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APHA's New York Chapter
sponsors lectures, fields trips and other opportunities to meet fellow members
on an informal basis. (Learn about other regional chapters.)
APHA/NY events are free and open to the public. For information on APHA
national and New York Chapter programs and membership, contact apha.newyork@gmail.com
or call Joel Mason or write to APHA-NY,
c/o the National.
Officers
Joel Mason, President
Paul Shaw, Vice-President
Jared Ash, Secretary
Fernando Pena, Treasurer
Report on the
December 12, 2006 meeting.
Upcoming Events
Thursday, February 28, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Scott Kosofsky, On Wavering: The Aesthetics, Culture, and Technology of Once
and Future Fine Books.
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. Tel. 212-838-6690
Reception will precede talk, which will start promptly at 7 p.m.
Scott-Martin Kosofsky, president of Boston’s Society of Printers, is a book
designer, editor, and author well known for his work on complex books in Jewish
studies, art, and music. As a writer, Scott’s The Book of Customs: A Complete
Handbook for the Jewish Year (HarperCollins, 2004) was winner of the National
Jewish Book Award. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, March 26, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Romano & Ross: 60 years of Art and the Tipoteca Italiana. Reception to follow.
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. Tel. 212-838-6690
John Ross is a graphic artist and maker of artists’ books. He teaches
printmaking at the New School. Claire Romano is a painter, graphic artist, and
Professor Emeritus at Pratt Institute. In 1991 John and Claire established the
High Tide Press, which issues limited editions of books designed, typeset,
illustrated, and hand printed by John himself. Since 1998 John has worked at
the Tipoteca Italiana in Cornuda, Italy, collaborating with its technicians to
produce several new works. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 29, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gordon Bond, James Parker (1714-1770): A New Jersey Printer on the Eve of
Revolution.
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. Tel. 212-838-6690
Reception and book signing to follow.
Gordon Bond, an amateur historian, is the author of a new book on James Parker
published by the New Jersey Heritage Press. He serves as co-chairman of the
committee working to establish the Woodbridge Township History Museum and Vice
President of Amateur Astronomers, Inc. in Cranford, New Jersey. Gordon is
currently working on a folk grave marker survey project in New Jersey with
Stephanie Hoagland. Free and open to the public.
Check the calendar for more information on events as they are
scheduled.
Past Events
November 2, 2007 --
APHA-New York
"Production not Reproduction: The Influence of Offset Printing on Artists'
Books"
Panel at 6:30pm -- "Production not Reproduction: The Influence of Offset
Printing on Artists' Books" at the Center for Book Arts. Exhibition and
artists' talk, moderated by the exhibition's curator, Tony White. The event is
co-sponsored with the Center for Book Arts, and the suggested donation of
$5/$10 is waived for APHA-New York members. (The Center for Book Arts is
located at 28 W. 27th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY; tel. 212-481-0295;
http://www.centerforbookarts.org).
May 22, 2007 6 pm
Letterpress Unbound
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street
Join us at The Grolier Club for a screening of video programs about
letterpress master printers Ruth Lingen and Peter Kruty
Produced by Champe Smith & Sally Gardner
Tuesday, May 22nd Screening 6:00 pm Reception following
The Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street (between Madison and Park) New York
City 212 838-6690
Ruth discusses type and printing, and shows some of the artist’s books she
has collaborated on with artists Lois Lane, Chuck Close, and her one posthumous
work, with Alexander Calder.
Peter is joined by artist Mikhail Magaril in a meeting about their
project together, The Nightingale, a book with Mikhail’s woodcuts in a Chinese
style. In addition, Peter shows works he collaborated on with artists Lesley
Dill, Shelagh Keeley, and Robert Peterson.
Producers Champe Smith & Sally Gardner will be at the screening joined by
the printers.
Sponsored by the New York Chapter of the American Printing History
Association and The Grolier Club
This event is free and open to the public
May 2, 2007 at 6 pm -- APHA-NY
Boeken! Dutch Book Typography, 1907-2007
A lecture by Mathieu Lommen
Columbia University, 435 W 114th Street, Butler Library, Room 523
In this illustrated survey of classical Dutch book and type design from Art
Nouveau to the digital era, Mathieu Lommen traces the various trends during that
time: from books inspired by William Morris and the Arts & Crafts aesthetic to
the influence of programmatic modernism after World War II and beyond to the
rediscovery of microtypographic refinements in recent years. Some of the
designers whose work will be highlighted include Jan van Krimpen, Harry N.
Sierman, Bram de Does and the type designers of The Hague Academy.
Mathieu Lommen is curator at the Special Collections Library, University
of Amsterdam. He is an editor of the scholarly journal Quaerendo and
co-author of many books, including several in English: Dutch typefounders'
specimens (1998), Bram de Does: Typographer & Type Designer (2003),
and Sem Hartz and the making of Linotype Juliana (2006).
Co-sponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University; New
York Chapter of the American Printing History Association; and the Type
Directors Club. Free and open to the public.
See the APHA calendar for current events.
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