art for beauty • art for liberation
press | ink | pen
california.
in 2010 Camille began a career as a writer and letterpress printer, apprenticing at a local print shop and subsequently opening her own independent publishing press. Dedicated to printing limited edition hand made books and small batch, one-of-a-kind art prints, Camille self-published numerous zines and artist books. In November 2010 she was invited to the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for emerging writers at The Center For Book Arts in New York City. Pieces of Camille's poetic, prose, and essay work have been included in readings for Pinay Lives and Voices, curated by poet Barbara Jane Reyes {live reading} (April 2012); The Lighthouse, curated by Emji Spero of Timeless, Infinite Light (November 2011); and TEXTFORM, curated by artist Jen Bervin (August 2011). In 2012 and 2013 Camille was invited to participate in the annual Druckwerk Printing Residency in Basel, Switzerland, where she printed pretty things and swam a lot in the Rhein River.
Under the moniker Bookish Bruja, Camille creates limited edition prints in the San Francisco bay area in the traditional territory of the coast Miwok people. Camille’s work is influenced by her ancestral Filipinx heritage and the flora and fauna of California.
