Join us for a FREE all ages public demonstration given by artist Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder sponsored by The Central Arkansas Collective Gallery, Blackbird Arts Collective and The University of Central Arkansas.

The event is on Friday, April 4 from 6 - 7 PM at Espresso Evergreen at 1022 Oak Street in Conway, Arkansas.

Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder is an artist and writer based in Santa Fe, NM. She creates limited-edition artist’s books under the imprint of Coyote Bones Press, established in 2015. Schroeder holds an MFA in Book Art & Creative Writing from Mills College, and has worked as a studio assistant at Flying Fish Press and BookLab II as an edition bookbinder. In addition to her studio practice, Schroeder is currently the curator for The Palace Press at the New Mexico History Museum.

Schroeder was selected as the distinguished speaker for the Charles W.  Mann Lecture in the Book Arts at Penn State University in 2023, and as a grant recipient for the 2023 inaugural Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort. She was awarded the MCBA Prize in 2022 honoring excellence in book arts, and was the Salzberg Artist in Residence at Jaffe Center for Book Arts in 2019-2021. Schroeder produces and hosts Books in the Wild, a podcast about book arts and book history, and co-owns and designs enamel pins as The Paper Carnival with book artist Julie Chen.

Schroeder’s work examines objects and landscape as metaphors for the human experience. Reoccurring themes include ecology and environmental concerns, memory and mourning, relics and artifacts, the anomalous and paranormal. Her work takes form as sculptural book structures and found objects, combining traditional and contemporary bookbinding and printing techniques.

Her books are held in many prominent collections including UC Berkeley, Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, Tufts, Library of Congress, RISD, and The British Library.