Jeremy Botts • 153 E Pomfret Street • Carlisle PA 17013 • phone 717.756.0621 • email jeremy@fiammascura.com

Personal Workworking appropriately and imaginatively in relation to nature and with the nature and history of thingsvisual polyphony occurring in the textures of written text, including historical models and exemplars | palimpsestscollaborative exploration of traditional painted media and digital and time-based media (video and sound)site specific structures | sculpture and collaborative, educational projects

Education 2005–2007 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD • MFA in Graphic Design 1995–1996 European Honors Program, RISD, Rome ITALY • self directed studio work 1992–1996 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI • BFA with honors in Graphic Design 1988–1992 Glenbard West High School, Glen Ellyn IL • graduated with high honors

Work Experience2005–PRESENT part time faculty in typography • Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD2004–PRESENT (summers) visual arts instructor for summer art camp • Stone Meadow, Lebanon TN2000–PRESENT (intermittent) adjunct faculty: graphic design, 3D, and sculpture • Messiah College, Grantham PA2003–2005 private homeschool instructor in art for several families, Carlisle and Lewisberry PA2000 founded Fiammascura Press • freelance design studio in renovated chicken house, Lewisberry PA1999–2003 part time farm hand • helped plow, plant and harvest crops, and maintain buildings and machinery1999 created Bätzschrift, typeface used as the text face for The Holy Bible, Tyndale House, 20001996–1998 Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, Wheaton IL • promotion manager | graphic designer1995 SUMMER plus design, inc., Boston MA • junior designer • worked on Carnegie International catalog1990–PRESENT extensive calligraphic and freelance design work

Skills Personal curious, enthusiastic, hardworking, problem-solving, self-motivated, collaborative, thoughtfulHand design • drawing • handlettering • stonecutting • printmaking • type design • woodworking • photographyComputer InDesign • Photoshop • Illustrator • Fontographer • Final Cut Pro • After Effects • web designLanguages written and spoken competency in Italian • music (piano, accordion, tin whistle, theremin) • poetry

Exhibitions & PublicationsIndie Publishing | wrote and designed chapter on Poetry Chapbooks, Princeton Architectural Press • 2008Graphic Design: The New Basics | work included in textbook by Ellen Lupton, Princeton Architectural Press • 2008Promotional Video for International Calligraphy Conference | wrote, directed, filmed and edited, Chicago IL • 2007Faculty Show and MFA Show | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD • 2007Giftcard Designs to accompany exhibition | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York NY • 2006Contemporary Ornament | pattern designs published in Print Magazine • 2006Sanctuary Cross | commission of 17-foot tall oak, copper and steel cross, Mechanicsburg PA • 2005Faculty Show | Messiah College, Grantham PA • 2004Icon Show | group show organized by Icon Artists Guild, Enola PA • 2004Thisplacement and Septembered Sabbaths | chapbooks of personal artwork and poetry, published 2000 and 2002Visual Collaboration with composer George Arasimowicz | Barrows Auditorium, Wheaton College, Wheaton IL • 1998Psalms & Giornate | Benedictine University, Lisle IL • 1997Senior Show | Palazzo Cenci, Rome ITALY • May 1996Disegni dagli Album | Palazzo Cenci, Rome ITALY • December 1995Type Director’s Club 42 | (and inclusion in Typography 17: The Annual of the TDC) • 1995Working Art and the Inscriptional Letter | What Cheer Garage, Providence RI • February 1993

BiographyJeremy Botts currently lives and works in an 1865 Victorian Italianate in Carlisle PA. His passion for the alphabet and design began at the dining room table, where his calligrapher father sat his children down on Sunday afternoons with ink and metal nibbed pens to practice the just formation of letters. After 18 years in the suburbs of Chicago, providence called him to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a BFA in graphic design. A year in Rome and letter carving in stone gave him great respect for the trueness of natural materials and the challenges of design that would live and breathe years beyond him.

After a decade of working freelance and teaching part time he returned to school and received an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Recently, he has worked with Ellen Lupton on the textbook Graphic Design: The New Basics and was responsible for writing a chapter in Indie Publishing, forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press. He continues to teach typography and graphic design at MICA while maintaining his freelance practice: Fiammascura Press.

For pleasure he makes collaborative drawings with his daughter, harvests backyard vegetables with his wife, and enjoys forays into the lesser piano works of Chopin and Scriabin. As he stokes the wood stove, Botts often imagines his renovated chicken house studio sprouting scaly legs and running through the alfalfa fields. He believes he will fly away some glad morning.