Emily McVarish (born 1965) is an American writer, designer, book artist and professor at

California College of the Arts California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996 it opened a second campus in Sa ...

. She lives and works in San Francisco and her work primarily takes the form of books. Clifton Meador says "she uses the form of the book to explore things that cannot be explored any other way". McVarish's books are die-cut, handset, printed, and bound. Her book ''Quickstead'' was selected as the Alastair Johnston Award Winner in 2014. Her work is held by the

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...

’s artist's book collection,

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’s American Collections and

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’s Printing and Graphic Arts Collection. Her work has been exhibited at

Lesley University Lesley University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. As of 2018-19 Lesley University enrolled 6,593 students (2,707 undergraduate and 3,886 graduate). History ...

in Cambridge the Center for Book Arts in New York, and the

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Bibliography

* With

Johanna Drucker Johanna Drucker (born May 30, 1952) is an American author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital art ae ...

''Graphic Design History'' Pearson 2012 * With Johanna Drucker ''MySearchLab'' Pearson 2012 * ''Quickstead'' Granary Books, 2011–2013. Edition of 45 * ''A Thousand Several'' Granary Books (2011) * ''The Square'' Granary Books (2009) * ''Was Here'' Granary Books (2001) * ''From the air'' E. McVarish (2000) * ''At the wheel'' Granary Books (1997) * ''Felicity'' Letterpress (1993) Edition of 50.

References

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