Jeremy Botts
@jeremybotts.bsky.social
artist designer educator | typography lettering drawing | RISD MICA Wheaton Manibus Press
Broadview Cross.
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Broadview Cross.
We listened to a whole lot of Elizabeth Mitchell back in 2008. #autoharp #toypiano #elizabethmitchell
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
We listened to a whole lot of Elizabeth Mitchell back in 2008. #autoharp #toypiano #elizabethmitchell
Front porch shenanigans.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Front porch shenanigans.
... and the painted illustrations of Alice & Martin Provensen, a few here from their 1984 book "The Glorious Flight" about Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel. One of my favorites, the Provensens won the Caldecott for this beautiful little book.
October 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
... and the painted illustrations of Alice & Martin Provensen, a few here from their 1984 book "The Glorious Flight" about Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel. One of my favorites, the Provensens won the Caldecott for this beautiful little book.
The painted stills recalled for me some of Philip Guston's early works, like his recently restored 1935 Mexican mural "The Struggle Against Terrorism (Fascism and War)" with Reuben Kadish, and "Martial Memory" from 1941. #PhilipGuston
October 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The painted stills recalled for me some of Philip Guston's early works, like his recently restored 1935 Mexican mural "The Struggle Against Terrorism (Fascism and War)" with Reuben Kadish, and "Martial Memory" from 1941. #PhilipGuston
...and "The Hangman," Les Goldman and Paul Julian's gorgeously animated, yet sadly relevant setting (from 1964) of the poem by Maurice Ogden. #Hangman #Animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkbp...
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
...and "The Hangman," Les Goldman and Paul Julian's gorgeously animated, yet sadly relevant setting (from 1964) of the poem by Maurice Ogden. #Hangman #Animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkbp...
Just rewatched this classic, kid-terrifying, short film: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and recognized a young Ed Begley Jr. ia801404.us.archive.org/13/items/the... #EdBegleyJr #TheLottery
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just rewatched this classic, kid-terrifying, short film: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and recognized a young Ed Begley Jr. ia801404.us.archive.org/13/items/the... #EdBegleyJr #TheLottery
The cross I cobbled together with last year's Christmas tree, shovel handles, sheet foam insulation, an old elbow duct, conduit tubing, some decorative trim, part of a cross maquette I made many moons ago, strings from a mop, and zip ties. In Broadview for a vigil this weekend. #immigrantswelcome
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The cross I cobbled together with last year's Christmas tree, shovel handles, sheet foam insulation, an old elbow duct, conduit tubing, some decorative trim, part of a cross maquette I made many moons ago, strings from a mop, and zip ties. In Broadview for a vigil this weekend. #immigrantswelcome
And here is Etude No 6. Joannès Rochut's arrangement for trombone/euphonium of a Marco Bordogni vocalise. #euphonium
October 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
And here is Etude No 6. Joannès Rochut's arrangement for trombone/euphonium of a Marco Bordogni vocalise. #euphonium
Jesse played two of the Marco Bordogni etudes in church. Joannès Rochut arranged them for trombone/euphonium. Here is No 5. It is a great joy to play music with my kids (that's me on the piano). #euphonium #Rochut #Bordogni #etude
October 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Jesse played two of the Marco Bordogni etudes in church. Joannès Rochut arranged them for trombone/euphonium. Here is No 5. It is a great joy to play music with my kids (that's me on the piano). #euphonium #Rochut #Bordogni #etude
What fun to run into the good Dr John Walford on my bike ride yesterday. His support of my young family and my work years ago were a huge part of me choosing to become part of the art department. #artatwheaton
October 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What fun to run into the good Dr John Walford on my bike ride yesterday. His support of my young family and my work years ago were a huge part of me choosing to become part of the art department. #artatwheaton
I'm donating half of the proceeds to Watermelon Sisters, a Chicago-based nonprofit providing humanitarian aid to Gaza through art and mental health therapy (watermelonsisters.org/gallery/). The 8x10" prints fit nicely in a standard 11x14" frame. I made about fifty of them.
