BRIEN H. BEIDLER (843) 754 4671 [email protected] www.beidlermade.com @bhbeidler

E D U C A T I O N

College of Charleston Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts, 2012 Magna Cum Laude

W O R K

2016- Beidler Made, Proprietor 2015-2019 Unlocking History Research Group, Contributor 2015-2019 Letterlocking.org, The Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL), Co-Associate Editor 2014-2019 Reengineering Broken Book Spines Research Group, Collaborator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2012-2016 Bindery and Conservation Studio, Director, Charleston Library Society 2009-2012 Special Collections, Bindery Assistant, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 2009-2010 Deux Misérables Hand Bound Blanks, Proprietor

T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E

2019, October, Tooling with Egg Glair, North Bennet Street School, Boston, MA 2019, July, Assistant to Jim Croft, Old Ways of Making Books, Santa, Idaho 2019, June, Quarter Leather Binding: Reinterpreting Historic Techniques, Art and Art History Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, SLC, Utah 2019, March-April, Bookbinding: Reinterpreting Historic Techniques, Escuela de Artes y Oficios Santo Domingo, Bogotá, Colombia 2019, February, Pre-Industrial Gold Tooling, MFA Book Arts, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2018, August, Contemporary Historic Binding, Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina 2018, July, Pre-Industrial Gold Tooling, Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2018, July, Finishing Tool Making, Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2018, July, Pre-Industrial Gold Tooling, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, Ohio 2017, November, Bone Tool Making, Pickwick Independent Press, Portland, Maine 2017, November, Pre-Industrial Gold Tooling, Pattison Bindery, Otisfield, Maine 2017, September, Pre-Industrial Gold Tooling, Big River Bindery, Altanta, Georgia 2017, April: Awl Shapes and Sizes Toolmaking Workshop, Midwest Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers, Bloomington, Indiana

2016, November: Spine Re-enginerring Open House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2016, November, Making Historic Sealing Wax to Unlocking History Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2016, October, Studio Assistant to Mary Uthuppuru, Boxmaking for Book Artists, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC 2016, October, Bone Tool Demonstration, New England Art Book Fair, Portland, Maine 2016, October, Assistant to Jim Croft, Bone Tool Making, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016, October, Assistant to Jim Croft toolmaking, Bone Tool Making, North Bennet Street School 2016, September, Assistant to Jim Croft toolmaking, Bone Tool Making, New York Center for Book Arts, New York, New York 2016, April, Making Historic Sealing Wax, for the Sign, Sealed, and Undelivered Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2015, November, Making Historic Sealing Wax, Redux Studios, Charleston, South Carolina 2015, June, Secret Letters Summer Camp, Ashely Hall School, Charleston, South Carolina 2015, April, Assistant to Jim Croft, Bone Tool Making, American College for the Building Arts, Charleston, South Carolina 2015, April, Assistant to Jim Croft, Wooden Boards Intensive, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina 2014, June, Bookbinding Summer Camp, Charleston Library Society, Charleston, South Carolina 2013, June, Bookbinding Summer Camp, Charleston Library Society, Charleston, South Carolina 2013, June, Half Leather Binding, Charleston Library Society, Charleston, South Carolina 2013, February, Cloth Case Binding, Charleston Library Society, Charleston, South Carolina 2011, August, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Dissemination Poster Fair, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina

C O L L A B O R A T I V E R E S E A R C H

2015-19 Letterlocking.org, The Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL), Unlocking History Research Group Cofounders: Jana Dambrogio, Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator, MIT Libraries, and Daniel Starza Smith, Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (1500-1700), King’s College London. Collaborators: Mary Uthuppuru, Proprietor, Spring Leaf Press, Ayako Letizia, Special Collections Conservation Associate, MIT Libraries, and Emily Hishta Cohen, Library & Archives Fellow, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center. 2014-18 Reengineering Broken Book Spines Research Group Director: Jana Dambrogio, Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator, MIT Libraries. Collaborators: Mary Uthuppuru, Proprietor, Spring Leaf Press, Ayako Letizia, Special Collections Conservation Associate, MIT Libraries, Emily Hishta Cohen, Library & Archives Fellow, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center, and Kate Beattie, General Collections Conservation Associate, MIT Libraries.

D E V E L O P M E N T

2019 Finishing Press Making Instructor: Timothy Moore, Concord, MI 2018 The “Other” Tooling Technique Instructor: Peter Geraty, American Academy of Bookbinding, Telluride, CO 2018 Basic Metal Engraving Instructor: Bill Oyster, Master Engraver, GRS Training Center, Emporia, Kansas

2015 Summer Institutional Exchange Supervisor: Dawn Walus, Chief of Conservation, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts 2014 Conservation Learning Exchange Instructor: Jana Dambrogio, Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge Massachusetts 2014 Medieval Book Technologies (Old Ways) Instructor: Jim Croft 2014 Full Leather Binding Instructors: Monique Lallier and Don Etherington 2013 Clamshell Box-making Instructor: Don Rash, Fine Bookbinder 2013 The Paper & Book Intensive Instructors: Bernard Vinzani, Adam Larsson, and Julie McLaughlin 2012 Edition Binding Instructor: Don Rash, Fine Bookbinder 2011 Introduction to Leather Binding Instructor: Don Rash, Fine Bookbinder

P U B L I C A T I O N S / P R E S E N T A T I O N S rd 2015 Presentation: “The Relevance of Traditional Materials in Modern Conservation.” 43 AIC Annual Meeting in Miami, FL 2015 Publication: “Treasures in the Charleston Library Society” Carolina Lettering Arts Society Bulletin. Winter 2015 (pg. 4-5). 2014 Publication: “New Use for Hollytex” Guild of Book Workers Newsletter, No. 216. (pg. 13-14)

J U R I E D E X H I B I T I O N S

2019 Beyond a Book, Yeiser Art Center: ‘Commonplace Books,’ three leather bindings 2018 BOST Preview Exhibit, Thomas Gallery: ‘Commonplace Book,’ full leather binding 2017 Feed Sack Quilts, Iowa Quilt Museum: ‘Feed Sacks,’ full leather binding 2017 Feed Sacks, Online Exhibition: ‘Feed Sacks,’ full leather binding 2017 Handy Books, University of Iowa Center for the Book: ‘The Geography of Anywhere,’ full leather binding 2015-2017 Vessel, Guild of Book Workers: ‘Bulfinch’s Mythology,’ contemporary Gothic binding 2015 Young Contemporaries, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art: ‘Books on the Brain,’ charcoal on paper

A F F I L I A T I O N S

Guild of Book Workers, Vice President since Fall 2016 2016 Local Host, Standards of Excellence Seminar Charleston Book Union, Co-founder, established 2014

A W A R D S A N D F E L L O W S H I P S

2015 FAIC Carolyn Horton Grant “Summer Institutional Exchange” with Dawn Walus at the Boston Athenaeum 2013 Paper Book Intensive Student Scholarship 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research with Faculty (SURF) Fellowship Restoration of volumes from the John Mackenzie Collection under the supervision of Head of Special Collections Marie Ferrara, College of Charleston

2011-2012 Horatio Hughes Scholarship 2008-2012 Palmetto Fellows Scholarship