Jane Knoll
MAC Candidate
Art Conservation Program
Areas of interest: book conservation, history of artist materials and techniques, technical analysis, archaeology of the book
Jane Knoll is a bookbinder, researcher, and artist. After receiving an undergraduate in writing and printmaking from Bennington College and completing the full-time bookbinding program at North Bennet Street School in Boston, Jane worked as the Driscoll and von Clemm conservation fellow at the Boston Athenæum and as Assistant Book Conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center.
While preparing for the Âé¶¹¹Ù꿉۪s program, Jane taught bookbinding and related arts at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Their research focuses on the technical history of bookbindings, with particular focus on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century structures, folk repairs, and personalized bindings.