Suzanne Karr Schmidt has been the George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Chicago’s Newberry Library since 2017. She is also the director of the Movable Book Society, an international organization celebrating the makers and collectors of pop-up books that was founded in 1993. A scholar of the hybridity and materiality of early modern print, her monograph, Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance, was published in 2018. Karr Schmidt most recently curated the playful blockbuster exhibition Pop-Up Books Through the Ages at the Newberry Library and authored a prizewinning catalog for her exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life.