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Author Archives: Jenifer Bartle
Career Path: From Clapp to Gorgas
It’s nine in the evening the Sunday after exam week at The University of Alabama. I’m in the bindery, on the top floor of the main library, making a box. During the fall of 2011, I worked in the typographic … Continue reading
The Rüben Broadside
One of the most intense and exciting projects of the Fall 2011 semester in the Book Arts Lab was collaborating with an art history and biological studies class. This first-year seminar on the topic of the Art and Science of … Continue reading
Career Path: Becoming a Book Conservator
Back in 2005 when I first began my studies at Wellesley College, I thought I had everything figured out. At the age of 18, I was convinced that I’d major in psychology, handily fulfill all of the pre-med requirements, and … Continue reading
Eye of the Storm
During the final weeks of the Fall 2011 semester, students in ARTS 317, a seminar on the topic of collaboration taught by Assistant Professor of Studio Art David Teng Olsen, spent some time in the Book Arts Lab. Each student … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Arts Lab, Collaboration, Jewett Gallery, Letterpress Printing
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Papers of Emma DeLong Mills Open for Research
A spirit of adventure, though not mandatory for completion of an archives project, certainly enhances the journey of collection processing. Here at the Wellesley College Archives, I was afforded the opportunity explore the paper trail left by a life of … Continue reading
From Curious Plants to Proto-Paper
History is not dead or forgotten, merely past– that is, for most people. But in our work in the Book Arts Lab, we travel through time on a daily basis. One day we may replicate a woodcut from a fifteenth-century … Continue reading
A Memory in Ink
… [I]t is hoped that the Courant may serve not only as literary gymnasium and as a memory in ink, but that it may become, as well, an open channel of communication between students of earlier days and the College in whose history they … Continue reading
Contrasts in Calligraphy
A little confession: I’ve been obsessed with Julian Waters’s work ever since I got sucked into calligraphy, which — a word of warning — is a black hole from which the unwary will never emerge. Fortunately for me and my … Continue reading
The Paperworks Project
In October 2011, a piece of art created by Amanda Nelsen at the Book Arts Program at Wellesley College was part of “Agents of Change: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Prints with a Social Conscience” at Gallery 31 at … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda Nelsen, Book Arts Lab, Corcoran College of Art + Design
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