International Society of Copier Artists (ISCA)

Amazing!

That's all I could utter when I opened the white clamshell cardboard box and pulled out 39 individual artist's books and read their stories. The handmade artist's books came in different sizes and had various constructions.

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries - Hunt Library collection of ISCA Quarterly, Summer 1994

Founded in New York City in 1981 by Louise Neaderland, International Society of Copier Artists (ISCA) created a visual language with the medium of xerographic prints and manipulations that explored political, social and cultural life of their time.

Volume 1, No. 1 was printed in April 1982.

The last quarterly was Volume 21, No. 4, printed in June 2003.

Artist's books created for Vol. 12, No.4, Summer 1994 ISCA
Collection of Hunt Library, Librarian Mo Dawley

These are the artists who created original artist's books for the

ISCA, 9th Annual Bookworks Issue

Volume 12, Number 4, Summer 1994

Thelma Mathias, Jill Snyder Wallace, Lois Ramirez

Pamela Zwehl-Burke, Ray Mary Schmitt, Krista L. Molnar

Mitzi Humphrey, Cynthia Dantzic, Mary Ann McNeil

James DeWoody, Louise Odea Neaderland, Olwyn Morinsky

E.S. Pearlman, Phillip Michael M., M. Seigei Spark

Owen Smith, Rich Drobner, Ken Barkee

Iris Sandkuhler, Jean Rust, Reid Wood

Teesha Moore, Barbara Schillawski, Carol Stetser

Cathy Condon, Anne Park, Carolyn Bell-Taitt

Joanna Key, Leonora Pierotti, Susan Gold

Sandy Tramel, Gail Smuda, Pete Silvia

Eiichi Matsuhashi, Thomas Larson, Berna J. Finley

Diane Tarter, Debora Meltz, Cheryl Trostrud

Many thanks!

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