PUBLICATIONS
The Even More Simplified Binding: laced-on spine wrapper with flange board attachment, the how-to handout from a presentation at the Guild of Book Workers Seminar on Standards of Excellence in Hand Bookbinding 2021.
All Fish, All the Time for Guild of Book Workers Northwest chapter newsletter, vol. 2, no. 2 (2021).
Contributor to a blog post for Louise Levergneux/Half Measure Studio on Karen Hanmer Book Arts pandemic-related business activities. April 1, 2021.
My Pivot to Online Teaching for Guild of Book Workers Potomac chapter newsletter, summer 2020.
Comfort Binding: The Medieval Slinky for Guild of Book Workers Delaware Valley chapter newsletter, spring 2020.
Karen Hanmer’s Five Essential Bookbinding Tools, for Peachey Conservation blog, May 2, 2020.
Essay for Monique Lallier: A Retrospective. New Castle, DE and Greensboro, NC: Oak Knoll Press and Guilford College Art Gallery, 2018.
Contemporary Paper Bindings: a skill-building guide to bookbinding techniques, tools, and materials. Karen Hanmer Book Arts, 2016.
Medieval on the Go: The Girdle Book, Karen Hanmer Book Arts, 2015.
Review of Jamie Kamph’s Tricks of the Trade, Confessions of a Bookbinder. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. Bonefolder Extras, July 28, 2015.
Variations on the Drum Leaf and Sewn Boards Bindings, the how-to handout from a presentation at the Guild of Book Workers Seminar on Standards of Excellence in Hand Bookbinding in Washington DC on October 26, 2013.
KAREN HANMER: Design Bindings a screen resolution portfolio of fourteen design bindings completed between 2006 and 2014, with an essay by Priscilla Spitler. This portfolio was one of the requirements to receive the American Academy of Bookbinding diploma in fine binding, 2014.
Profile of Laura Young Award winner Cris Takacs for Guild of Book Workers Newsletter, August 2013.
Karen Hanmer Book Arts, Book Arts / Arts du Livre Canada 2012 Vol.3 No.2.
Monique Lallier, Art et Metiers du Livre, No. 289, Mars-Avril, 2012.
Jacob’s Ladder Book Structure, A Modular Approach, Bound and Lettered, Volume 9, No. 4, 2012.
Review of Jen Lindsay’s, Fine Bookbinding: A Technical Guide, The Bonefolder, Volume 6, No. 2, Spring 2010.
Review of Dorothy Simpson Krause’s Book+Art: Handcrafting Artists’ Books, College Book Arts Association newsletter, winter, 2010.
Profile of Lifetime Achievement Award winner Peter Verheyen for Guild of Book Workers Newsletter, October 2009.
Karen Hanmer, Bound and Lettered, Volume 8, No. 1, Summer 2009.
Marking Time, Bound and Lettered, Volume 8, No. 2, Fall 2009.
A Modular Approach to Assembly of the Jacob’s Ladder Structure, published in Hedi Kyle Festschrift 2009.
Editor for exhibition catalog: The Book of Origins: A Survey of American Fine Binding, 2007.
American Fine Bindings: Book of Origins, Bound and Lettered, Volume 6, No. 3, winter 2007.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
A Crafted Typology of the Codex Book Modelmaking as an Approach to Material Book Study, by Gary Frost, Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021.
Interview with American Academy of Bookbinding fine binding diploma candidate Deborah Thompson, 2020.
Bridging the Gap: Artist's Books and Design Bindings by Karen Hanmer by Woody Leslie, Journal of Artists’ Books, vol 39, 2016.
Early reader for Jamie Kamph’s Tricks of the Trade, Confessions of a Bookbinder. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015.
Picturebooks: Representation and Narration, edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Routledge, 2014. Celestial Navigation discussed in chapter 2 by Carole Scott.
Inspiration of Book by Mo Tingli, Artpower International, 2014.
500 Handmade Books volume 2, curated by Julie Chen, Lark Books, 20013.
1,000 Artists' Books: Exploring the Book as Art, by Peter and Donna Thomas and Sandra Salamony, Quarry Books, 2012.
Masters: Book Arts: Major Works by Leading Artists, curated by Eileen Wallace, Lark Books, 2011.
LIVRES ANIMÉS: Du papier au numérique by Gaëlle Pelachaud, Editions de l’Harmattan: Paris, 2011.
Indie Publishing: How to Design and Publish Your Own Book by Ellen Lupton, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.
The Thread That Binds: Interviews with Private Practice Bookbinders by Pamela Leutz, Oak Knoll, 2009.
