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Jeffrey Altepeter
Katy Baum
Elizabeth Curran Boody
Denise Carbone
Valerie Carrigan
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Christine Manwiller
Emily Martin
Christopher McAfee
Natalie Naor
Tara O'Brien
Patricia Owen
Graham Patten
Todd Pattison
Rebecca Philio
Patricia Sargent
Suzanne Sawyer
Jackie Scott
Judy Sgantas
Sarah Smith
Therese Swift-Hahn
Deborah Thompson
Claire Van Vliet
Peter Verheyen
Robert Walp
Thomas Parker Williams
Charles Wisseman
Rutherford Witthus
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Jeffrey Altepeter
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Form Fools Function
The craftsman turned artist rendered this Gothic-style binding dysfunctional with a hinged brass "clasp" that seals the book closed. This book object is a not-so-subtle comment on the stale arguments over art vs. craft and oversimplified definitions of design formation.
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JEFFREY ALTEPETER is a graduate of both the North Bennet Street School and the American Academy of Bookbinding. He teaches bookbinding full-time and is a bookbinder in private practice specializing in leather bindings and boxes.
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