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Marie Dern: The Art of Handmade Books

In 2020, Bolinas Museum presented an exceptional main gallery exhibition Marie Dern: The Art of Handmade Books. We are pleased to be able to share a look at the exhibition and the joyous creativity of Marie Dern in this short film. Unbound by traditional book forms, Marie Dern (1936-2020) created intriguing, witty, and handsomely crafted handmade books for forty-five years; both of her own work and in collaboration with esteemed poets, writers, and visual artists. This retrospective exhibition featured diverse, imaginative, and often humorous books that she printed on her hand-driven letterpress. Today this technique, originated by Gutenberg in the 15th century, is venerated for the artisanal beauty that it lends to art and the written word. Marie Dern’s involvement with the Bay Area women’s movement and women writers inspired her to start her Jungle Garden Press in 1974. For many years, she and her husband, sculptor Carl Dern, lived in Stinson Beach and shared a studio in Fairfax. Marie was educated at University of California in Berkeley, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and a master’s degree from Mills College in Oakland. Her work is widely exhibited and collected, including at the Bancroft Library of University of California, Berkeley; Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts of de Young and Legion of Honor museums in San Francisco; the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; the New York Public Library; and Bolinas Museum where she served as a vital member of the Board of Directors and volunteered for many years.