b. 1972, Berlin, VermonT
education
1997
BFA in Graphic Design/Book Arts (Contract Degree)
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Thesis Title: Author•ity
Includes study of Book Arts at Oregon College of Art & Craft
1996
Internship
cCrak Press, Portland, OR
Letterpress and screen printing, graphic design, digital type design
1990-1993
Studio Art (major), Women’s Studies (minor)
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Undergraduate and general education classes
CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES:
2022
Archival Arrangement & Description: Fundamentals
Society of American Archivists, online course
Archival principles, concepts, and tools to establish both physical and intellectual control over archival records
2019
Collections Management
American Association for State and Local History, online course
Introduction to Collections Management Policies for small museums
2017
Basics of Archives
American Association for State and Local History, online course
Introduction to managing and protecting historical records collections
2016
A to Z Grantwriting
Portland Community College, online course
Introduction to grant writing, proposal development, and fundraising for organizations
2002
Monotype University 5
Hill & Dale Press, Terra Alta, WV
Intensive study of Monotype metal type casting
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022-present
Archive and Legacy Consultant
Marie Watt Studio, Portland, OR
2021-present
Archive Consultant & Project Manager
X Gallery Art Storage, Portland, OR
2019-present
Co-owner and Printer
Craft Printing House, Clatskanie, OR
2019-2020
Library Move Coordinator
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
2019
Project Assistant, Library Move
Oregon Historical Society , Portland, OR
1998-2019
Owner/Operator
Stumptown Printers Worker Cooperative, Portland, OR
2000-2002
Director
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
1999-2000
Co-Director
L&B Viewing Room Gallery, Leon & Bornowski Studios, Portland, OR
1998-1999
Assistant Director
L&B Viewing Room Gallery, Leon & Bornowski Studios, Portland, OR
1997-1998
Art Teacher
Noteworthy Learning Systems, Lake Oswego, OR
CONSULTING
2022-present
Studio Inventory and Archive Consulting
Heather Watkins Studio, Portland, OR
2021
Print Inventory & Archiving, mid-career retrospective
Marie Watt Studio, Portland, OR
Studio Archive, Workflow and Organization Consulting
Jennifer Viviano Studio, Portland, OR
2019-present
Project Management
Teaching the Artist Book, Barbara Tetenbaum, Portland, OR
2019-2020
Project Management, Collections Management System
X Gallery Art, Portland, OR
Project Management
A People’s History of Music (3-Part Podcast Series), Portland, OR
2019
Letterpress Curriculum Development
Boxer Maker Space, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
Sabbatical Support
Abra Ancliffe, Portland, OR
2018
Family Archive Preparation
Estate of Norma Paulus, Portland, OR
Project Management
The Slow Read, Barbara Tetenbaum, Portland, OR
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022
Archiving for Visual Artists: Career Documentation and Legacy Considerations
X Gallery Art, Portland, OR
2019
Press Maintenance
Private tutoring, Portland, OR
2018
Letterpress Printing on a Tabletop Press
Private tutoring, Milwaukie, OR
2015
Letterpress, Spring Term
Continuing Education, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2014
Letterpress, Fall Term
Continuing Education, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2010
Ink Picnic: Ink Intensive for Letterpress
Studio School, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2009
Intermediate Letterpress
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
2008
Advanced Letterpress I
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
Letterpress Platemaking
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
Advanced Letterpress II
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
Care & Maintenance of Your Table-top Letterpress
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
2007
Letterpress Master Class
Studio School, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
The Successful Printed Piece: Working with a Commercial Printer
with Adam McIsaac, Sibley House
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
Care & Maintenance of Your Table-top Letterpress
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
2006
Advanced Typesetting & Printing Techniques
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
presentations
2024
Career Documentation and Archiving for Early Career Artists
Fresh Perspectives, Salem Art Association, Salem, OR
2023
The C.C. Stern Type Foundry Moving Forward
American Typecasting Fellowship Conference, Portland, ME
2022
Managing Your Artwork: Organization, Documentation & Building Your Legacy
with Zachary Hull, Jennifer Viviano
Salem Art Association Salon Series, Salem, OR
Managing an Artist’s Archive: Documenting a Creative Life
with Jennifer Viviano
Northwest Archivists 2022 Annual Meeting Conference, online
2018
The Art of Industry: Hot Metal Typecasting at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry
