Hannah Batsel and Leslie Winter on Caxton Women Collect

Sponsored by The Caxton Club

March Evening Program

Hannah Batsel

“A Library of Images: An Artist and Illustrator’s Handbibliothek.”

While the subject matter of Hannah’s collection varies widely, every volume serves the same purpose: a reference tool to lend detail and verisimilitudes to the books she creates. In addition to books about art and illustration, her collection includes books on the niche subject matter that her projects require: late-nineteenth-century boys’ adventure stories, publisher bindings, books about illuminated manuscripts, and occult grimoires. Her collection explains why she has often said, “All of my best ideas are in other peoples’ books.”

Hannah is a book artist, writer, and illustrator based in Chicago. Click here to learn more.

Leslie Winter

“Solutions to Accumulating: Mental Collecting.”

Leslie Winter’s presentation is based on the premise that Millennials will experience lower rates of homeownership and change residences far more frequently than previous generations. Assuming that such predictions are correct, she outlines a method of book collecting that combines limited and strategic physical acquisition with a creative “wishful thinking” practice which she calls “mental collecting.”

What she describes may indeed predict far more typical collecting habits of future Caxtonians than the Club’s founding members could ever have imagined when they first gathered in the winter of 1895.

Leslie is an Associate Specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Freeman’s | Hindman in Chicago. Click here to learn more.

Zoom begins at 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET.

Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5605501