moodysa <at> gmail . com
b. 1982 / Anchorage, AK
Lives and works in Anchorage, AK
Education
2020 MFA, Book Arts + Printmaking, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 BA cum laude, Art History, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Work
2024 Studio Assistant - Archive Project, Susan Joy Share, Anchorage, AK
2020-23 Apprentice, Russell Maret / Gaspara Stampa, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Intern, Conservation Lab, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Extern, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Intern, Russell Maret / Gaspara Stampa, Brooklyn, NY
Intern, Wells Book Arts Summer Institute, Aurora, NY
2018-20 Letterpress Studio Technician, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Assistant to Sarah Nicholls and Russell Maret, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2016-18 Printer’s Devil, Ilfant Press, Seattle, WA
2007-18 General Manager - Hardly Art, Sub Pop Records, Seattle, WA
2005-07 Publicist, Sub Pop Records, Seattle, WA
Teaching Experience
2024 Studio Assistant, “No Pressure: Combining Hand-Set Type and Pressure Prints” with
Val Lucas, Summer Session 6, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
2016-18 Letterpress Assistant, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Honors, Awards, and Residencies
2021-22 Book Artist-in-Residence, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2020 Arts Aid PHL, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
UArts Cares Grant, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Wells Book Arts Summer Institute, Aurora, NY
2018 First Annual Scholarship Award, Ladies of Letterpress, St. Louis, MO
2018-20 Trustees’ Scholarship, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibitions
2023 Visual Volumes, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2021 Reflex/Reflect, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
CMYKings: Zines in Four Colors, Risolve, Lancaster, PA
2020 CMYKings: Zines in Four Colors, Antenna Works, New Orleans, LA
Intersections: Book Arts as Convergence, Carroll Gallery at Tulane
University, New Orleans, LA
2019 Staff Art Show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Variations of the Artist Book: Philadelphia Center for the Book, City Hall,
Philadelphia, PA
ILSSA: Frameworks, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
Visual Voice, Anderson Portal Gallery at UArts, Philadelphia, PA
Open Press Collection 2, LVR Industrial Museum Paper Mill Old Dombach,
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Open Press Collection, Kölner Graphikwerkstatt, Cologne, Germany
Works in Progress, Gallery 224 at UArts, Philadelphia, PA
Collections
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Artists’ Book Collection, Bainbridge, WA
Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Collections Library, Hanover, NH
Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections, Philadelphia, PA
Getty Center, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections, Washington, DC
Open Press Project Collection, Cologne, Germany
The Soapbox, Zine Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Stanford University, Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford, CA
Temple University, Special Collections Research Center, Philadelphia, PA
Tulane University, Special Collections, New Orleans, LA
University of California, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA
University of Iowa, Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books, Iowa City, IA
University of Iowa, Special Collections Library, Iowa City, IA
University of Missouri, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO
University of Missouri, St. Louis Mercantile Library, St. Louis, MO
University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA
Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library, Richmond, VA
+ various private collections
Memberships
CMYKings
Guild of Book Workers
Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA)
International Duplicators Guild
Postcard Exchange
Society of Bookbinders
Additional Publications and Collaborations
Assistant printer and binder for the following titles published by Russell Maret:
This Wisp of a Thing Called Civilization by Robert Bringhurst (2023)
LX Checklist (2022)
A Pattern Book of Cádiz Ornaments (2021)
Assistant printer for the following titles published by Russell Maret:
Colored Objects (2023)
Dispatches from the Lizard Brain (2022)
Three Constitutions (2020)
Plant Thought by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smith. 2022 Chapbook Series. Center for Book Arts, 2022.
“Title” by Susan Howe. Spring 2022 Broadside Series. Center for Book Arts, 2022.
“Goudy Broadside” (printed with Russell Maret). The Matrix, Issue 36. The Whittington Press, 2020.
“Fourteen Years Ago.” Clock Tower Nine #16: You Are Here (an atlas of everything). Daniel Noonan, 2020.
“Let it All Rain Down.” ToCall Magazine #13: Women Content. PSW, 2020.
Areas of Practice & Studio Skills
Letterpress printing / Bookbinding / Western Papermaking / Xerox alternative techniques / Typewriters / Machine maintenance / Studio maintenance
Volunteer
2023 Studio Ambassador, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2020 UArts Fellow, The Soapbox: Community Print Shop and Zine Library, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Manifest(o): Paper Revolutions, North American Hand Papermakers, Philadelphia, PA