Elizabeth Kelly-Griswold is the owner of BlueMango Books and Manuscripts, where she collects and sells primarily early American primary source manuscripts. This collection includes journals, diaries, account books, and bibles. Elizabeth loves finding stories and connections in the material she collects. A big part of being able to sell these items is researching what they mean and the people involved. She uses platforms like Findagrave in order to do extensive research on the

Richard Turnbull likes to say that he has a “two-fold” career. He’s an archaeologist and art history professor during the day, where he teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology, but in his spare time he owns his own visual arts practice. He’s spent the last 20 years focusing on printmaking and artist books, along with trying new things when the inspiration strikes. Both of Turnbull's parents began experimenting with different forms of painting and photography as they go

Donna Stepien is full of passion for her work, and has found ways to incorporate art into every aspect of her life. Over the last thirty years, she's been working as an educator in graphic design and communication design. Stepien has always had a love of art from a young age. Growing up, she worked for her father’s printing company. It was there that she first experienced the disconnect between producing something practical in terms of printing, and producing the conceptual i

Kevin and Dianne Germain of Splendor Solis Books have been avid book collectors since childhood. They had such a profound shared love of books that they daydreamed about opening a brick-and-mortar bookstore in their retirement. Their plans shifted as their priorities changed; they discovered they did not want to wait until retirement or attach themselves permanently to one community. The couple decided to take to the internet to sell books online and build a book community on

Japanese art often goes underrated in American culture, despite the significance it holds. Famous works of Western art from Van Gogh and Frank Lloyd Wright to modern comics and manga have all been inspired and heavily influenced by Japanese art. David Kutcher, proprietor of Moonlit Sea Prints, is an upcoming exhibitor at the Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair. Moonlit Sea Prints,specializes in selling and collecting antique Japanese woodblock prints fr