Daniel Essig is a studio artist and workshop leader living in Asheville, North Carolina. Daniel teaches book arts workshops at book centers, craft schools and colleges. He is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist Fellowship Grant. Dan exhibits his work nationally and is in numerous private and public collections. Recently his work has been collected by the Smithsonian Renwick Museum and The Charlotte Smith Collection of Miniature Books at the University of Iowa Libraries . Many of Daniel’s sculptural pieces are featured in The Penland Book of Handmade Books.