Mary Beth Boone

Mary Beth Boone is a book artist and letterpress printer living in Greensboro, NC. She began making books about thirty-five years ago. Recent exhibits include Re(f)use at Artspace in Raleigh, NC and It’s Alive!: Frankenstein, 200 Years at Asheville BookWorks in Asheville, NC; both in 2018; Winter Show at the GreenHill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, NC in 2020; and the 10th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio in 2022. Her work was included in 1000 Artists’ Books and 500 Handmade Books, volume 2. A Winter Residency at the Penland School of Craft in 2012 inspired her to locate and purchase a Vandercook SP 15 letterpress. She prints under the imprint Purple Pumpkin Press. Her work is in private and public collections. Mary Beth holds an MFA from the University of SC, Columbia.