Lunchtime Conversation with Allie Alvis

Lunchtime Conversation with Allie Alvis

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Zoom

Registration is Required

We are delighted to welcome back Allie Alvis, Curator of Special Collections, Winterthur Library, to continue our exploration of color.  Allie curated an exhibition of materials focused on color at the Library titled "That Pleasing Art: Color in Theory and Practice" which featured 400 years of scientific and artistic material, illuminating how humans have interacted with color throughout the centuries.  In this presentation Allie will share artifacts from the exhibition.

The ZOOM link to this presentation will be sent the day before the event as well as the morning of the event. Registration for non-members will open on July 27th.

Meet the Presenter Allie Alvis 
Allie Alvis is Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. Their research is diverse and far-reaching, and includes publications on the history of rebinding illuminated manuscripts, the reuse of type ornaments in 16th and 17th century England, the work of bookbinders Douglas Cockerell and Son, and the use of arsenical green pigments in bookbinding. Allie is particularly interested in the use of social media for communicating book history, and maintains popular accounts across various platforms as Book Historia. They received their MScs in Material Culture and Book History, and Information Management from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively, and a BA in Linguistics from the University of Kansas.

For more information about Allie, visit her Instagram page or website.