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A bench-trained bookbinder, 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 was the President of the Guild of Book Workers from 2006 to 2010. Following twelve years as the conservator of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, in 2003 he was named chief conservator of the Boston Athenaeum, a private membership library founded in 1807. He is currently the associate director for digital programs and preservation at the Boston Athenaeum. He is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, and has conserved books from the libraries of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. In 2006, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the North Bennet Street School. |
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He is the adjunct lecturer in book conservation in the graduate art conservation department at Buffalo State College (SUNY). He has taught bookbinding and conservation workshops at venues across the country including: Paper and Book Intensive |
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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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