with Brian Bagdonas
Hamilton Wayzgoose, Two Rivers, WI
2017
C. C. Stern Type Foundry
with Joseph Green
Brown Bag Lunch Series, Eliott Press, Tacoma, WA
C. C. Stern Type Foundry
with Joseph Green
Seattle Book Arts Guild, UW Library, Seattle, WA
2013
C.C. Stern Type Foundry: Metal Type—How It’s Made and Why it Matters
with Jeff Shay
Core77’s Curiosity Club, Hand-Eye Supply, Portland, OR
2010
How Type is Made
IPRC, ILWU Local 5 Hall, Portland, OR
The C.C. Stern Type Foundry
American Typecasting Fellowship Conference, Piqua, OH
2008
How Type is Made
Book Arts Class, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
Profile: Stumptown Printers Worker Cooperative
American Typecasting Fellowship Conference, St Louis, MO
volunteer experience
2022-2023
Annual Meeting Conference Programming Committee
Northwest Archivists, Pacific NW
2021-present
Advisory Council
Partners in Print, Seattle, WA
2008-present
Board of Directors
C.C. Stern Type Foundry, Portland, OR
2019-2021
Board of Advisors
Marfa Community Print, Marfa, TX
2017-2020
Volunteer Processing Archivist
Special Collections, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
2014
MFA Graduate Committee, Book Arts Candidate
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2013-2017
A.S. Degree Advisory Committee
Clackamas Community College, Clackamas, OR
2003-2006
Board of Directors
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
1998-2008
Print Shop Supervisor
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
1998-2000
Co-founder & Director
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
1995-2005
Store staff
Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
1998-1999
Promotions Assistant
KBOO Community Radio Station, Portland, OR
1994-1999
Broadcaster
KBOO Community Radio Station, Portland, OR
1996
Project Coordinator, Bookmaking
Lents Education Center, Janus Youth Programs, Portland, OR
1995-1996
Student Representative, Board of Directors
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1992-1993
Program Director Assistant
KGNU Community Radio Station, Boulder, CO
1992
Co-chair
Women’s Self Help Health Group, Arcata, CA
1991-1992
Representative, HSU Acquaintance Rape Task Force
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
1989-1990
Student Representative, Board of Directors
Campaign for Global Security, Sacramento, CA
group EXHIBITIONS
2024
Persist! Movement and Protest Art
North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023
Love Letters 2023
Traveling Exhibition, NEW ZEALAND
2022
Celebrating All Types
Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI
2020
HAM at 20!
Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
2017
Surface Now #1
Hot Bed Press, The Casketworks, Salford, UK
2016
Ink + Metal + Paper
23 Sandy, Portland, OR
Women Wielding Ink Knives
River Street Studios, Portland, OR
Ladies of Letterpress
Asheville Bookworks, Asheville, NC
Team Japan Showcase
Beams, Tokyo, Shibuya JAPAN
2015
Tokyo Oktoberfest (curated by Hellion Gallery)
Hatos Bar and Gallery, Tokyo, Nakameguro, JAPAN
Tegamisha 2nd Story
Tokyo, Chofu, JAPAN
2012
INKED! Contemporary Northwest Letterpress
23 Sandy, Portland, OR
2009
Power of The Press
Gerding Theater at the Armory, Portland Center Stage, Portland, OR
2009
Show and Tell Anniversary Exhibit
Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
2007
Books and Broadsides
Artists Panel with Barb Tetenbaum, Jules Faye, Paul Hunter
Art Gallery, Lower Columbia Community College, Longview, WA
2003
Flatstock
Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
2001
For Posting: And Exhibit of Contemporary Letterpress Broadsides
In Cahoots Artspace, Portland, OR
Firefly Press Poster Show
The Medicine Hat Gallery, Portland, OR
2000
NxNW Poster Show
Johnny Sole, Portland, OR
1999
Letterpress Extravaganza
E-State, Portland, OR
Bookfest Northwest
Convention Center, Seattle, WA
1997
Navigation (solo show)
Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
Small Show
Tank Gallery, Portland, OR
Contemporary Book Arts (Juried Show)
Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR
bibliography
2022
“Expanding Back to Our Roots: The C.C. Stern Type Foundry”
Brian Bagdonas and Rebecca Gilbert
Parenthesis: The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association (pg. 43-46), Issue #43, Autumn 2022.
2010
IPRC Audiozine Volume 2
Rebecca Gilbert, Barbara Tetenbaum and Erin Yanke
Produced for the Independent Publishing Resource Center, 2010.
2009
IPRC Audiozine Volume 1
Rebecca Gilbert, Barbara Tetenbaum and Erin Yanke
Produced for the Independent Publishing Resource Center, 2009.
1999-2008
Napcore zine, Issues 1-4
Self-published.
2003
“Everything that inspired me ..."
American Typecasting Fellowship Newsletter (pg. 8-9), No. 28, December 2003.
1994-2000
Verboslammed zine, Issues 1-10
Self-published.
1999
KilKare Interview
MaximumRockNRoll #199, April 1999.
1997
Life During Wartime Audiozine, Issues 1-4
Produced by Rebecca Gilbert and Erin Yanke
No. 1 “My first punk show”
No. 2 “While you were ignoring us”
No. 3 “Reagan’s Reign of (T)error”
No. 4 “Here or There”
Self-published.
