PAST SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
SPRING 2004
BOOK ARTS EVENT
A LECTURE : 2 April
A WORKSHOP : 3 April
AN EXHIBITION : 1-30 April
“The Activated Page:
Handmade Paper
In Contemporary Artists’ Books”
Jae Jennifer Rossman
Curator, Arts of the Book Room
Yale University
Friday, 2 April 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Special Collections Department
King Library, University of Kentucky
— Free & Open to All —
“Basic Leather Binding Technique”
Gabrielle Fox
Designer Bookbinder & Conservation Consultant
Saturday, 3 April 2004
The King Library Press
Special Collections Department
King Library, University of Kentucky
— Registration Required —
EXHIBITION
Gabrielle Fox
BOOKBINDINGS
Special Collections Department
University of Kentucky Libraries
April 2004
JAE JENNIFER ROSSMAN is Special Collections Librarian for the Arts Library at Yale University and Curator of the Arts of the Book Collection. She holds the MSLIS from Simmons College, has worked at the Library of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in the Preservation Department at Brandeis University.
In addition to presentations and exhibitions, Ms. Rossman maintains the online “Artists’ Books Information Resource” site, tracking collections, web books, exhibitions, history and online resources for artists’ books. Her academic background is both in art history and studio art, with a specialty in print making.
GABRIELLE FOX, of Cincinnati, binds old and new books. She has exhibited widely, and her books are in many public and private collections. She earned degrees in English and journalism, and afterwards trained in London in bookbinding. She received her diploma in Fine Binding and Restoration.
In the mid-1980s, Ms. Fox was invited to Transylvania University to work two years with the tools of the Boxwood Bindery, a bequest to the school from Mrs. Lucy Crump, who had trained at Chicago’s Monastery Hill bindery. Ms. Fox is a consultant to numerous institutions and to private collectors, as well.