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Carol Sturm
Nadja Press
New York, NY


Carol  Sturm   is an Artist Member of The Center for Book Arts.


CAROL STURM has been a letterpress printer and bookmaker for over 23 years, and an instructor in these areas since 1980. She is the proprietor of Nadja Press, which produces limited edition books of contemporary literature and art found in numerous private and institutional collections here and abroad.

Carol  Sturm organized
Literate Letterpress
 an exhibition of finely printed editions of works by contemporary authors

Carol  Sturm's work was exhibited in
Fall Forward
 an exhibition featuring current faculty
Dancing David
(1996) Drawings by Dorothea Tanning and poems by Thom Gunn. Letterpress printed type and photoengraving made from original artwork. Amatruda handmade paper, cover paper custom handmade by St. Armand Papermill.
Masters of the Craft
 works by instructors of book arts
Stories are Horizontal Pictures
(1991) Text written by Robert Hass, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, and Gary Soto. Handset and printed letterpress. Four gouache watercolor paintings by DeLoss McGraw. Pages boxed in two-tray box.
Volcanic Holiday by James Merrill
(1992) Artist: Dorothea Tanning. Handset and letterpress printed on Rives BFK. Wrapper is handmade paper with pulp painting by Paul Wong especially for this edition. Folio sheets in paper wrappers boxed in cloth covered two-tray drop-spine box with printed label.
Guiding Hands
 Center for Book Arts 1992 faculty show
The Hotel Leautremont
(1991) By John Ashberry
Letterpress printed book.
1991 Spring/Summer Faculty Show
Autumn Variations
(1990)
Overdue Pilgramage to Nova Scotia
(1989)
Pyramids & Sphynxes
(1989)
Some Opposites
(1990)
To Shape a Song
(1988)
Book Arts in the USA
 an exhibition of work by 51 artists; a cultural presentation of the United States of America
Japan: Prose of Departure
(1987) Text by James Merrill. Printed letterpress from handset Bembo type on T. H. Saunders handmade paper. Sewn in wrappers of Richard de Bas handmade paper.
Japan: Prose of Departure
(1987) Text by James Merrill. Printed letterpress from handset Bembo type on T. H. Saunders handmade paper. Sewn in wrappers of Richard de Bas handmade paper.
Celebrating 15 Years
 new works by Artist Members
Kinder Capers by W.D. Snodgrass
(1986) Letterpress printed Optima type on Whatman paper
Printers in Residence
 the work of six presses and one bookbinder at The Center for Book Arts
Bronze by James Merrill
(1984)
Candles of Your Eyes by James Purdy
(1985)
Japan: Prose of Departure
(1987) Text by James Merrill. Printed letterpress from handset Bembo type on T. H. Saunders handmade paper. Sewn in wrappers of Richard de Bas handmade paper.
Japan: Prose of Departure
(1987) Text by James Merrill. Printed letterpress from handset Bembo type on T. H. Saunders handmade paper. Sewn in wrappers of Richard de Bas handmade paper.
Jonah by Guy Davenport
(1986)
Kinder Capers by W.D. Snodgrass
(1986) Letterpress printed Optima type on Whatman paper
Souvenirs by James Merrill
(1984)
Sun at Midnight by Muso Soseki
(1985) W.S. Merwin, trans. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
Verses for a Fordham Commencement by Seamus Heaney
(1984)
1998 Member Exhibition
Japan: Prose of Departure
(1987) Text by James Merrill. Printed letterpress from handset Bembo type on T. H. Saunders handmade paper. Sewn in wrappers of Richard de Bas handmade paper.
Japan: Prose of Departure
(1987) Text by James Merrill. Printed letterpress from handset Bembo type on T. H. Saunders handmade paper. Sewn in wrappers of Richard de Bas handmade paper.
Fun & Games
 the 1988 annual Artist Members Exhibition
Kinder Capers by W.D. Snodgrass
(1986) Letterpress printed Optima type on Whatman paper
Literate Letterpress
 an exhibition of finely printed editions of works by contemporary authors
Bronze by James Merrill
(1984)
Kinder Capers by W.D. Snodgrass
(1986) Letterpress printed Optima type on Whatman paper
Looking Ahead by John Hollander
(1982) Printed and published by Nadja. Printed in Garamond on Somerset paper. Dutch linen over boards. Signed by the author.
Sun at Midnight by Muso Soseki
(1985) W.S. Merwin, trans. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
New Work
 the 1986 annual Artist Members Exhibition
Sun at Midnight by Muso Soseki
(1985) W.S. Merwin, trans. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
Center for Book Arts: The First Decade
 an exhibition at The New York Public Library
Chocorua by Richard Eberhart
(1981) Published by NADJA (Carol Sturm and Doug Wolf), New York. Letterpress.
Eleven Poems by Frederick Morgan
(1983) Published by NADJA (Carol Sturm and Doug Wolf), New York. Letterpress.
Book Makers
 Center for Book Arts first five years
Almanach Du Printemps Vivarois, a long poem by Hayden Carruth
(1979) Univers monotype on Fabriano papers, edition of 200 numbered and signed copies
If Birds Build With your Hair, a group of seven poems by W.D. Snodgrass
(1979) Univers monotype on BFK Rives, Edition of 200 numbered and signed copies.
Quiet of the Land, The, a group of six poems by William Stafford
(1979) Handset Optima on Fabriano papers, edition of 200 numbered and signed copies.
Sleep Tight, a short story by James Purdy
(1979) Univers monotype on handmade Umbria and Finnish felt, with an illustration by the author. Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies.

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