Ruth Rogers
(781) 283-3592
Library Collections
B.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Simmons College
Curator of Special Collections
Book and manuscript studies, visual communication in all media, contemporary artists' books.
Curator of Special Collections, Clapp Library. Teaches, acquires, and administers a collection of over 40,00 items, including rare books, medieval and renaissance manuscripts, modern fine press books, and contemporary artists’ books. Specializes in the history of the book as material culture, visual communication, and artistic form.
Teaches ARTH299: History of the Book from Manuscript to Print. Provides guest lectures to many Wellesley departments and to outside groups.
Lectures on acquiring and teaching with artists' books in the liberal arts curriculum. Organized ABC: the Artists' Books Conference, held at Wellesley College, and published the related exhibition catalog, Resonance and Response. Served as a juror for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts International Artist Book Award and the College Book Art Association members' exhibition. Guest wrote catalog preface for Hartford University School of Art exhibition, "Rare Beauty.
