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This page describes some recent past events. Upcoming events appear in the APHA Events Calendar and APHA Newsletter.

November 18, 2003 Lieberman Lecture
Roderick Stinehour, founder of the Stinehour Press, in conversation with book designer and printer Jerry Kelly
Clapp Library Lecture Room
Wellesley College
Wellesley MA.
4:30 P.M. Free and open to the public.
More Information.
February 25, 2003 - APHA on the Road
The New Digital "Monticello:" History and Inspirations
Matthew Carter and Charles Creesy
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY
Full description, press release and flyer.

October 27, 2002 -- APHA On the Road: Wayzgoose

A New England Wayzgoose
Museum of Printing
800 Massachusetts Avenue
North Andover, Massachusetts (978 686 0450) www.museumofprinting.org

SUNDAY OCTOBER 27, 1:00-3:00 PM, We will have a chance to see the new film, Jack Stauffacher, Printer, and hear talks by Alice Beckwith on APHA's oral history project and Paul Romaine on "Preserving Printing Artifacts" from the APHA panel presented originally in July at the SHARP conference in London. The Museum of Printing, which opened officially at the end of July 2002, preserves the history of the graphic arts, printing equipment, and printing craftsmanship. In addition to special collections and exhibits, the museum contains hundreds of antique printing, typesetting, and bindery machines, as well as a library of books and documents. Hands-on demonstrations are part of every visit.

Timed to coincide with the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair (www.bostonbookfair.com), so that our members from Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire might consider having a bookish weekend in Massachusetts. A "Wayzgoose" is a printers' term for a celebration.

Directions: Take route 96 towards Lawrence, Mass. Get off at exit 43, turning south onto Massachusetts Avenue, heading in the direction of North Andover. At one mile cross Route 133. Travel another four-tenths of a mile and the Museum will be on your left, opposite the North Andover Common.
Public Transport: MBTA train service from Boston (Haverhill Line), depart North Station 11:30 a.m., arrive Andover 12:18 p.m.; telephone the Museum of Printing for pickup (978) 686-0450. More information on the Museum www.museumofprinting.org
October 24, 2002 -- 2002 Lieberman Lecture
A Conversation with Jack Stauffacher, with Matthew Carter.
Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
1100 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA. 7 p.m. (Film showings beginning at 5 p.m.)
www.getty.edu Reception to follow. Free admission, but reservations required; call (310) 440-7300 beginning September 25. Co-sponsored by the American Printing History Association; its host, the Research Library, the Getty Research Institute, and by the California Center for the Book.
Printer and typographer Jack Stauffacher will discuss his work and ideas in conversation with the noted type designer, Matthew Carter. Called a national treasure, Stauffacher has a career stretching over 40 years. Founder of the Greenwood Press and former Typographic Director at Stanford University Press, he is recognized for his fine book design, typography, and letterpress printing. A showing of the new film, Jack Stauffacher, Printer, will precede the presentation.
For full details, see the press release and announcement
July 11, 2002 -- APHA On the Road: APHA at SHARP
"Preserving the Pre-Digital Past: The APHA Perspective"
Panel Discussion at the conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
University of London, Senate House
London, England
Part of "APHA on the Road." This panel discussion will include presentations by Michael Winship on the "Art Preservative," Alice Beckwith on APHA's oral history project, and Paul Romaine on preserving printing technology. Recent Past President Irene Tichenor will moderate. More information.
June 3, 2002 -- APHA On the Road: Lecture
"Charles Joseph Hullmandel: Lithographic Printer Extraordinary"
Michael Twyman, Professor, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, The University of Reading
The Grolier Club,
47 East 60th Street
New York City. 6 p.m. Co-sponsored by the American Printing History Association and the Grolier Club. Part of "APHA on the Road." Free and open to the public. More Information.
January 26, 2002 -- Annual Meeting
2 p.m., Trustees Room, The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY.
Business meeting, presentation of awards and reception. Following reports of officers, APHA's Distinguished Achievement Awards will be presented. Read the December 2001 letter to members.


Right: APHA President Irene Tichenor addresses the members at the annual meeting.	Left: Sandra Kirshenbaum speaking with meeting attendees after being awarded the APHA individual award. Ms. Kirshenbaum founded and published Fine Print.

September 25, 2001 -- 2001 Lieberman Lecture
Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia
"Illiazd: The Poet-Publisher and the Art of the Book."
Smithsonian Institution, Museum of American History, Washington, DC.
Complete text of announcement.
More information on the Lieberman Lectures.
October 19-21, 2001 -- 26th Annual Conference
Transatlantic Type: Anglo-American Printing in the Nineteenth Century.
Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
More information on the Conference.
September 2001 -- APHA-NorCal
“ZAPFEST :A Celebration of the life and work of Hermann and Gudrun Zapf.”
Various sites and events, San Francisco, CA.
Co-sponsored by APHA's Northern California chapter. More information. (Learn about other Local Chapter News)
January 22, 2001 -- Needham-Agüera y Arcas Lecture
"How were the Earliest European Printing Types Made?"
Joint Lecture by Paul Needham and Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Princeton University
Co-sponsored with the Bibliographical Society of America.
The Grolier Club, New York.
See a Fuller description concerning their theory on the casting of early type by Gutenberg.
January 27, 2001 -- Annual Meeting
APHA's Annual Meeting
The New York Public Library
Trustees' Room
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, NY

Right: APHA President Irene Tichenor addresses the members at the January 2001 annual meeting.
Left: Sandra Kirshenbaum speaking with 2001 meeting attendees after being awarded the APHA individual award. Ms. Kirshenbaum founded and published Fine Print.

Above: Jonathan Rose of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), speaking with APHA members after accepting the APHA institutional award. His stirring acceptance speech is online as: "From Book History to Book Studies."

October 20-22, 2000 --Annual Conference
APHA Annual Conference, Rochester, NY
On the Digital Brink
Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY. More information about the Annual Conference
October 2, 2000 -- Lieberman Lecture
"Ink, Type and Serendipity"
By John Randle
The 2000 Lieberman Lecture
Philadelphia, PA
5:30 p.m. Van Pelt Library, 6th floor
University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
More information on the Lieberman Lectures.
January 29, 2000 -- Annual Meeting

APHA Annual Meeting, New York, NY
2 p.m., Trustees Room, The New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Business meeting, presentation of awards and reception. Following reports of officers, APHA's Distinguished Achievement Awards were presented to R. Stanley Nelson (Smithsonian Institution) and to the Gutenberg Museum (Mainz, Germany).