Barbara Mauriello
As an artist and proprietor of a bookbinding studio, Barbara Mauriello has spent over four decades making artists’ books, teaching bookbinding, and collaborating with visual artists and writers in producing limited editions of their work in the book format.
Her faculty positions include several New York institutions: the Center For Book Arts; the School of Visual Arts; the International Center of Photography; Bank Street College, Graduate School of Education; and SUNY, Purchase. In addition, between 1990 and 2020, Mauriello taught in the MFA program at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
She has presented workshops at many museums, universities, and arts centers throughout the U.S. including Penland, Haystack, Book & Paper Intensive, the Book Arts Roundtable, and the Creative Arts Workshop.
Mauriello’s books are in many private collections and special collections in museums and libraries in the U.S. and in France and she has participated in over 60 exhibitions, nationally and internationally.
In 2000, Mauriello published the book “Making Memory Boxes” (Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA.)
More about Barbara Mauriello:
Website: barbaramauriello.com
Barbara Mauriello organized these exhibitions:
2002 Artist Members’ Juried Exhibition; Fall Forward (an exhibition featuring current faculty)
Barbara Mauriello’s work was exhibited in:
Look Look Look: A Playful Book
Artist books for children.
(un)Contained Vessels
Artist Members Annual Exhibition, Co-organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director, The Center for Book Arts, and Pamela Spitzmueller, Book Artist and James W. Needham Chief Conservator for Special Collections, The Harvard University Library and the College Library
30 Years of Innovation: A Survey of Exhibition History at The Center for Book Arts, 1974-2004
Organized by Jae Jennifer Rossman, Special Collections Librarian, Arts Library, Yale University.
Textiles/Fibers/Threads: The Book Show
207 Buttons, and Counting . . .
Fall Forward
an exhibition featuring current faculty
The Illustrated Book
an exhibition of artits’ books that emphasize the power of image to convey ideas.
Masters of the Craft
works by instructors of book arts
Hedi Kyle & Her Influence: 1977-1993
a survey of works influenced by Kyle’s work
Guiding Hands
Center for Book Arts 1992 faculty show
1991 Spring/Summer Faculty Show
Book Arts in the USA
an exhibition of work by 51 artists; a cultural presentation of the United States of America
Celebrating 15 Years
new works by Artist Members
Book Artchitecture
an exhibition in which the structure of the book supports the metaphor of the content or is the content
Center for Book Arts: The First Decade
an exhibition at The New York Public Library
The Thread of an Idea
small scale book art exhibits: books with continuing or connecting lines
Hoboken Museum: Barbara Mauriello
Stories Your Mother Never Told You
artists’ books which feature a narrative line within a visual work
Book Makers
Center for Book Arts first five years