Board of Directors
“I always thought Book Arts was a cool place but never gave it much more thought than that, until I was asked to be a board member. Now that I know more about the facility and all the work they do in the community I KNOW it is a really cool place, with a great mission to keep books and the arts surrounding it alive. Not to mention the terrific people I have met over the years. It has been and continues to be a great experience.”
Kathleen Hartmans, Vice President of the Board Of Directors
Jeffery Sherven
UB Department of Art
President
Kathleen Hartmans
Quality Bindery
Vice President
Daniel Vater
Florian Financial Group
Treasurer
Robert Fleming
Mirabo Press
Hodgson Russ LLP
Secretary
Lynn Lasota
UB Libraries
Kelly Myers-Chunco
UB Department of Art
Thom Knab
K-4 Art Educator, Dodge Elementary
National Art Education Association, Past President
Matthew Nagowski
M&T Bank
Cheryl Quimba
New York State Assembly, Office of Assemblymember Jon Rivera
John Smith
Abraxas Construction
Peter Sowiski
Abaca Press
“I trained as a printmaker and am known as a paper maker, so by default have long been interested in book arts. I worked with the founders in the past and have done a few workshops for them and at the center, and can truly say, that although we are firmly in the tech and digital age, there seems to be always a strong undercurrent of interest in manual creation. People want to love and love to want to create and make things in the way it is done at the Western New York Book Arts Center. Here you will find the place, people and time to delve richly into the all that these arts entail.”
—Peter Sowiski, Book Arts Board Member