Hand Papermaking Board of Advisors
Timothy Barrett is an Associate Research Scientist and Director of Paper
Facilities at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. He has also been
Co-director of the Paper and Book Intensive summer conference.
Simon Blattner is the former president of Rittenhouse Paper Company and is
currently with Nashua Paper Company in San Francisco. He serves on several
non-profit boards including the California College of Arts & Crafts. He also
operates Eastside Editions, a small-edition intaglio press.
Greg Campbell is President/Owner of Campbell-Logan Bindery, Inc., in
Minneapolis. He is a past president of the Minneapolis Art Institute Library
Council and the Ampersand Club. Greg is a co-founder and past board member of
the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Mindell Dubansky is head of the book conservation department of the Watson
Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also an artist and lecturer in
the book arts.
Jane Farmer is an independent curator of traveling exhibitions. She is Director
of the Crossing Over Consortium, organizing international artist exchanges. Jane
is also a director of Paper Road/Tibet, an organization working to reestablish
the traditional art of hand papermaking displaced by China's incursions into
Tibet.
Helen Frederick is the founder and Artistic Director of Pyramid Atlantic, an
international center for book and paper art. She is also Adjunct Professor at
the University of Maryland at College Park. Helen's work is exhibited nationally
and internationally and is included in many prestigious collections.
Elaine Koretsky is the co-founder of Carriage House Handmade Paper and the
Carriage House Paper Museum. She has conducted research on colorants and fibers
for artists/papermakers and continues to conduct field research on traditional
techniques of papermaking in Asia and Europe. Elaine is the author of many books
and articles on papermaking and a frequent lecturer.
James Sitter is the founder of Bookslinger, Granary Books, and the Minnesota
Center for Book Arts. Since 1989, he has been Executive Director of the Council
of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), a national organization based in New
York City.
Claire Van Vliet has been the proprietor of Janus Press since 1955, publishing
limited edition books using original prints and paperworks with contemporary
literature. She is the recipient of a Macarthur Prize Fellowship, 1991-1994.