Women working in the bindery. Milwaukee Handicraft Project 1935 – 1942
From the Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project Online Exhibit
This photo is from the Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project Online Exhibit, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons, 2012, Lois M. Quinn. ETI Publications.
Women in the bookbinding unit mended and rebound books, mounted collections of prints, made boxes, scrapbooks and portfolios.
Published by celeste contreras
Celeste Contreras is a Xicana - Indigenous artist who works in mixed mediums to share stories of ceremony, culture and tradition. Her work includes illustrations, print, book arts and animation. Her research includes storytelling through images and objects, exploring the condition of the book and book form and recalling the palimpsests of intergenerational trauma from migration and genocide of ancestors to relearning and decolonizing through ceremony. Currently enrolled as an MFA student at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, focused in Print and Narrative Form and holds a BFA from Alverno College. Contreras was the 2019 Gathering Art, Stories and Place Artist-in-Resident with the Milwaukee Public Library where she published a 200 edition box set of artists’ books, Artist in the Library, that will be distributed throughout libraries in Milwaukee and libraries around the country. Contreras is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she lives with her husband and cats in the Riverwest neighborhood.
www.celestecontreras.com
Email: celestazuchitl@gmail.com
Instagram: celestazuchitl.arte
View all posts by celeste contreras
C e l e s t e C o n t r e r a s A r t 