Coleen Curry, will be sharing the creative process of her award-winning binding of Five Poems by Toni Morrison for the 2022 Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, from the design proposal through disbinding, rebinding, dying the leather, and making the housing. Coleen will also share about her experience as a juror in the recent 2025 Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition.

Bridwell Library’s triennial bookbinding competition is named for Helen Warren DeGolyer (1926–1995), a well-known supporter of the arts and education in Dallas, as well as a skilled devotee of design bookbinding. Following her testamentary wishes, her brother, Joseph Warren, and her children, Everett Lee DeGolyer and Edith DeGolyer, established in 1996 an endowment to support a triennial bookbinding competition, exhibition, and conference on the contemporary book arts to be held at Bridwell Library. The competition challenges bookbinders to submit their proposals for a specific book held by Bridwell Library, as well as a recent example of their work. While the DeGolyer Award winner receives a commission to bind the book according to his or her proposal, the jury also selects award winners for excellence in fine binding and artistic design.

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