I am a maker of book works/ artists’ books, a sculptor in handmade paper, and an installation artist who also makes prints and drawings.  Sometimes I’m a curator, and every so often, I write things.


I am also an independent educator, who has been teaching Book Arts classes since 1991, and Sculptural Paper classes since 2000. From 1994 until 2009, I helped to build and run a facility that was dedicated to an innovative, open approach to the book and paper arts in Chicago, and, from 1996 until May, 2009, I helped to develop and taught in an MFA program there.


I am a person with a severe hearing loss.


I’m not trained in the making of web sites; hopefully this D.I.Y. site will give you a sense of my work. For optimum viewing, I recommend that you double-click on the first image on a page, rather than use the slideshow function.






       










































































 
       
                                            
               Photo above: Sarah Burt, 2009
                 Women’s Studio Workshop
       All other site contents copyright 2007 - 2009, 
                  Melissa Jay Craig.  All rights reserved.

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        Current and  Upcoming Exhibitions and Events:

         The Leaf and The Page
             State of Illinois Museum, Lockport, IL
            October 20, 2009 - January 29, 2010
    
        Marking Time
            Guild of Bookworkers Triennial Exhibition
            San Francisco Public Library, California
            September 6 - November 23, 2009  
            (show travels through March, 2011; click here for schedule

       Respite 
            Vespine Gallery, Chicago
            November 6-28, 2009; reception: Friday, November 13

        
          For information on Classes and Workshops, click here!
   
                                                                        
                                                                       
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