About the press
Nikki Thompson prints with letterpress, silkscreen, and inkjet. She uses innovative structures and materials to reflect the book's content. Each book is handbound. Production occurs in her studio at Broad Room or a 1923 garage.
About Nikki Thompson
Nikki Thompson is a book artist, poet, and happily failed architect. She makes books under the moniker Deconstructed Artichoke Press, her book arts studio, in Sacramento, California.
She fled Southern California for UC Berkeley, where she earned a degree in architecture and remained in the Bay Area to earn her MFA in creative writing and book arts from California College of the Arts (then California College of Arts and Crafts) in 2002. In addition to almost winning prizes for her poetry (a runner-up for the Earl Weaver Baseball Writing Prize and a nominee for a Pushcart Prize), her art explores social justice, feminism, and humor through the mixed media of bookmaking, printmaking, and collage.
Her work has been awarded First Prize at Gallerie Renee Marie and a Purchase Prize at 23 Sandy Gallery. She has also been awarded the Creative Growth Fellowship from the City of Sacramento, College Book Arts Association Project Assistance Grant, and Rising Together Social Justice Zine Micro-Grant. Her work can be seen on Facebook at DeconstructedArtichokePress, and on Instagram and Pinterest at @d_artichoke.