Megan O’Connell

Biography

Interview ✚

Megan Gerard O’Connell’s career as a printer and teacher is multimodal. As founding director of Salt & Cedar [Detroit | Paris], she has curated exhibitions & events, created a storefront bookshop, led workshops, collaborated with poets & artists, and produced for clients internationally. As an educator, O’Connell was the founding director of the Typography Lab at the University of Oregon [1994–2006] and since that time has been a visiting professor at many institutions, including School of Visual Arts [NYC], where she teaches type history. In 2015, she was invited by Anthony Bourdain to join his Rare Craft Collection, creating a ‘portable press’ for the tour. As artist-in-residence at p98a.berlin and the Balvenie Distillery in the Scottish Highlands, O’Connell continued to experiment with traditional and non-traditional print. For the past four decades, her work has been shared at art book fairs and galleries across North America and Europe and has been acquired by art institutions, libraries and archives on both continents. Last year in Paris, she exhibited prints at Cahiers d’art and the Sorbonne Panthéon, and was inducted into Outypopo.

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