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Shawn Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses and workshops on the national level since 2001 and holds an MFA in the Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago. 

Shawn is a Chicago paper artist who uses pop-ups to take full advantage of the expressive potential of a book’s imagery, allowing for moving, three-dimensional form within the book format. In this episode, we discussed Shawn’s career trajectory from design school to discovering book arts and how he incorporates handmade paper into his artist’s books and trade editions.

© Shawn Sheehy, pop-up spreads from A Pop-Up Guide to North American Wildflowers.

His broadsides and artist book editions have been collected by numerous prestigious institutions, including Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard.

Shawn’s trade pop-up book