Crow is Loud / Jane Hirschfield / Handmade Paper

Created in 2024
Edition of 100 in 3 variations 
Broadsides measure
Printed on handmade cloud sky Paper from Cave Paper OR Rives BFK

This broadside was a collaboration between the artists Jane Hirshfield, Johanna Mueller and Rhiannon Alpers.  

About the Exchange Portfolio:

For each portfolio we ask a variety of national and international book artists and fine press printers if they would contribute a broadside, print, or work on paper in an edition of 75 copies. With these contributions we create an elegant boxed edition of unique works that serve as examples of printing techniques and concepts being explored by contemporary makers in the field. You will find everything from etchings and wood engravings with poetry, to handmade paper and alternative photographic processes—and much more. The artist/printer may submit anything from a single folio to a small pamphlet, and each piece goes into a letterpress printed folio with a biography and statement by the maker. The portfolios are themed and each person or collaborative team approaches the subject differently. Each contributor gets a finished boxed edition of prints as thanks for their generous work, and these portfolios are used as fundraisers to help subsidize our publishing program. They are great teaching tools and also can be used for instant exhibitions! A purchase of a portfolio goes a long way to supporting publishing at The CODEX Foundation. Read more here

About the Contributors:

Jane Hirshfield
Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections of poetry, including The Asking: New and Selected Poems (2023); Ledger (2020); The Beauty (2015), longlisted for the National Book Award; Come, Thief (2011), a finalist for the PEN USA Poetry Award; and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. Hirshfield is also the author of two collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (2015), and has edited and co-translated four books collecting the work of world poets from the past: The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (1990); Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994); Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2004); and The Heart of Haiku (2011). (bio excerpted from poetryfoundation.org) 

Johanna Mueller
Johanna Mueller is an artist and entrepreneur, born and raised in Denver, CO, now residing in Greeley, CO where she co-owns and operates Wonderhand Studios, a cooperative printmaking studio. Her artwork utilizes printmaking mediums, primarily detailed engravings centering on animal themes. She earned a BFA in printmaking from The Metropolitan University of Denver and an MFA in printmaking from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. She has exhibited widely across her home state of Colorado, as well as nationwide, and is represented by Kuehl Fine Art in Trinidad, CO and Keep Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.