Buses to Mills College 

8:00 a.m.

Buses depart the Hotel Whitcomb headed to Mills College

8:30 a.m.

Buses depart the Courtyard by Marriott Oakland Emeryville for Mills College

9:00 a.m.

Buses arrive at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613, where the concurrent sessions will be held in campus classrooms and an auditorium. Box lunches will be provided (choose one when you register for the conference); coffee, tea, and water service will be provided during the day; and food will be available at the Olin Library reception.⇒Food options at Mills College are extremely limited on weekends, so please bring snacks if you will need them.

Session I

9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

{ PANEL 1. Early Renaissance Paper } 
Into the Fold: Understanding Albrecht Dürer’s Meisterstiche Papers; Angela Campbell ¶ Fifteenth-Century Papermakers and Printers: Negotiations and Innovations; Timothy Barrett

{ PANEL 2. Nineteenth-Century Paper I: Paper Objects }
The Anatomy of a Banknote: 1855 Innovations in Design, Papermaking, and Printing; Richard Kelly ¶ Calendered Paper, Electrotyping, Hard-Packing and Late Nineteenth-Century “Fancy Type Faces”; Michael Knies

{ PANEL 3. Paper in Artists’ Books I: The Long and Short Views }
The Secret of the Art: Ten Short Stories; Sandra Liddell Reese ¶ Beyond Substrate: Handmade Paper as Environment for Letterpress Printing; Leslie Smith

Session II

10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

{ PANEL 1. }
Printing by Hand in Asia; Steph Rue, Radha Pandey, Elizabeth Boyne

{ PANEL 2. When the Paper is the Poem }
Contemporary Hand Papermaking and Letterpress at Mummy Mountain Press; Wendy Burk, Karla Elling ¶ Experiments with Paper and Print at Paperhouse Studio; Flora Shum, Emily Cook

{ PANEL 3. Case Studies }
Gustave Baumann: His Prints and His Papers; Tom Leech ¶ Some Notes on the Use of Paper in the Book Designs of Willem Sandberg and Irma Boom; Mathieu Lommen ¶ W.A. Dwiggins and the Selling of Paper in America 1914–1934; Paul Shaw

{ PANEL 4. Techniques and Technologies }
The Paper Artist & the Engineer: How Technology Supports the Creative Process;Brian Queen ¶ Flax: The Printer’s Plant; Josef Beery ¶ Pulp Diction; Amy LeePard, Suzanne Sawyer

Lunch

12:15 pm

Box lunch in the Student Union. Mills Book Art studio tours and demonstrations by APHA Northern California Chapter members

Session III

2 to 3:30 p.m.

{ PANEL 1. Investigations in Recycled Papermaking }
Recreating Japanese Book Cover Papers from the Edo Period; Anne Covell, Kazuko Hioki

{ PANEL 2. From Paper to Print }
From Paper to Print: Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking and Atlanta Printmakers Studio Collaborations; Jerushia Graham, Virginia Howell, Suzanne Sawyer

{ PANEL 3. Paper in Artists’ Books II: Reflections }
The Conversation Between Paper and Printing in Contemporary Artists’ Books; Inge Bruggeman ¶ Material of the Margins: Handmade Paper in Artist’s Books; Tatiana Ginsberg ¶ Size Matters; Kitty Maryatt

{ PANEL 4. Post-Modern Paper }
Divers digital desiderata: Explorations in digital printing; John Labovitz ¶ Printing the Drinkable Book: Advances in Paper in the Twenty-First Century; Jamie Mahoney ¶ Hand Papermaking and the Printed Word: Dynamic Tools for Healing; Amy Richard

Session IV

3:45 to 4:45 pm

{ PANEL 1. Twentieth-Century Paper in Circulation }
“Print paper ought to be as free as the air and water”: American Newspapers, Canadian Newsprint, and the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1909-1913; Geoffrey Little ¶Forest/Trees/Paper/Documents: Proposals for Papermaking at the U.S. Government Printing Office; George D. Barnum

{ PANEL 2. Nineteenth-Century Paper II: Networks }
Literary Pirates and Mammoth Journals in the Nineteenth Century: Remapping the Antebellum Publishing Industry; Nathan Steele ¶ The Geographies of Paper and Printing; Laura Sorvetti and Russ White

{ PANEL 3. Paper for Pedagogy }
Printing and Papermaking in the Ivory Tower: Carl Purington Rollins and the Origins of the Bibliographic Press Movement in America; Katherine M. Ruffin ¶ Through the Lens of Paper: Using the Medium’s Cultural Significance to Introduce Freshmen to Higher Education Concepts; Jae Jennifer Rossman

{ PANEL 4. Paper Trails }
Valley of Venetian Ties: Historic Paper Mills and Printers of Toscolano Maderno;Megan Singleton ¶ Much to Do with Little: Paper and Book Making at Aba House, Nungua, Ghana; Kathy Wosika 

Reception

5 to 7 p.m.              

Reception at the Olin Library, Heller Room, with Janice Braun, Special Collections. View the exhibit Paper Trail: Selected Works on Papermaking from the Special Collections of the F. W. Olin Library. Starting with the work of incomparable paper historian Dard Hunter, this exhibition features books on a range of topics including Japanese papermaking, the history and techniques of papermaking, paper mills, and commercial paper. Fine press and artists’ books on handmade paper will also be on display.

6:30 p.m.

First bus back to the conference hotels departs Mills College.

Banquet and Silent Auction

7 p.m.

Join friends and colleagues new and old for a Mediterranean Buffet Banquet and Silent Auction in the lovely Julia Morgan-designed Mills College Student Union. A separate ticket is required for this event; please purchase when you register for the conference. With wine and beer cash bar.

9:15 p.m.

Final bus back to conference hotels departs Mills College.