Pati Scobey
American, b. 1954 in Germany; MFA 1984
Lives and works in Concord, Michigan
The Back of Time, 1992
Binding by Daniel E. Kelm, printed by Pati Scobey and Katherine Kuehn
Relief rolled etching, intaglio, collage, pen and ink, and watercolor with double wire-edge binding
Granary Books, New York, New York
Edition of 25
Hide, 2001
Relief prints, intaglio, collage, pen and ink, colored pencil, with adapted Coptic binding in found metal case
Ricochet Works, Concord, Michigan
Edition of 25 variants
Pati Scobey’s father served in the Air Force, and the family moved to the Philippines when she was 10. They returned to the United States on an ocean liner crossing the Pacific when she was 12. She developed her sense of color early, while taking classes at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. She went on to receive her BFA in painting in 1976 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where she was introduced to lithography. At the university, she worked as a technical illustrator and met sculptor Tim Moore. They married, and Scobey decided to pursue an MFA in printmaking, arriving at UW-Madison in 1981. There she took classes with a number of instructors including Walter Hamady, Ray Gloeckler, and Warrington Colescott, whom she worked for as an assistant. Before receiving her MFA from the UW in 1984, Scobey acted as one of the curators for the book arts exhibition Breaking the Bindings: American Book Art Now. Scobey’s husband also became part of the book arts community, developing papermaking and bookbinding tools for Hamady and other artists. After starting their careers in Madison, Scobey and Moore built a house and studio just outside of Concord, Michigan, where they continue to live and work. She teaches printmaking and bookmaking workshops, and her own work often includes images of birds and explores themes of journeys and transformations.
