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Gabrielle was born in Cincinnati where she received a B.A. in English Literature and Writing.  She traveled to England to study bookbinding and since receiving her diploma in Fine Binding and Conservation over twenty years ago, has worked and taught both in the UK and in the USA. 

 

 Gabrielle Fox is a leading expert and artisan in the binding, conservation and restoration of fine books.  Her career has included training and teaching in many distinguished institutions in the United States and Great Britain and her work has earned many awards and commendations.  She currently works from her studio in Cincinnati, Ohio and travels frequently to teach intensive workshops and consult and care for both institutional and private book collections.  At the moment Gabrielle is exhibiting in the fourth DeGolyer Exhibition at Southern Methodist University and this autumn will have bindings in both the Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Fine Bindings and The Guild of Book Workers Centennary Exhibition opening at The Grolier Club.

 

 

Experience

Self-employed Bookbinder, Conservator and Restorer

Instructor, Art Department, College of Mount St. Joseph

Binder-in-Residence – Transylvania University

Senior Bookbinding Lecturer – Croydon College of Art and Design, London

Handbinder-Conservator – University of Cincinnati

 

Recent Exhibitions, Publications, Presentations and Awards

At the moment Gabrielle is exhibiting in Visions from Voices at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville and the Society of Bookbinders Conference Exhibition in York, England

 

University of Cincinnati’s Blegen Library’s 75th Anniversary

Kentucky Bindings – King Library, University of Kentucky

Lloyd Library and Museum – Mining the Lloyd

Master Craftworks – College of Mount St. Joseph

Miniature Book Society Annual Exhibition

Stone Eye – Midwest Guild of BookWorkers – Coordinator and Exhibitor

Cincinnati Bookworks 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 – Coordinator and Exhibitor

Saginaw Art Museum – Bindings and Unbindings

Helen Warren DeGolyer 1, 2 & 4

American Bookworks – The Barbican, London – Exhibitor & USA Organizer

 

The Essential Guide to Making Handmade Books – North Light Books

 

Presentations and intensive workshops given out of town in recent years:

 Salt Lake City, Denver, Toronto, England, Ann Arbor, Penland, Dallas and various

 annual conferences both here and in the UK.

 

Helm Fellowship Grant, Lilly Library, Indiana University

Award of Excellence, Greater Cincinnati Craft Guild

 

Professional Affiliations

Guild of BookWorkers – past Chapter co-chairperson and exhibition coordinator, American Institute of Conservation, Miniature Book Society – past chairperson and member of various committees, Cincinnati Book Arts Society – founding chairperson and board member, Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild