CURATOR

2021

Co-curator with Jeff Thomas. Reclamation: Artists’ Books on the Environment, San Francisco Center for the Book, and San Francisco Public Library.

2012

“Where From and To: Multiple Bookworks, 1960 to the Present,” Minneapolis College of Art and Design Library. 

2010-2011 

Co-curator with Jeffrey Rathermel. Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art, Minnesota Center for Book Arts; New York’s Center for Book Arts; Scripps College in Claremont, California. 

2008 

“Altered Books,” Minneapolis Central Library.

2004-2006 

The Press at Colorado College: The Pressroom as Classroom, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs; The Newberry Library, Chicago; Minnesota Center for Book Arts; The University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Scripps College, Claremont, California. 

1998 

Incoming Tide: Works by Clare Chanler Forster, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1993 

Contemporary Classics: The Illustrated Book Redefined, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1992 

Off the Shelf and On-line: Computers Move the Book Arts into Twenty-first Century Design, Minnesota Center for Book Arts; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Rochester Institute of Technology; the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls. 

Completing the Circle: Artists’ Books on the Environment, Minnesota Center for Book Arts; HarperCollins Publishers gallery, New York; Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, Maryland; Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta. 

“Frontispiece: The Book of Seven Lagoons” (Artists Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison), Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1991 

“Photobooks in Motion: A History of Performance Art in Artists’ Books,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“Frontispiece: Clarissa Sligh,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

A Kelmscott Centennial/William Morris and His Heirs: Leonard Baskin, Claire Van Vliet and Victor Hammer, Minnesota Center for Book Arts; Department of Special Collections at the Research Library, University of California-Los Angeles; John Hay Library at Brown University; Special Collections Library at Arizona State University. 

1990 

Co-curator with Karen Wirth. Copier Books, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“Frontispiece: Books and Scrolls by Faith Wilding,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Calligraphic Books: Lettering in Three Dimensions, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“Of Paradise & Concertinas: Susan E. King & Hedi Kyle,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1989 

“Frontispiece: Karen Kunc Prints & Books,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Timothy C. Ely Retrospective, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Arion Press Books, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1988 

Keith A. Smith Retrospective, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Pick up the Book, Turn the Page and Enter the System: Books by Sol LeWitt (exhibition held in conjunction with Walker Art Center), Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“James Henkel: Photographs with Books,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“Works by 4: Ann Borman, Scott Helmes, Michael Tarachow, Karen Wirth,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1987 

“Kevin Osborn,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“Spillville Collaboration: Steve Sorman & Patricia Hampl,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“Claire Van Vliet / The Janus Press,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1986 

In and Out of the Mainstream: The Small Press in America, Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“Works of Walter Hamady,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1985 

“Midwest Contemporary Book Art,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

“The British Book: Examples from the 15th - 20th Centuries,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

JUROR

2020

Reclamation: Artists’ Books on the Environment exhibition. San Francisco Center for the Book, and San Francisco Public Library. Co-jurors: Ruth Rogers, Mark Dimunation.

The MCBA Prize, to Sara Langworthy, for Sidereal. Biennial international artist’s book award presented by Minnesota Center for Book Arts. 

2015

Minnesota Book Artist Award, to Harriet Bart (with collaborators Philip Gallo and Jill Jevne). Annual award sponsored by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. 

2009 

Graduate and undergraduate student awards, sponsored by the College Book Art Association, awarded at conference, “Art, Fact, and Artifact: The Book in Time and Place,” the University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City. 

2008 

Minnesota Book Artist Award, to Jody Williams. Annual award sponsored by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. 

2006 

Minnesota Book Awards, Fine Press category.

2002 

“Toys and Games” exhibition. Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

1998 

Biennial exhibition. Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.