Artist's Bio

Linda Piacentini-Yaple is a text,book artist,and gallery owner in Bend, Oregon, who is an enthusiastic advocate of calligraphy and the book as art. She is a published poet and artist and created her first book about Alaska at the age of eight. Her latest exhibits include the Geisel Library, UCSD,CA;Weiner Holocaust Library,London,England; Tweed River Art Gallery, New South Wales,Australia;Bank Street Arts,Sheffield, England,Abecedarian Gallery,Denver,and the British Library in London. Her artist books reside in public collections at the University of Washington, University of Southern California, Bank Street Arts in Sheffield, England,and in private collections in Oregon, Washington,Indiana, California,Chicago, and Rome, Italy.