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Pamela BarriosPamela Barrios was introduced to the field of Book Arts and Conservation by Hedi Kyle at the NY Botanical Garden in 1976. She also trained with Elaine Schlefer at the NY Public Library. She held conservation positions at these institutions and at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale and the NY Academy of Medicine before accepting her current position of Conservator of Special Collections at the L. Tom Perry, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Her artist books and design bindings have been exhibited internationally. Donia ConnDonia Conn was introduced to bookbinding through a required art class at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. While a Ph. D. student in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, she started working with Jim Dast in the library’s book repair department. After taking bookbinding classes at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts she entered the Conservation Studies program at the University of Texas - Austin. Donia has interned with Tony Cains at Trinity College, Dublin and J. Frank Mowery at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and has worked as a book and paper conservator, as well as binder-in-residence, for various institutions across the US. These include Syracuse University Library where she served as Rare Book and Paper Conservator and Northwestern University Library where she served as Head of Conservation Services. She is currently Field Services Representative at the Northeast Document Conservation Center.. A full CV is online. Karen HanmerKaren Hanmer's intimate, playful artworks present vignettes from personal and cultural memory that allow viewers to connect personally to her pieces. She often incorporates archival photographs and text into flag books—a form that lets her fragment and layer images, as in memories or scrapbooks. Her books are meant to be handled; the intimate scale, physical interaction, and visceral experience evoke the reverence of looking through a photo album, diary, or the belongings of a loved one. However, her works often take the forms of games or puzzles, and many include tongue-in-cheek text. Her work is exhibited widely regionally, nationally, and internationally. She lectures and teaches workshops on a variety of artist's book structures for college and high school students, adults, and intergenerational groups. Hanmer holds a degree in Economics from Northwestern University. She has studied at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts and with several Chicago photographers and bookbinders. She is an officer of Chicago Hand Bookbinders and Guild of Bookworkers, Midwest Chapter. Examples of her work, resume, and other information can be found on her website. Chela MetzgerChela Metzger started her official association with books by working as a library assistant at the age of 9. She graduated from Simmons College as a card-carrying librarian in 1990, and began her more intimate association with the craft of bookbinding at the North Bennet Street School in 1991, working 2 years with Mark Esser. She followed that with an internship in rare-book conservation at the Library of Congress in 1993, and began her paid conservation career as a project conservator at the Huntington Library in 1994. She began teaching book conservation to visiting Latin American interns in 1999, and moved into full-time lecturer work in 2001 at the University of Texas at Austin. Having been the recipient of amazingly generous teaching in the past, she hopes to help carry on the tradition, integrity and discipline of bookwork in all its facets. On-going bookish research interests include: history of the book, binding in Spain and Latin America, future of books and libraries, the binding of archival materials historically, how books are depicted in art, social life of books. A full CV is online. Don RashDon Rash studied with Trudi and Fritz Eberhardt. He supervised the Bindery at the Haverford College library for eight years, after which he began working as an independent binder. His studio is currently located in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he executes a wide range of work, including design binding, edition binding, book conservation and restoration, boxmaking and calligraphy. His work has been shown nationally and internationally. In 2004 he established the Boss Dog Press. He is online with his studio, the School for Formal Bookbinding, and the Bossdog Press. Peter David VerheyenBegan his involvement in the book arts while a work-study student in the conservation lab at the Johns Hopkins University Library. Interned in the conservation lab of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany, 1984 and 1986. Formal apprenticeship in hand bookbinding at the Kunstbuchbinderei Klein in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, passing examinations in 1987. Studied at the Professional School for Book Restoration at the Centro del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland in 1987. Mellon intern in book conservation at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1988. Worked in Chicago with Heinke Pensky-Adam at Monastery Hill Bindery and as assistant conservator to William Minter. In 1991 he began work as assistant conservator at the Yale University Library. In 1993 he became rare book conservator at the Cornell University Library, before establishing the rare book conservation lab at the Syracuse University Library. Teaching and publication activities center on traditional binding in the German tradition including millimeter, vellum, and springback binding, as well as historic endbands. He is currently Exhibitions Chair for the Guild of Book Workers, and past Publicity Chair. His bindings have been exhibited widely with the Guild, its regional chapters, and in invitational and solo exhibitions. In 1994 he founded Book_Arts-L and shortly thereafter the Book Arts Web at. A full vita is online.
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