500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form, Lark Books, 2008.
Bookcraft: Techniques for Binding, Folding, and Decorating to Create Books and More by Heather Weston, Quarry Books, 2008.
Artful Paper Dolls, p. 112, Terry Taylor, Lark Books, 2006.
Articles and blog posts
From leather to brass, UChicago Library exhibition judges books by their covers, a review of A Book by Its Cover: Decorative Book Bindings from the Medieval Codex to Contemporary Artists' Books, a binding exhibition at the University of Chicago featuring Hanmer’s binding of Frankenstein and a number of her historical models, March 22, 2022.
Spectrum A to Z reviewed in Robert Bolick’s Book on Books blog, October 25, 2021.
Shelter in Studio: Karen Hanmer, a virtual studio tour from a series by San Francisco Center for the Book, December 17, 2020.
Radical Science Writing: An Interdisciplinary Book Arts Approach in Openings: Studies in Book Art (Journal of the College Book Art Association) Vol 3, No. 1 (2017).
Review of Leather Bindings Fundamentals workshop, by Elissa Campbell, Wells College Book Arts Summer Institute, 2016.
Review of Medieval on the Go: the gridle book workshop, by Elissa Campbell, Focus conference, Forest Grove, OR, 2015.
Karen Hanmer Flash of the Hand blog, 2013 December 1, 8,15, 22, 29.
Considering the Flag Book, Big Jump Press blog, April 7, 2013.
Review of Biblio Tech II workshop, by Elissa Campbell, Focus conference, Forest Grove, OR, 2013.
Animated Pages: The Virtual (R)evolution of the Book by Deborah Cornell in Openings: Studies in Book Art (Journal of the College Book Art Association) Vol 1, No. 1 (2012)
Cited in Robert Bolick’s Book on Books blog, November 12, 2012.
A conversation about The Bonefolder: an e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist hosted by Miriam Schaer with Karen Hanmer and Peter Verheyen, February 15, 2012.
Audio interview with Peter Verheyen, from the Bookbinding Now series, July 20, 2011.
direct link to this podcast.Interview at Chicago Publishes, online publication of the City of Chicago's Publishing Industry Programs, June 2011.
Review of Biblio Tech I workshop, by Elissa Campbell, Focus conference, Forest Grove, OR, 2011.
Review of work by Sarah Bodman in Printmaking Today, May 2010.
Review of lecture and Flag Book workshop in Portland, OR, March, 2010.
Interview with Roxanne Samer for Chicago Art Magazine, Summer 2010.
Interview with Columbia College Book and Paper Arts MFA candidate April Llewellyn, Spring, 2010.
Review of work by Sarah Bodman in Printmaking Today, May 2010
Interview in Guild of Book Workers Newsletter, August 2007.
What’s Hot recommended show, Cincinnati Enquirer, May 19, 2006
To Do List recommended show, CityBeat, Cincinnati entertainment weekly, May 17, 2006
This Group Creates its Art By the Book, Pioneer Press (Chicago) April 27, 2006
Recommended show, Chicago Reader, January 20, 2006
Book Artist Karen Hanmer Emphasizes “Personal Connections” Through Exhibit & Workshops, April 19, 2006.
Books About Books, Bound and Lettered, Volume 5, Number 3 2006
Making a Connection, Dayton Daily News, August 14, 2005
Whimsical pieces combine elements with dash of humor, The Columbus Dispatch, June 19, 2005.
It’s Time to Make a Book, Read a Book, Columbus Dispatch, June 8, 2005
Works in Dublin exhibit beg to be handled, The Columbus Dispatch, June 2, 2005.
Gallery Offers its Version of Summer Reading, Dublin (Ohio) News, June 1, 2005
Fine Presses – Karen Hanmer, Fine Books & Collections magazine, May/June 2005.
All Shook Up: Playful Books, The Other Paper (Columbus, OH), May 26, 2005
Ancient Forms, New Meanings, South Bend Tribune, February 27, 2005
Bound and Lettered, Volume 4, Number 4, 2005
Bound and Lettered, Volume 4, Number 2, 2005
Tabellae Ansatae, Volume 3, Number 3, 2004
Love In The Afternoon exhibition review, Chicago, 2004.
Flag Books, 2003.
Section 19, Township 104, Range 28, exhibition review, Chicago, 2002.
Hey, Good-Lookin', Software Development, August, 2002
Double Take, South Bend Tribune, August 5, 2001
Special Report: Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, New Art Examiner, p. 20. November, 1998
Recommended show, New City, July 24, 1997
Pinhole Journal, April, 1996