Ruth R. Rogers

Telephone: (781) 283-3592
E-mail: rrogers@wellesley.edu

Ruth R. Rogers is Special Collections Librarian at Wellesley College, where she administers a collection of over 40,000 items, including rare books, medieval and renaissance manuscripts, modern fine press books, and contemporary artists’ books.

She makes the collection available to students and faculty, giving frequent lectures to visiting classes on the history of the book and artists’ books. With the goal of inter-departmental collaboration, she created “Papyrus to Print to Pixel,” a new seminar/lab course that explores the evolution of written communication technology over 5,000 years. The course received the Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence at the College.

A serious collector and promoter of artists’ books, Rogers organized ABC: the Artists’ Books Conference, held in June 2005 at Wellesley College, and published the related exhibition catalog, Resonance and Response. Most recently she was the juror and guest curator of the national exhibition "Beyond Words: Artists’ Books" at the University of the South, in Sewanee, TN.

Ruth R. Rogers Created: April 30, 2007 Last Modified: July 28, 2009