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Chris Fritton is the former Studio Director of the Western New York Book Arts Center. A poet, printer, and fine artist, Fritton has over a decade of experience writing, printing, and making his own books, in addition to collaborative efforts with other authors and artists. Recently (2014) he was selected as a panelist to judge the New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship in Drawing, Printmaking, and Book Arts. He co-founded the highly-acclaimed Buffalo Small Press Book Fair with Kevin Thurston in 2007, and has been organizing the fair solo since 2009 (the Fair is now in its 10th year). Currently Fritton is working on a brand new project called The Itinerant Printer, where he plans to visit over 100 letterpress print shops throughout 2015 & 2016.
As a former designer and printer for Mohawk Press at the Western New York Book Arts Center, Fritton was lucky enough to create gig posters for dozens of bands, including Sleater-Kinney, Okkervil River, Wu Tang Clan, Ice Cube, Rasputina, Deer- hoof, of Montreal, Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan, GWAR, First Aid Kit, Tegan and Sara, as well as international events like the World Maker Faire. He has also had the good fortune to make work for artists like the eccentric Crispin Hellion Glover.
He has been an artist-in-residence at AS220 in Providence, RI and an instructor at numerous institutions, including the Penland School of Crafts. He holds a BA in Philosophy (1998), a BA in Poetics (2000), and a BA in Art History (2010) from SUNY at Buffalo, as well as an MA in Poetics from the University of Maine at Orono (2005).
Image courtesy of the artist.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca