
Jeff Mock, MFA-Creative Writing, 1989.
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Thesis Committees, MFA in the Book Arts [titles after 2000]
Becky Beamer, Functional Outsider: The Namibia Series, 2016, chair.
Amy Leepard, Seva, 2016, co-chair.
Caroline Anderson, Eating Life, 2015.
Sara White, Riverine, 2015.
Christopher Davenport, Twelve Days, 2015, chair.
Emma Sovich, 2015.
Mary Elizabeth Watson, Words Carry Distances To You: Poems by M.C. Richards, 2014.
Kate Barber, 2014.
Mo Fiorella, 2014.
Crane Giamo, 2014, chair.
Ashley Gorham, 2014, chair.
Laura Rowley, 2014.
Mary McManus, Horse Sense, 2012.
Erin Morris, Visual Acuity, 2012.
Sonja Greentree Rossow, Holding Down The Fort, 2012.
John Sirmon, On Three Sioux Ceremonies, 2012, chair.
Robert, Lomascolo, Monotype in the 21st Century, 2011, chair.
Marie Christine Hyland, Diegetic Paper: a portfolio, 2011, chair.
Sara Parkel, Hybrid Land, 2011, chair.
Lauren Faulkenberry, Migration: A Field Guide to Love That Was and Might Have Been,
2011, chair.
Krysten Nevarez, Represent, 2011, chair.
Bridget Elmer, Fibre Libre, 2010.
Annie Herlocker, Alabama Kitchen, 2010.
Sarah McDermott, Compendium of Domestic Incidents, 2010, chair.
Lark Griffin, Seattle, 2009.
Friedrich Kerksieck, Processes to Build Small Fires, 2009, chair.
Jessica Peterson, Cause and Effect, 2009.
Heidi Atwood, The Handsome Family Songbook, 2009.
Emily Tipps, Anything from Anywhere, 2009, chair.
Ad Kanyalak, Faced, 2008, chair.
Sarah Bryant, Point of View, 2008, chair.
Laura Thomson, A Strange Place in Time, 2008, chair.
Gretchen Winger, Cast of Characters, 2007, chair.
Katrip Kapp, Not Just a Little Baking Book, 2007.
Amy Pirkle, Fragments, 2007.
Blake Smith, Retrospective Bindings of the Enlightenment, 2007.
Leah Eisenbeis, Salt and Light: Aesop’s Fables, Suncatchers, and Poems, Somewhere in
Between, 2006.
Ellen Wall Knudson, Self-Dual, 2006.
Sara Owen, Tales from the North Coast of Boston, 2006.
Robert Walp, The Moon Rose, 2006.
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Charlotte Wegrzynowski, An Exploration of Bindings from the Turn of the Nineteenth
Century, 2006.
Ginger Berry, Traveling Through the Dark, The Binding, 2005.
Abigail Boroughs, Wedding in a Box, 2005.
Daniel Urban, Traveling Through the Dark, Poems by William Stafford, 2005.
Shanna Yarbrough, Decisions and Revisions: An Edition-Phobic Book Artist Approaches
J. Alfred Prufroc, 2005.
Frank Brannon, The Cherokee Phoenix: Advent of a Newspaper, 2004.
Paul Rustand, Singing To The Deaf, 2004.
Mary Ann Sampson, Then From All The Stones, 2004.
Elizabeth Treadwell, Five Fairy Tales: A Suite of Bookbindings, 2004.
Susan Wyssen, Book of Good Council, 2004.
Leigh Holden. All Around the Mulberry Bush. Research on the history, discovery, and
process of making paper with this native plant, chair, 2003.
Marvel Maring, Stairways, chair, 2003.
Kris Ingmundson. Slow Dancing Through Ether, chair, 2002.
Paul Moxon. Something Old Something New; Poems and Drawings (by Nina Cassian),
chair, 2002.
Jen Bunyar. Sixty Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance, chair, 2002.
Larry Lou Foster. The Western Codex: Experimentation in Historical Structures, 2001.
Melodie Carr Zeiler. Experimentation in Dual Vision Books, 2001.
John Cutrone. Red Wagon Press & Its Work, chair, 2001.
Laura Rowan. Wings & A Paper, chair, 2001.
Suzanne Gray. Piano Lesson and Other Recollections, 2001.
Cathleen Baker, The Pattern Papers of John DePol, chair, 2000.
Rory Golden. 20/20 Reflection, chair, Fall 2000.
Terrence Chouinard. Piece Work, 2000.
Jennifer Sapora. Distinctly Blurred: Words of Women Bookmakers, 2000.
Bradley Benedict chair, 1998.
Elizabeth Clark, 1998.
James Williams, chair, 1998.
Wanrudee Burnankorn, 1997.
Timothy Geiger, chair, 1997.
Marion Cluff, chair, 1997.
Michael Fallon, chair, 1997.
September Kirk, 1997.
Kathleen Martinson, 1997.
Kimberly Brodie, 1996.
Kelly Face, chair, 1996.
Eileen Wallace, chair, 1996.
Jenny Anderson, chair, Spring 1996.
Dayna Williams-Capone, chair, 1996.
Kathryn McCanless, chair, 1996.
Shari DeGraw, chair, 1996.
Inge Bruggeman, chair, 1995.
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Christopher McAffee, 1995.
Anne Bailey, 1994.
Catherine May, 1994.
Coriander Reisbord, 1993.
Terrence Taylor, chair, 1993.
Sharon Long, chair, 1992.
Mary Stevens, 1992.
William Sneeberger, chair, 1992.
Robert Letourneaux, chair, 1992.
John Bertonaschi, 1992.
Beverly Schlee, 1991.
Jean Buescher, chair, 1990.
Fine Press/Creative Work:
Red Hydra Press
Unless otherwise noted, these works have been conceived, designed, and letterpressprinted by Steve Miller, under the auspices of Red Hydra Press.
Rapture. A poem broadside, invited by Gibraltar Editions, with text by Matt Mason and
image by Steve Miller. For a portfolio collection in honor of Harry Duncan, the
grandfather of modern Artist Books. 2016
The Guest. A poem print by Billy Collins, with two-color lithograph by Sarah Marshall.
Designed by Steve Miller and letterpress printed with John Horn of Shooting Star
Press in an edition of 50 copies. These broadsides are being sold for the benefit of
Mitchell County Animal Shelter in North Carolina. 2016
Greece. A poem print by Billy Collins, with two-color lithograph by Sarah Marshall.
Designed by Steve Miller and letterpress printed with John Horn of Shooting Star
Press in an edition of 50 copies. These broadsides are being sold for the benefit of
Mitchell County Animal Shelter in North Carolina. 2016
Aloft. Linocut images by Cuban artist Alejandro Sainz, with word swarms by Mary
Wehner, in an edition of 55 copies, Red Hydra Press 2016. Binding designed by Anna
Embree.
Until That Yellow Bird Returns. One hundred 5-line poems by Tennessee poet Jeff
Hardin, with multicolored drawings by Katie Baldwin, in an edition of 45 hardbound
copies, binding by Anna Embree, Red Hydra Press, 2015.
Poem broadside by Maria Reina Rodriguez, with linocut by Alejandro Sainz, in an
edition of 100 copies, included in the first 100 copies of The University of Alabama
Press edition of Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena, 2014.
Museum. A poem by Billy Collins in a miniature book format, 65 copies, Red Hydra
Press, 2014.
12 Fables. By Rodney Jones with drawings by Dana Moore. Red Hydra Press, 2014.
Lion Froth Crown. Poems by Cade Collum, with drawings by Craig Wedderspoon and
binding by Anna Embree, 55 copies, Red Hydra Press, 2014.
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To Sit With Animals. Miniature book of seven poems by Mary Wehner with seven linocut
images by Sigfredo Mendoza, 50 copies, Red hydra Press, 2013.
There Are Things Too Marvelous To Be Spoken Of. A miniature book (2” x 3”) letterpressprinted with multiple reduction linoleum cuts, in an edition limited to 28 copies. This
reflection on the April 27th tornado was created during the invited Artist Educator
Retreat, September 17-23, 2011, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
Tornado Leaf. Invited to participate in this portfolio project by creating a limited edition
print, 10" x 10". Fifty copies designed and letterpress-printed type with a two-color
photopolymer plate print. The edition was created for The Art Collaborative:
Messages Lost in Time, October 2011.
The Unicorn. Invited to participate in this group portfolio by creating a limited edition
print, 14" x 11". Forty copies designed and letterpress-printed type with a reduction
linocut print. The edition was created for a 2011 University of Tennessee–Knoxville
print portfolio.
Hand Papermaking 25th Anniversary Commemorative Collection of Handmade Paper. I
was invited to be one of the 25 contributors to this handmade paper sample book that
celebrated Hand Papermaking Inc.’s twenty-five years as the national journal of hand
papermaking. I represent year 2010 and made 1,000 sample of Alabama Dirt Shirt
with Kozo Flair paper, with an accompanying text.
Evening Song. Invited to participate in this group portfolio by creating a limited edition
poem broadside by Joy Harjo, letterpress-printed over an Epson-printed image of a
moth on sand, 14" x 11". Forty copies designed and letterpress-printed type and
reduction linocut print. The edition was create for a 2009 Longwood University print
portfolio.
The first time I took a proof… This Vandercook celebration piece was printed on a
Vandercook 4 Proof Press (#18718) in a 2009 edition of 110 copies. The paper is
Mohawk Cover, the print is a reduction linocut (suicide block), the digital type is
Californian from Lanston Type Company via P22 and printed from photopolymer
plates, 8.5" x 11".
Collins, Billy. Flock. A limited edition poem broadside with a drawing by Birmingham
artist Jane Marshall. It is letterpress printed in three colors on dampened handmade
paper. 11" x 16", 59 numbered copies signed by the author. Red Hydra Press, 2009.
Wehner, Mary. Broken Shells at Dusk. A Poem Print designed and letterpress-printed by
Steve Miller in two colors in both English and Spanish, 16" x 24". Translated by
Maria Vargas. At Taller Experimental de Gráfica a multi-colored stone lithograph was
printed by the artist Pollyanna Fernández Fernández. Thirty numbered copies signed
by both author and artist, each copy marked with the chop of the Taller (the colophon
is on the back of the sheet, with signatures an the front). Red Hydra Press, June 2009.
