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BIRUTA AUNA is a Latvian artist-designer who graduated from the University of Art in Tallin, Estonia and is a member of the Artist's Association of Latvia. Her work has been exhibited in many European countries and the United States, and some of her designs are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Riga, Latvia. She lives and works in New York City. CAROL BARTON is a book artist, curator and arts administrator. She has taught at the Penland School of Crafts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the International Center for Photography and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is currently on the faculty at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she teaches a book structures course. Her work can be found in numerous collections including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She curated the exhibition "Science and the Artist's Book" for the Smithsonian Institution. INGE BRUGGEMAN has taught workshops across the country and also taught book arts courses for four years at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is currently an adjunct professor at the Oregon College of Art & Craft. Inge is proprietor of INK-A! Press: fine press artist's books and prints. She also runs Textura Letterpress Printing & Design. DENISE CARBONE holds an MFA in Book Arts / Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She teaches at the University of the Arts and is a book conservator at the American Philosophical Society. Her work challenges traditional methods of printmaking and book structures, incorporating mixed media, found material, letterpress and alternative processes. She has exhibited her books and prints nationally. CAROLYN CHADWICK has worked as a hand bookbinder since 1978. She has taught at numerous institutions including The Center for Book Arts, the Craft Students League, ICP, Connecticut College and Rice University. Her work is represented in the New York Public Library, Yale University Library and many private collections here and abroad. BEATRICE CORON is a master papercutter who works in bookforms. Her works are in major collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Biblioth„que Nationale de France. You can visit her website at www.beatricecoron.com MAUREEN CUMMINS is a graduate of Cooper Union who has been making limited edition books for over a dozen years. Her work is in public collections in the United States, Canada, England, New Zealand and South Africa. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn. SARAH DILLON received her diploma in Fine Binding and Restoration from Guildford College of Technology in 1980. She spent eight years as the binder for the British Army in West Berlin and was the book restorer for the Metropolitan Museum for six years, and is now a book restorer and binder in a private practice in Manhattan. DIKKO FAUST, hand typographer, letterpress printer and founder of Purgatory Pie Press, has served as a juror for the Type Directors Club. Purgatory Pie Press has exhibited internationally, including shows at Smith College, Harvard University, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum Libraries. Collections holding his work include the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate, the Whitney, and the New York Public Library. KAREN GORST is a calligrapher, manuscript illuminator and book artist who has been practicing her craft for 19 years. A co-founder of the Gabriel Guild, she is a visiting instructor and lecturer at many institutions, including the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Penland School of Crafts, the Craft Students League, the Cloisters and Wellesley College. RONI GROSS is a graphic designer and book artist who has been producing a limited edition book/object for Valentine's Day and Halloween for the past 12 years. Her work is in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library, the National Design Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Sackner Archive, among others. TAKUJI HAMANAKA is a teacher and freelance printer. He was an apprentice at the Adachi Woodblock Printing Studio in Tokyo, Japan. He learned printing methods by reproducing prints of old Japanese masters such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro, and others. He has worked at the Water Print Studio in Tokyo and at the Watanabe Studio in Brooklyn. He also teaches at Manhattan Graphic Center, Connecticut Graphic Arts Center and Pyramid Atlantic. YUKARI HAYASHIDA is a bookbinder and printer. She operates Puffin Press in Manhattan that produces artists' books and handmade books and cards. A native of Japan, she studied in Osaka. JESSICA KAHLE is a letterpress printer and printmaker at Peter Kruty Editions in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA degree in art and design in 1998 at North Carolina State University. EARL KALLEMEYN is a second-generation letterpress printer with twenty-five years of printing experience. He operates Kallemeyn Press, a letterpress shop in Brooklyn, NY. Clients include Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Ford Motor Company, IBM, the University of Illinois and Wesleyan University. KUMI KORF is an artist and architectural designer whose specific interest in the artist„s book is the transformation of architectural space and form into sculptural books. Her book and prints are included in many exhibitions and collections. She also teaches at the San Francisco Center for the Book. An edition of her print suite, Letters to the Planet, is being printed by the Ink Shop Printmaking Center and published by Olive Branch Press in Ithaca, NY and can be viewed at www.ink-shop.org/kumi.htm. STEPHANIE KRAUSE is an art teacher and book artist and was The Center„s featured