Moving Parts Press

Moving Parts Press Felicia Rice’s praxis extends from traditional book making techniques all the way to cyber-art. In her book structures word and image meet and merge.

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Moving Parts Press has published handsome and innovative books, broadsides and prints under the direction of Felicia Rice since 1977. These editions of new literature, works in translation, and contemporary art explore the relationship of word and image, typography and the visual arts, the fine arts and popular cult

ure. Felicia Rice collaborates with visual artists, performing artists and writers to create book structures in which word and image meet and merge. She employs traditional typography and bookmaking methods in conjunction with digital technology, bringing the flexibility of screen-based design to the texture and history of the letterpress-printed page. Work from the Press has been included in exhibitions and collections both nationally and internationally, from AIGA Annual Book Shows in New York and Frankfurt to the Victoria & Albert Museum. Moving Parts Press has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship, Elliston Book Award, Stiftung Buchkunst Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt Ehrendiplom, and grants from the NEA, CAC and the French Ministry of Culture.

This week we are celebrating the Chicana Legacy Codices. Venus Envy and Tlacuila Visions will be donated to over 200 Cal...
11/11/2025

This week we are celebrating the Chicana Legacy Codices. Venus Envy and Tlacuila Visions will be donated to over 200 California public libraries to help preserve equal access to the arts and the printed book.

Special Collections and Archives, UC Santa Cruz
Exhibit: November 13, 2025–March 20, 2026
Reception: November 13, 2025 (4–5:00)

Sesnon Gallery @ Porter College UC Santa Cruz
Panel: November 13, 2025 (5:30–7)

Galería de la Raza 2779 Folsom St Ste. A, San Francisco, CA
Panel: Saturday November 15, 2025 (1–3:30) https://bit.ly/chicanalegacy

What a thrill! Juan Fuentes and The Great Tortilla Conspiracy showed up at the opening of our exhibit at the Grace Huds...
11/09/2025

What a thrill! Juan Fuentes and The Great Tortilla Conspiracy showed up at the opening of our exhibit at the Grace Hudson Museum on Friday night in Ukiah.
https://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/
"Mission Gráfica:
Reflecting a Community in Print"
Saturday November 1, 2025 through Sunday, February 1, 2026
Moving Parts Press books join and a powerful beautiful exhibition of prints of resistance going back to 1982.

Laura Perez is the editor of a new book in the Chicana Legacy Codices series from Moving Parts Press and Museo Eduardo C...
11/09/2025

Laura Perez is the editor of a new book in the Chicana Legacy Codices series from Moving Parts Press and Museo Eduardo Carrillo, titled "Tlacuila Visions: Apparitions & Transformations."

Two signifcant Chicana artists, Celia Herrera Rodriguez and Yreina D. Cervántez, contributed their prints and paintings to this 9.5 foot long accordion-fold treasure.

This week we are all on the road together at UCSC and San Francisco, in a conversation sharing poems and pictures from an affordable artists' book that can bring art into our homes where it belongs.

What an honor! On Saturday, November 15, I come together with collaborators Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Nicole Rudolph, and...
11/05/2025

What an honor! On Saturday, November 15, I come together with collaborators Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Nicole Rudolph, and Yreina D. Cervántez, along with moderator Laura E. Pérez to reflect on the Chicana Legacy Codices series of artists' books.

A native Californian rarely found far from the coast, I founded Moving Parts Press in 1977. I have published hundreds of books, broadsides, and prints in close collaboration with visual and performing artists, writers, and philosophers. My books and prints are held in library and museum collections worldwide, and have been included in exhibitions from Mexico City to New York and Japan. The complete Moving Parts Press archive is housed at UC Santa Barbara.

This is the latest in a series of projects in collaboration with Museo Eduardo Carrillo.

RSVP through the link below. Please note, seating is limited. Seating priority will be given to early arrivals, elders, and people with disabilities.
https://bit.ly/chicanalegacy

Saturday, November 15, 2025 1- 3:30 PM
Galería de la Raza’s Studio 24
2779 Folsom St. Suite A
San Francisco, CA 94110

Presented by
Galeria de la Raza
The Latinx Research Center at UC Berkeley
Moving Parts Press
Museo Eduardo Carrillo

✨ Introducing Celia Herrera Rodríguez, a Xicana q***r visual artist/educator whose practice reflects a multi-generationa...
11/03/2025

✨ Introducing Celia Herrera Rodríguez, a Xicana q***r visual artist/educator whose practice reflects a multi-generational dialogue and engagement with Xicana[x] Indigenous Mexican and North American art, thought, spirituality, culture, and politics. She is co-founder and co-director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought and Art Praxis and is a Teaching Professor of Xicana Art Praxis in the Department of Chicana/o/x Studies at UCSB. In recent years, her work has been exhibited nationally, including the Oakland Museum of California Art; the Cheech Marin Center of Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside, CA; the Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; and the Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL.

