MACY CHADWICK & FELICIA RICE, "Vibrant Women in Print and Their Influences"

NOTE: This event, co-sponsored by The CODEX Foundation, is part of the American Printing History Association's "APHA @ 50" annual conference but does not require full conference registration. For more information about the conference, please visit https://printinghistory.org/2024-conference/).

Macy and Felicia's presentation will be preceded by a reception from 5-6pm.

MACY CHADWICK is a book artist and letterpress printer living in Petaluma, California. She received an MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has taught at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, and San Francisco Center for the Book. Macy is the founder and director of In Cahoots Residency. The residency provides housing and studio space to both emerging and professional artists with a focus on artists books, letterpress, printmaking, writing, and collaboration. Macy continues to create books and limited edition prints in her letterpress studio and her work is in prominent collections in the U.S. and abroad.

FELICIA RICE is an artist, letterpress printer, publisher, and educator. In 1977 she set Moving Parts Press in motion. With one foot firmly planted in the 19th century and the other in the 21st, she utilizes letterpress and digital technologies to produce artists’ books, prints, and broadsides in collaboration with visual and performing artists, writers, and philosophers. Work from the Moving Parts Press has been included in exhibitions from Mexico City to New York and Japan. Felicia’s books are held in library and museum collections worldwide and she has been the recipient of many awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to the French Ministry of Culture.

Host or Publisher American Printing History Association (APHA)