Louise Odes Neaderland (1932-2022) was a printmaker, book artist, and the founder-director of the International Society of Copier Artists (ISCA), a quarterly publication of Xerographic prints and Artists’ Books.

Neaderland received an MFA in Printmaking from the State University of Iowa and a BFA from Bard College. She produced over 60 artists’ books, many of which are available at the Women’s Studio Workshop Archive and are also included in special collections at the MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Center, the Sackner Archive, Museo Internacional Electografica, Cuenca, Spain, among many others. Neaderland received awards for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, Huntington Hartford Foundation, and Yale University/Norfolk Fellowship. She taught workshops on the use of the copy machine as a creative tool and amassed an archive of over 2000 images of xerographic art from around the world. The papers and records for the International Society of Copier Artists are held at the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Iowa.

Louise was an Artist’s Book Resident at WSW in 1982 to produce Empress Bullet: an allegory. In this book, multiple copies of a single news story image about a thoroughbred are arranged to create a visual narrative.

In 2024, WSW hosted a capsule exhibition, Pressing The Print Button, featuring Neaderland’s work and contributions to the organization.

Images (left to right): Heart of Lightness, Black Holes, Cease-Fire!, Information Please