Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Deborah Hollis

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 1:00pm, College for Creative Studies

Material Ways of Seeing: Using Special Collections and Archives for Inspiration

Deborah Hollis is a professor on the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries faculty and curates special subject collections of rare books in Boulder, Colorado.  With over twenty-five years of experience acquiring unique materials such as photobooks and artists' books, her knowledge of rare books and archival collections has served teaching and research faculty well.  She publishes on the use of rare work and primary sources in the classroom. Hollis and her colleagues are delighted to work with visiting researchers and are pleased to have launched a fellowship program in support of sharing the university's unique collections with visual artists.