Jean Buescher Bartlett received her MFA in Book Arts from the University in Alabama. She lives and maintains a studio in Ann Arbor and has been teaching at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit since 2006. Over the past thirty years she has also taught bookbinding workshops across the country at venues such as the Paper and Book Intensive, the Morgan Conservatory, Hollander’s, Pyramid Atlantic, the Women's Studio Workshop, Daniel Smith in Seattle, and the Penland School of Crafts. Jean's work resides in over fifty public collections worldwide, including the New York Public Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the University of Michigan Special Collections, the Dutch Royal Library, and Special Collections at Stanford University.