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Highlights of the 2023 Annual Meeting

Clockwise from top left: APHA Award Individual Laurates Irene Tichenor and Fritz Klinke, Fellowship winner, Val Lucas, APHA Award Institutional Award winners Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione and Mark Barbour of The International Printing Museum.

The American Printing History Association Annual Meeting took place Saturday, January 28, via Zoom with 58 members in attendance. The meeting began with greetings and announcements by the president, followed by the reports of officers, elections of trustees, and the announcements of the Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship winner and the APHA Awards recipients. [Read more]

Printing History 31/32 in the Mail

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2023 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History

The American Printing History Association (APHA) is accepting applications for the 2023 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History. An award of up to $2,000 is available for research in any area of the history of printing, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms. [Read more]

Call for Papers for Printing History 33

The American Printing History Association invites submissions for the next issue of its peer-reviewed journal Printing History. Seeking to represent the discussions begun at its recent conference in LA, “Making Artistic Noise: Printing and Social Activism from the 1960s to the Present,” this issue will feature articles from conference presenters and panelists. Research and comments from the wider community are welcome. [Read more]

2022 Lieberman Lecture

 

Danielle Aubert

“The Power and Promise of a Union: Labor, Printing, and Graphic Design”
Monday, December 5, 2022 at 7 p.m. EST via Zoom [Read more]

APHA Awards 2022 – Call for Nominations

 

Dear APHA members,

The American Printing History Association (APHA) Board of Trustees and the Awards Committee invite nominations for the 2022 APHA Individual Laureate and Institutional Awards! Submit your nomination(s) at our new form now until November 1, 2022.  [Read more]

Early-bird conference registration extended through September 30

Registration for the American Printing History Association’s 2022 conference, “Making Artistic Noise: Printing and Social Activism from the 1960s to the Present,” is now open! [Read more]

Printing History Guidelines Revised

APHA’s Publications Committee has revised the submission guidelines and style guide for Printing History. They are now posted here under the “Publications” menu.

New Printing History Guest Editor and Editorial Committee

 

Please join us in welcoming our new Printing History guest editor, Dr. Daniel Arbino. Daniel is the Head of Collection Development for the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his PhD in Latin American literatures and cultures from the University of Minnesota in 2013 with an emphasis on the orphan trope in twentieth-century Caribbean literatures. [Read more]

Call for Papers: Making Artistic Noise

47th Annual APHA National Conference
“Making Artistic Noise: Printing and Social Activism from the 1960s to the Present”
Los Angeles, California, October 13–15, 2022

The American Printing History Association is pleased to announce a call for papers (PDF) for our 2022 annual conference in Los Angeles on October 13–15. We are thrilled about this year’s theme, “Making Artistic Noise: Printing and Social Activism from the 1960s to the Present,” and we hope that you will consider submitting a proposal for an individual presentation, panel, or poster. Proposals are due Tuesday, May 31.