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]
APHA’s Publications Committee has revised the submission guidelines and style guide for Printing History. They are now posted here under the “Publications” menu.
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]
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.
These issues—and others—are available to the public through RIT Press. Here are the links for 27/28 and 29/30.
The American Printing History Association is pleased to introduce members who have agreed to serve as officers and Trustees on the APHA board. This dynamic group of talented people will grow our organization and keep APHA thriving. We’re excited they are joining us.
The Nominating Committee
APHA member Ron Gordon, a graphic designer, teacher, and letterpress printer for more than 40 years in New York City, has been called “a keeper of the great tradition of American book design.” In college, Gordon studied with the artist and printer Leonard Baskin and later worked at Joseph Blumenthal’s Spiral Press. He collaborated with many artists during his long career—Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, Baskin, and others.
His customers included most of the most prominent cultural institutions in NYC: The Metropolitan Museum, the Frick Collection, the Morgan Library, and the Grolier Club, among many others. In addition to designing and printing limited edition books at his Oliphant Press, Gordon produced a vast body of ephemera for his prestigious customers as well as for his own press and private use. He has now compiled a number of packets of this ephemeral printing to give away to teachers of letterpress printing and graphic design or to collectors and librarians who are interested in this material. Please email oliphantpress@gmail.com for further information or to express interest in receiving one of these packets.
The American Printing History Association (APHA) is accepting applications for the 2022 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]
Derrick R. Spires, Cornell University
“Nineteenth-Century Black Printing and the Matter of Black Life”
December 2, 2021 at 7 p.m EST via Zoom
Printing with printing presses at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C. South Carolina Orangeburg, 1899. (Library of Congress )
Register now for a Nubia Navarro’s workshop through Center for Book Arts New York, October 21, 2021, from 6 to 9 p.m. Her expert skills guide you to accentuate your hand-lettering with digital tools. Beginners welcome! [Read more]