ABOUT
About:
Rhiannon Alpers, has an MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Book Arts from UC Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies. She is a papermaker, letterpress printer, and book artist.
She has exhibited internationally, and her edition and one-of-a-kind artist books are produced under the Gazelle and Goat Press imprint. Gazelle and Goat is a letterpress and bookbinding studio located in Denver.
Previously, Rhiannon worked as the Director and Program Coordinator at InterOcean Studio in Englewood, Colorado. She has also worked as the Head of Studio Operations and was the Production Coordinator for the Imprint Publications for San Francisco Center for the Book. She was also the Studio Technician at Columbia College's Center for Book and Paper program before moving to San Francisco. She has apprenticed/interned at Turkey Press in Santa Barbara, Larksparrow Press in Evanston, and worked as a production bookbinder for the Paper Source Bindery in Chicago.
Rhiannon has taught academic courses at San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts (San Francisco), University of San Francisco, and Columbia College Chicago, Dominican University. She has taught workshops for adult centers such as San Francisco Center for the Book, Penland School of Crafts, Guild of Bookworks, Book Arts LA, Focus on Book Arts, San Diego Book Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Kala Printmaking Institute, Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, and at her own studio in the San Francisco and Denver.
In 2015 and 2017 she received the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts Jurors' Recognition of Merit for her editioned artist books.
Gallery Representation:
To see more artwork or to make a purchase, you can visit these galleries which represent the work of Rhiannon Alpers and Gazelle and Goat.
Vamp and Tramp Booksellers -
Representing Artists Books & Fine Press. We love books that haunt and comfort us. That’s what we'll try to have for each of you. ~Vicky & Bill Stewart
Abecedarian Artists’ Books represents artists working in the book arts genre through curated exhibitions, sales to private and public collections, publication of artists’ book reviews, print and online catalogs and an online store front.
Seager Gray Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Mill Valley, CA near San Francisco exhibiting painting, sculpture, works on paper and artists' books.
Kelmscott Bookshop -
For 40 years, specializing in Books about Books, Private Press, Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris & the Kelmscott Press and Fine Literature.
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