Jan Baker (1950-2018) was an accomplished artist, educator, and a lover of alphabets. She taught book arts, bookbinding, letterpress, papermaking, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department at Rhode Island School of Design from 1981 to 2017. In 2011 she donated her students’ book works from RISD classes she had taught to the Fleet Library at RISD, Special Collections. Today her legacy is remembered by the student artists’ book collection as well as funding for the annual Baker + Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest.