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Carol Schwartzott (born 1945, New York City) [1] is an American book artist. Her work is in the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), [2] Rutgers University Special Collections, [3] the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] the University of Puget Sound Collins Library, [4] the University of Louisville, [5] the University of Southern California Special Collections, [6] the University of Wisconsin–Madison, [7] and the Walker Art Center. [8]

Schwartzott's work was included in the 1994 exhibition Inky Fingers at the Center for Book Arts, [9] as well as the online exhibition The Book as Art: Accordion Adaptations at NMWA. [10]

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