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]
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]
Dear APHA member,
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]
Cover: An experiment in multitudinous tints, William N. Weeden’ color printing process, is preserved in several small specimens, made as a proof of concept while visiting England in July 1886. Image: “Proposed Alphabets for the Blind, Under Consideration of the Society of Arts for Scotland,” listing twenty different alphabetical systems for the blind, primarily drawn from Europe. Image courtesy of Perkins School for the Blind.
Printing History 24, 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]
Brooke Palmieri, editor, and Michael Russem, designer, are putting the finishing touches on Printing History 24, which will be printed and mailed to all APHA members in the few weeks. Advertising space is available for purchase. Sizes and prices can be found here.
To reserve space for an ad, please email publications@printinghistory.
Registration is open! The American Printing History Association’s forty-third annual annual conference will be held jointly with the Friends of Dard Hunter at University of Iowa Center for the Book in Iowa City, Iowa, October 25–27, 2018, with both pre- and post-conference events. Full Conference information here.
The speaker roster is now confirmed for “Matrices: The Social Life of Paper, Print, and Art,” our joint conference with the Friends of Dard Hunter (FDH). APHA’s forty-third annual conference will be held at University of Iowa Center for the Book Iowa City, Iowa, October 25–27, 2018, with both pre- and post-conference events. Registration and other information are still in development. Please stay tuned.
The American Printing History Association is now on Instagram @printinghistory. This matches our handles on Twitter and Facebook used to announce website content, and share news from members and like organizations. However, our Instagram will tease information about our programs and our journal Printing History. We’ll also post random takes on our mission and motto “to encourage the study printing history.”
For a while we’ve asked members to tag images on their own social media accounts with #americanprintinghistory and will continue to do so.
Left: Antonius Augustinus, Rome: appresso Guglielmo Faciotto, 1592 (detail). The first fully illustrated edition of Agostini’s book on coins is also the first known book to be illustrated by a woman artist. Right: Risograph prints on display at Rabbits Road Press, an open-access print studio in East London, whose co-founder Heiba Lamara is interviewed in Printing History 23.
Printing History 23, produced by the team of Brooke Palmieri, editor; Michael Russem, publication designer; and Katherine Ruffin, Vice-President for Publications, is now in production at PuritanCapital in Hollis, New Hampshire. [Read more]