Simmons College

Sarah Smith has been teaching letterpress printing, bookbinding, and printmaking for ten years at Montserrat College of Art, where she helped create a letterpress printing studio and BFA concentration in Book Arts. She is a founding member of Imposition Press at Montserrat. She also teaches letterpress at Mass Art and book arts workshops for Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. While teaching, Sarah has been working for the past 15 years as a rare book conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, MA, and before that at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia, PA. Previous to teaching at Montserrat, Sarah taught book arts at Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work can be found in collections and with booksellers such as Vamp and Tramp Booksellers in Alabama; Printed Matter in NYC; The Banff Centre in Canada; The Kohler Art Library at University of Wisconsin; Boston Public Library; The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University; The Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley; Clapp Library at Wellesley College; Fine Arts Library at Indiana University; and others.

Education: B.A., Studio Art, Art History, Latin Language and Literature, University of MA; M.F.A. Book Arts/Printmaking, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

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