5 - 6. It Tastes Bitter, 2008, screenprint, letterpress on handmade abaca and cotton papers,
            9-3/4" x 7-1/2 x 1/4" closed, 12 pages
            Text by Suzanne Fischer

7 - 8. Tower, 2007, digital printing, ink, stamping on handmade abaca paper, 75 x 7-12" open
            (vertical accordion structure)

9 - 10. Once Whole, Now Homeless, 2005, offset lithography, 5" x 5" x 3/4"

11. A Biography of a Modern Woman, 2005, mixed media, 8” x 6” x 1/2"
12. An Atlas of Rooms, 2004, offset lithography, 5” x 6” x 3/8"
13. Gingerbread House, 2 spreads, 2005, inkjet on handmade paper, 8-1/2” x 5" x 1/4”

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1. Beast, 2007, ink, pigmented cotton rag pulp, 9" x 12"
2. What Would You Face?, 2007, ink, pigmented cotton rag pulp, 9" x 12"
3. Rifle Cookies, 2007, public intervention project
     Distribution of 200 rifle-shaped cookies packaged with “Nutrition Information”
     at anti-war rally, Washington, DC
4. Rifle Cookies, detail
5. Citizen Hydra, 2006, cast flax masks, newspaper, mixed drawing
     media, 144" x 216" x 7"
6. Citizen Hydra, detail
7. Beast Versus Beast, 2006, pulp painting, collage,
     10" x 8"
8. The State of the Nation, 2006, flax, pigment, xerox,
     72" x 108" x 12"
9. The State of the Nation, detail
10. Step On Up!, 2006, letterpressed handout on handmade paper,
      stacked on soap box, 30" x 12" x variable height
11. Slippery, 2006, inkjet prints, lace, lingerie strap notions, 35" x 17"
12. Slippery, detail

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1. Ostrich: A Nation Follows Its Leaders, 2005, linocut and      pulp painting, 14" x 11"
2. Invasion of Mars, 2005, linocut and mixed media,
     15” x 11”
3. Angry, 2002, linocut, 7” x 5”
4. No Ghosts, 2002, woodcut, 14” x 11”
5. Postscript, 2002, woodcut, 14” x 11”

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Contact Information
Citizen Hydra Projects
Philadelphia, PA
e-mail: mary@citizenhydra.net
www.citizenhydra.net
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
I am compelled to make things.
I continually worry that the world is going to pieces.

To address both of these concerns, I make things about the state of the world. Sometimes I want to take the world by the throat and shake it, but usually my approach is subtler. I observe and I collect. I tell a story and encourage the viewer to question her or his own behavior and assumptions. These questions arise from the continual onslaught of stimuli that is the fabric of daily urban and global living. They may address gender expectations, romantic interactions, world news, politics, or the detritus of a city existence.

If it is important to elicit questioning and action from the viewer, then it is important to elicit questioning and action from as many viewers as possible. I participate in the book arts, paper arts, print culture, and interactivity as sites of democratic access and narrative possibility.

Education
2006
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MFA , Book Arts and Printmaking

2002
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
BA, Visual Art and Children's Literature

Professional Experience (partial listing)
2007 - 2009
Contributor, Listings Editor, Hand Papermaking Newsletter, Beltsville, MD

Editor, www.BookArtsClassified.com, Page Two, Inc., Beltsville, MD

2009
Printmaking Instructor, Naropa Institute Summer Writing Program, Boulder, CO

Bookbinding Instructor, Philadelphia Futures, Philadelphia, PA

Book Arts Instructor, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

Collage and Text Instructor, Professional Educators Institute, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Southwest Community Enrichment Center, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Focus on Book Arts Conference, Forest Grove, OR

Residencies
2008
Artist in Residence, Minnesota Center for Book Arts,
Minneapolis, MN

2007
Artist in Residence, 40th Street AIRspace, Philadelphia, PA

Awards
2005
Library Purchase Award, The University of the Arts Library, Philadelphia, PA

Collections
Free Library of Philadelphia Print and Picture Collection, Philadelphia, PA

Newark Public Library Fine Print Collection, Newark, NJ

Scripps College Library, Claremont, CA

Texas Tech University Libraries, Lubbock, TX

Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Special Collections, Topeka, KS

The University of the Arts Library, Philadelphia, PA

University of California Santa Barbara Libraries, Santa Barbara, CA

Private collections

Selected Exhibitions

2009
Greetings from the Welcome House, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA

Welcome House Project: BOOK BOMBS SHELTER, Love Park, Philadelphia, PA
Collaboration with Michelle Wilson

2008
Global Warming Print Exchange, Street installation, Richmond, VA
Traveling exhibition

Readers Art 8, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

A Foreign Response, Rosenwald-Wolf Corridor, Philadelphia, PA

Wake Up! Are We Desensitized?, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ

All Things Electoral, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2007
Paper Awareness XI, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA

5th Annual Bike Parts Art Show, Old City, Philadelphia, PA

Recurrence, Galleria Sottoportego, Venice, Italy

Action/Interaction: Book/Art, Center for Book and Paper Arts & Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL

Book in Hand, Arts + Literature Laboratory, New Haven, CT

Reader’s Art 7: Frugal Finds for Prudent Collectors, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

The State of the Union Address 2006, Window on Broad, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Friends of Dard Hunter 25th Anniversary Juried Members Show, Chillicothe, OH

Arte Pagina, Kelly Writers’ House, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

San Diego Book Arts First National Book Arts Juried Exhibition, Geisel Library, The University of California, San Diego, CA

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Turning Pages II, Bonnie Bell Wardman Library, Whittier College, Whittier, CA

Meraviglia, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College,
Easton, PA

Third National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Exhibition, The American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA and Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL

2005
Artists' Books from Philadelphia and Timisoara , The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA and Library Humanitas Joc Secund, Timisoara, Romania

Book Arts from UArts: Selections from The University of the Arts MFA Program in Book Arts/Printmaking, 1989-2005, Kamin Gallery, Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Project Mobilivre, Traveling exhibition

Turning Pages, Bonnie Bell Wardman Library, Whittier College, Whittier, CA