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contact name: Jody Williams
email: jody_williams@mcad.edu

Pseudonym: Flying Paper Press

Related Organizations:
MCAD, MCBA, MCC

MFA -Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; printmaking
BA-Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, cum laude; studio arts major

2011- Faculty Support Grant, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (also2010, 08, 06, 05 and 03)
2008-Minnesota Book Artist Award, inaugural recipient, Minnesota Book Awards
2003-Artist-in-Residence, Gould Library, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
2002-Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
1999-Minnesota Craft Council, Fiber Artist of Distinction, honored at Fiber/Metal Exhibition
1995-Minnesota Center for Book Arts/Jerome Foundation Book Arts Fellowship V
1993-Artist-in-Residence, Frans Masereel Printmaking Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
1989-Women's Studio Workshop, Book Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
1984-Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, ArtPark, Lewiston, New York

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2011:
From Press to Page: Book Arts in Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,Minnesota
Relative Realities, Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, MN (solo)
Time on Paper: Ten Minnesota Book Artists, Gage Art Gallery, Augsburg College, MN
Codex International Book Arts Fair, Berkeley, California (also 2009)
The Smithsonian Craft Show; Washington, DC (also 2001, 1997, 1994, and 1990)

2010:
Small Orders, Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (solo)
Book Art 2010, Harry M. Drake Gallery, Saint Paul Academy, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Prints: Now in 3D!, Minnesota Center forBook Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair; Washington, D.C. (also 08, 06, 04, 02, 99, 97)
A Reader's Art 10th Anniversary, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2009:
Text/Messages: Books by Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Im

posing Order;Harry M. Drake Gallery, SaintPaul Academy, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Books of Note: Artists Books Collected by Jody Williams, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Form+Contentx2; Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2008:
The Art of the Book '08; Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, numerous locations to 2010
Minnesota Book Artist Award Exhibition, Minnesota Center for Book Arts and Saint Paul Public Library
Jody Williams: Boxmaker, Atwood Student Union, Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Disorderly Details, Faye Passow and Jody Williams, Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis
The Universe in Miniature: Books and Boxes, Gould Library, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

2007:
Specimens and Other Evidence, Gallery144, Minneapolis Public Library, Minnesota (solo)
Michael Knott, Dan Becker, Jody Williams, Pooka Ness and Randy Borchers; Frank Stone Gallery,
The Philadelphia Craft Show; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (2006, 02, 00, 96, 91,88)

2006:
Turning Pages, Visual Arts Series; Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota
Everything Under the Sun: MCAD faculty responds; Minneapolis College of Art and Design,

2005:
Friends of Dard Hunter Juried Exhibition; J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

2004:
Thinking Big, Working Small, Gould Library, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota (solo)
Artists’ Books: No Reading Required; selections from the Walker Art Center, at MCBA
In Wilderness; Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
Celebrating Tim Lloyd: Eight Artists Return; Boliou Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield,

2003:
Recent Small Work, Open Book Lobby, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis,
The Art of the Book '03; Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, numerous locations to 2005
Artist’s Books; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Toys and Games; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2002:
Carol Barton, Bill Drendel and Jody Williams; Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee,

2001:
Lire enFete, Edition de Creation: 4th Annual Book Symposium and Book Fair; Marseille, France
Back to the Books, Three Bookmakers; Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, Minnesota

2000:
Third International Artists' Book Exhibition, King Saint Steven Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
Minnesota Printmakers; Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Sixth Wexford Artists’ Book Exhibition; Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
WARM Mentor Program Exhibition;The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Word Pictures/Picture Words; Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
Chapter Four: Fifteen Years Faculty and Friends; Minnesota Center for Book Arts,
WARM’s 21st Annual Juried Exhibition; College of Saint Catherine’s, Saint Paul, Minnesota
BadWater Book Invitational; University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Paper, Metal, Quilts: Jody Williams, Jack Route, Karen Brandt; Frank Stone Gallery,

COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS: (selected)
King St. Steven Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library, San Francisco, CA
Walker Art Center Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Carleton College Library, Northfield, Minnesota
Indiana University Library, Bloomington, Indiana
The College of Saint Benedict's, Saint Joseph, Minnesota
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Library, Minnesota
Long Island University Library, Brooklyn, New York
Frans Masereel Print Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
United States Post Office

Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis

2011- Our Work and Why We Do It, Ampersand Club commemorative book illustrator
2011- Featured Artist, Minnesota Original, Twin Cities Public Television, show number 221
2007- Lark Books, 500 Handmade Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York / London
2007- The Kean Review, Jody Williams’ Specimen Boxes, Kean University Press, Union, New Jersey
2005- There is No Other Way to Speak, Minnesota Center for Book Arts Winter Book; illustrator
2000- Jody Williams, The Book Arts Classified, Flying Paper Press, cover feature, March.
1998- The Scrapbook Guild, Scrapbooking, Dell Publishing, New York; Guild member andcontributor
1997- Jody Williams, Hand Papermaking Magazine, Cave Paper, volume 12, #1
1995- Rose Gonnella, The Nantucket Beacon, Wonder Fills her Artbooks, November 11
1995- American Craft Magazine, Jody Williams, PortfolioPage, April/May issue
1993- Jody Williams, Mid-America Print Council Journal, Minnesota Print Collections,Vol 1, No 2
1992- Sophie Dawson, The Art And Craft Of Papermaking, Simon and Schuster, Australia
1992- Minnesota Craft Council, Craft Connection Journal, New Work, feature artist, Fall issue
1990- Jody Williams, Hand Papermaking Magazine, Women's Studio Workshop, Volume 5, #2
1989- Minneapolis/Saint Paul Magazine, Jody Williams: The Possibilities of Paper,March issue

Country of Citizenship:
United States

Birth Place:
Pittsburgh, PA

Gender:
Female

Active Place:
Minneapolis

Minnesota County:
Hennepin

Book Artist

http://flyingpaperpress.com 

2003 Fine Arts Exhibition (Prints, Fiber)
Screen and Stencil