Betty Bright

Dr. Betty Bright is an independent writer, curator, and historian who specializes in the contemporary art of the book. In addition to her extensive writing and curating, she published No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Books, 2005), the first history to trace the emergence of the artist's book in the US in the 1960s and 1970s. Her scholarly interests include craft’s evolving identity, the ability of art to engage social issues, and the intersecting realms of art and the body.