Amy Elise Thompson portrait
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art/Art History
  • Assistant Librarian, Marriott Library
801-585-9191

Professional Service

  • College Book Art Association. Role: Member. Anti-racism Change Team (ACT). 10/2020 - present
  • College Book Art Association. Role: Member. Board. 01/2020 - present
  • College Book Art Association. Role: Chair. Awards Committee. 01/2020 - present
  • College Book Art Association. Role: Member. Communications Committee. 08/2016 - 12/2017
  • College Book Art Associations. Role: Member. Awards Committee. 03/2015 - present

Internal Service

  • University Studies Committee. Member, 07/01/2021 - present. University service.
  • Inclusive Design and Design Justice Community . 06/2021 - present. University service.
  • Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Member, 04/2021 - present. College service.
  • Fine Arts, Architecture, Planning, & Humanities (FAAPH) College Interdisciplinary Team. Member, 10/2020 - present. College service.
  • Academic Appeals and Misconduct Committee. Member, 07/30/2020 - present. University service.
  • Assistant Professor in Graphic Design (Lecturer) Search Committee. Search Committee Member, 01/2019 - 04/2019. University service.
  • Senate Advisory Committee on IT. Member, 09/2018 - 06/2021. University service.
  • Curriculum development for new course: ART/BART 4080 Book Design & Production. This course has been approved for the Fine Arts Exploration General Education Designation. 01/2018 - 02/2020. University service.
  • Marriott Library Development Officer Search Committee. Search Committee Member, 08/2017 - 10/2017. College service.
  • Curriculum development in collaboration with Graphic Design, Department of Art. 11/15/2016 - present. University service.

Community Partnership

  • Your Place, Your Pace Bookmaking Series: Coptic Binding. Virtual community workshop for the Book Arts Program (asynchronous). 06/2021 - 08/2021
  • Your Place, Your Pace Bookmaking Series: Long-Stitch with Leather Binding. Virtual community workshop for the Book Arts Program (asynchronous). 06/2021 - 08/2021
  • Summer Bookmaking Series: Japanese Stab Binding. Virtual community workshop for the Book Arts Program. 07/29/2020 - 07/29/2020
  • Summer Bookmaking Series: Coptic Binding. Virtual community workshop for the Book Arts Program. 07/27/2020 - 07/27/2020
  • Valenteenies: Love Notes and Calling Cards. Community workshop for the Book Arts Program. 02/08/2020 - 02/08/2020
  • Making the Rounds, Daredevil Style. Community workshop for the Book Arts Program. I acted as TA for visiting national artist, Jessica Spring. 10/04/2019 - 10/05/2019
  • Edge Painting Training. Community training for the Book Arts Program. 08/24/2019 - 08/24/2019
  • Call it Business or Pleasure. Business card design and printing, community workshop for the Book Arts Program. 08/10/2019 - 08/10/2019
  • DE|MARCATION: A survey of contemporary photography in Utah exhibition catalogue. Design work completed with Marnie Powers-Torrey for Amy Jorgensen and Granary Arts. 06/04/2019 - present
  • Let's Get Digital: Lasers + Letterpress. Community workshop for the Book Arts Program. 06/04/2019 - 06/08/2019
  • Letterpress Makeshop. Community workshop partnering the Book Arts Program with the Salt Lake City chapter of the AIGA. 02/09/2019 - present
  • Let's Get Digital. Community workshop for the Book Arts Program on letterpress printing from photopolymer plates. 09/07/2018 - 09/08/2018

Outreach

  • Table representing Book Arts Program at CODEX 2017, 6th Biennial International Book Fair & Symposium. 02/05/2017 - 02/08/2017

Honors & Awards

  • Faculty Small Grant Program award. FSGP, 05/03/2022
  • Selected for a residency May–June 2022 at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. Cité Internationale des Arts, 06/22/2020
  • Selected for a residency in December of 2020 at In Cahoots Residency in Petaluma, CA (postponed, due to Covid-19). In Cahoots Residency, 10/2019
  • Selected Durations, by David Abel, was placed in 20+ public collections in 2018. Collections include Amherst College; the University of Southern California; the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University; Butler Library, Columbia University; California Polytechnic State University; Central Library, Baylor University; Colorado College; Fine Arts Library, Harvard University; Green Library, Stanford University; Haas Arts Special Collections, Yale University Library; John Hay Library, Brown University; Letterform Archive; Otis College of Art & Design; Wellesley College; Vanderbilt University; Olin Library, Washington University; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Spencer Collection, New York Public Library; Emory University; University of California, Irvine; University of Texas, El Paso; University of Wisconsin; William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 10/2019
  • Selected Durations was awarded the first runner-up for the Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design by the University of Texas, El Paso (purchase award). University of Texas, El Paso, 12/2017
  • LOUIE Award Finalist. National Greeting Card Association, 05/2013
  • Creative Stimulus Project Award, St. Louis, MO. Critical Mass, 05/2012

Affiliations

  • American Printing History Association (APHA), Member, 01/2015 - 12/2015
  • College Book Art Association (CBAA), Member, 12/01/2013 - present
  • Ladies of Letterpress (LOLP), Member, 01/2009 - present
  • Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI), Member, 01/2006 - present
  • Seattle Print Arts (SPA), Member, 01/2005 - present

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