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Printers Mss 107
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Title: Judyl Mudfoot printer collection
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English.
Physical Description:
6.38 linear feet
(4 document boxes, 1 half-size document box, 1 shoe box, 3 flat boxes)
Source:
Mudfoot, Judyl
Identifier/Call Number: Printers Mss 107
Date (inclusive): 1974-1987
Abstract: Books, booklets, posters, broadsides, pamphlets and other materials printed by the Mudborn Press and Judyl Mudfoot (J. Mudfoot,
Printer).
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Judyl Mudfoot printer collection, Printers Mss 107. Department of Special Research Collections,
UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2018.
Judyl Mudfoot (1943-) is an active member of the arts community in Santa Barbara as a poet, author, editor and print-maker.
In collaboration with editor and author Sasha Newborn, Mudfoot established Mudborn Press in 1975, characterizing the publishing
company "as a vehicle for serious and non-derivative writing." The Mudborn Press published pamphlets, advertisements, books
and booklets for businesses, organizations, and writers in Santa Barbara. Mudfoot would later install her own autonomous press
(J. Mudfoot, Printer) occasionally providing her services for free to aspiring poets at fairs.
In 1976, Mudfoot and Newborn released the first issue of
Rockbottom a monthly magazine dedicated to the publication of poetry and prose by artists and non-artists alike. Mudfoot published
a number of poetry books, such as
The December Book in 1975, which was a celebration of her beginnings at the Bluebird Cafe in Santa Barbara, an open forum where Mudfoot participated
in monthly poetry readings. Other publications include
Pomes in 1975,
Presents: [poems] in 1977, and
Masked Ball [Dreams and Disguises] in 1986, an autobiographical collection of poems reflecting on Mudfoot's identity as an American woman and writer.
In 1978, Judyl Mudfoot was a director of the Literary Publishers of Southern California, a book distribution cooperative that
produced catalogs, broadsides, and other printed works, often sold at book fairs.
Mudfoot was also a prolific artist and designer, producing a number of stamps and postcards, and exhibited her work with her
late husband, assemblage artist, Alver Herman Smith (1941-2017). Mudfoot produced non-traditional stamps by mounting various
materials onto wooden boards, including tire treads.
This collection consists of books, booklets, posters, broadsides and pamphlets printed by the Mudborn Press and Judyl Mudfoot
(J. Mudfoot, Printer). Other objects in the collection include woodblock stamps produced by various Santa Barbara artists
and used in Mudborn publications, manuscripts, banners, event advertisements, various personal items, and copies of Mudborn's
literary journal
Rockbottom.
Mudborn Press Collection, Printers Mss 14. Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
RockbottomPrinters -- California -- Santa Barbara
Private presses -- California -- Santa Barbara
California -- Imprints
Banners
Broadsheet (format)
Magazines (periodicals)
Posters
Publications (documents)
Wood blocks (printing blocks)
Mudfoot, Judyl
Mudborn Press
Mudfoot, Judyl -- Archives
Mudborn Press -- Archives