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James Reid-Cunningham studied history and art history at Johns Hopkins University and Tufts University before beginning his career in book conservation at Harvard University. He studied bookbinding with Mark Esser at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, and is the President of the Guild of Book Workers. Formerly the Conservator of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, he is currently the Chief Conservator of the Boston Athenaeum, a private membership library founded in 1807. He is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. He is an advisor to the bookbinding program at the North Bennet Street School, and in 2006, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from NBSS. |
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He has taught bookbinding and conservation workshops for the Paper and Book Intensive, the Garage Annex School for Book Arts in Easthampton, MA., the North Bennet Street School in Boston, the Weissman Preservation Center at Harvard University, the Guild of Book Workers, the New England Museum Association, the Kilgarlin Center for the Preservation of the Cultural Record at the University of Texas at Austin, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. |
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In addition to his conservation work, he is also the creator of design bindings and book objects that explore traditional bookbinding structures in conjunction with modern materials such as rubber, vinyl, tyvek and Formica. He has exhibited his books nationally and internationally. He is the proprietor of Hematite Press and Wages of Fear, small presses that publishes illustrated limited editions of modern texts, with each copy in an original design binding. |
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