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Printer in Residence...

Dore Page is a nationally known book artist and printer. Her prints are created using modern folk-art techniques in her Rhode Island studio. Techniques include wood-block, fabric printing, letterpress, and silk screen. Very, very low print runs make the works unique and very collectable. Dore also employs traditional letterpress techniques to her printed works as well. Dore Pages’ works appear under the publication name of Paul Woodbine and are in many collections throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art, University of Rhode Island, and Brown University. Her letter press publications and prints are also printed under the publication names Volaphon Books or Sea Plane Editions.

Born in Fall River in 1956, her interest in printing was nurtured after she showed an affinity for printing at an early age. As a child, she was given an office printing kit containing rubber sorts and symbols and she has been letterpress printing ever since.

In 1975 Dore met a Brown University graduate student who was busy galvanizing the burgeoning literary scene in Providence. College students and local writers were taking the lead of Keith and Rosemary Waldrop's Burning Deck Press, a staple of Providence’s literary scene since the late sixties. Buying old letterpress equipment to start presses and publishing ventures became very popular fifteen-years before the practical application of desktop publishing. Dore, with commercial printing experience under her belt, suddenly looked pretty good, when compared to a group of amateur printers who had plenty of ideas but no skill. Page had been reading and self-studying about typography all along honing her skills as a typographic artist and designer.

Dore was appointed as University of Rhode Island's Printer in Residence in 2002. She  taught a course in letterpress printing in the Spring of 2004.  The course will run again in the Spring of 2006.  Dore Page lives and works in Rhode Island.

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