Collins, Billy. The Breather. Poem broadside with an accompanying inkjet-printed
painting by Dana Moore. Red Hydra Press, 2008.
Collum, Cade. The Dogs of Havana. Chapbook of five poems written in response to
seven linocuts by Cuban artist Julio César Peña Peralta, 5 1/4” x 7 ¾”, 21p. 75 copies.
Red Hydra Press, 2008.
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Wehner, Mary. ...or the opposite. Fifteen poem chapbook, with illustrations by Jane
Marshall. 75 copies. Red Hydra Press, 2007.
Kaplan, Dan. Skin. Poetry chapbook. 5 1/8 x 8 1/4”, 12p. Linoleum cuts by Julio César
Peña Peralta (Cuban artist). 75 copies. Red Hydra Press, 2005.
Wehner, Mary. The Chinese Painting. 8.5 x 15”. Poem broadside. Illustrated by Jane
Marshall. Designed and letterpress-printed by Steve Miller. 75 copies. Red Hydra
Press, 2003.
Collins, Billy. The Names. Poem broadside, with sandragraph (low-relief printing plate),
11.5 x 15”. Letterpress-printed by Steve Miller for the benefit of Guiding Eyes for the
Blind in Yorktown, NY. 100 copies. Red Hydra Press, 2003.
Baker, Cathleen A.. By His Own Labor: The Biography of Dard Hunter. 7.7 x 11.25”,
361p, with accompanying 7.7 x 11.25”, 77p. volume of photographs. Woodcuts by
John DePol. Designed and letterpress-printed by Steve Miller. Bookbinding by Gray
Parrot, boxes by Judi Conant. 155 copies. Red Hydra Press. 2000.
Pinsky, Robert. If You Could Write One Great Poem, What Would You Want It To Be
About? Poem broadside poem by the US Poet Laureate. 8 x 11 3/4”. 100 copies.
1999.
Li Young-Li. Nocturne. Broadside poem. Illustrated by Scott Miller. 100 copies. 1998.
Salamun, Tomaz. Eclipse II. Poem broadside. 8 x 11 1/8”. 100 copies. 1997.
Foerster, Richard. At The Cove. Poem broadside. 7 x 10 5/8”. Woodcut illustration by
Michael Fallon. 50 copies. Red Hydra Press. 1996.
Nova, Craig. Trombone. A broadside excerpt. Woodcut by Michael Fallon. 100 copies,
1996.
Begley. T. and Broumas, Olga. Unfolding The Tablecloth of God. Linked poetry
chapbook. 5 x 7 3/4”. 33p. Drawings by Pinkney Herbert. 87 copies. Red Hydra
Press, 1995.
Raines, Howell. The Search for a True History of Alabama. Essay with drawings by
Christopher McAfee and calligraphy by Glen Epstein. 5 3/4 x 9 3/4”. 19p. Student
assisted. 95 copies. Red Hydra Press, 1994.
Wojahn, David. Photograph of Lynda as Akhmatova. Poetry chapbook. 6 x 9 5/8”. 2 p.
Linocut by Georgia Deal. 100 copies. Red Hydra Press, 1994.
Burnette, William Marc. The Gift. Poem broadside. 7 x 7”. Illustration by Desmond Lim.
Designed and letterpress-printed by Steve Miller. 50 copies. Red Hydra Press, 1994.
Foerster, Richard. The Hours. Poem cycle chapbook. Wood engraving by John DePol. 6
3/8 x 10 1/2”. 90 copies. Red Hydra Press, 1993. [The manuscript was selected as the
winner of the Bess Hokin Prize awarded annually by Poetry magazine.]
Strand, Clark. North Star. Haiku chapbook. Drawings by Douglas Himes. 4 5/8 x 7 1/4”.
73p. 90 copies. Red Hydra Press. 1993.
Miller, Steve. Six Pieces of Wood. A note. Wood engravings by John DePol. 4 1/2 x 6
7/8”. 11p. 120 copies. Red Hydra Press, 1993.
Foerster, Richard. Invitation to the New Year. 2p. Poem chapbook. Linoleum cut by Erin
Tapley. 100 copies. Red Hydra Press, 1993.
Foerster, Richard. Mozart's Death. Poem broadside. 7 1/4 x 18 1/4”. Drawing by Peter
Sykora. Letterpress printed by Steve Miller. 90 copies. 1992.
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Gunn, Thom. Death's Door. 4 3/4 x 7”. 18p. Gravestone rubbing illustration with
calligraphy by Anita Karl. 80 copies. Red Hydra Press, 1989.
Broumas, Olga. Mercy. Broadside poem. 11 5/8 x 18 1/4”. Woodcut by Antonio
Frasconi. 40 copies. Red Hydra Press, 1989.
Parallel Editions
Unless otherwise noted these works have been conceived and typographically designed
by Steve Miller, and printed with the assistance of Book Arts students, for the benefit
of the program.
“It has been important to me to work side-by-side with students on projects that will
benefit their craft and the Book Arts Program. I want to demystify process by creating
openly and over time in the Type Lab.” SM
Jigs and Lures. Poems, printed bilingually, by Cuban writer Reina Maria Rodriguez
translated by Kristin Dykstra, with multi-colored linoleum cuts by Cuban artist
Alejandro Sainz. Designed and printed with Book Arts students in an edition of 65
copies in Alabama, and finished in Havana, Cuba at Taller Experimental de Grafíca,
Feb 9–16, 2014. Parallel Editions.
50 Years, El Taller Experimental de Grafica, Habana Vieja de la Habana, Cuba,
bilingual edition (English/Spanish) of text written by Anna Embree, Steve Miller, and
Angel Ramírez Roque about the history of collaboration between the Taller in
Havana, Cuba, and the MFA in the Book Arts Program. This book includes paper
created by our graduate students in the Lost Arch Papermill. The book features
original etchings by Cuban artists Jannette Brossard, Luis Lara Calaña, Dania Fleites,
Yamilys Brito Jorge, Eduardo Leyva, Julio César Peña Peralta, Angel Ramírez Roque,
and Carlos del Toro. 7 x 10.75”. Parallel Editions, 2012.
Indivisible, bilingual edition (English/Spanish) of language poems written and scripted by
Hank Lazer, with linocuts by Cuban artists Julio César Peña Peralta and Daniel
Alberto Rodriguez. 6 x 10”. Translated into Spanish by Dr. Michael Schnepf. Sixtytwo copies handmade in Alabama by faculty and graduate students in the MFA
program. Parallel Editions, 2011.
Night and Day, a 2010 broadside by Haitian poet Paul Laroque, with linocut by Sarah
Marshall. A SLIS collaborative handmade paper and letterpress project in an edition
of 75 numbered copied. Printed to support efforts to rebuild libraries in earthquake
devastated Haiti. Organized and expedited this project created by 18 participants.
Leal, Eusebio Spengler, Havana: A Living City, bilingual edition (English/Spanish) of
quotes from speeches and books. 6 x 10”. Translated by Maria Vargas, with linoleum
cut prints by Angel Ramirez. Sixty copies handmade in Alabama and Havana by
faculty and graduate students in the MFA program Parallel Editions, 2009.
Collins, Billy, Night/Noche. Bilingual edition (English/Spanish) of poetry. 5 5/8 x 8 5/6”.
Translated by Maria Vargas. Five stone lithographic prints were created by five
Cuban artists in response to the Collins poem.. Designed and letterpress-printed in
Alabama by Miller and students. The lithographs were printed in Havana, working
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with the artists. 63 copies. Bookbinding design and creation by Anna Embree,
assisted by students. Parallel Editions, 2007.
Sanchez, Luis Franciso Diaz. Illegal Use of the Soul. Bilingual edition (English/Spanish)
of poetry. 4 ⅛” x 5”, 28p. Translated by Maria Vargas. Linocuts by Julio César Peña
Peralta. Letterpress printed in Alabama and Havana by Miller and students.
Bookbinding design and creation by Anna Embree, assisted by students. 55 copies.
Parallel Editions, 2005.
Collins, Billy, Design/Diseno. Bilingual American edition (English/Spanish) of poetry. 5
5/8 x 8 5/6”, 47p. Translated by Maria Vargas. Linocuts by Carlos Ayress Moreno.
Designed and letterpress-printed by Steve Miller, assisted by students. 75 copies.
Bookbinding design and creation by Anna Embree, assisted by students. Parallel
Editions, 2005.
Collins, Billy, Design/Diseno. Bilingual Cuban edition (English/Spanish) of poetry. 5 5/8
x 8 5/6”, 47p. Translated by Maria Vargas. Linocuts by Carlos Ayress Moreno.
Designed and produced by Steve Miller. 75 copies. Bookbinding design and creation
by Anna Embree, assisted by students. Parallel Editions, 2004.
Collins, Billy, Design/Diseno. 14 x 20”. Broadside poem, bilingual edition (English/
Spanish) translated by Maria Vargas. Linocuts by Carlos Ayress Moreno. Designed
and letterpress-printed by Steve Miller, assisted by students. Parallel Editions, 2003.
Chalkville, a collaborative project between book arts, and a poetry class at the Chalkville
juvenile facility. 6 x 8 3/4”. 37p. 100 copies. Parallel Editions, 2001. [The edition was
then donated to Alabama Writer’s Forum in Montgomery to support state-wide poetry
initiatives.]
Rabbitt, Thomas. The Transfiguration of Dread. Poetry chapbook. 6 x 7 7/8”. 46p.
Illustrated by Don Bell with calligraphy by Mark Van Stone. 135 copies. Parallel
Editions. 1998.
Faulkner, William, New Orleans. Broadside poem, first edition, illustrated by John Scott,
introduction by Guy Davenport. 12 x 18.5”. Designed and letterpress-printed by Steve
Miller. 100 copies. Parallel Editions, 1997.
House, Glenn. An Alabama Kozo Primer. Monograph. Introduction by Timothy Barrett. 7
x 11”. 53p. Drawings by Richard Flavin. 170 copies. Parallel Editions, 1995.
Wakoski, Diane. The Ice Queen. Poetry chapbook. 8 3/4 x 13 1/4”. 27p. Linoleum cuts by
Margaret Prentice. 70 copies. Parallel Editions. 1994.
