Gems to Watch Out for, Sketchbook Jul-Sept 2024

Artist book/sketchbook from July through September 2024. This is a hand bound long stitch book made from an old cereal box, book binding cord, and hand printed fabrics for the cover. The fabrics are relief wood block prints and screenprints appliqué stitched together using a sewing machine. The interior of the book is created from old printed proofs and scraps including woodcuts waxed with beeswax, lithographs, screenprints, and other printed matter and ephemera from the studio. I then write and draw in the book until it is filled, quoting what I’m reading, adding thoughts, feelings, diary comics and notes about my days. These books are my best friends.

For a few years now, I’ve been giving all of my sketchbooks themes. The theme for this book is based off of comic artist Allison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out for and also references the television show Stephen Universe and the Crystal Gems.

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Hannah March Sanders received her BFA at Tulane University and an MFA in printmaking from Louisiana State University. Along with her husband, Blake, Hannah operates http://orangebarrelindustries.com/, an artist collaborative that organizes portfolio exchanges, exhibitions and other art events. She is currently the Coordinator of the BA in Art as well as Area Head of Printmaking, and a Professor of Art in the Department of Art + Design at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO.