Pamela Paulsrud, visual artist, papermaker and calligrapher received her MFA from Columbia College in Interdisciplinary Arts concentrating in Book and Paper. Pamela investigates the interface of the concept, process, and calligraphic nature of handwriting with the linear features of the landscape using artist books and handmade paper. Pamela's work has been published in many magazines, books, and journals including Making Memory Books by Hand, Exploratopia, Living Artists, and several issues of Letter Arts Review. Her work is in the Special Collections at the University of California, San Diego and the Newberry Library, Chicago having been a recipient of the 1997 Newberry Library Purchase Prize. Her lettering titles the ceramic floor map in the exhibit Traveling the South Pacific at Field Museum, Chicago. She is currently exhibiting her work internationally and collaborating with Marilyn Sward on a project entitled Treewhispers, which can be seen at www.treewhispers.com. She freelances and teaches workshops in lettering and book arts.