Hanff, Helene. Heartbreak Thursday. A recollection. Wood engraving by Frank Utpatel,
100 copies. Parallel Editions. 1993.
Taggert, John. Aeschylus/Fragments. Translated by the author. Introduction by Philip
Lockhart. 5 1/2 x 8 5/8”. 49p. Lithographs by Mario Laplante. 90 copies. Parallel
Editions, 1992.
Davenport, Guy. Anakreon: The Extant Poems. Translated by and with calligraphy by
GD. 6 x 11”. 42p. 90 copies. Parallel Editions, 1991. [Davenport won a MacArthur
Fellowship during the production of this book.]
Peich, Michael. Carroll Coleman and the Prairie Press. Forward by Harry Duncan. 6 x 9
5/8”. 31p. Wood engraving by Frank Utpatel. 175 copies. Parallel Editions. 1991.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 1! 2
Paz, Octavio. Stanzas for an Imaginary Garden. Poetry chapbook. 5 1/2 x 9 1/8”. 25p.
Wood engravings by John DePol. 75 copies. Parallel Editions. 1990. [Publication of
this new poetry coincided with the awarding of Paz the Nobel Prize for Literature.]
Peterson, Allan. Stars on a Wire. Poetry chapbook. 6 1/4 x 10”. 26p. Parallel Editions.
1989.
Other Printing/Publishing Projects
Breach of Trust / Abuso de Confianza, presented bilingually, by Cuban writer
Ángel Escobar translated by Kristin Dykstra, designed gratis for The University of
Alabama Press, 2016.
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) El contragolpe (y otros poemas
horizontales), presented bilingually, by Cuban writer Juan Carlos Fuentes translated
by Kristin Dykstra, designed gratis for The University of Alabama Press, 2016.
Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena, presented bilingually, by Cuban writer
Reina Maria Rodriguez translated by Kristin Dykstra, designed for The University of
Alabama Press, 2014.
Book Artists and Poets Podcasts. I have created an area on the Book Arts website for
podcasts interviews. To date I have produced 106 interviews with book artists and
poets that are available online at the Book Arts website or through iTunes and iTunes
U, where the podcasts have been featured.
Geneological History of First Lady Laura Lane Welch Bush presented by the
Congressional Club on the occasion of the First Lady’s Luncheon, May 10, 2007.
Typographic design by Steve Miller, and bookbinding by Amy Pirkle.
Pandora’s Box. Mixed-media broadside. 6 x 16”. Winter Book, Columbia College
Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Invitational collection of works from US
book artists. 150 copies. 2003.
Martin, Emily and Kauffman, Janet. A two-poem broadside presented side-by-side. 5 1/2
x 10 3/4”. Collaborative reduction linoblock and letterpress-printing ,with Paul
Moxon. 100 copies. 2001.
Elements. Bostrophedon, 16 x 16”, folded to 4 x 4”. Collaborative broadside created with
three advanced printing students. 60 copies. 2000.
Commissioned Work (unpaid)
Negative Space in Handmade Paper: Picturing the Void. 8 1/2 x 11”, 48p. plus 14 artist
works enclosed in folders and boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC.
Designed project, w/additional letterpress printing. Commissioned by and created for
for the benefit of Hand Papermaking, 150 copies, 2014.
Handmade Paper: Fiber Exposed! 8 1/2 x 11”, 48p. plus 14 artist works enclosed in
folders and boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. Designed project, w/
additional letterpress printing. Commissioned by and created for for the benefit of
Hand Papermaking, 150 copies, 2012.
Handmade Paper in Motion. 8 1/2 x 11”, 48p. plus 14 artist works enclosed in folders
and boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. Designed project, w/additional
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 1! 3
letterpress printing. Commissioned by and created for for the benefit of Hand
Papermaking, 150 copies, 2010.
Calligraphy and Handmade Paper. 8 1/2 x 11”, 48p. plus 15 artist works enclosed in
folders and boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. Designed w/some
letterpress printing, commissioned by and created for for the benefit of Hand
Papermaking, 150 copies, 2007.
Harrison, Jim. I prefer the skyline… . Poem broadside. 11 x 17”. Reduction linocut and
letterpress-printed by Steve Miller. 300 copies. Red Hydra Press, 2004.
Commissioned by Square Books, Oxford, MS.
Salamun, Tomaz, A Poem. Chapbook. Linocuts by Carlos Ayress Moreno. Designed and
letterpress-printed by Steve Miller. 6 1/8 x 8.25”, 9p. 100 copies. Red Hydra Press,
2004. Commissioned by Black Warrior Review to commemorate its 30th anniversary.
Collins, Billy, Voyage. Poem broadside. 12 x 18”. Letterpress-printed by Steve Miller.
100 copies. 1993. Commissioned by the Library of Congress Centers for the Book,
Washington, DC, to celebrate its first twenty-five years.
Innovative Printmaking Techniques on Handmade Paper. 8 1/2 x 11”, 56p. plus 20
sample folders, boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. Designed w/some
letterpress printing, commissioned by and for the benefit of Hand Papermaking, 150
copies, 2003.
Watermarks in Handmade Paper: Modern & Historic. 8 1/2 x 11”, 44p. plus 20 sample
folders, boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. Designed w/some
letterpress printing, commissioned by and for the benefit of Hand Papermaking, 150
copies, 2001.
Old Ways, New Views: Photographic Processes on Handmade Paper. 8 1/2 x 11”, 42p.
plus 17 sample folders, boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. Designed
w/some letterpress printing, commissioned by and for the benefit of Hand
Papermaking, 100 copies, 1999.
Field, Dorothy. Handmade Paper in Nepal: Tradition and Change. 8 1/2 x 11”, 41p. plus
18 sample folders, boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. Designed w/
some letterpress printing, commissioned by and for the benefit of Hand Papermaking,
500 copies (150 boxed), 1999.
Opacity & Translucency: Letterpress Printing On Handmade Paper, 8 1/2 x 11”, 44p.
plus 16 sample folders, boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. Designed
w/some letterpress printing, commissioned by and for the benefit of Hand
Papermaking, 150 copies, 1996.
Limited Edition Bookmark. 2 1/2 x 8 1/4”. Wood engraving by John DePol, to celebrate
the 2,000,000th volume acquired by the UA libraries. Design and letterpress-printed,
then designed a facsimile edition for general distribution. 300 handmade copies,
1994. UA Libraries commission.
Stephens, Elton B. A Few Thoughts. Prose chapbook, with introduction by Senator
Howell Heflin. Wood engraving by John DePol. 6 7/8 x 10 1/2”. 37p. 50 copies.
1994. Produced with student assistance. Commissioned by SLIS.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 1! 4
Design and Pattern in Decorated Papers: Wet and Dry Techniques, 8 1/2 x 11”, 29p. plus
21 sample folders, boxed. Hand Papermaking, Inc., Washington, DC. 150 copies,
1994. Design commissioned by and for the benefit of Hand Papermaking.
A Festschrift For John DePol. Wrote, designed and letterpress-printed a folio for the
book. 7 1/2 x 10 1/4”. 4 p. 150 copies. Yellow Barn Press, 1994.
Wild Birds of America; The Art of Basil Ede. 9 1/4 x 13”, 107p. The Warner Collection,
Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, AL. Project Director and letterpress
printer, assisted by advanced students. 150 copies, 1991. Commissioned by Gulf State
Paper Corporation.
Creative Works in Progress
La Carerra/The Race. Poems by Omar Perez and linocuts by Ramón Vargas.
Zeke. This is a miniature book project. ZEKE is the tale I have written about the Pit Bull
puppy and his owner who came into our lives before, during, and after the April 27,
2011 tornado that destroyed our home. It will be accompanied by photographic
images of Zeke. Fifty-five copies designed, letterpress printed, and hand bound by
me. Red Hydra Press, 2016.
Articles/Writing
In Search of Amate: Alabama to San Pablito, Mexico. With Martin Vinaver, Hand
Papermaking, Volume 28, Number 2, Winter 2013.
Thirty Years of Book Arts at The University of Alabama, Parentheses 23, journal of the
Fine Press Book Association, Fall 2012.
Handmade Books. Skin (photo of a book created by Steve Miller, Red Hydra Press), pp.
80-81, Lark Press, a division of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY, 2010.
Miller, Steve. Making Paper From the Banana Tree: An Alabama Approach. Hand
Papermaking, Volume 24, Number 3 (Summer 2010) .
Miller, Steve. All About the MFA in the Book Arts: School of Library & Information
Studies, The University of Alabama. Collegiate Book Art Association Newsletter, 1,
September 2009 (1) 2.5.
Miller, Steve; Simmons, S. (2009). Book Arts Education in Transition: a conversation
between Steve Miller and Shawn K. Simmons. Barrios, Pamela Conn, Donia Hamner,
Karen (Eds.), The Bonefolder: a peer-reviewed e-journal for the bookbinder and book
artist, (Volume 6, pp. 41-43). http://www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/. Syracuse, NY:
Peter D. Verheyen: Bookbinder & Conservator.
Alabama Mule Dung Paper by Steve Miller and Glenn House, with paper samples, Hand
Papermaking, Beltsville, MD, Winter 2008 issue – Volume 23, Number 2.
500 Handmade Books. Edited by, and with a preface and gallery of work by Steve Miller,
Lark Press, Asheville, NC, August, 2008.
Book review of Letterpress Printing: A Manual For Modern Fine Press Printers, Paul
Maravelas, Oak Knoll Press, 2005, published April 2007 by Papers of the
Bibliographical Society of America.
Chapter, “The Reduction Linoleum Cut,” The Penland Book of Book Arts: Master
Classes in the Book Arts. 21p. Lark Press, Asheville, NC. 2004.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 1! 5
Review, Bookbinding & Other Bibliophily; Essays in Honor of Anthony Hobson,
Libraries & Culture, Volume 31, Numbers 3 & 4, Summer 1996.
Chapter, "Red Ozier: A Recollection," The Red Ozier: A Literary Fine Press, by Michael
Peich, co-published by The New York Public Library and Yellow Barn Press,
Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1993.
Article, "PBI '92 Resident Workshops in Advanced Paper & Book Arts," Bookways,
Number 6, January 1993, Austin, Texas. [book arts quarterly]
Article, "Book Arts at The University of Alabama," Hand Papermaking, Volume 7,
Number 1, May, 1992.
