Women's Work
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Two weeks ago, I began a collaborative chapbook project with my super talented poet-printer friend, Emma Sovich . We're both letterpress printers — she's actually close to finishing her MFA in Book Arts at the University of Alabama — and as evidenced by our letterpress-centric Asheville vacation a year ago, we're pretty passionate about it. For such an industrial art, the letterpress printing renaissance that we're living right now is also largely populated by women . And all of these awesome women in the print shop has us feeling like the proper granddaughters of Rosie the Riveter — at home amid the smells of lead type and rubber-based ink, working to the hum of the motorized proof or platen press. Image by Emma Sovich Our collaborative chapbook — tentatively titled Women's Work — will attempt to use the cast-iron imagery of the print shop to create a contrast with the traditional notion of softer, domestic tasks as "women's work." As relativ