Describing her creative identity, Jamila Rufaro states, "I am an artist. A book artist. I create handmade books and make things out of old books. Technically I am a mixed-media assemblage artist." Beginning with making paper angels out of notebook paper as a child (and selling them to her family), a period overseas in Europe making stained glass, and doing Kenté cloth appliqués in the 1990s, her path through various materials has led to an obsession with book arts. Over…