Birgit Frederica Lenderink

With Birgit it always felt like anything was possible. Having met Brigit in the 1980s while she was taking book arts classes at Naropa Institute, she immediately believed in me as a person and an artist. Barely knowing me, she took it upon herself to sign me up for one of her bookmaking classes, and it truly changed my life. In fact, Birgit was life-changing in so many ways. Having studied photography with Walter Chappelle before I met her, she taught me everything she knew about the art form and even years later when I moved to San Francisco, visited me and set up an entire dark room for me in my walk-in closet. Birgit introduced me to Buddhism while we were in Boulder and that too was life-changing. Her generosity was far reaching...in more ways than I can count. Birgit knew how to laugh and I will carry that sound with me always.