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Our Staff

In Vermont
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Bill Kelly

Founder and Director

Kelly is the founder of Brighton Press and a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His personal work is housed in numerous public and private collections in the United States, including the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts in San Francisco, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, and the Toledo Art Museum in Ohio. He has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and an MFA from Johnson State College. Kelly was awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant in 2002 and continues making art and books in Vermont and California. He teaches in the art department at the University of San Diego.

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Martin Antonetti

Curator

Antonetti has been a sedulous curator of books at Northwestern University, Smith College, Mills College, and the University of Oregon, where he built collections of rare materials and taught courses in typography and book history. At Smith he founded the Book Studies Concentration, the first of its kind in the country. He also served as Librarian and Director of the esteemed Grolier Club of New York, and has written and lectured widely in the history of the book, including fine printing, letterforms, bookbinding, artists' books, and book collecting.

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Abby Jones

Printer and Binder

Abigail Jones is a book artist, printer, binder, teacher, and collector living in southern Vermont. She is especially interested in black and white illustrations in books. Photographs, etchings, photogravures interacting with the text create a portable work of art when finely bound. When she is not making or recovering books, she is trying to make room for more.

In California
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Kathi George

Copy Editor and Administrative Associate

George has been the copy editor for Brighton Press since 2003. Under her own imprint, DougRegelRome Editions, she has published three limited-edition chapbooks and three framed broadsides, one with former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. George was the founding editor and publisher of FRONTIERS: A Journal of Women Studies (1974-87) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As a freelancer, she has edited textbooks, nonfiction trade books, fiction, and poetry. She taught copy editing and proofreading at UCSD Extension for ten years.

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Jenny Yoshida Park

Web Designer

Yoshida Park holds a BA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and an MFA from San Diego State University in graphic design and book arts. She publishes her own editions of artist’s books under the imprint Evidence of the Hand Press, which can be found at www.evidenceofthehand.com. She has taught book arts at SDSU and University of San Diego. In 2019, she co-published The Color System: Schemes for Life Enhancement with Brighton Press.

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