1992-1993
Finster zine, Issues 1-3
Mary Calhoun, Rebecca Gilbert, Kathy Jensen, Erin Yanke
Self-published.
selected PUBLICATIONS
2016
Momoki, Toshino. Portland Book (pg. 155). 365Portland.com, 2016.
2015
Kurosaki, Teruo, ed. True Portland: The Unofficial Guide for Creative People (pg. 186). BRIDGELAB/Media Surf Communications, 2015.
Kataoka, Noriyuki. “Stumptown Printers” Spectator Vol. 34, 2015, pg. 75-81.
Thomas, Kseniya and Jessica C. White. Ladies of Letterpress (pg. 175-178). Ivy Press, 2015.
2014
Kurosaki, Teruo, ed. True Portland: The Unofficial Guide for Creative People (pg. 171-172, 179). BRIDGELAB/Media Surf Communications, 2014.
Mise, Brandon. Adventures in Letterpress (pgs. 77, 91). Lawrence King Publishing Ltd., 2014.
Wagner, Matt. The Tall Trees of Portland (pg. 208-215). Overcup Press, 2014.
2012
Mitchell, Heather, ed. The Vandercook 100!: Celebrating 100 Artisan’s and 100 Years of Letterpress Printing on the Vandercook Proof Press (pg. 188-189). Just Vandy, 2012.
2011
Vit, Armin and Bryony Gomez-Palacio, ed. The 2010 FPO Awards (pg. 122-123, 184-185). UnderConsideration, 2011.
2010
MacPhee, Josh, ed. Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution (pg. 20-21). Feminist Press, 2010.
2009
“News Report: Stumptown Printers, Portland, 2009”. Monocle Magazine, 2009.
2000
Midlo, Mike, producer. “Independent Publishing Resource Center”. Oregon Art Beat, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 2000.
1997
Duncombe, Stephen. Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (pg. 22). Verso, 1997.
press:
2016
Caster Masters, Alphabettes.org
2015
Stumptown Printers (USA) visiting MIAT, Type and Press, Ghent, Belgium
2011
Make an Impression, Portland Mercury, Portland, OR
Schwartz, Sarah. ‘Pressing in Portland (pg. 74-78). Stationery Trends Magazine. Spring 2011.
2009
Red Letter Day, Willamette Week, Portland, OR
Eliot: Letterpress printers holding fair, art sale, The Oregonian, Portland, OR
Rebecca Gilbert: The Look and Feel of Portland, Untitled, PNCA Alumni Publication, Portland, OR
2008
Port to Port, American Craft, Minneapolis, MN. Jan/Dec 2008.
Making Impressions, Portland Tribune, Portland, OR (pg. 1, 3). Aug 28, 2008.
2005
IPRC: Adventures in publishing, PSU Vanguard, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Once More With Feeling, Portland Mercury, Portland, OR. July 21, 2005.
2004
Reading Frenzy Hits 10, Willamette Week, Portland, OR
2002
Aspiring writers find help at local resource center, Portland Business Journal, Portland, OR
Nice Package: Local Printers Urge Bands to Move Beyond Kinko’s, Willamette Week, Portland, OR (pg. 13). April 10, 2002.
2000
Bio: Rebecca Gilbert, Portland Mercury, Portland, OR
Blood & Ink, Willamette Week, Portland, OR (pg. 47-48). February 9, 2000.
1995
These Magazines Offer More Than Just Girl Talk, New York Times, New York, NY (Section 1, pg. 53). November 12, 1995.
awards and grants
2021
Professional Development Scholarship
Scholarship to attend professional development workshop related to archival standards
Northwest Archivists, Pacific Northwest USA
Make Learn Build Grant (X Gallery Art)
Grant to develop curriculum and educational workshop focused on Visual Artists Archives
RACC, Portland, OR
2004
Fellowship to Publishers (Firefly Press/Stumptown Printers)
Grant to complete a fine press book written by Colin Meloy & illustrated by Carson Ellis
Literary Arts Inc., Portland, OR
2001
Fellowship to Publishers (Firefly Press/Stumptown Printers)
Grant to complete 2 fine press broadsides by Pete "Dishwasher" Jordan and Moe Bowstern (Xtra Tuf)
Literary Arts Inc., Portland, OR
Design Inspiration Awards (Firefly Press)
For design, printing and packaging of Corrina Repp “I Take on Your Days” CD Packaging.
Fraser Papers, Stamford, CT
1996
Nancy Tonkin Scholarship
Based on portfolio submitted for review
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1995
Rachael Griffin Memorial Scholarship
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Beaux Arts Society Award
Beaux Arts Society, Portland, OR
1991
Students Who Make A Difference
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA