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About Amanda

  
Amanda McCormick is a performer & writer whose work has appeared in a variety of forms & mediums over the past decade. She is the founding curator of Ink Press Productions in Baltimore where she explores the art & craft of DIY printing, publishing, and handmade books. Her latest, AMANDA, is the recipient of the 2016 Plork Award. AMANDA is a project of poetry that deals with the physical, experienced, and internalized selfhood of the artist-poet-human who navigates… more
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Events

I curate many different types of events that collaborate with artists and audiences to blur lines of genre.

Paper

I save paper items and repurpose them.
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    • Art Books II

    Experimental art books made from found paper.
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    • Performance

    I use my body and voice as a medium for conceptual art & writing through performance

    Selected Paintings & Sculptures

    Art from discarded items found in alleyways and streets of Baltimore City.
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    • Art Books

    Experimental art books made with found paper.
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      Knees
      Sliced book pages with triangle cut outs layered as loose pages bound by a packet.
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    • Olga
      Olga
      Deconstructed book rebound & emphasized with pen.
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    • Writing & Publications

    I have been writing for a long time.
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    • book book
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    • Design / Printing

    When I discovered letterpress printing in 2012, I started to slide into the the shoe of my true artistic sense. With letterpress, I am able to create prints using antique moveable type, both wood and lead, as well as original designs and illustrations by both myself and my collaborators.
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      Several IPP publications.
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      Me sewing books!
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      MERCH!
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      Poster for our first book release
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      pressing CD covers for espresso ink V
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      Setting type for espresso ink V
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    • Ink Press Productions

    Ink Press Productions is a collaborative effort that aims for art to live with a community so it may thrive as a lifestyle, rather than product. I founded Ink Press Productions in the Fall of 2012 with Baltimore poet, Tracy Dimond. Through experimental events and the publication of handmade books of poetry & prose, we focus on blurring the lines of writing, visual, and performance art in Baltimore and beyond.

    Recent Projects:

    Saturday Live!

    All the People

    How to have a day

    I Want Your Tan

    & the Green
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    • Finishing our 1st book
      Finishing our 1st book
      Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today by Tracy Dimond
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      Sky
      Watercolor on Paper, 30 x 22 inches
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      nightmare poems by Amanda McCormick
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      Tracy & I celebrating espresso ink v--an anthology of literary works on CD!
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      pressin'
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