Valeria Kremser is a senior conservation technician, bookbinder, educator, and sometimes artist, born and raised in Philadelphia.
She currently works in the Steven Miller Conservation Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, in Van Pelt Library. At her previous position at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic artifacts, she worked on many exciting projects including the notebooks of Bruce Springsteen and the library of Frederick Douglass. She has also worked in conservation at The Gladys Brooks Book and Paper Conservation Lab of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and the American Philosophical Society.
She is the co-chair of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, and in her free time, she makes and collects miniature books.
She teaches classes at Fleisher Art Memorial on bookbinding and a variety of paper-based crafts to both adults and children.