Kit Davey
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Kit Davey is a Redwood City, California-based artist specializing in book art. Davey’s work pushes the boundaries of “bookness” by using unusual materials such as mica, acetate, flattened coins and teabags as pages, and making book covers from shells, coins, driftwood, rulers, buttons and acetate. Davey has taught over 70 different book structures, holding her classes on Zoom so that students the world over can join her.  Her work is available on her website, www.foundobject-art.com and at San Francisco Bay Area art events.  She makes a book a day and shares them on Instagram.
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