About

Krista Narciso is a book artist and printer working in the crafts of letterpress printing, bookbinding, paper making, and fiber arts. She creates artists’ books and installation work as a means of exploring spaces that are both immersive and impenetrable; serving as meditations on place, land, movement, lineage, and healing.

Her small editions and one-of-a-kind bookworks are collected by special collections libraries and private collectors. Her work includes edition binding for individuals and institutions, book conservation and preservation, including building custom enclosures, rebinding, and paper repairs, and outreach through workshops and speaking engagements. She maintains a studio in Rocky Hill, CT.

Narciso is a professor of book arts, printmaking, and drawing at the Hartford Art School and Eastern Connecticut State University. She is the Managing Director of the Hartford Press Co-op.

A recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship, she holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Additionally, she holds a Graduate Certificate in College Teaching in Arts & Humanities from the University of Iowa. Narciso earned her BFA in Printmaking with a minor in Art History from the Hartford Art School, where she received the Barbara Podorowsky Memorial Award and the Bernard Vinick International Endowed Scholarship to complete the University of Georgia Studies Abroad program in Cortona, Italy, where she focused on book arts and papermaking.