TEACHING ARTIST

Emily Martin has been exploring the relationship between format and content for many years in her own work. She teaches bookbinding and paper engineering classes at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She often combines letterpress printed images and text with movable and/or sculptural book forms using a variety of traditional and experimental techniques. Emily Martin has held a number of artist’s residencies in the US and England. Most recently, she will be a Cicero Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Emily Martin received a silver medal from the Designer Bookbinders for her book The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (2012), and her book The Tragedy of King Lear was a semi-finalist for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Artists Book award (2020). Emily Martin’s work is in collections world-wide including The Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the National Gallery in Washington, DC.