Mindell Dubansky on The History of American Decorative Arts on Paper, such as book design and wallpaper. Ms. Dubansky is the Museum Librarian for Preservation and head of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Her most recent publication is her 2021 book Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorative Paper, 1960s to 2000s. Ms. Dubansky has a home in Tivoli.

Mindell Dubansky is head of preservation and book conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she has worked for the last forty years. Mindy received her early training as a printmaker and studied bookbinding at Carnegie-Mellon University and at The Center for Book Arts in New York, following which, she studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Craft in London and received a MLS and certificate in library preservation from Columbia University. In addition to her work at the Museum, Mindy is an artist, collector, and author who focuses on book-related or auto-biographical subjects. Her publications include The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse (2008), a biography and catalogue of bookcovers designed by Morse; an autobiographical book of short stories, Guess Who Died: Memories of Baltimore with Recipes (1999); BLOOKS. The Art of Books That Aren’t, a catalog of her collection of book-shaped objects which was on view at the Grolier Club in 2016; and most recently Pattern and Flow. A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s.