Artist’s Proof Editions is an imprint of Archipelago Publishers, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia, a 501(c)3 public charity, which also published Archipelago, an international journal of literature, the arts and opinion (1997-2007), one of the earlier serious literary sites on the Web. APE builds digital books and book-like projections for the iPad, and publishes works on paper, including artists’ books and broadsides.
Our publishing program is small and selective. We encourage slow literature, word-works formed over time, with deliberation and intention.
Our Projects
We produce video poems, multi-touch digital books, artists’ books, and works on paper. We are curious about the origins of art and the beginning of writing. We begin with the word, its utterance, the emotions it evokes from us, the poem that grows from it, the marks the poet makes. We respond with performance: images, sound, text, as montage. We make new versions for the twenty-first century.
Our People
Board
Sheila McMillen is a writer and editor who served as the Associate Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and as a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. She is the founder of The Green Mountains Review in Vermont and co-editor of Eric Clapton’s Lover, an anthology of fiction selected from the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a variety of publications: the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ploughshares, The Ontario Review, Harvard Business Review, and the New York Times, among others.
Kirsten Miles has been a member of the Virginia Art of the Book Center since 2010, and is the current Regional Director of Tupelo Press, where she founded and organized the Charlottesville Teen Writing Center. Previously, she founded P.I. Outcomes, providing consulting in research ethics for digital data images in biomed. In her spare time she writes poetry and is working on a novel for young adults.
Katherine McNamara, editor and publisher of Archipelago Publishers, Inc., is the author of a non-fiction narrative, Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Journey into the Interior of Alaska, and founding Editor and Publisher (1996-2007) of Archipelago. She directs Artist’s Proof Editions and is an iTunes Producer. She is also a member of the Virginia Arts of the Book Center and an Affiliated Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville.
Co-Workers
Forrest Marquisee, at Forest Floor Studios, is a musician, composer, and sound designer who also works collaboratively with Artist’s Proof Editions. He designed the sound recordings for Caveboy, A Poem, Two Poems by Inna Kabysh, and Ancestral Altars, for which he also helped edit the moving poem “Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Night.” He is (often) the band Madonnas in the Field; his, and their, first cd is Standing on the Ridgeline.
Molly Schwartzburg is is curator of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia and blogs at Notes from Under Grounds. Our librarian-at-large, she regards books from a wide angle, including artists’ books, small presses, digital editions, miniature books, broadsides, posters, and other such works on paper.
Alison Wynn is a curator, photographer, writer, and thinker living in Paris, having left Brooklyn, N.Y. behind. Working in the visual arts, she leverages multi-media expression and cross-cultural sensitivities to create hybrid educational and poetic works. She was co-curator of What Matters Now? at the Aperture Foundation; has contributed to Jonathan Worth’s open photography courses, Phonar and Picbod; and, lately, worked with the Josephine Herrick project, a non-profit organization devoted to teaching photography as a means of rehabilitation. She’s especially interested in the Kalifornsky Project.
Kevin McFadden is a printer, a poet, and an advisor at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. He is the author of Hardscrabble, which won the 2009 George Garrett Prize for Poetry. Now he’s working on an animation of his “Anticism!”, which first appeared on Archipelago. The animation will turn into an iBook. But we’re not stopping there: he’s hand-printed a miniature edition as a small sculptural book. We’ll launch it with Anticism!, because we like making everything.
Eileen Townsend is a writer and visual artist from Memphis, TN. She’s interested in hyper-detailed drawing and printmaking, experimental theater, the future of the past, modern architecture, oral history and outsider art environments. She was Artist’s Proof’s first artist in residence, where she drew scenes and made maquettes for an animation we’re working on, Kevin McFadden’s Anticism!
Bethany Joy Carlson, CFA is the founder of The Artist’s Partner, a consulting firm for authors, filmmakers, musicians, and other creatives. Her background in investments (Mercer), business consulting (Moss Adams), and creativity (arvold., WriterHouse, BACCA) combine to help artists become entrepreneurs. She helped us become entrepreneurial on IndieGoGo, for the Kalifornsky Project.
Will Norton works as an intern for Artist’s Proof Editions and the Kalifornsky project, and is also developing his own translation of the Quechua play Tragedy of the Death of Atahualpa. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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