Co-author, with Paula Gourley, of First Impressions newsletters, Volume V, Number 1,
October 1988; Volume VI-Number 1, March 1990; Volume VII-Number 1, September
1990; Volume VIII-Number 1, February 1992; Volume IX-Number 1, September
1993.
Author, What Is A Red Ozier? Aralia Press, West Chester University, 1989. 7p.
Chapbook.
Exhibitions
Rapture. Exhibited at the University of Nebraska-Omaha Art Gallery, Feb-Mar 2016. A
broadside with image by Steve Miller and poem by Matt Mason, in a portfolio in
celebration of nearly sixty years of the late Harry Duncan printing and publishing
contemporary poetry. His work as editor and typographer set an example for printers
and enriched our reading of poetry. To mark the centenary of Harry’s birth, Gibraltar
Editions edited and issued a collection of contemporary poems printed by various
printers who were influenced either directly or indirectly by Duncan’s work. http://
gibraltareditions.co/fence.html
Connections invited group exhibition (with artists John Horn, Robyn Horn, and Doug
Stowe), The Leonard Smith Family Gallery, Henry Zarrow Center for Art and
Education, Tulsa, OK. October 4-31, 2013.
Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art, is a
celebration of 30 master craftspeople and traditional artists in the South. MaySeptember 2011, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia; October – November
2011, Appleton Museum at Central College of Florida in Ocala; January 6 – April 28,
2012, Walter Anderson Museum, Ocean Springs, MS.; February 1 – April 27,
2013, Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, VA; May 13 – August 30, 2013, The Morris
Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.
Novel Abstractions | Book Exhibition. Reyes + Davis Gallery, Washington, DC. Invited to
participate with eight other artists, Sept 8-Oct 16, 2010.
The Page: An Interactive Exhibition of Artists' Books. Guggenheim Gallery, Los Angeles
Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Los Angeles, CA. Co-curated by Karin
Lanzoni & Rachelle W. Chuang. May 20-June 15, 2010.
The Page: An Interactive Exhibition of Artists' Books, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman
University College of Performing Arts, Orange, CA. Co-curated by Karin Lanzoni &
Rachelle W. Chuang. February 1-March 12, 2010.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 1! 6
Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art. Juried
traveling exhibition. Works by 60 master traditional artists and contemporary
craftspeople from throughout the Southern Arts Federation’s nine partner states
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Tennessee) accompanied by a rich array of artist interviews, stories, and
background information on the artists and their processes. Louisiana, January 10 –
February 24, 2008, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Atlanta
History Center, Mar 1 – May 18, 2008; Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville,
KY June 7 – Aug 23, 2008; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN Oct 2, 2008 –
Jan 18, 2009; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL Feb 27 – Apr 25, 2009;
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, May 22-Aug 23, 2009; Sumster County
Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC, Sep 10-Nov 12, 2009; Jule Collins Smith Museum of
Fine Art, Auburn, AL, Jan 23-May 15, 2010; Louisiana Art & Science Museum,
Baton, Rouge, LA, Jul 28-Sep 26, 2010.
Somewhere Far from Habit: The Poet and the Artist's Book, an invitational exhibition.
Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA. A limited edition poem
broadside entitled Evening Song by Joy Harjo, letterpress-printed over an Epsonprinted image of a moth on sand, 14" x 11". Forty copies designed and letterpressprinted type and reduction linocut print. The edition was create for a Longwood
University print portfolio. November 6-December 5, 2009.
Penland: Great Teachers, Great Artists, Juried invitational exhibition. Habatat Galleries
VA, Inc., Tysons Corner, VA, April 28-July 17, 2009.
Juried Members Show, Collegiate Book Art Association, curated by the UI Center for the
Book, Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, IA, Jan 8 – Feb 15, 2009.
Cuban Art, invitational exhibition, Pepper Place Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL Jan 29 –
Mar 1, 2009.
Alabama Bound: Contemporary Fine Press and Artists’ Books. Juried invitational
exhibition, Mobile Museum of Arts, Mobile, AL Oct 10 – Apr 12, 2009.
The Making of ...or the opposite, and Other Books from Red Hydra Press, Windhover Art
Center and Fond du Lac Public Library, Fond du Lac, WI, March 15–April 15, 2008.
Penland School Instructors Invitational Exhibition, Penland School of Crafts, Penland,
NC, September 2007.
Penland School Instructors Invitational Exhibition, Penland School of Crafts, Penland,
NC, June 2007.
The Printed Page. Juried exhibition of artists’ books, Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR,
March 1-31, 2007. Juried by Roberta Lavadour and Shu-Ju Wang.
BookMakers: Handmade Books from the University of Alabama's Book Arts Program.
Invitational exhibition at Birmingham Public Library, January 3-February 12, 2007.
Works with Paper: Artists’ Books Exhibition. University Art Gallery, Sewanee: The
University of the South, Sewanee, TN, Aug. 9 - Sept. 4, 2006. Collaborative piece
with Anna Embree. Juried by Ruth R. Rogers.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 1! 7
A Celebration of Steve Miller, Book Artist, The Windhover Center for the Arts and the
Fond du Lac Public Library, Fond du Lac, WI, one-man exhibition with lecture, April
16, 2004.
Penland School Instructors Invitational Exhibition, Penland School of Crafts, Penland,
NC, June 2004.
Open Signatures, March 7-May 9, 2003. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID,
juried exhibition.
Penland School Instructors Invitational Exhibition, Penland School of Crafts, Penland,
NC, June 2002, invitational exhibition.
Speaking Volumes: The Southeastern University Educator’s Book Arts Invitational,
November 2001 – February 2002, Robert C. Williams American Museum of
Papermaking, juried exhibition.
Penland School Instructors Invitational Exhibition, The Penland School, Penland, NC,
July 2000, invitational exhibition.
Recent Work from the M.F.A. in the Book Arts Program at The University of Alabama,
The Birmingham Public Library, September 5-October 15, 1998.
Penland School Instructors Invitational Exhibition, The Penland School, Penland, NC,
July 1998, invitational exhibition.
The Book Express; An Exhibition of Contemporary Book Arts, The Atlanta International
Museum of Art and Design, April 5-May 3, 1997, juried exhibition.
Penland School Instructors Invitational Exhibition, The Penland School, Penland, NC,
May 18, 1996, invitational exhibition.
Fine Press Books of the South, Burke’s Books, Memphis, TN, April 3-10, 1996,
invitational exhibition.
Books That Teach: Collegiate Book Arts Presses & Their Books, Columbia College
Chicago Center for the Book, June 23-August 31, 1995, invitational exhibition.
6451 Plus, Pensacola Junior College Visual Arts Gallery, Pensacola, FL, January 11February 8, 1995, invitational exhibition.
Prints, Paper, Books and Broadsides, The Corcoran School of Arts, Washington, DC, Fall
1994, invitational exhibition.
The Art of the Book and the Book Arts Press, Upper Arlington Municipal Center
Concourse Gallery, Ohio, May 15-July 15, 1994, invitational exhibition.
Made in the Midwest, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, March 1-May 31, 1994, invitational
exhibition.
The Red Ozier: A Literary Fine Press, retrospective exhibition at Cooper Union,
Humanities Gallery, New York, NY, October 19-November 19, 1993.
6451 etc, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin, March 21-May 2,
1993, invitational exhibition.
Art of the Book '93, sponsored by the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild at
the Ontario Craft Council's Craft Gallery, Ontario, Canada, March 10, 1993 and
touring for two years thereafter, juried exhibition.
Book Links, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, Alabama, May 1-May 29, 1992, invitational
exhibition.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 1! 8
Library: A Book Artists' Invitational Exhibition, Granary Books, New York, New York,
April 15-May 9, 1992, invitational exhibition.
Hitting the Books: Selections from Leading Book Arts Education Programs, Minnesota
Center for Book Arts (MCBA), Minneapolis, MN, June 29-August 24, 1991,
invitational exhibition.
Eighty from the Eighties, The New York Public Library, November 3, 1990-April 27,
1991, juried exhibition.
The Art of the Contemporary Book: New Works, Bricker Hall, The Ohio State University,
November 3-24, 1991, juried exhibition.
The Fine Art of the Book, American Booksellers Association, Las Vegas, NE, June 2-5,
1990, juried exhibition.
Vessels of Message, Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI, May 18-June 7, 1990,
juried exhibition.
Contemporary Book Art, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA, April 6-26, 1990, juried
exhibition.
Red Ozier Press, retrospective exhibition, West Chester University, West Chester, PA,
March 13-April 30, 1989.
Arts of the Book, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, September 1988,
invitational exhibition.
Other Creative Work
Podcast interviews for “Book Artists and Poets”, found on iTunes and iTunes U.
Interviews conducted at Paper & Book Intensive, from May 16-28, 2015, and edited
and posted to iTunes in the following months. The interviews were of Adam Larsson,
Colette Fu, Kevin Steele, Matura Kearsley, Mary Uthuppuru, Sarah Bryant, Shannon
Brock, and Tate Shaw.
Consulting
Informal program review and meeting with staff and faculty, the University of Utah Book
Arts Program, June 3-7, 2015.
Member, 2-D Building Planning Committee, The Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
A group of instructors plus administrators and architects working with architects on
planning for a new building, February 2005-07. The building, the Paul Hayden
Duensing Letterpress & Print Studio, became operational June 2007.
Cuba trip December 10-15, 2006. At the invitation of UA Dean Olin, Arts & Sciences, I
joined a small contingency going to Havana to meet with studio arts counterparts at
ISSA During this visit I planned with Cuban papermaking and printmaking
colleagues for the Spring 2007 faculty-student working trip.
The Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC. Web design, creation, and updating of their
site. October 1997 I taught a weekend workshop in web design and maintenance at
Penland, and they took over the updating of the site. www.penland.org.
Designed website, Horizons; The New England Craft Program, 1996.
Designed website, The Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 1995-96.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 1! 9
Consultant, Wild Birds of America; The Art of Basil Ede. The Warner Collection and
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, September, 1991. Project Consultant for the
commercial trade edition.
Consultant, The Warner Collection, Gulf State Paper Corporation on their Basil Ede print
publishing project, January 1990
Workshops Conducted
The Whole Book. Oct 3-10, 2015 workshop at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
On Handmade Papers. July 22-23 workshop at the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum at
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
Why Books? April 19, 2015 workshop and presentation, The Open Press, Chattanooga,
TN.
