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Marie Kelzer (she/her) is a bookbinder and paste paper maker extensively trained in the traditional family operated binderies, commercial trade library binderies, and academic institution’s Book and Paper Preservation labs. She discovered the ancient art of making paste papers while training to be a bookbinder. Marie’s paste paper designs, hand-bound books and expressive artist books are exhibited and collected worldwide. Originally from Minnesota, she lived in San Francisco for many years and now resides in Los Angeles. She combines her love of painting paste papers with her interest in making and designing hand-sewn and bound books. She has expanded into a variety of paper creations including paper bouquets, flower blooms and paste paper mache bowls. As of April 2019, Marie’s 60 Paste Papers along with biographical papers and tools of the trade and self-published books are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in NYC as part of the Paper Legacy Collection with other decorative papermakers from the 1960s to the present.
View Marie’s Work At The MET
