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"Conceived as part of Dr. Laura Browder's and Dr. Patricia Herrera's Documenting a historic Black high school course at the University of Richmond in the spring of 2018. The linoleum block print on the title page was designed and carved by Barry Coker. The book was designed by Jen Thomas, Book Arts Studio Coordinator.... Printed in an edition of 28"--Colophon.

"This book is made of two parts: the first is based on statistical data, generally on global samples. Pages are from 1 to 32. The second is based on surveys of reported data (perceptions, sensations, beliefs. Pages are from a to w [that is, a to v] You can read the two sections separately, or you can use the index to find links between the two. Choose you subject, match the numbers and letters, and then overlap the pages."--Page [1] "Frequently, the debate regarding gender equality becomes a clash of opinions, impeding any real inquiry. In The Veil is Seen Only When it is Lifted, the artist provides accumulated data as an instrument for breaching this impasse. Origoni visually restructures this conversation, arranging statistics with simple, playful design and breaking up the codex's linear narration. The book is composed with two studies; their bindings fall on opposite sides of the book. A Coptic-bound section presents quantitative data and the spiral-bound section reports experience-based data. Viewers are invited to read these parts separately or simultaneously, pages can be overlapped in patterns that unveil new information." -- https://wsworkshop.org/collection/veil-seen-lifted/ (viewed June 7, 2018)

"Artist book with hand-colored intaglio and letterpress. 2018. The witch is inside of me upends the nefariousness attributed to curiosity, sexuality, and disobedience in females and imbues the characters who raised me with power by embracing the corruptible, dual-faced nature within all of us"--Accompanying sheet.

"True to Life was written, illustrated, and designed by Julie Chen. It was letterpress printed using a combination of pressure plates, woodblocks, & photopolymer plates. It was assembled and bound at Flying Fish Press with expert assistance from Macy Chadwick. The image that appears on each page is one section of a long, continuous visual timeline that can never be viewed all at once. In an edition of 100 copies, this is number ..."--Colophon. "This latest bookwork from Julie Chen is about the subtle yet powerful influence that memory has on daily life. Personal history, while seemingly rooted in fact, may contain more meaning as narrative than it does as documentation of truth. In the form of a tablet with sliding pages, True to Life offers an innovative physical structure which corresponds to the shifting nature of memory, allowing the reader to create different combinations of text and image and thus alter the content of the piece, deliberately or by chance, with each reading"--Publisher's website.

"Ultrices is a collaboration about place, systems, and chance by Marianne Dages and Leah Mackin. Concieved, drawn, printed, and bound by the artists at Huldra Press in Philadelphia, 2016"--Colophon.

Part memoir, part treatise, part collage and experiment, Krista Franklin's Under the Knife is an excavation; a dig at the sites of the construction and demolition of the poet/artist's selves. Franklin plays fast and loose with fact at the crossroads of the history of her maternal line and her own in a ruptured conversation about inheritance and the generational traumas that blossom in the body. Under the Knife hiccups, cross-fades and stops midsentence as Franklin cuts through the illusion of memory, the pathologies of history, and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

Unleash records an angel's attempt to leave the book. A journey that starts with words about being confined and restrained, the angel appears and slowly makes a path through these words until succeeding to break the phrases and get out of the book. When the angel disappears from the book, the letters of the broken words start forming a human face.

"Uyghur food features typical and popular cuisine of the Uyghur nationality. In the front left you see naan bread with traditional designs that are hand punched with a chicken feather durtlik (stamp). The copper background is a classic kabob grill cart. The dishes are all placed on a traditional tablecloth and are surrounded by grapes from the Turpan Grape Valley. Hand-pulled laghman noodles surround the spread"--Artist's statement.