Mindell Dubansky on "The History of American Decorative Arts on Paper" 

Mindell Dubansky on "The History of American Decorative Arts on Paper", such as book design and wallpaper. Ms. Dubansky is the Museum Librarian for Preservation and head of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation, at the Watson Library, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Her most recent publication is her 2021 book "Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorative Paper, 1960s to 2000s". She writes on the book arts, particularly in the areas of 19th century publisher’s bindings, hand papermaking and bookbinding. Having had the fortune to be helplessly and irreversibly drawn to a life among books, Ms. Dubansky has utilized her knowledge and love of the physical book to gather and describe an extensive group of international book-shaped objects from the Medieval Era to today. As a group, these objects illustrate the abiding human need to reflect values and emotions through creating and associating with books. Currently, she is writing a survey of book-shaped objects and is planning a small exhibition at Vassar College Art Library in 2015 and a member’s exhibition at the Grolier Club upon completion of her book. If you are interested in 19th century decorated bookbindings, or women’s, book or design history, please have a look at her blog on Alice C. Morse (alicemorse.blogspot.com).
In 2016, Mindell had the first exhibition of her collection of 250 book-shaped objects at the Grolier Club in New York. A segment of this exhibition, Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren’t, was presented at Bard College from August through October, 2016.
Mindell holds an MLS and Certificate in Library Preservation from Columbia University, and has studied bookbinding and restoration at the Camberwell College of Arts, London. She is currently a Preservation Librarian at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.