Kitty Maryatt ’66, director of the Scripps College Press and assistant professor of art, will give the lecture "Deep Rooted at Scripps" on Wednesday, April 10, at 1:30 p.m. in the Humanities Auditorium on the Scripps College campus. A tea immediately follows. Sponsored by the Scripps College Fine Arts Foundation, this event is free and open to the public.
Inspired by the variety of trees on the Scripps campus, Deep Rooted is the most recent artist book conceived, created, and produced by the Scripps College Press. Maryatt’s lecture will detail the process of producing a limited edition collaborative book by letterpress and will include a brief overview of 16 years of book production.
Professor Maryatt is the founder and proprietor of Two Hands Press, a book arts design studio in Woodland Hills that specializes in the design of books and book jackets for trade and scholarly publications, custom book binding, calligraphy and lettering, and publication of limited edition laser and letterpress books. Maryatt has participated in over 30 exhibitions of printmaking and typography since 1994 and has garnered several awards, including first place at the 2001 Book Explorations exhibit in Kingston, Massachusetts. Maryatt, a Scripps alumnae and director of the Scripps College Press since 1986, earned a master’s degree in mathematics at Claremont Graduate School and a master’s of fine arts in graphic design from UCLA.
Scripps College’s Fine Arts Foundation, founded in 1935, hosts this program as part of its mission to stimulate public interest in art and to raise funds to foster art education and programming at Scripps College.