Artists Books created by Book Arts Workshop Instructors
June 18, 2025
September 25, 2025
Sherman Art Library

Curated by Laura Graveline

Illustration from Sarah Parella’s Minutes: dance Steps for the beleaguered depicting line drawings of a man with a sheep’s head next to another man.

Illustration from Sarah Parella’s Minutes: dance Steps for the beleaguered depicting line drawings of a man with a sheep’s head next to another man.

Artists Books created by Book Arts Workshop Instructors

This exhibit showcases some examples of books created by artists who have taught in the Dartmouth Library’s Book Arts Workshop. Each artist taught a variety of workshops here at Dartmouth and their books display diverse techniques and unique concepts. All of these titles are from the Art Special Collection in the Sherman Art Library and will be on exhibit in the Sherman reference room.

Minutes : dance steps for the beleagured by Sarah M. Parella [formerly Sarah Smith]

Call Number: N7433.4.S65 M56 2012

Sarah Smith produces books and broadsides in the realm of nonsense and absurdity. This book was inspired by many hours attending meetings.  Letterpress with polymer plates, printed during a residency at Asheville Bookworks.

Unresolved by Maggie Minor

Image of Maggie Minor’s book Unresolved

Unresolved by Maggie Minor

Call Number: N7433.38.T73 U57 2024

Through photographs and text her work explores warping and inaccurate recall of place. She creates atmospheric imagery that captures disintegrating memories and explores the quiet spaces in between.  Unresolved captures time and places from in between. Not quite the destination, but somewhere along the way. Pausing to reflect. Printed on a Risograph.

An Only Kid by Lynn Avadenka

Call Number: BM670.H28 A9 1990

Inspired by a folk song often song at Seder, this book illustrates the story of Chad Gadya, the only kid  (goat).  Lynne offers her own interpretation of the folk song as a story of personal redemption and the book is beautifully printed and the cover is handmade with strands of goat hair.

Raising the Supine Dome by Amy Borezo

Call Number: N7433.4.B676 R3 2010

Raising the Supine Dome depicts the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller’s first attempt to construct a geodesic dome with a class of students at the experimental school, Black Mountain College, in 1948. The actual construction was a failure because the dome did not rise, but Fuller saw each failure as a way of getting closer to true understanding. The accordion book’s stiff leaves can be paged through as a codex or can stand upright and extend out fully and be viewed from both sides as the play of light and shadow interacts with the cut figures.

Stream by Stephanie Wolff

Call Number: N7433.4.W65 S77 2005

Miniature tunnel book depicts a fish-eye-level view of stream waters. Cloth hardcover binding with applied fish cut-out. Color photocopies of original watercolors by the artist are cut and layered into a tunnel book structure.

Ten Fingers Play by Stephanie Wolff

Ten Fingers Play by Stephanie Wolff

Call Number: N7433.4.W65 T46 2004

A longtime teacher of book arts to college students and others, she enjoys sharing her knowledge from bookbinding, book conservation, and fine arts to help people transform their ideas into something tangible. This codex with concertina spine has color photocopies of "hands" moved by a tab and "fingers" that pop up to recreate the children's finger play and rhyme, "Here is the church, here is the steeple, open the door and see all the people."

Illustration of entwined hands from Stephanie Wolff’s Ten Fingers Play captioned And See All The People

Snow-Star by Stephanie Wolff

Call Number: N7433.4.W65 S66 2004

Text is from Henry David Thoreau's journal entry for Jan. 5, 1856.

Hinged hexagonal pages unfold in a counter-clockwise direction to reveal letterpress text and pressure print snowflake images. In an origami-folded envelope.  Printed at the Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop

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