This is My Body, Food and Freedom Artist's Book by Tom Virgin
This piece is a semi-finalist for the 2024 MCBA Prize, and will be included in the 2024 MCBA Prize Exhibition from August 17th - October 12th, 2024. Pieces purchased before the end of the exhibition will ship on October 18th, 2024.
Additionally, this piece is featured in the August 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artists’ books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here.
Written by Edwidge Danticat. Design, drawing, printing, and binding by Tom Virgin. Timeline by John Ermer & Tom Virgin. This Is My Body, Food & Freedom is printed on French Paper’s Starch White Speckletone using Adobe Caslon Pro. The cover is vintage Cave Paper. This book is 9.5 in x 6.25 in x .5 in. with 25 pages. The book is bound with a kettle stitch using waxed linen thread, reinforced with Okawara paper, and a Katazome paper spine wrap. Artwork includes three natural spreads with linoleum prints, and folios with a timeline that follows the essay through the book. The drop spine structure comes from Karen Hanmer. All pages are hand printed on a 1949 Vandercook 4 Proof Press and an early 50’s Challenge 15KP Cylinder Press using wood type, polymer plates, and linoleum plates. Photography is by Francesco Casale.
This book was supported in part by a 2019 Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts that enabled Virgin to invite distinguished Miami writers and artists to collaborate, in book form, on pressing community issues. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and writes about her life there, and the life she built in the United States. Her autobiography, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award, and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Edwidge Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
9.5” x 6.25” x 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This piece is a semi-finalist for the 2024 MCBA Prize, and will be included in the 2024 MCBA Prize Exhibition from August 17th - October 12th, 2024. Pieces purchased before the end of the exhibition will ship on October 18th, 2024.
Additionally, this piece is featured in the August 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artists’ books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here.
Written by Edwidge Danticat. Design, drawing, printing, and binding by Tom Virgin. Timeline by John Ermer & Tom Virgin. This Is My Body, Food & Freedom is printed on French Paper’s Starch White Speckletone using Adobe Caslon Pro. The cover is vintage Cave Paper. This book is 9.5 in x 6.25 in x .5 in. with 25 pages. The book is bound with a kettle stitch using waxed linen thread, reinforced with Okawara paper, and a Katazome paper spine wrap. Artwork includes three natural spreads with linoleum prints, and folios with a timeline that follows the essay through the book. The drop spine structure comes from Karen Hanmer. All pages are hand printed on a 1949 Vandercook 4 Proof Press and an early 50’s Challenge 15KP Cylinder Press using wood type, polymer plates, and linoleum plates. Photography is by Francesco Casale.
This book was supported in part by a 2019 Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts that enabled Virgin to invite distinguished Miami writers and artists to collaborate, in book form, on pressing community issues. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and writes about her life there, and the life she built in the United States. Her autobiography, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award, and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Edwidge Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
9.5” x 6.25” x 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This piece is a semi-finalist for the 2024 MCBA Prize, and will be included in the 2024 MCBA Prize Exhibition from August 17th - October 12th, 2024. Pieces purchased before the end of the exhibition will ship on October 18th, 2024.
Additionally, this piece is featured in the August 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artists’ books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here.
Written by Edwidge Danticat. Design, drawing, printing, and binding by Tom Virgin. Timeline by John Ermer & Tom Virgin. This Is My Body, Food & Freedom is printed on French Paper’s Starch White Speckletone using Adobe Caslon Pro. The cover is vintage Cave Paper. This book is 9.5 in x 6.25 in x .5 in. with 25 pages. The book is bound with a kettle stitch using waxed linen thread, reinforced with Okawara paper, and a Katazome paper spine wrap. Artwork includes three natural spreads with linoleum prints, and folios with a timeline that follows the essay through the book. The drop spine structure comes from Karen Hanmer. All pages are hand printed on a 1949 Vandercook 4 Proof Press and an early 50’s Challenge 15KP Cylinder Press using wood type, polymer plates, and linoleum plates. Photography is by Francesco Casale.
This book was supported in part by a 2019 Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts that enabled Virgin to invite distinguished Miami writers and artists to collaborate, in book form, on pressing community issues. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and writes about her life there, and the life she built in the United States. Her autobiography, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award, and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Edwidge Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
9.5” x 6.25” x 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Born and raised in suburban Detroit, Michigan, Tom Virgin (he/him) has lived in Coconut Grove, Florida since 1992. He was awarded MFA in Printmaking at University of Miami in 1994. His artist / educator practice includes printmaking, book arts, and public art, often in collaboration with others. Virgin engages community treasures such as literature, public schools, and public spaces in his work. He is the founder and proprietor of Extra Virgin Press (2015). Additional research in printmaking, book arts, and letterpress printing brought Virgin to Pyramid Atlantic, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, NY Center for Book Arts, Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, and Red Dragonfly Press for study. His books are in collections around the United States. Extra Virgin Press has received support from the Knight Foundation, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Oolite Arts, and other community institutions and organizations.
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