Baker, Cathleen A. (Carol Ann Baker)

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Baker, Cathleen A. (Carol Ann Baker)

PERSONAL:

Education: University of Michigan, B.A., 1967; Syracuse University, M.A., 1986; University of Alabama, M.F.A., 2000, Ph.D., 2004.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Legacy Press, 3080 Whisperwood Dr., No. 472, Ann Arbor, MI 48105. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, lecturer, 1967-68; Gregg International Publishers Ltd., Farnsborough, England, editorial assistant, 1968-70; University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England, administrative assistant, 1970-73, paper restorer for Witt Collection of Old Master Drawings, 1973-78; Royal Institute of British Architects, paper restorer, 1973-79; State University of New York College at Oneonta, Cooperstown, associate professor of paper conservation, 1978-83; State University of New York College at Buffalo, associate professor of paper conservation, 1983-93; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, visiting paper conservator, 1993-94; Intermuseum Conservation Association, adjunct senior paper conservator, 1993-94; independent consultant, scholar, and educator, 1993-97; Legacy Press, Ann Arbor, MI, founder and publisher, 1997—; University of Alabama, adjunct instructor, 2001-03; University of Michigan Libraries, senior paper conservator for preservation and conservation, 2005—. Alabama Museum of Natural History and Alabama Public Television, graphic designer and editor of teachers' guides for the environmental conservation videotape series Discovering Alabama, 1997—; workshop leader; public speaker. Exhibitions: Curator of exhibitions, including "Dard Hunter and the Art of the Handmade Book," New York, NY, Chicago, IL, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1996-99; "Endgrain Designs and Repetitions: The Pattern Papers of John DePol—Making the Book," Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 2001, and Medical Park East, Birmingham, AL, 2005. Designer of exhibitions, including "Publishers' Bindings Online, 1915-1930: The Art of Books," Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, University of Alabama, 2004. Original work represented in exhibitions, including "Between Friends," Pump House Art Gallery, Chillicothe, OH, 1994.

MEMBER:

International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (retired fellow), American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (fellow; past member of board of directors; founding member and past member of board of directors of Book and Paper Group), American Printing History Association, Fine Press Book Association, Guild of Book Workers, Hand Papermaking, Inc. (member of board of directors), Hunter-Howell Hand Papermaking Fellowship (member of advisory board), Typophiles, Friends of Dard Hunter (honorary member; founding member; past executive director and president of board of directors), Kappa Tau Alpha.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989, and Foundation for the Study of the Arts and Crafts Movement at Roycroft, Smithsonian Institution, Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and Sandy Hill Foundation, 1991-95; Jacob K. Javits fellowship, 1998-2002; Samuel H. Kress conservation publication fellow, Foundation for the American Institute for Conservation, 2005-06.

WRITINGS:

Design and Pattern in Decorated Papers: Wet and Dry Techniques, Hand Papermaking (Beltsville, MD), 1994.

By His Own Labor: The Biography of Dard Hunter, Oak Knoll Press (New Castle, DE), 2000.

(With John DePol) Endgrain Designs and Repetitions: The Pattern Papers of John DePol, limited edition, Legacy Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2000.

Also author of "The Story of Blue Betsey," a letterpress-printed pamphlet, Legacy Press (Ann Arbor, MI). Author of "Paper History," a column in Hand Papermaking Newsletter. Contributor to books, including American Proprietary Typefaces, edited by D. Pankow, American Printing History Association (New York, NY), 1998. Contributor to periodicals, including Style, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Bookways, Paper Conservation News, and Arts and Crafts Quarterly.