| Title | Refuge |
| Artist / Creator | Wendy Partridge |
| Press Name | Vanitas Press |
| Place of Publication | Cleveland Heights, OH |
| Publication Date | 2010 |
| Process / Technique | Pressure printing on letterpress with handset type |
| Image Process | Watercolor |
| Structure / Binding | Drum leaf binding |
| Paper Stock | Kitikata |
| Number of Pages | 16 |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 3.75 x 4.5 x .575 inches |
| Edition Size | Edition of 8 |
| Signed & Numbered | Yes |
I am not from Ohio, but have lived in Cleveland now for twelve years. Refuge is a small book about Lake Erie and the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge at the western end of the lake. The text is as follows, “From where I work I can see Lake Erie. It is hard to know the Lake. Access is poor, industrial, or run down. One winter at a wildlife refuge, I learned that I might love the lake. The refuge is too small, but you can hear wild swans coming down from the Arctic.”
Artist Bio
Wendy Partridge is a letterpress printer, book artist, and paintings conservator. She has a graduate degree in art conservation from New York University and works as a paintings conservator. She is the coordinator for the letterpress studio at the Zygote Press, a cooperative, artist-run print shop in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2012 she was awarded an artist residency through Zygote and the Ohio Arts Council to spend five weeks at the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, Germany.