Join us for a 30-minute virtual chat with e bond, live over Zoom!
e bond is a designer + artist + writer + bookbinder & educator. Currently, she teaches art workshops & creates fabric collections by day, makes handmade books by night, hangs out with trees on weekends and writes something close to poems in the spaces between. Under the studio name roughdrAftbooks, she makes one-of-a-kind artists books, printed pieces and abstract drawings that merge and blur the boundaries of bookbinding, printmaking, surface design and poetry.
e’s artist statement reads: What I love to create is consistently interested in investigating relationality. Whether the final forms are words, monotypes, book forms, or any combination, my work maps the connections between disparate thoughts, shapes, and spaces. While questioning each element separately, to uncover new connections, I am discovering not only what is made when two or more entities share a physical space, but also the third space that emerges from this sharing. As someone who loves to work with words and images, my visual interests are closely related to my interests in language structure and meaning. Again, this third space that appears when two words or ideas are placed together. They emerge not only as themselves but as something completely new.
e holds a BFA in Graphic Design and Art History from Moore College of Art & Design and an MFA in Creative Writing and Book Art from Mills College. She has spent years as a professor of Graphic Design and Book Art in various college and university art departments, and her work is held in library collections across the US. e’s work has been published in Pressing Matters Magazine, Uppercase Magazine, Berkeley Poetry Review, 500 Handmade Books, as well as numerous books (about books). Most recently, her work has moved into the world of surface design where she designs colorful, abstract fabric collections in collaboration with Free Spirit Fabrics. You can learn more at ebondwork.com or on Instagram as @eisroughdraft.
The Zoom link will be emailed out at 10:30am on the day of the event. Please note, all times are Pacific.