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Zine Workshop on October 12, 2012
Join us for a zine workshop in the Book Arts Lab. Open to experienced and novice zine-makers alike. In this workshop, we’ll look at zines, discuss zine format, design, and construction tips, and collaboratively make a zine. When: Friday, October … Continue reading
Teaching with Books and Other Text-Technologies
This image is from a faculty seminar that took place on campus over June 4-6, 2012, entitled “Teaching with Books and Other Text-Technologies: Book History, the Book Arts, and Book Studies in the Wellesley Curriculum.” It shows Wellesley professors learning … Continue reading
Southern Graphics Council International Conference 2012
This year’s ARTS 322 Advanced Print Concepts class kicked off spring break with a trip to New Orleans. We were there as participants in the Southern Graphics Council International Conference, a yearly gathering of printmakers, professionals, and students alike. As … Continue reading
Friends of the Library Bookbinding Workshop
This year’s Friends of the Library’s annual workshop in the Book Arts Lab, led by program director Katherine Ruffin, focused on exposed spine hardcover journals, a form of bookbinding in which the sewing that connects the groupings of pages is … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Arts Lab, Bookbinding, Friends of the Library
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Celebrating Black History Month: Research Materials from Special Collections
Special Collections Exhibition Celebrates Black History Month Continue reading
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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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