Ruth R. Rogers

Ruth R. Rogers is Curator of Special Collections at Wellesley College, focusing on the evolution of the book as material culture, visual communication, and artistic form. As lecturer in the Art Department, Rogers teaches a hands-on seminar, History of the Book from Manuscript to Print. She hosts courses throughout the curriculum in the area of book studies, an interdisciplinary approach spanning centuries and media. Rogers is a frequent juror for exhibitions and awards in book arts, and is the author of nine essays in the recently published Materialia Lumina exhibition catalog (2022), sponsored by the Codex Foundation. In her lectures and writing, Rogers advocates for the critical reading of international contemporary artists’ books in teaching and research. With a grant from the Delmas Foundation and support from the Codex Foundation, she convened a collecting seminar at Wellesley to articulate standards and approaches for building institutional collections with artists’ books.