A Sheetathon workshop, Paper and Book Intensive, May 16-28, 2015.
Why Books? A Kamikaze Book Making Workshop, Whitworth University, Nov 20–24,
2014.
A Treasured Object, Penland School of Crafts, June 21–July 5, 2014.
Bookbinding for Artists and Writers, Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. Mar 8, 2013.
Alternative Papermaking Fibers, Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA. Oct 11–12, 2013.
The Joy of Letterpress, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, March 14-18, 2012.
A Florida Kozo Papermaking Workshop, Gainesville, FL, October 8, 2011, for the benefit
of Hand Papermaking Journal.
The Mystery of Letterpress Printing; Joy of the Vandercook; Wells College Summer Book
Arts Institute. May 18-22, 2011.
Sandragraph Letterpress Printing Demonstration, Corcoran College of Art + Design,
Washington, DC, Oct 15, 2010.
Letterpress Printing Workshop, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, May 30-June 12,
2010. A Book Arts student, Lauren Faulkenberry, was the class assistant.
Making Paper from Banana Stalks. Nov 16, 2009 demonstration, with three students,
Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Letterpress and Book Workshop—an intensive letterpress course from July 11-18, 2009 at
the Wells College Summer Institute, Aurora, NY.
Basics of Letterpress Printing, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, October 14-20,
2007.
The Perfect Storm class, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, June 10-22, 2007.
Making an Artist’s Journal workshop taught at the American Museum of Papermaking,
Atlanta, GA, June 3, 2006.
Letterpress Printing for Artists and Writers workshop taught at Penland School of Crafts,
Penland, NC, June 25-July 7, 2006.
Bookmaking for Artists and Writers, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, June 2004.
Creating the Bound Journal, The Windhover Center for the Arts, Fond Du Lac, WI, April
17-18, 2004.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 2! 0
On Bookmaking for Writers and Artists, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC,.July 20Aug 7, 2002.
BookZPress, journal-making workshop, The Robert C. Williams American Museum of
Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, January 19, 2002.
The Reduction Linoleum Cut, Scripps College, CA, October 27 – 30, 2000.
Letterpress Printing, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, assisted by UA student Paul
Moxon, June 25 – July 8, 2000.
Letterpress Printing. Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, June 21-July 4, 1998.
Spectra Fest Book Arts Demonstrations, Westwood School in Coker, AL, April 18, 1997.
Book Arts Demonstrations given by our students and me to over 300 US museum
directors and curators, The Atlanta International Museum of Art & Design, Atlanta,
GA, April 29, 1997.
Text/Art in Book Form, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, June 9-21, 1996.
The Sun Book/Moon Book, Paper & Book Intensive, Summer 1995.
Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book, Chicago, IL, assisted by UA student
Scott Snyder, May 5-7, 1995.
The Handmade Book, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, June 27-July 8, 1994.
Inside/Outside/ Outside/Inside: Non-traditional Book Forms, Structures, and ImageMaking, team taught with William Drendel, Paper & Book Intensive, Royal Oak,
MD, July 21-August 3, 1990.
On Bookmaking, English Department, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, March
13, 1989.
Large and Small Edition Planning, Paper & Book Intensive, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM,
August 21-31, 1989.
Printer/Bookbinder Collaboration, team-taught, with Paula Gourley, Penland School,
Penland, NC, June 5-June 16, 1989.
Presentations
Making in a Digital World. Apr 19, 2016 presentation for UH 210, The University of
Alabama.
Giving Voice to the Book Arts, panel discussion leader, College Book Art Association
meeting, Jan 8, 2016.
My Book Work. Oct 6, 2015 presentation at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
Making in a Digital World. Sept 15, 2015 presentation at University of Wisconsin-Fond
du Lac, Fond du Lac, WI.
Why Books? June 4, 2015 presentation at the University of Utah.
Why Books? Winternitz Lecture, College of Community Health Sciences, May 12, 2015
Presentation and Workshop, The Open Studio, Chattanooga, TN, April 19, 2015.
Presentation of my book and Cuba collaborative work to Penland School of Crafts Board
of Trustees, Apr 17, 2015.
Why Books? Presentation to UH210, UA. Mar 31, 2015.
Leadership U, presentation on Mar 25, 2015.
Why Books? Osher Lifelong Learning Institute presentation, Bryant Conference Center,
Feb 23, 2015.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 2! 1
Skype presentation on my book and materials work in Cuba and Mexico, WGS 296H
(Women & Gender Studies, Honors course), Whitworth University, Spokane, WA.
Apr 23, 2014.
Why Books? OLLI presentation, Fayette Civic Center, Fayette, AL. Mar 2, 2014.
Why Books? Presentation to UH210, UA. Nov 19, 2013.
On University Relationships, Leadership U panel discussion, Bryant Conference Center,
UA, Sept 30, 2014.
On Faculty Governance presentation, LAW711, Law School, UA. Sept 25, 2014.
Harsh Realities: The Professoriate in the 21st Century presentation, AHE 500-001,
Perspectives in Higher Education, UA. Sept 25, 2014.
Why Books? OLLI presentation, Bryant Conference Center, UA. Sept 24, 2013.
Why Books? Presentation given at Capstone Village, May 8, 2013.
The Alabama-Cuba Book Project, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, March 14, 2012.
MFA in the Book Arts Program, Gainesville, FL, October 8, 2011, for the benefit of Hand
Papermaking Journal.
Red Hydra Press, Wells College Summer Book Arts Institute, May 19, 2011.
21st Century Letterpress Printing and the Artisan Book, Transformations of the Book,
Watts Program, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI, Feb
26, 2011.
21st Century Letterpress Printing and the Artisan Book, plenary address, American
Printing History Association Annual Meeting, Corcoran College of Art + Design,
Washington, DC, Oct 16, 2010.
A Generosity of Spirit: Book Arts 2010, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada,
Oct 4, 2010.
Collaborations! Cuban and Alabama Artists Making Books by Hand, The University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Oct 5, 2010.
The Challenges & Joys of Artistic Collaborations, co-presentation with Prof. Anna
Embree at The University of Alabama’s Cuba Week, Oct 12, 2010.
Osher Lifelong Learning. Lecture about collaboration and the Book Arts presented at The
University of Alabama October 13, 2009, followed by a studio visit and presentation
on March 9, 2010.
Hallmark Symposium. Invited lecturer at the University of Kansas-Lawrence, September
28, 2009.
Alabama and the Cuba Connection, presentation with Anna Embree at Art, Fact, and
Artifact: The Book in Time and Place, CBAA national conference, Iowa City, IA Jan
9, 2009.
Moderator and interviewer, Hybrid Book Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 5, 2009.
BookFusion, presentation, with author Cade Collum, on the making of The Dogs of
Havana, 205 Gorgas Library, sponsored by UA Libraries, Nov 12, 2008.
The Cuban Connection, College of Communication & Information Sciences Board of
Visitors, Nov 6, 2008.
Alabama and the Cuban Connection, University of Maine at Machias, Oct 28, 2008.
The Making of ...or the opposite, Windhover Art Center, Fond du Lac, WI, March 18,
2008.
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Artist to Artist: The Alabama Cuba Book Project, Asheville BookWorks, Asheville, NC,
October 4, 2007.
Artist to Artist: The Alabama Cuba Book Project, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA,
September 6, 2007.
All About Paper and Book Intensive, Wells College, Aurora, NY, September 4, 2007.
Artist to Artist: The Alabama Cuba Book Project, Wells College, Aurora, NY September
3, 2007.
On Making Mule Dung Paper, hands-on workshop, Book Art and Paper Center, Gordo,
AL, June 2, 2007.
The King’s Library 50th Anniversary, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. The
Alabama Artisan Book and The Lexington Connection, presentation November 18,
2006.
The Book Arts at Alabama, presentation to the Tuscaloosa Women’s Club, University
Presbyterian, November 14, 2006.
Presenter, Kiwanis Club, Tuscaloosa, AL, December 12, 2005.
Book Arts Educator Panel, Artists Book Conference, Wells College, Wellesley, MA, June
17-18, 2005. Panel chair.
On the Making of the Dard Hunter Biography, Dard Hunter Symposium, Syracuse, NY,
October 12, 2002.
On Red Hydra Press Book Works, Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, Birmingham, AL,
November 14, 2001.
The Frederick Goudy Lecture. Scripps College, CA. October 27, 2000. Keynote.
On Printing and Publishing the Dard Hunter Biography, The Oak Knoll Festival, New
Castle, Deleware, October 1999. Keynote, with Cathleen Baker
The Futures of the Book conference . Nexus, Atlanta, March 27, 1999. Panelist.
Focus on Content: Beyond Words conference, Portland, Oregon. If A Book Falls Down in
the Forest, and No One is There to Hear It..., June 19, 1998. Keynote.
Making Books To Stay Alive, One Printer’s Perspective/The Craft and Art of the Whole
Book: Letterpress Printing, Bookbinding, and Papermaking at Alabama, Letterpress
Guild of New England, North Bennett Street School, Boston, MA, Saturday, April 25,
1998.
The Craft and Art of the Whole Book, to students and faculty, North Bennett Street
School, Boston, MA, April 24, 1998.
Making of the Dard Hunter Biography, Southeastern Chapter, The American Printing
History Association, November 21, 1997.
Recent Work, The Penland School, Penland, NC, June 18, 1996.
The Rounce & Coffin Club, Dawson’s Book Shop, Los Angeles, CA, October 27, 1995.
An Archeological Approach; Making Books by Hand, The Pacific Center for the Book,
Berkeley, CA, November 5, 1995.
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, April 6-7, 1995. Presentation and critiques.
An Archeological Approach; Making Books by Hand, Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ, December 8, 1994.
On Making the Handmade Book, Friends of the Library at Ohio University, Athens, OH,
October 24, 1994.
Steven Kent Miller, Curriculum Vitae page 2! 3
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, February 2, 1995. Slide presentation and
critiques.
Keynote speaker, The Juncture of Visual & Verbal Literacy, annual teacher in-service
meeting, The Birmingham Museum of Art, at The Hoover Public Library, January 23,
1993.
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees Institutional Meeting, December 13, 1992.