September 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'm donating half of the proceeds to Watermelon Sisters, a Chicago-based nonprofit providing humanitarian aid to Gaza through art and mental health therapy (watermelonsisters.org/gallery/). The 8x10" prints fit nicely in a standard 11x14" frame. I made about fifty of them.
I've recently made this 4-color Risograph print in two different color ways (on black and purple paper). The image references Munther Isaac's photograph "Christ in the Rubble" and the Palestinian concept of sumud (steadfastness). If you'd like one, click: jeremybotts.bigcartel.com/product/sumu...
September 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I've recently made this 4-color Risograph print in two different color ways (on black and purple paper). The image references Munther Isaac's photograph "Christ in the Rubble" and the Palestinian concept of sumud (steadfastness). If you'd like one, click: jeremybotts.bigcartel.com/product/sumu...
A video piece I made to celebrate the 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The tune is hers (spiritus sanctus vivificans) arranged by Benjamin Bergey, who also paired it with her text (below). It is included in the new Voices Together hymnal. #hildegardvonbingen
September 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A video piece I made to celebrate the 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The tune is hers (spiritus sanctus vivificans) arranged by Benjamin Bergey, who also paired it with her text (below). It is included in the new Voices Together hymnal. #hildegardvonbingen
“I Am that Great and Fiery Force” by Hildegard von Bingen on her feast day (a day late). The 12th century Benedictine mystic was a polymath, composer, and founder of scientific natural history in the Germanic region of the Holy Roman Empire. Extraordinary. #HildegardVonBingen
September 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“I Am that Great and Fiery Force” by Hildegard von Bingen on her feast day (a day late). The 12th century Benedictine mystic was a polymath, composer, and founder of scientific natural history in the Germanic region of the Holy Roman Empire. Extraordinary. #HildegardVonBingen
new specs (as my grandpa charlie called them)
September 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
new specs (as my grandpa charlie called them)
It was very meaningful to see our work together in a formal setting for the first time in many years (since Fr Michael Komechak invited us to exhibit at St Procopius abbey in the 90s!). The double owl hieroglyph sounds "mm" and was the basis for the tallest (10 foot) pillar.
September 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It was very meaningful to see our work together in a formal setting for the first time in many years (since Fr Michael Komechak invited us to exhibit at St Procopius abbey in the 90s!). The double owl hieroglyph sounds "mm" and was the basis for the tallest (10 foot) pillar.
I showed a selection of my glyph pillar sculptures, including a new one that morphed the Arabic word sumud (resilience) into kniyah, Hebrew for yielding (second image). I also hung eighteen large asemic scrolls on the walls around the sculptural works.
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I showed a selection of my glyph pillar sculptures, including a new one that morphed the Arabic word sumud (resilience) into kniyah, Hebrew for yielding (second image). I also hung eighteen large asemic scrolls on the walls around the sculptural works.
Some images from an exhibition I did with my dad this summer. We called it Bätzschrift (Botts-writing; our German name was anglicized from Bätz in the early 20th century), as all the works were connected to our calligraphic writing.
September 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Some images from an exhibition I did with my dad this summer. We called it Bätzschrift (Botts-writing; our German name was anglicized from Bätz in the early 20th century), as all the works were connected to our calligraphic writing.
I love this Italian musical directive in Brahms' Horn Trio, Op 40: "quasi niente." There's so much there, and yet it is to be "almost nothing!" #brahms #musicalcomposition
September 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I love this Italian musical directive in Brahms' Horn Trio, Op 40: "quasi niente." There's so much there, and yet it is to be "almost nothing!" #brahms #musicalcomposition
This 1499 depiction of what printing looked like (on a bad day). "Danse Macabre" by Mathias Huss in Lyon, France. A nightmare of a type case which looks to have required a key to its arrangement!
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This 1499 depiction of what printing looked like (on a bad day). "Danse Macabre" by Mathias Huss in Lyon, France. A nightmare of a type case which looks to have required a key to its arrangement!
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM