Available Works by IBé Crawley

2026

The Shockoe Book Project

The Shockoe Richmond 1856 book project presents A Map of Shockoe, Exchange and Verified, a companion set housed in a codex structure.  This project is a tender tribute to three free women: Mrs. S. Barnett, Ma Amos and Aggy Peters, all longtime residents of Shockoe Valley in Richmond, Virginia.  

Virginia-based visual artist IBé Crawley combines authentic research, historic documents and visual representations to transform history into tangible objects.  Viewers engage with layered geographies of life in Shockoe Valley.  Crawley utilizes multiple print techniques, handmade and commercial paper, collage and assemblage, laser cuts and pressure prints to bring historic characters into relief.  

Tax records, wills, deeds and maps are features used to recreate the 1856 lived environment. Laser cut assistance from Arissa Lopez, Sydney Vernon, and Big Secret Print Shop in Jackson Ward, Richmond, as well as graphic design support by Antarah Crawley, helped make this book project possible. 

The Shockhoe Richmond project was offset printed at the IBé Arts Institute. Each artist’s book is signed and numbered. All parts of this book were conceived and handmade by IBé Bulinda Crawley, 2026.

List Price: $5,000.00

Edition: 12  

Publisher: Black Market Press (2026)

2025

RAGE

RAGE is an artists book that addresses 21st century violence and safety concerns faced by women of color.  The books artists, IBè Crawley and Sarah Matthews, a paper maker and a printmaker respectively, collaborated in producing handmade paper on which to letter press print text narrating the threats of violence.  Over the six month collaboration, they formulate an appropriate response; like the grandness of the books size and color, the artists encourage people who feel threaten to take up space.  Inspired by Ida B. Wells, a 20th century feminist and activist who advocated for safety rights of human beings threatened with the crime of lynching, Crawley and Matthews performed the physical labor of turning cotton and linen onto paper, then letter press printing the text.  The three 11 x 17 flag books expand to more than 90 inches in length when open.  

$4,000.00

Edition: 1 of 3 (limited availability)

2024

63 Women

Photolithography, Collage, Accordion Book. Photolithographs are from the 1963 Civil Rights Movement in Danville Virginia

18 in x 12 in x 1 in

2024

Edition of 5 books produced in workshop at Penland School of Craft, 2024. A photolithography using original police demonstration photographs taken in 1963 on Bloody Monday. In this accordion style artist’s book, the women sing out—loudly; they demand for equality and equal protection. The white men and police silently stand, with the monument—still not removed. “We shall not be moved,” the women sang; before they were dragged, hosed and jailed. The black and white lithographic-collage depicts the chaotic confrontation.  

$5,000.00

Edition: 2 of 5 (limited availability)

2023

Delia Posey

Handmade Mary Hawke paper, handsitched 

10 in x 8 in x .2 inch

2022

Delia Posey is based on events recorded in early American history. The letter format for telling her-­‐story makes this a work of fiction. Like most enslaved people, Delia Posey did not record her own life story; therefore, her voice has been erased from ‘the master’s narrative’. The first edition of this book was screenprinted and letter pressed at The Visual Arts Center in Richmond, Virginia on paper handmade at The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. The book cover for both editions is handmade paper by Mary Hark. The second edition is risograph printed at Eureka House in Kingston, New York.

List Price: $2,000.00

Edition: 5 of 12 (limited availability)

Visible

Visible: The Art of Her Story (Black Market Press, 2023) spotlights the complexity of black women, the subject of IBé Crawley’s work.  For the first time, all of the major sculptures, book arts, collage, and mixed media are documented in one coffee-table-sized, full-color, collection.  Crawley’s work is presented in five sections which correspond to the divisions of her artist practice.  These sections include descriptions of the work, production processes, and critical articles by professionals, historians, and book arts experts.  Crawley uses personal essays as a needle which threads together the central motif of spaces where women dwell.  Images of her Danville, Virginia, upbringing, the studios in which she works, and her extraordinary storytelling abilities are intertwined throughout the visual narrative.  

Lynora Williams, retired librarian at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, contributed the introduction and, like Women’s Studio Workshop founders Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner, she has brought attention to the works of Clarrisa Sligh, Tia Blassingame, and Valerie Maynard, all black women whose book arts and printmaking practices foreshadow IBé Crawley by two decades.  Crawley draws particular attention to her choice of materials such as marble, paper, and fiber as exemplified in large- and small-scale three-dimensional books, sculptures and collages.  The  full-page high-resolution color photographs serve as a visual narrative, catalog of a body of work, and comprehensive resource for collectors and scholars.

List Price: $100.00

Publisher: Black Market Press

2022

11033

Handmade paper, clay, screenprinting, letterpress. Used prison records from the Virginia Museum and Virginia State penitentiary and supporting newspaper documents couched. 

13 ½ in by 7 ½ in by .3 in

2022

The artist book 11033 centers the life of Mary Morst. In this edition of 52 artist’s books, the story of Mary Morst being imprisoned, being a mother, being a murderer, being a good and kind person ‘doing time’ with her twin children born ‘behind bars’ is complicated. This book project does not attempt to answer the question “Why did she kill her husband?”, rather it is an attempt to meditate on the feelings of a real woman in the Virginia State Penitentiary in 1912, and imprisoned behind the black bars of the book’s construction. 

The design of 11033 is an expectant female body structure of fine handmade flax and abaca paper; it includes a clay sculpture attached to the paper as a 3 dimensional object when exhibited. This artist’s book incorporates embedded copies of archival documents: newspaper clippings, letters, pardon application, etc. with a fictional text woven poetically throughout the historical narrative.

List Price: $8,000.00

Edition: 5 of 52 (limited availability)

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Price: $3,000.00

Edition: 7 (artist proofs)