# Kate Bennett: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day

Over the past several decades the Rare Book & Special Collections Division (RBSCD) has built one of the strongest book arts collections in the country. These collections are bolstered by archival collections in book arts that provide significant opportunities for research. Artist archives are deeply connected to the creative process and studio practices of modern and contemporary American artists working in the genre of book arts, and document the nation's cultural record. Russell Maret, a New York based letterpress printer, type designer, artist, and author has become a celebrity in the field of book arts in a relatively short time. He was awarded the Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome in 2009, and has been the recipient of several prestigious artist residencies. His archive offers both researchers and students the opportunity to understand his creative process, from all stages of print and book design, to print production and binding. This is a window into the actual process of book making and typographical design, making the archive a complement to RBSCD's other archives of printers and typographers, including: Frederic Goudy, Victor Hammer, Bruce Rogers, and Claire Van Vliet. When it was acquired, the Russell Maret archive was in a variety of non-archival boxes. Kate Bennett and Callie Beattie inspected the Maret collection in depth, and organized it chronologically according to project publication. Items were housed in archival-quality boxes, and…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2023
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661503/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2025661503?play=1)