Maureen Cummins

Maureen Cummins has cranked presses from California to the Eastern Arctic and has produced over 40 limited-edition artist books. Known for her work centered on social justice, her books address subjects as diverse as slave narratives, the Salem witch trials, turn-of-the-century gay love letters, and records from McLean Hospital, the oldest mental hospital in the United States.

As part of Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project, she was one of five artists who collaborated with Syrian and Iraqi refugees to tell their stories.

Cummins is represented in over one hundred permanent public collections and has received more than a dozen grants and funded residencies, including a Pollock-Krasner Award. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, New York.