Susan J. Goldman is recognized for her ongoing distinguished contribution to the study, recording, preservation and dissemination of printing history. In addition to being an award-winning artist, she is a master printmaker who owns and runs Lily Press in Rockville, MD. An equally gifted filmmaker, she is dedicated to the documentation, preservation and conservation of printmaking history, evidence of which can be seen in the video archive she has been creating by virtue of her Printmaking Legacy Project ®. The Project’s website hosts an abundance of individual video interviews and documentaries about remarkable print artists with whom she has worked. Her most recent documentary, “Black Printmakers of Washington, DC: Percy B. Martin & Michael B. Platt”, was released in February 2024 and is being screened at print-related events throughout the country.

The Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective was founded by Tia Blassingame in 2019 in response to observations on how the book arts field: “largely ignored or erased the involvement of non-white peoples and communities in book history, print culture, letterpress printing, papermaking, etc.”

The Collective builds “community and collaborations with BIPOC book/print practitioners and scholars.” To date, the Collective is over 40 members strong representing individuals in Egypt, the Americas, Europe, and India, and has presented, exhibited, completed residencies, taught workshops, and published worldwide. 

Collective members are “passionate about book history, print culture, and the endless potential of artists’ books as vehicles of social change and cultural conveyors that uplift our communities, and tell our stories, histories.” Not all members of the Collective are BIPOC; what unites the group is community and “our shared interest and passion in artists books as potential vehicles for social change, racial unity that sort of binds us.” The Collective is at once a professional network and an international creative knowledge base. Honoring the Collective further establishes APHA’s commitment to championing the work of twenty-first century makers and scholars in the greater printing history community. 

Both Goldman and members of the Collective will serve as featured speakers at APHA’s Annual Meeting, date and time TBD, happening during Bibliography Week, this coming January!