Our Faculty

Doris Arndt, is known for her whimsical style and has shared her love of books throughout the country. Her non-traditional approach and innovative bindings have earned her a loyal student following. Her work has been seen in the Studio, Somerset Studio, The Rubber Stamper, Rubberstampmadness and in several books as well as the Carol Duvall show. She attended the University of Louisville and has been a freelance artist for over twenty years. She shares her home with her patient husband, three cats and a dog.

Jeanne Bennett's fascination with fore-edge painting (fepping) developed over the many years she has studied art and bookbinding. During the past 10 years she studied at the Craft Guild of Dallas as well as taking workshops around the country and in England where she studied with Martin Frost, foremost contemporary fore-edge painter, and spent time with John Mitchell, author of Edge Decoration for Bookbinding. Her innovative techniques have opened a whole new world for fore-edge painters and she has developed a Portable Combination Fepping Press that each of her students receives when studying with her. Her book on fepping and edge decoration will be available soon.

Colleen Cavin is a Portland calligrapher and book binder. After 15 years of study in Portland, and armed with a Fulbright Scholarship, she honed her calligraphic and binding skills at Roehampton University in London, England. She is a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators. She teaches these disciplines for Portland Community College, Young Audiences of Oregon and Multnomah County.

Patricia Cheyne is a Professor at Pacific University teaching drawing, design, papermaking, art education, and printmaking. Patricia received a B.F.A. from the University of Hartford, a M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University, and a M.F.A. from the University of Colorado. The areas of concentration of her studies were drawing, printmaking, art history, art education, and women studies. She has an extensive exhibit record.

Jim Croft started bookbinding in 1970 after an inspiring trip to Europe introduced him to live antiquity. He quickly moved to making the whole Gothic book and is continuing to perfect that book form and teaching classes in that and tool making.

Patricia Edmonds has had a life long passion for the written word from calligraphy to book making. She has taught art, calligraphy and book arts in middle school and college level calligraphy as well as workshops and demonstrations for schools, libraries and conferences.

Dolores Guffey has been a marbler since 1976 and discovered book arts after taking classes from Shereen LaPlantz in 1993. Three of her books are shown in the book, Cover to Cover. Since 1995, as a founding member of the North Redwoods Book Arts Guild, Dolores has taught numerous workshops for the Guild as well as teaching at OBAG/FOBA and the Newport Paper Arts festival. Her first love is marbling which she tries as much as possible to incorporate into her books.

Helen Hiebert is a paper artist who exhibits her experimental work with handmade paper and teaches about papermaking and lamp making internationally. She has recently exhibited her work at the Reed College, the Portland Art Center, the 2007 Craft Biennial, the St. Louis Craft Alliance and the Korean Paper Invitational in Jeonju, Korea. She is author of Papermaking with Plants, The Papermaker's Companion, and Paper Illuminated.

Andrew Huot has been bookbinding and conserving books since 1990. He has worked in conservation at public and private libraries and is currently in private practice in Philadelphia. His artist books deal with abstracting the events of our daily life into line and shape and are exhibited nationally. He has taught bookbinding, book arts, and conservation workshops at Portland State University, The University of the Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Diane Maurer-Mathison’s decorative papers have been shown in galleries and museums throughout the world. Numerous design commissions include work for Lenox china, Harper Collins Publishers and Godiva Chocolates. She is the author of thirteen books and has demonstrated marbling and paste paper design on several television shows including Martha Stewart Living.

Barbara Mason is a full time artist with a non-toxic studio. She is education chair of Print Arts Northwest and one of the founders of Atelier Meridian. A skilled printmaker, Barbara has been teaching printmaking for over twenty years.

Joycelyn Merchant, a metalsmith and production jewelry designer for the last 25 years, now brings her accumulated skills to the book arts. While learning about bookbinding and conservation, she realized that there was no readily available information or source for book closures; so she did the research, and made her own. She has taught workshops at Columbia College, the PBI, the Huntington Library, the New York Guild of Bookworkers, California Hand Bookbinders, and Hollanders.

Peggy Skycraft has been a professional producer of decorative paper editions since 1970, creating papers for an international market. She studied design at the School of the Chicago Art Institute, and received her BA in painting from Portland State University.

Peter Thomas works individually and collaboratively with Donna Thomas under the imprint of Peter and Donna Thomas. Authors and illustrators of More Making Books by Hand, they are book artists, papermakers and letterpress printers who also illustrate, illuminate, and bind their own unique books.

Andie Thrams is a painter and book artist who has been creating illuminated journals in wilderness locations since childhood. Her images, which reveal a lifelong meditation on the natural world, are widely published, exhibited and collected. She has been teaching creative seminars throughout the west since 1990. Andie has a BA in art from UC Berkeley.

Jill Timm is a full-time, award-winning, book artist focusing on small editions of hand-crafted books, often using interesting structures and non-typical materials. Her Mystical Places Press has work in many corporate, university, public and private collections worldwide. She is the publisher of Artist Book News, a newsletter showcasing book artists worldwide.