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The results of a very productive three day bookbinding workshop, making board attachment models with the amazing Karen Hanmer. For more information on Karen’s work and teaching, check out her site!

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Artist’s books on display at the Bainbridge Island Art Museum in Washington state. Top to bottom: “Beyond Blue” by Catherine Alice Michaelis “Icarus” by Mare Blocker “Apothecary for the Landlocked” by Deborah Peek “Bugs” by Carolyn Terry “Nuts” by JoAnna Poehlmann

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Glass is really cool. This is a piece called “Ladder on Fire” by artist Steven Maslach. Love how the colors shift depending on where you are standing. As seen at the Bainbridge Art Museum in Washington state.

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More snowflakes have appeared on the conservation lab door! It’s getting awfully festive around here…

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Iconic images reimagined in embroidery and jelly beans, as seen at the state fair.

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Neon catfish art. Found in the art building on the campus where I work

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This is an old-books-about-Egypt appreciation post. I love publisher’s bindings, and Egyptian art, so this was a fun excursion into our stacks. These are all circulating books, by the way, not part of our special collections.  Also I can’t get over that typeface they used on “Redemption of Egypt”. SO pretty! Anybody know what it’s called, […]

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Various books in art, as seen at the Phoenix Art Museum. 1) “The Old Philosopher”, 1645-1650 by Salomon Koninck (Dutch, 1609 – 1656) 2) “Still Life: Vanitas”, c. 1665 by Jan van Dalen (Dutch, Flemish, 1611 – 1677)  3) “St. Margaret of Antioch”,  1520 by Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (Netherlandish, 1478 – 1533) 4) “Madonna and Child“, 1636 […]

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Detail from “The Annunciation” by Girolamo Da Santa Croce, c 1540-1550 An oil on wood panel painting in the collection of the Columbia Museum of Art, in Columbia, South Carolina. Photo by conservethis

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Virgin Annunciate, 14th Century Polychrome Wood Sculpture. An Italian sculpture in the collection of the Columbia Museum of Art, in Columbia, South Carolina. Part of a pair, along with Archangel Gabriel. Photo by conservethis.