The Best Kept Secret: 200 Years of Blooks

Mindell Dubanksy @ The Center For Book Arts

Join us on Tuesday - April 22, 2025 @ 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Mindy will tour and discuss construction examples with Q&A.

rsvp @ newyork@guildofbookworkers.org

Center for Book Arts * 28 West 27th Street, 3rd floor* New York, NY 10001

Exhibition closes May 10th.

Mindell Dubansky (b. 1954) is a book conservator, librarian, author, and artist. She is Museum Librarian for Preservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library. Mindell studied art in college and eventually the craft of hand bookbinding. After an apprenticeship at Center for Book Arts in the 1970s, Mindell studied book conservation at the Camberwell School of Art and Craft; and Librarianship/Preservation Administration at Columbia. She has authored monographs on blooks, and book and paper arts including Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper (2023), Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren’t (2016), and The Proper Decoration of Book Covers. The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse (2008). Her research on—and collection of—blooks have been featured in exhibitions at the Grolier Club, The San Francisco Center for the Book, and Bard College; in The New York Times; and on CBS Sunday Morning. You can follow her on Facebook and Instagram.