Salt Point Press is the imprint of Gail Wight. These handmade books focus on the resilient yet precarious flora and fauna that live at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in the southern territories of the Pacific Northwest.. They explore hybrid practices combining new mediums and technologies with the traditional craft of bookbinding. They bear witness to climate change. They pay homage to a deep past. They promote hope for a brighter future.
Wight is Professor Emerita in the Dept. of Art & Art History at Stanford University, where she taught experimental media, video, hybrid printmaking and book arts for over two decades. Her works of art have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous museum collections.
Wight’s books have been collected by the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Cynthia Sears Collection, Baylor University, the British Library, California Polytechnic State University, the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, George Mason University, Harvard University, Lafayette College, Monserrat College of Art, New York Botanical Gardens, San Francisco State University, Stanford University Bowes Library Special Collections, Tufts University, UC Davis Special Collections, UC Irvine, UCLA Biomedical Library Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz McHenry Library Special Collections, the University of Connecticut, University of Miami, University of Southern California, Yale University, and numerous private collectors.
