Leavenworth Jackson Open Studio
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
My good friend Leavenworth Jackson, one of the most well-known rubber stamp artists and designers in the world, is having an open studio next month in Berkeley, California.
Her stamps are some of the most interesting and beautiful around and if you’re in the area I highly recommend dropping by.
You can download her current catalog in pdf format here to get a better idea of her stamps.
I met Leavenworth through the mail art movement in about 1979 and started buying stamps from her. We met for the first time at the San Francisco Macworld in 1985 (I helped her buy her first Mac to run her stamp business).
Leavenworth came east for a visit this past summer at the same time that Gary Sharp was visiting us so we all had a grand reunion in New York and up here in Connecticut. Gary had never met her but had been buying her stamps for 20 years and this was only the third time I’d met her. My wife Anne and LJ enjoyed each other immensely as well. She’s an exceptional person in every way, an incredibly talented artist and someone I’m proud to call a friend. If you can get to this open studio, don’t miss it.
Thinking of you at Mulberry/Spring. Long time since Leavenworth
Jackson visited. Please visit again.
Wow, Susanna, what a treat to hear from you. My friend Gary, who was with me when we visited LJ in your apartment is coming to visit again this week. We might be down in that area on Thursday as we’re going to hear Chris Botti at the Blue Note. Who knows, maybe we’ll cross paths.