Shanna Leino
Artist StatementBiography
Shanna is a full time studio artist working with bone, paper, leather,prescious metals and steel to build jewlery, one-of-a-kind books, and tools for bookmakers and craftspeople.
Shanna grew up in Harrisville, New Hampshire. She returned after completing her BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and spending a number of invaluable years of learning with the good book people in Iowa City, Iowa.
She continues to travel in search of conferences, seminars, and teaching opportunities to continue/enrich her own learning.
Small Harrisville has big mills. Space in the Cheshire Mills Boarding House provides her with a beautiful, light workspace, a small gallery, and a fine view of the surrounding mills and village.
Recent shows:
2008 “Modest (In Scale)”, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 “Celebrating the Sculptural Book: the Challenge of Structure”, Dodd Research Center Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2008 “Performing the Book”, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2008 “Book as Art”, Donna Seager Gallery San Rafael, CA
2008 “La Mostra” The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2007 “La Mostra”, The University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy
Bibliography:
2008 500 Handmade Books. Lark Books
2004 The Penland Book of Handmade Books: Master Classes in Bookmaking Techniques. Lark Books.
2001 Smith’s Sewing Single Sheets, Keith Smith.
1995 Non-Adhesive Bindings, Volume III, Keith Smith.
Recent Teaching:
“Bookbinding: The Beginning” Wells College, Aurora, NY
“Armenian Bookbinding”, Paper and Book Intensive, Arrowmont School of Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
“Bone Tool Making”, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
“Bone Tool Making”, The University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, IA
“Late Coptic Bookbinding”, Southwest Center for Arts and Craft, San Antonio, TX
“Ethiopian Binding”, Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, NH
“Bone Tool Making”, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
“Book Arts Picnic” with Jim Croft, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
“Late Coptic Bookbinding” Scrub Oak Bindery, Salt Lake City, UT
Book Arts and Papermaking, The University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
“Ethiopian Binding: Leather-Covered Wooden Boards”, Garage Annex School for Book Arts, Easthampton, MA
“Late Coptic Bookbinding”, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
“Ethiopian Bookbinding “, The New York Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
“Late Coptic Bookbinding”, Scripps College, Claremont, CA