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Colleen Lawrence is a book artist and librarian living in greater Atlanta, Georgia. She completed an MFA in Book Arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2020, along with a Masters in Library and Information Science. Lawrence taught calligraphy at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and has been a teaching assistant and winter resident in the paper studio at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. Her studio practice includes sewing, collage, papermaking, and letterpress printing.
I am interested in spurring reflection and conversation about the human impact on both built and natural environments with a long view of time. Personal narrative is woven into larger issues using papermaking, calligraphy, letterpress printing, writing, and bookbinding. Through content and structure, my work raises questions about how we interact with our surroundings. The tactility of paper runs throughout my work as a form of language. By prodding the relationship between letterforms and landscape in my work, I search for common ground in communication. Intimacy and vastness sit side by side, as I aim to invite and challenge readers and myself to consider history and agency in our collective environs.