Kathleen Burch Email & Phone Number

Kathleen Burch has had a decades-long career immersed in literature as a typographer, book designer, publisher, curator, and book arts educator. She creates books, artists books, and letterpress-printed poetry broadsides with finely tuned typography and design—all with the object of engaging the reader to fully enter into the heart and spirit of the writer. She founded a type & design studio in 1979 now called Burch Typografica which continues to this day. Cognizant of the value of organization in the large book arts community, in 1996 Burch co-founded, with Mary Austin, the San Francisco Center for the Book, which offers education in letterpress printing, hand bookbinding, and lettering as well as exhibitions of the art of the book. There, she curated and designed the playing card exhibition "Reading the Cards" in 2001; in 2014 she co-curated, with John McBride, the Pacific Center for the Book Arts Members Show of 120 works for the San Francisco Public Library. Her graphical & design work from the eighties was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at Mills College in 1996 which featured her principal artists book, "Indicia: a romance", a two-deck study of the history of the design of playing cards and three thousand years of literary romances. She was an artist-in-residence at Oxbow School in 2006 and at Xerox PARC in 2000. As president of The Book Club of California, 2009-2010, she designed several major keepsakes, including their Centennial programs of 2012, and on M.F. K. Fisher in 2008. In 2020, the Book Club of California co-awarded Burch and Mary Austin the Oscar Lewis Award in the Book Arts.

Listed skills include Graphic Design, Art, Social Media, Creative Direction, and 14 others.