The Annual Meeting of the American Printing History Association
Trustees Room, New York Public Library Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 2 pm
Greeting
E. Haven Hawley, President
Welcome
NYPL staff member
Reports of Officers
Charles Cuykendall Carter, Vice-President for Membership — A moment of silence for members who passed away in the last year Jesse Ryan Erickson, Vice-President for Programs Katherine McCanless Ruffin, Vice-President for Publications David Goodrich, Treasurer
The American Printing History Association (APHA) is currently accepting applications for the 2020 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History for the study of 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]
We are pleased to announce that members of both the Chesapeake and Northern California chapters of APHA have produced beautiful 2020 calendars for sale via the links above. [Read more]
At the University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland | October 25 to 27, 2019
Registration has officially opened for “One Press, Many Hands: Diversity in the History of American Printing.”
All information regarding the conference including the schedule, registration, and travel details can be found here. Registration can be accessed here.
All are welcome; you need not be a current APHA member to attend this year’s conference. Please encourage any friends or colleagues who might be interested to come. The registration fee is $150.
Steve Saxe in his pressroom at his home in White Plains, NY June 14, 2014 (Paul Moxon)
We are sad to report that Stephen O. Saxe, one of the APHA founders, longtime APHA newsletter editor, and printing historian, died April 27. An obituary is forthcoming.
APHA welcomes research papers, panels, roundtables, or workshops covering diversity in the history of American printing. APHA’s 2019 conference, One Press, Many Hands, intends to shed light on the rich history of printing and publishing in America from diverse groups. Generations of past scholars in the field have devoted their research to studies rooted in Eurocentric and Anglo-American histories of printing. However, as the United States becomes increasingly diverse communities of scholarship have sought to engage with issues that have arisen from the transformation in our national demographic makeup. [Read more]
Left: Sample cover for a Bible, which would have been carried by a book agent to give customers a sense of their options when purchasing a bespoke Bible. (Zinman Collection of Canvassing Books at the University of Pennsylvania) Right: An idealized engraving of the work of the Bible Society in disseminating scripture, by Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886). (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Printing History 25, produced by the team of Brooke Palmieri, editor; Michael Russem, publication designer; and Katherine Ruffin, Vice-President for Publications, is being mailed to APHA members this week. [Read more]
APHA is pleased to announce that the 2018 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship has been awarded to Jordan Wingate, a Ph.D. student in English at the University of California, Los Angeles. [Read More]
2:30 pm, Thursday, December 13, 2018 Library of Congress Rosenwald Room LJ 205 Jefferson Building, 2nd Floor Free and Open to the Public Space is Limited
“Working towards a feminist history of printing”
What does it mean to strive for a feminist praxis when the subject of your work is not printers but printing? If there are no human agents in your story, how do you make it an inclusive one that invites everyone to participate? In this talk, Dr. Werner draws on her experience of writing a book introducing handpress printing to explore how to create a feminist history of printing. Looking at how scholars, theorists, artists, and poets have talked about the acts of printing and being a female maker, she weaves a practice of historical connections and present acts that makes a case for the necessity of opening our field to all questioners. [Read more]
Who has made major contributions to printing history? Who is making these contributions today? The American Printing History Association presents two annual awards, one to an individual and one to an institution, as a way of recognizing “a distinguished contribution to the study, recording, preservation or dissemination of printing history, in any specific area or in general terms.” Year upon year, there have been excellent nominations submitted making the selection process terribly challenging. [Read more]