RSVP through the link below. Please note, seating is limited. Seating priority will be given to early arrivals, elders, and people with disabilities.
https://bit.ly/chicanalegacy

Saturday, November 15, 2025 1- 3:30 PM
Galería de la Raza’s Studio 24
2779 Folsom St. Suite A
San Francisco, CA 94110

So very pleased to invite you to join us for an afternoon in conversation with collaborators and contributors of the Chi...
11/02/2025

So very pleased to invite you to join us for an afternoon in conversation with collaborators and contributors of the Chicana Legacy Codices.

These artist books echo the form and spirit of amoxtli codices of the Mexica (“Aztec”) and Maya through their accordion-style design. Each limited-edition book features a reproduction of installations, paintings, and prints by artists whose legacies reach deeply into our communities, enhance collective memory, create new awareness, and contribute to a greater understanding of the rich cultural diversity of the U.S.

Celebrating the Chicana Legacy Codices brings together Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Felicia Rice, Nicole Rudolph, and Yreina D. Cervántez, along with moderator Laura E. Pérez to reflect on the series.

Presented by
Galeria de la Raza
The Latinx Research Center at UC Berkeley
Moving Parts Press
Museo Eduardo Carrillo

RSVP through the link below. Please note, seating is limited. Seating priority will be given to early arrivals, elders, and people with disabilities.
https://bit.ly/chicanalegacy

Saturday, November 15, 2025 1- 3:30 PM
Galería de la Raza’s Studio 24
2779 Folsom St. Suite A
San Francisco, CA 94110

TAKING ACTIONI have often wondered if my work is at all effective, especially now when the world is so troubled and chao...
10/16/2025

TAKING ACTION

I have often wondered if my work is at all effective, especially now when the world is so troubled and chaotic. Then I remind myself that anything I think or feel has also occurred to others, and I trust that I am not alone. Even a small act must be part of something larger, and right now, when action itself is risky, to paraphrase Gandhi, Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

CELEBRATING the CHICANA LEGACY CODICES in collaboration with Museo Eduardo Carrillo

TLACUILA VISIONS: Apparitions & Transformations $38 /$25 student
VENUS ENVY: Chapters I–IV $38 /$25 student

Special Collections and Archives UC Santa Cruz
Exhibit: November 13, 2025–March 20, 2026
Reception: November 13, 2025 (4–5:00)

Sesnon Gallery @ Porter College UC Santa Cruz
Panel: November 13, 2025 (5:30–7)

Galería de la Raza 2779 Folsom St Ste. A, San Francisco, CA
Panel: Saturday November 15, 2025 (1–3:30)

SHARING

The CHICANA LEGACY CODICES will be donated to 250 California public libraries to help preserve equal access to the arts and the printed book.

SHOWING

Mission Gráfica: Reflecting a Community in Print with books by Felicia Rice and Moving Parts Press
Grace Hudson Museum
431 Main St. Ukiah, CA
November 1, 2025–February 1, 2026
Reception: November 7 (5–7:00)

RESISTING

Indivisible Mendocino members contributed the content and then printed their choice of these posters, most of them experiencing letterpress printing for the first time.

WRITING

“Three Handpress Printers and Their Apprentices: Unexpected Heights,” co-written with Ioulia Akhmadeeva, FPBA Parenthesis 49 Fall 2025

DRAWING

WWOOLFing “You can’t think how exciting, soothing, ennobling and satisfying it is.” —Virginia Woolf

Join me in the village of Mendocino for a learning opportunity and simple work exchange. Two nights and days at Moving Parts Press. Please inquire.

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As a printer, my job is to confront complex issues and render my response to them in book form. As an artist, my job is to do so with profound integrity. As a publisher, my job is to make these issues public. As printers have done every decade since Gutenberg, I’m here to argue for a more just society.

Since 2019 I've been working closely with Angel Dominguez and Hannah Kezema on the Latinx Chicanx Poetx broadside series...
09/16/2025

Since 2019 I've been working closely with Angel Dominguez and Hannah Kezema on the Latinx Chicanx Poetx broadside series of poetry and prints. Inspired, determined, and in love in equal parts.

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Moving Parts Press: building community through building books Moving Parts Press has published handsome and innovative books, broadsides and prints under the direction of Felicia Rice since 1977. These editions of new literature, works in translation, and contemporary art explore the relationship of word and image, typography and the visual arts, the fine arts and popular culture. Felicia Rice collaborates with visual artists, performing artists and writers to create book structures in which word and image meet and merge. She employs traditional typography and bookmaking methods in conjunction with digital technology, bringing the flexibility of screen-based design to the texture and history of the letterpress-printed page. Work from the Press has been included in exhibitions and collections both nationally and internationally, from AIGA Annual Book Shows in New York and Frankfurt to the Victoria & Albert Museum. Moving Parts Press has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship, Elliston Book Award, Stiftung Buchkunst Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt Ehrendiplom, and grants from the NEA, CAC and the French Ministry of Culture.