Making Books by Hand, The Jefferson County Public Library group Titusville Branch,
Birmingham, AL, July 28, 1992.
Artist-in-Residence Day, Woodland Forrest School, Tuscaloosa, AL, May 1, 1992.
On Books, UA Center for Materials for Information Technology (MINT) Industrial
Sponsor Meeting, University Club, March 24, 1992.
The Book Arts in Alabama, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, January 31, 1992.
On Books, to the Docents of the Montgomery Museum of Art, Gulf States Paper
Corporation, November 4, 1991.
Paper & Book Intensive, Seattle, WA, June 15-23, 1991.
The University of Alabama's President's Cabinet, April 27, 1991.
Proceeds of the Pre-conference Session of Book Arts Organizations, at Book Arts in the
USA National Conference , New York, NY, March 29-April 2, 1990.
The Collegiate Press Conference, Tempe, AZ, March 14-18, 1990. Panelist.
Desktop Publishing Possibilities , Reference & Adult Services Roundtable, Alabama
Library Association, October 26, 1989.
On the Book, Paper & Book Intensive, Ghost Ranch, NM, August 25, 1989.
Red Ozier Press & The Book Arts Program at Alabama, Penland School, NC, June 14,
1989.
Book Arts at Alabama, at The University of Iowa Center for the Book, April 22, 1989.
Red Ozier Press, Making Books by Hand/The Book Arts Program at The University of
Alabama,, with Paula Gourley, alART conference (Alabama college art teachers), The
Univ. of Alabama, April 8, 1989
The Book Arts Program, with Paula Gourley, Alabama State Arts Council, Montgomery,
AL, April 5, 1989.
Service, State and National
Taped interview of Miller by Craig Nutt of CERF, the Craft Emergency Relief Fund,
February 26, 2016, in support of their valuable work for artists and craftspeople
distressed by disaster. This was a follow-up to the interview he did days after the
April 27, 2011 tornado that destroyed my home.
Board member, String Quartet Society of Tuscaloosa, 2014–2016.
Kentuck Festival, Northport, AL, October 18-19, 2014, organized Book Arts
demonstrations and a successful sale of student book works at this intensive weekend
event.
Nominator, The MacArthur Fellows Program, The John D. Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, June, 2014.
Judge, Southern Books Competition, Southeastern Library Association, State University
of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, August 23, 2014.
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Judge, Student Art Exhibition, University of Alabama-Huntsville, April 9, 2014.
Ferinart 2010, May 1-7, 2010, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. One of two individual artists
representing the United States at the international artisan festival, where I showed the
book and paper works of our students.
The Alabama Book Festival. Planned and participated in Book Arts demonstrations by
our students, Montgomery, AL, April 21, 2007; April 19. 2008; April 18, 2009; and
April 17, 2010.
Druid City Arts Festival. Planned and participated in Book Arts demonstrations by our
students, Tuscaloosa, AL, March 27, 2010.
Art, Fact, and Artifact: The Book in Time and Place conference, moderator for CrossDisciplinary session, Iowa City, IA Jan 10, 2009.
Member, Board of Directors, College Book Art Association, 2008 – 2010.
Co-chair, Communication Committee, Collegiate Book Art Association, 2007 – 2010.
Chair, Advisory Board, Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta,
GA, 2001 – present.
Kentuck Festival, Northport, AL, October 18-19, 2008, organized Book Arts
demonstrations and a successful sale of student book works at this intensive weekend
event.
Organized Book Arts Workshop for Creative Writing Magnet students from the Booker T.
Washington Magnet School, Montgomery, AL, Oct 1, 2008.
Co-director, Paper & Book Intensive, 1990 – present. Organize and help run 12-day
annual summer paper and bookmaking event, with five other co-directors. These are
large gatherings of 60-70 participants and instructors. My responsibilities include
keeping the budget, program development, advertising/website development,
registration, and on-site running of the event.
Printing Demonstration and presentation, during the grand opening of the Paul Hayden
Duensing Letterpress and Print Studio, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC,
August 8-11, 2007.
Member, 2-D Building Planning Committee, The Penland School of Crafts, Penland,
North Carolina. A group of three instructors plus administrators and architects
gathered to work with architects on planning for a new building , February 2005 –
June 2007.
Book Arts Workshop presented for Creative Writing students at the Booker T. Washington
Magnet School, Montgomery, AL, September 27, 2006.
Kentuck Festival, Northport, AL, October 15-16, 2005, organized with Anna Embree
Book Arts demonstrations and a successful sale of student book works at this
intensive weekend event.
Organized, Exhibition of Book Arts student and faculty work, Tuscaloosa Public Library,
Tuscaloosa, AL, November, 2004.
Nominator, The MacArthur Fellows Program, The John D. Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, June, 2004.
Co-organizer, with American Museum of Papermaking, Papermaking Teacher’s Meeting,
American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, June 9, 2004.
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Judge, Southern Libraries Annual Book Competition, Georgia Southern University,
Statesboro, GA, October 4, 2003.
Presentation/Tour, Prof. Jamie Runnel’s Design class, Mississippi State University,
October 12, 2004.
Judge, Southern Libraries Annual Book Competition, May 25, 2002.
Creator and webmaster, Friends of Dard Hunter Yahoo discussion group (http://
groups.yahoo.com/group/dardhunter/). 2001-present.
Judge, Southern Books Competition, Southeastern Library Association, State University
of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, August 25, 2001.
Organized/ran, Book Arts 2000 And Beyond. The Council of Book Arts Programs
Conference. A national gathering of book arts education organizations held on the UA
campus in February of 1999.
External evaluator, University of California, Santa Barbara, Harry Reese promotion,
August 20, 1997.
Judge, Southeastern Libraries Annual Book Competition, Uncle Remus Library System,
Madison, GA, February 24, 1996.
Consultant, to the Hansol Corporation, on their planned papermaking museum in Seoul,
South Korea, March 3, 1995.
External evaluator, Mary Phelan, Director of the Book Arts Program, University of the
Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1994 – 1995.
Vice-president, Annual Meetings, Friends of Dard Hunter [International papermaking
organization], 1992 – 1993.
Judge, Southeast Libraries Annual Book Competition, Birmingham, AL, October 25,
1992.
Panelist, review grant applications, State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL May, 31,
1989; May 30, 1990; May 29, 1991; and May 28, 1992.
Judge, Southern Libraries Annual Book Competitions, December 3, 1989 and April 28,
1990.
Organized, Book Arts Program exhibition, Kennedy-Douglas Art Museum, Florence, AL,
April 1990.
Service, The University of Alabama
Faculty Senate Governance Committee, co-chair, 2016-present.
Faculty Senate Steering Committee, 2012-present.
UA Presidential Search Committee, 2015.
Faculty Senate, 2010–present. Elected President 2012–2015.
Board of Trustees, Ex Officio member, 2012–2015
Appointed Co-director, The University of Alabama Center for Cuba Collaboration and
Scholarship, 2014.
Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, 2012-15.
E. Roger Sayers Distinguished Service Award Committee, April 2013, April 2014, April
2015.
Minnie Miles Award Committee, April 2013, April 2014, April 2015.
3-Minute Thesis Judge, UA Graduate School, Nov 20, 2013.
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UA Graduate Council, 2011–present.
UA Faculty Senate IT Committee, 2011–2013.
Organized Alabama Center for the Book meeting at UA, all about Alabama Archives and
Special Collections. Held February 3, 2012 at Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library.
Organized Alabama Center for the Book meeting at UA, of Alabama book artists and
people in related fields including teaching and librarianship. Held on Nov 6, 2010.
Alabama Center for the Book Blog. Worked with graduate students and the office of the
Dean of UA Libraries to develop and mount an interactive blog. It is featured on the
Center’s website.
Member, UA Faculty-Staff Benefits Committee, 2008 – 2011.
Chair, UA Mediation and Grievance Committee, 2007 – 2010.
UA Faculty Senate Past President, through April 2005.
Member, Task Force on Student Government Elections, 2005.
Presentation, UA Staff Senate Constitutional Meeting. September 9, 2004.
Presentation, UA New Graduate Student Orientation, Ferguson Theater, August 18, 2004.
UA Healthy Campus Director Search Committee Chair, June – July 2004.
UA Office of Institutional Research Director Search Committee. June 2004.
UA Healthy Campus Policy Committee, 2004.
Member, UA Libraries MLIS Grant Advisory Board Member, 2003–2005.
Chair, Vice-president for Student Affairs Search Committee, 2003.
President, Faculty Senate, 2002–03.
Faculty Representative, Board of Trustees, 2002–2003.
Co-chair, Student Affairs Committee, Faculty Senate, 2003.
Member, Faculty Senate Steering Committee, 2001–2005.
Member Healthy Campus Executive Committee, 2003–present
Chair, Healthy Campus Director Search Committee, Student Affairs.
Member, Alumni Affairs Outstanding Student and Outstanding Senior Awards
Committee, January 29, 2004.
Member, Steering Committee, UA 40th Anniversary, Opening Doors
Member, Roger Sayers Award Committee, 2003.
Member, Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award Committee, 2003
Member, Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, 2003 – 2004.
Taught, Making Books, Prof. Matt Maki’s English 200 class, September 16, 2003.
Judge, Homecoming Parade, October 11, 2003.
Faculty advisor, UA Amnesty International, 2003 – present.
Vice-president, Faculty Senate, 2001 – 2002.
Member, Steering Committee, Faculty Senate, 2001 –2002.
Co-chair, Operations Committee, Faculty Senate, 2001 – 2002.
Faculty Senate representative, Committee on Committees, 2001 – 2002.
Tour, Advanced Printmaking course, Jennifer Yorke, instructor, February 9, 1999.
Tour, Creative Writing students, Libby Rifkin, instructor, January 21, 1999.
Tour, Printmaking course, Jennifer Yorke, instructor, November 24, 1998.
Tour, Advanced Printmaking course, Jennifer Yorke, instructor, October 27, 1998.
Member, Interim Term Committee, 1996 – 97.
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Alternate Senator, Faculty Senate, 1994 – 1998.
Curated and mounted exhibition, Hoole Special Collections of the work of Harry and
Sandra Reese, Turkey Press, Santa Barbara, CA, September 2 – November 30, 1996.
Tour, Library History Seminar, April 1, 1995.
