Artist Lecture 2 Jamie Lynn Shafer

Jamie is an artist who is oriented in Book Art. She graduated from Edinburg University of Pennsylvania with a B. F. A. in Fine Arts/Ceramics and a Certification in art education. She spent a thirteen years of her life teaching elementary school at the Pennsylvania Public School System, until switching into an Art background in 2006 after taking her first Book Arts class.  She then went back to school in 2012 and took her first book arts class. This is where she figured out that this was her thing, in 2014 she moved to Reno, and started to work with the Black Rock Press. It is now the end of her fellowship. She has done many graphic design work for posters, some of her projects that she showed was her new works Code Red and 17927 and past works Mix and Match Families and 1 in 3 which dealt on domestic abuse.

The book code Red was to have people become aware of school shootings and how it affects the families and the children of the schools. It is set up with not type and is an accordion book, the viewer can look inside and see figurines holding guns and aiming at someone. This book was something she was very close to since her partner worked an as a teacher.  The second book, 17927 was a book about a small town named Centralia Pennsylvania that had the towns dump catch fire that still burns today, the population went from 1000 to 10. The book is set up as a tunnel book, so the viewer can read all about the incident and visually see the details of the fire in the middle. Mix and match families dealt with the family unit, and deals with the different types of families from heterosexual, homosexual, inter-generational, and interracial. The viewer can flip though it and change to different people, it shows how people and families all look different. The last piece was 1 in 3 it dealt with domestic violence that people experience, it has testimonies from the victims and pictures of the people that were abused. It is a flag structure type of book, so readers can see the victims and focus more on the crimes. Every book sold the proceeds go to a local shelter.