Bookmarking Book Art – A Tour of Tours

The Unshelved videos from the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Friday Night Flicks of Byopia Press sent me on a hunt for introductions to collections of artists’ books. For those who like to binge, here are the discoveries so far:

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Banff Centre in the Paul D. Fleck Library

Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of Art Institute of Chicago

Connecticut College’s Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives

University of Dundee

Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University

Jack Ginsberg Center for Book Arts at Wits Art Museum

Library of Congress, via the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (Mark Dimunation’s lecture)

Rotch Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Otis College of Art and Design

National Galleries of Scotland

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

Marriott Library’s Rare Books Collection at the University of Utah

State Library of Victoria

University of Western England, Bristol

Enjoy, Books On Books Collection.

2 thoughts on “Bookmarking Book Art – A Tour of Tours

  1. BC's avatar BC 2025/12/05 / 21:22

    Wow, thanks! This is awesome.

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  2. mysteriously68239e07c6's avatar mysteriously68239e07c6 2025/12/18 / 20:01

    Greetings-

    Thank you for this informative list, which I’ll delve into during our holiday break. I did want to let you know that we have a fairly extensive collection of artists’ books at the University of Miami Special Collectionshttps://www.library.miami.edu/specialcollections/ (counting our as-yet-uncatalogued books, close to 2500). I’ve been purchasing artists’ books for this collection since I arrived in Miami in 2008, and previously built a collection focused on artists’ books by women at Duke University’s Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culturehttps://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham.

    Alas, we’re a small staff and haven’t yet built web pages focused on the collection, but this is in the works. In the meantime, though, one can find them in our online catalog by using the keywords “artists books.” Our Department is open to the public and we’re always happy to share our resources with visitors.

    I also co-organize, with printer Ingrid Schindall and arts curator Sarah Marie Rupert, the Tropic Bound International Artists’ Book Fairhttps://www.tropicboundfair.org/, which has been great fun (if I do say so myself).

    I’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have about our collections, and thank you for these informative and entertaining posts.

    Kind regards (and Happy Holidays),
    Cristina

    ​​Cristina Favretto
    Principal Curator for Special Collections
    Librarian Professor
    University of Miami Libraries
    1300 Memorial Drive
    Coral Gables, Florida 33146
    305/284-3247

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