Member, Research Grants Committee, Arts and Humanities Subcommittee, 1992 – 1995.
Judge, magazine segment, 1992 District III CASE magazine design competition,
Alabama Heritage magazine, December 16, 1992.
Organize/direct Book Arts demonstrations, The University of Alabama Homecoming Tent
Event on the Quad, October 12, 1991, and October 3, 1992.
Member, Writing Subcommittee, Core Curriculum Oversight Committee, 1990 – 92.
Member, Task Force on Graduate Admissions, Graduate School, summer 1991.
Planned/printed, presentation box enclosing The Wild Birds of America for the Prime
Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa. A gift from the University. Dr. Portera, VicePresident for External Affairs, March 3, 1991.
Member, Student Affairs Subcommittee, Faculty Senate, 1990 – 92.
Faculty Senate representative, Core Curriculum Oversight Committee, 1990 – 92.
Faculty Advisor, Research Grants Committee for the production of Publications of the
Faculty and Staff, 1987 – 1988.
Gallery Talk, Prof. Robin Behn, Advanced Poetry class, December 7, 1988.
Gallery Talk, Prof. Michelle Elise, American Literature class, November 30, 1988.
Service, College of Communication and Information Sciences
On-air host, WUAL/WQPR. Fall and spring public radio fund drives, 1998 – present.
Design/organize printing, College of Communication & Information Sciences Hall of
Fame award winners handmade broadsides, 2000 – 2015.
SLIS Interim Director, July 1-Aug 15, 2011.
SLIS Director Search Committee, chair, 2010-2011.
CCIS Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2007 – 2010 (chair 2010).
Presentation, The History of Book Printing, for Prof. Butler Cain’s Media History class,
January 30, 2008.
Presentation, How Books Are and Have Been Made by Hand, for Prof. George Daniel’s
Journalism class, May 24, 2004.
Member, College of Communication Faculty Committee, 1998-2000.
Interviewed fine press printer Harry Reese for WUAL, September 4, 1996.
Interviewed papermakers Mina Takahashi and Glenn House on WUAL, February 12,
1995.
Service, School of Library & Information Studies:
SLIS Committee on Faculty, 2015-16.
SLIS Curriculum Committee, 2014-15.
Redesign of Book Arts website, 2013-ongoing, plus regular updating.
Member, Student Paper Award Committee, 2014.
Chair, SLIS ad hoc committee on joint MLIS-MFA degree and MA planning, 2010 –
present.
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Mounted Hand Papermaking Portfolio Exhibition, Fifth Floor Gallery, May 28-July 30,
2013.
SLIS Web-PR Committee member, 2011 – 2013.
Organized IMLS scholar visits for two presentations each during Fall 2011 and Spring
2012: Timothy Barrett, Michelle Cloonan, Joseph Dane, Tim Ely, Julie Leonard, and
Kathleen Walkup.
SLIS Physical Resources Committee, chair, 2006 – member, present.
MFA in the Book Arts Reaccreditation Committee, chair, 2006 – 2008.
SLIS ad hoc Web Design Committee, member, 2007 – 2009.
SLIS Finance Committee, 2008.
SLIS Technology Committee, 2008.
SLIS Student Committee, 2008 – present.
SLIS Faculty Search Committee, 2006 – 2008.
Book Arts Advisory Board meeting, organized, March 23-25, 2007
SLIS Development Committee, 2006 – 07.
Book Arts and The Cuba Connection, presentation to UH 210 The Arts of Tuscaloosa
course, November 14, 2006.
Presentation to NEW212 Creativity course, November 1, 2006.
University Libraries Student Book Collection Competition, judge, October 13, 2006.
Disaster Preparedness Workshop, Library of Congress, May 23-24, 2006. Organized.
Member, Advisory committee of the University Libraries Digital Trade Bindings Project,
2003-present.
Organized, SLIS Alabama Center for the Book, book arts demonstrations, January 28,
2005.
Web Design Award Committee, 2004-05.
Committee on Faculty, 2004-05.
Organized, Alumni Day Book Arts Demonstrations, November 5, 2004.
Physical Resources Committee, SLIS, 1996-97, 2001-02, 2003-present, chair.
Student Affairs Committee, 2003-04.
Committee on Students, 2003-04.
Curriculum Committee, 2003-04.
Bookbinding Faculty Search Committee, 2000-01, chair.
Committee on Students, 1989-91, 1992-96, 1994-95, 2000-02.
Best Paper Committee, 1998-99.
Ad hoc Committee on Curriculum Planning, 1999.
Faculty Search Committee, bookbinding position, 1997, chair.
Logo Design Committee, College of Communication, 1997.
Organized hand papermaking demonstrations, Alumni Day, November 1, 1996.
Taught, web design section for Dr. Marion Paris’ class, April 9, 1996.
COA/Mission, Goals and Objectives Committee, 1994-95.
Annabel Stephens Promotion Committee, 1994-95, chair.
Committee on Faculty, 1994-96.
Faculty Search Committee, 1994-95.
Designed/printed, program, the Library History Seminar, March 30-April 1, 1995.
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Organized/directed, Book Arts demonstrations, Alumni Day, November 1, 1991-present.
Physical Facilities Committee, 1991-92.
Presenter, MLS students, SAC luncheon, September 18, 1991.
Designed cover for AlaLA conference of June, 1991.
Representative, Graduate & Professional School Day, Ferguson Center, October 11, 1990,
and October 16, 1991.
Senator, Faculty Senate, 1990-92.
Promotion Committee, Dr. Marion Paris, 1989.
Promotion Committee, Dr. Gordon Coleman, 1988.
Service, MFA in the Book Arts Program
Katherine Ruffin, PhD, Graduate Symposium presentation and exhibition (March 23,
2016-September 1, 2016) in the Fifth Floor Gallery, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library.
Paul Moxon, hosted printing press expert who presented to Book Arts letterpress students
and helped recondition printing presses, Feb 15–18, 2016.
Organized the process, including jurying, for the first Holle Book Arts Award of $10,000,
awarded to one of our graduates Sara White. Next year the award will go national.
Renown Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura visit and conversation with Book Art students
about the role of books in his work, Jan 21, 2016.
Took five Book Arts students to the annual College Book Art Association meeting, held in
Nashville, TN, Jan 6-10, 2016.
Audrey Niffeneger, visit and presentation with Book Art students, Nov 17, 2015.
Ellen Knudson, printing workshop for all Book Arts students, Aug 21-22, 2015.
Timothy Geiger, poet and book artist’s presentation for Book Arts students, April 2, 2015.
Paul Moxon, hosted guest press technician who helped recondition printing presses, Dec
14–18, 2014.
Organized Holiday Book Arts Sale, UA Ferguson Center, December 2-3, 2014.
Omar Perez, guest poet, artist, and Cuban zen master presentation to Book Arts students,
Oct 22, 2014.
Alejandro Sainz, guest artist working with our students, from Taller Experimental de
Grafica, Havana, Cuba, October 29–Sept 4, 2014.
Sarah Bryant, workshop for all Book Arts students, Aug 25-29, 2014.
Katie Baldwin, UAH guest artist presentation for Book Arts students, April 18, 2014.
Kaia Sand, guest artist presentation for Book Arts students, April 1, 2014
Martin Vinaver, Mexican guest artist visit for a Mokuhanga workshop, Feb 26–Mar 22,
2014.
Organized Cuba collaborative book project working trip with five graduate students and
Anna Embree to Havana, Cuba, February 9–16, 2014.
Paul Moxon, guest artist visit and Vandercook Press demo and maintenance, Jan 22–24,
2014. Organized Holiday Book Art Sale, UA Ferguson Center, Dec 2–3, 2013.
Daniel Urban, visiting letterpress printer hand press workshop, March 30–31, 2012.
Organized Cuba collaborative book project working visit with three graduate students and
Anna Embree to Havana, Cuba, February 1-8, 2012.
Organized Holiday Book Arts Sale, UA Ferguson Center, December 5-6, 2011.
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Cuba collaborative book project planning trip, Havana, Cuba, November 20-23, 2011.
Russell Maret, visiting book artist, November 22, 2011.
Sigfredo Mendoza linocut/lithograph workshop/residency, September 11-17, 2011.
Combat Paper Project, Nov 13-20, 2010. Invited four members of CPP to be resident
artists, working with our students to create books and broadside reflecting their
experiences in and with the military. Partially supported by UA Department of Art &
Art History.
Druid City Art Festival, Tuscaloosa, AL, March 27, 2010. Organized and participated on
behalf of the program.
Glenn House Sr., taught a day-long workshop on Kozo harvesting for BA 541, Mar 4,
2010.
Linda Samson Talleur, visiting artist gave a workshop of Printing With The Handpress,
Feb 26-27, 2010.
Glenn House Sr., visiting artists taught a half-day workshop on printing with the
clamshell press, Jan 26, 2010.
Susan Hulme and Beverly Plummer, visiting artists presentations to Book Arts students,
Mar 3, 2009.
Webmaster, MFA in the Book Arts Program, ongoing.
Ann Marie Kennedy, Visiting Artist Papermaker, Pigmenting Various Papermaking
Fibers workshop, March 6-7, 2008.
Paul Moxon, Visiting Letterpress Printer/Technician, Press Maintenance workshop, July
18-19, 2007.
Sally Johnson, Visiting Papermaker Artist, Ginger Lily workshop, BA 541 Hand
Papermaking, March 29, 2007.
Glenn House Sr., Mixed media Book Artist Fifth Floor Gallery exhibition, February 1March 23, 2007, with closing artist presentation March 23rd..
Glenn House Sr., Guest Artist, BA 541 Hand Papermaking, March 22, 2007 to lead the
Alabama Kozo workshop.
John Horn, Visiting Printer, Fifth Floor Gallery exhibition (September 24-October 30,
2006), and October 27th artist workshop and public presentation.
Jerry Lamme, Visiting Artist, Summer 2006, Fifth Floor Gallery exhibition (August 18September 24, 2006) and September 19, 2006 artist presentation.
Visiting Artist, Paul Moxon, Spring Workshops in Alabama: Letterpress 101 and
Vandercook Maintenance, May 12-14, 2005.
Visiting Papermaker, Ann Marie Kennedy, Spring Workshops in Alabama: Hand
Papermaking, May 9-11, 2005.