artist in 1995. She received her Master„s degree in Art Education from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently teaching for the Metropolitan Museum of Art„s outreach program. PAULA BEARDELL KRIEG has been making books and designing book structures for over twenty years. She teaches extensively throughout New York, working with thousands of students a year. She has won many awards and grants, and her work appears in numerous books. HEDI KYLE is chief conservator at the American Philosophical Society and adjunct professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is co-founder of the Paper and Book Intensive and has given workshops in the United States and Canada for the past 15 years. ELENA LAZA is a printer, designer and typographer who has been working in the medium since 1974. She has taught at Cooper Union, Rutgers and the New York Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and she has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. SHANNA LEINO studied bookbinding in Iowa City and has completed three models- a late Coptic, Armenian, and Greek- for the University of Iowa's Binding Models Collection. She taught at the Paper and Book Intensive in May 2002, Timeless Tech 2002 in Santa, Idaho, and for the Guild of Book Workers New York chapter. NANCY LOEBER is a printmaker and bookbinder. She has worked as a conservation laboratory assistant at the New York Academy of Medicine and currently works at the Morgan Library as a conservation technician. MIKHAIL MAGARIL is a professional book artist and illustrator with a degree from the Moscow Printing Institute. His artist books are in important collections worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the British Museum, the French National Library, and Harvard and Yale. He was an apprentice at The Center for Book Arts for seven years. BARBARA MAURIELLO is a book artist who has a bookbinding studio in Hoboken, NJ. Barbara is the author of Making Memory Boxes. She is also a visiting instructor at the International Center of Photography, the Newark Museum, the Paper and Book Intensive and the Penland School of Crafts. RICHARD MENEELY has been letterpress printing business cards, note cards and other custom-designed pieces since 1986. He owns the U.S. Business Card Company and he regularly letterpress prints cards for all kinds of people at IS 44 Flea Market on his portable platen press. SUSAN MILLS is a bookbinder who has operated her own bindery since 1990. She teaches hand bookbinding at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and her bookworks can be found in institutions and libraries throughout the United States and Canada. MARIA G. PISANO is a book artist and proprietor of Memory Press. She gives workshops and lectures on all aspects of the book arts and conservation. She has over the years been continuously involved in curating and designing exhibits. She has exhibited widely and her works are in major collections here and abroad. SAGE REYNOLDS is the founder of the Four Hands Design Studio, which has been in business since 1977. Four Hands Design Studio creates portfolio boxes and Sage's Papers, a line of hand-painted and gilded papers that are an alternative to marbled papers. The bindery also produces murals and folding screens featuring collages of painted and gilded papers. His work can be found in major institutions nationwide. BENJAMIN D. RINEHART specializes in multimedia images with a strong focus on printmaking and book constructions. His socially charged work has been shown throughout the United States. His agenda is to share his passion and educate others in making art. Over the past ten years he taught children and adults drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, book arts and web design. For examples of his work visit http://benrinehart.com. LAUREN ROWLAND is a paper marbler and graphic designer. Her marbled papers have been used by small private presses, commercial publishing houses and corporate institutions. She is known as the "hip hop" marbler. KATHERINE MCCANLESS RUFFIN, printer-publisher and proprietor of Shinola Press, holds an MFA in the Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Katherine is the Book Arts Instructor at Wellesley College and is Printing and Design Associate at Firefly Press. MIRIAM SCHAER is an artist and printmaker whose sculptural approach to books incorporates a variety of media and found objects. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Eastern Europe and Canada. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and collections. She has taught and lectured at many institutions in the US and internationally. You can see a sample of her work online at http://www.colophon.com/gallery/mschaer/ ROY SECORD is a New York-based artist who works in and teaches the mediums of collage, assemblage, construction, painting, and sculpture. His current work explores the utilization of holographic mylar and light in large-scale, geometric precisionist collage. PAMELA SPITZMUELLER is the James W. Needham Chief Conservator for Special Collections in the Harvard University Library and the Harvard College Library. She directs the Special Collections Conservation Lab in Weissman Preservation Center where library materials from Harvard Collections are conserved. Her specialty is rare books and the history of book structures. ROBERT WARNER is a letterpress printer and box-binder. He works as a job printer at Bowne & Company Stationers at the South Street Seaport Museum. His boxes are part of an ongoing 12-year installation for the Morgenthal-Frederics Opticians in New York City. Warner's assemblages can be found at the New York Public Library, Poets House, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and in numerous private collections. | ||||||||||||||||
