Jennie’s CV

Jennie Hinchcliff : Chief Correspondent & Head Brainstormer for

Red Letter Day

Email: redletterdayzine@gmail.com

Website: redletterdayzine.wordpress.com

Mailing Address: PO Box 170271, San Francisco, CA. 94117

 

Teaching Experience:

2004—present: workshop instructor, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California

2007—2016: adjunct faculty, Academy of Art University (Fine Art department, bookbinding/artists book theory), San Francisco, California

 

Additional Teaching Venues:

Pacific University: Focus on Book Arts Conference 2013, 2017 (Forest Grove, OR.)

Wishi Washi Studio (Santa Cruz, CA.)

The Ink Pad (New York City, NY.)

Art & Soul Conference (Portland, OR.)

San Francisco Public Library (San Francisco, CA.)

Foothill College/Bay Area Book Arts Jam (Los Altos Hills, CA.)

West Valley College (Saratoga, CA.)

Portland State University/Portland Zine Symposium (Portland,OR.)

 

Event Organizer/Production:

2014: Ex Postal Facto Conference – lead organizer, show runner (one-time event)

2012 – 2015 : San Francisco Zine Fest – executive producer (yearly event)

2011 – present:  San Francisco Correspondence Co-op – Founder, part-time organizer (monthly event)

 

Curatorial:

“mail/art/book”, co-curated with John Held, Jr. : Austin/Burch Gallery, San Francisco Center for the Book, February – April 2014

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2015:

“DIG”, CENTRAL BOOKING Gallery, New York City, NY, February – April 2015

“Hello Hedi”, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, June – July 2015

2014:

“FluxJob”, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.

“mail/art/book”, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA.

“Activate: Academy of Art University Printmaking and Book Arts Faculty Show”, Atelier Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013:

“On GOING GaGaSaGa”, Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo, Australia

“Focus on Book Arts Faculty and Staff Exhibition”, Washington County Museum/Pacific University Library, Forest Grove, OR.

“Gutai: Historical Survey and Contemporary Response”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

2012:

 

FluxFest Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.

New York Art Book Fair, PS 1/New York Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY.

AARPEX Seattle (Artistamp Artists Reunion and Expo), University House, Seattle, WA.

2011:

A Book About Death: The Ties That Bind, The Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery, Bay Shore, NY.

George Maciunas and Beyond: Fluxus Never Stops, Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania

Beat by the Bay: SF Artists and Galleries of the ‘50’s, Evergold Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

 

New York Art Book Fair, PS 1/New York Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY

 

 

Selected Publications as Author:

—“Our Paths Are Strewn With Words and Letters: Making, Mailing, and Postal Modernism”, Jennie Hinchcliff/Red Letter Day, SF Center for the Book imprint, January 2014

—“Postal Modernism: A Manifesto”, Jennie Hinchcliff/Red Letter Day, August 2012

—Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Post, Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gilligan-Wheeler, Quarry Books, 2009

 

Interviews with/about Jennie:

–Lisa Ryan, “The Postal Moderns”, USPS Stamps, March 2014 : http://bit.ly/1im4NVW

–Tom Biederbeck, “Academy Artists Explore the ‘Miraculous World’ of the Handmade Book”, Academy of Art University, November 2013 : http://bit.ly/1pjDj5H

–Julie Chen, “500 Handmade Books: Volume 2” (to be published September 2013), Lark Crafts, September 2013

–Doug Finch, “Covers: Cover Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder”,The Journal and Antiques and Collectibles, July 2013: http://bit.ly/1pIOpPY

–Chelsea Hogue, “Let’s Get Physical”,The Bold Italic, March 13, 2012 : http://bit.ly/1omTGkR

–Miriam Schaer, “Capturing the Quotidian: Book Artists Explore New Tools – Performance, Travel, and Storytelling – to Reveal a Community’s Character”, The Bonefolder: an e-journal for the Bookbinder and Book Artist, Volume 7, 2011 : http://bit.ly/1e9KGWg

 

–Alyson Kuhn, “Destination: A Mail-Obsessed Artist’s Mailbox”, Felt & Wire, November 2010 : http://bit.ly/1pFlCNV

 

–Adrienne Skye Roberts, “Scissors, Glue, and Photocopies: DIY San Francisco”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Open Space, August 25, 2010 : http://bit.ly/1i10agr

–“Take a Break From Tweeting and Send Mail Art!”, Erin Blasco, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, December 2009 : http://bit.ly/1gZpQyP

 

Symposiums and Guest Speaker Engagements:

–“Artistamps and Their Makers: Seeing the World in Minature”, Ex Postal Facto Conference, February 2014

–“Print and Book Arts Speaker Series”, Foothill College, January 25, 2013

–“Writers on Writing Series”, West Valley College, April 14, 2011

–“Modes of Production: Collaborative Processes” (panel speaker), The Hybrid Book Conference, June 5-6, 2009, Philadelphia, PA.

Collected By:

• Cooper-Hewitt Museum National Design Museum: Special Collections, New York, NY
• Judith Hoffberg Archive, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
• Ray Johnson Estate Archives/Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, NY
• Book Arts/Special Collections, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
• Library and Collections, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
• Whitney Museum of American Art: Special Collections, New York, NY
• Yale University/Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT
• Black Mountain College Museum, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC

Professional Organizations:

• Founder, San Francisco Correspondence Co-op : 2011 – present
• Member, Special Advisory Committee on Correspondence Art/Postal Community, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2011- 2013
• Exhibition Committee, San Francisco Center for the Book : 2011 – 2015
• Exhibition Committee, College Book Art Association : in conjunction with the 2012 CBAA conference
• Active member, ILSSA (Impractical Labor in Service of Speculative Arts) : 2010 – 2013
• Active member, IUOMA (International Union of Mail Artists): 2006 – present
• Secretary (2003/2004), Social Coordinator (2010), Pacific Center for the Book Arts