Guest Papermaker, Glenn House led the annual Kozo Harvest, collecting native paper
mulberry bark for production into asian papers, February 3, 2005.
Workshop, Ellen Knudson, Gelatin Plate Printmaking workshop, presented to Book Arts
students, September 24-25, 2004.
Visiting Papermaker, Bernie Vinzani, Spring Workshops in Alabama: Traditional Sheet
Formation, May 21-23, 2004.
Guest Lecturer, Charlie West, CPA, Graduate Symposium, on the business of book arts,
April 5, 2004.
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Guest Artist, Dorothy Field, Canadian poet and paper artist, presentation on her life and
travels in hand papermaking, April 8, 2004.
Guest Artist/workshop presenter, Sally Johnson, Birmingham, AL, Spring 2003, and
Spring 2004.
Guest lecturer, Rory Golden, Director, New York Center for the Book, October 17, 2003.
Field Trip, book arts venues, Atlanta, GA, October 9, 2003.
Papermaking Plant Research Garden. Working with the UA’s landscape/grounds
division, I located and created a plant area on campus for ongoing research on
papermaking fibers. This area provides papermakers a fiber source as well as handson experience in plant cultivation. 2002.
Visiting Artist, Lecturer, workshop presenter, Lynn Amlie, Director, Oakdale
Papermaking Facility, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, March 14 – 16, 2002.
Visiting Artist/Workshop, Stanley Nelson, Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution, on the tradition of cutting type punches and casting type by hand, October
25-27, 2002.
Organized, Graduate Symposium visit to Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, Birmingham, AL,
on the business of books, November 28, 2001.
Organized, student visit, The University of Mississippi Special Collections, October 31,
2001.
Invited presenter, Dr. John Dew, The University of Alabama, invited presenter at Book
Arts Kickoff Meeting August 24, 2001.
Visiting Artist/workshop, Paul Wong, Artistic Director, Dieu Donne Hand Papermill,
New York City, and exhibition, Fifth Floor Gallery, April 12-15, 2001.
Speaker, William Stewart, Proprietor, Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, Birmingham, AL,
April 5, 2001.
Chair, SLIS MFA Program Committee, 1998-99. We were granted accreditation from
National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).
Visiting Artist, Mina Takahashi, Executive Director, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York,
NY. Workshop and public lecture, April 8-10, 1998.
Visiting Artist, Glenn House, A Hand Press Workshop, January 20 & 22, 1998.
Visiting Papermakers, Twinrocker Papermill, Catherine & Howard Clark proprietors,
lecture and demonstration in papermill, March 16, 1998.
Visiting Bookbinder, Pamela Spitzmueller, Chief Book Conservator, University of Iowa,
leather workshop and public lecture, March 24-29, 1998.
Expedited two Book Arts students in receiving competitive Studio Assistantships, The
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, summer 1997.
Visiting Artist, Bonnie Stahlecker, Pop-up Structures workshop for all Book arts students,
October 9-10, 1997.
Visiting Curators, Cindy Bowden, The Robert C. Williams American Museum of
Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, and David Bell, Director of the Atlanta International
Museum of Art and Design, February 18-19, 1997.
Expedited five Book Arts students in receiving competitive Studio Assistantships, The
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, summer 1996.
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Field trip, Book Arts students. The American Museum of Papermaking and Nexus Press,
Atlanta, GA, February 22, 1996.
Field trip, Oxford, MS, students visit the Ole Miss Special Collections, and Faulkner’s
home November 12, 1996.
Visiting Artist, Harry Reese, workshop on alternative printing techniques, September 4-5,
1996.
Organized/hosted, as President, the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Dard Hunter in
Austin, TX, October 12-15, 1995, with six of our students participating (some on
scholarship). FDH paid for the van for the students to get to Texas.
Visiting Artist, Mina Takahashi, Dieu Donné Press & Paper, NY, Large Kozo Sheet
Formation Workshop, February 8-10, 1995.
Field Trip, Book Arts students, The American Museum of Papermaking and Nexus Press,
Atlanta, GA, November 8, 1994.
Organized and ran, as Vice-president-Annual Meetings, the Annual Meeting of the
Friends of Dard Hunter in Chillicothe, OH, with nine of our students participating,
some on scholarship, October 19-23, 1994.
Organized/mounted Book Arts exhibitions: Hand Papermaking and The Work of Peter &
Donna Thomas, Fifth Floor Gallery, Fall 1994.
Visiting Lecturer, Cathleen Baker, Book Conservator, Chillicothe, OH, On the Nature of
Adhesives, Fall 1994.
Field Trip-working, Book Arts students on a bookmaking trip, Penland School of Crafts,
Penland, NC. Produced the chapbook, April 14-18, 1994
Guest Poet/Publisher, Charles Alexander, CHAX Press, Tucson, AZ, January 20-24,
1993. He spoke with students, and gave a public reading co-sponsored by the Book
Arts Program and The Writing Series.
Field Trip, Book Arts students, Oxford, MS, January 16, 1993.
Guest Lecturer, Barbara Tetenbaum, Silver Buckle Press, Madison, WI, September 3,
1991.
Visiting Printer, Michael Hutchins, printer/printing historian, The Camberwell College of
Arts, London, England. He demonstrated the iron hand press. March 17, 1991.
Visiting Artist, Paul Ritscher, Nashville, TN. Wood engraving workshop for the Book
Arts students, March 15, 1991.
Visiting Lecturer, by Michael Peich, /West Chester University, West Chester, PA, author
of Carroll Coleman and the Prairie Press, a Parallel Editions book. January 14, 1991.
Organizer and volunteer, Book Arts tables at The Kentuck Festival, Northport, AL,
October 1990-present.
Field Trip, Book Arts, Univ of Mississippi Special Collections, Oxford, MS, August 23,
1990.
Applied and received all-expenses grant, Arizona State University, for student Beverly
Schlee to attend the Collegiate Press Conference as a panelist, March 14-18, 1990,
Tempe, AZ.
Visiting Artist/Workshop, Leslie Miller, Grenfell Press, New York, NY, February 16,
1990.
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Field Trip, AAUP Annual Book Show, University of Alabama Press, and presentation by
head of book production, January 23, 1990.
Organized/expedited media coverage of the Book Arts Program, the Octavio Paz book,
and the Basil Ede book — (for a selection, see clippings) WUAL radio, TV channel 6,
TV channel 33, UA News Service TV, Atlanta Register newspaper, Tuscaloosa News,
UA Alumni Magazine, Southern Accents Magazine, 1989. [Paz won the Nobel Prize
the day after we finished printing his book.]
Field Trip, Kennedy-Douglass Art Center, Florence, AL, September 23, 1989.
Visiting Artist/Workshop, Ken Botnick, Yale University Press, September 21, 1989.
Visiting Lecturer/Publisher, Steve Clay, Granary Books, New York, NY, on the current
state of fine press publishing in America, October 5, 1988.
Workshop, taught Kamikaze Bookbinding Workshop, for UA students and visitors,
Saturday, September 17, 1988.
Service, Other
Making in a Digital World presentation to UH 210, The Arts of Tuscaloosa course, April
19, 2016.
Designed mugs for Paper & Book Intensive 2016, to be given to participants at the May
14-26, 2016 event at Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI.
The Cuba Book Project presentation to UH 210, The Arts of Tuscaloosa course, March
31, 2015.
Why Books? presentation to UH 210, The Arts of Tuscaloosa course, April 2, 2013.
Why Books? presentation to UH 210, The Arts of Tuscaloosa course, April 3, 2012.
Book Arts at Alabama, presentation to UH 210, The Arts of Tuscaloosa course, April 19,
2011.
Workshop organized and held at UA for students of Booker T. Washington Magnet
School, Montgomery, AL, April 4, 2011.
Presentation Red Ozier Press & Red Hydra Press, SLIS History of the Book course, Nov
8, 2010.
Alabama Book Arts, Cuba, and the Combat Paper Project, presentation to UH 210 The
Arts of Tuscaloosa course, Nov 16, 2010.
Alabama and The Cuba Connection, presentation to UH 210 The Arts of Tuscaloosa
course, April 13, 2010.
Alabama and the Cuban Connection, presentation to EN 403, April 13, 2009.
Alabama and The Cuba Connection, presentation to UH 210 The Arts of Tuscaloosa
course, April 7, 2009.
Presentation to CIS655 on printing and publishing, Jan 26, 2009.
Presentation and Book Arts tour, EN 200-007 Introduction Creative Writing, Cade
Collum, instructor, May 1, 2007.
Filmed presentation, as part of film maker Wayne Ewing’s making of The Outsiders of
New Orleans: Loujon Press, April 25, 2007.
Presentation, “On Making Books By Hand”, to UH 210, April 24, 2007.
Toured students from Montgomery, AL arts and performing high school, Dottie Main,
September 24, 2001.
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Toured high school students from Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL, Jess
Marie Walker, September 17, 2001.
Spectra Fest, Westwood Elementary School, all-day book arts demonstrations, April 18,
1997.
Cover story, “University Keeping Book Arts Alive,” July 24, 1994, The Montgomery
Advertiser.
Tour of the Book Arts facilities and presentation for Verner Elementary School 4th
graders, May 26, 1992.
Served on the Selection Panel, July 18, 1990, for artists for the autumn 1990 Kentuck
Festival.
Professional Development
Collegiate Book Art Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, January 6-10, 2016.
Copper As Matrix course, participant, Paper & Book Intensive 2010, July 17-21, 2010.
Art, Fact, and Artifact: The Book in Time and Place conference, Iowa City, IA Jan 8 – 10,
2009.
Collegiate Book Art Association Annual Meeting, University of Arizona-Tucson, January
10-13, 2007.
Member, UA Leadership Institute, 2003-2005.
Paper & Book Intensive, May 4-7, 2003, Tooele, Utah. Took a course entitled Coloring
Asian Fibers: A Comparative Experiment with instructor Mina Takahashi.
Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Meeting, Dalton, MA, October 25 – 28, 2001 (hand
papermakers and book artists).
Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Institutional Typography
with Greer Allen (University Printer, Yale University) July 16 – 20, 2001.
Typocrafters Meeting, Louisville, KY, October 6-8, 1989.
Personal
Birthplace: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. January 30, 1950.
19 Hillcrest Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401-5922
205-535-0772
May 2016
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