A Team Leader

Interested in art since her youth, Steenhoek graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1978, but found few openings for graphic designers. She started her career setting hot type and pasting up ads for a newspaper/commercial printer.

Nine months later she moved to a mom-and-pop shop where she did typesetting, creative layout, camera work and customer service. Around 1980 she was hired by Plain Talk Publishing, where she eventually ended up in the bindery, learning invaluable lessons in the finishing process.