A mixer sponsored by APHA NorCal Chapter.
Water Paper Stone: Hand Papermaker & Installation Artist Judy O’Shea An illustrated lecture at the Koret Auditorium, sponsored by San Francisco Center for the Book and APHA NorCal Chapter.
Buses depart the Hotel Whitcomb headed to Mills College
Buses depart the Courtyard by Marriott Oakland Emeryville for Mills College
Buses arrive at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613, where the concurrent sessions will be held in campus classrooms and an auditorium. Box lunches will be provided (choose one when you register for the conference); coffee, tea, and water service will be provided during the day; and food will be available at the Olin Library reception.⇒Food options at Mills College are extremely limited on weekends, so please bring snacks if you will need them.
{ PANEL 1. Early Renaissance Paper }
Into the Fold: Understanding Albrecht Dürer’s Meisterstiche Papers; Angela Campbell ¶ Fifteenth-Century Papermakers and Printers: Negotiations and Innovations; Timothy Barrett
{ PANEL 2. Nineteenth-Century Paper I: Paper Objects }
The Anatomy of a Banknote: 1855 Innovations in Design, Papermaking, and Printing; Richard Kelly ¶ Calendered Paper, Electrotyping, Hard-Packing and Late Nineteenth-Century “Fancy Type Faces”; Michael Knies
{ PANEL 3. Paper in Artists’ Books I: The Long and Short Views }
The Secret of the Art: Ten Short Stories; Sandra Liddell Reese ¶ Beyond Substrate: Handmade Paper as Environment for Letterpress Printing; Leslie Smith
{ PANEL 1. }
Printing by Hand in Asia; Steph Rue, Radha Pandey, Elizabeth Boyne
{ PANEL 2. When the Paper is the Poem }
Contemporary Hand Papermaking and Letterpress at Mummy Mountain Press; Wendy Burk, Karla Elling ¶ Experiments with Paper and Print at Paperhouse Studio; Flora Shum, Emily Cook
{ PANEL 3. Case Studies }
Gustave Baumann: His Prints and His Papers; Tom Leech ¶ Some Notes on the Use of Paper in the Book Designs of Willem Sandberg and Irma Boom; Mathieu Lommen ¶ W.A. Dwiggins and the Selling of Paper in America 1914–1934; Paul Shaw
{ PANEL 4. Techniques and Technologies }
The Paper Artist & the Engineer: How Technology Supports the Creative Process;Brian Queen ¶ Flax: The Printer’s Plant; Josef Beery ¶ Pulp Diction; Amy LeePard, Suzanne Sawyer
Box lunch in the Student Union. Mills Book Art studio tours and demonstrations by APHA Northern California Chapter members
{ PANEL 1. Investigations in Recycled Papermaking }
Recreating Japanese Book Cover Papers from the Edo Period; Anne Covell, Kazuko Hioki
{ PANEL 2. From Paper to Print }
From Paper to Print: Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking and Atlanta Printmakers Studio Collaborations; Jerushia Graham, Virginia Howell, Suzanne Sawyer
{ PANEL 3. Paper in Artists’ Books II: Reflections }
The Conversation Between Paper and Printing in Contemporary Artists’ Books; Inge Bruggeman ¶ Material of the Margins: Handmade Paper in Artist’s Books; Tatiana Ginsberg ¶ Size Matters; Kitty Maryatt
{ PANEL 4. Post-Modern Paper }
Divers digital desiderata: Explorations in digital printing; John Labovitz ¶ Printing the Drinkable Book: Advances in Paper in the Twenty-First Century; Jamie Mahoney ¶ Hand Papermaking and the Printed Word: Dynamic Tools for Healing; Amy Richard
{ PANEL 1. Twentieth-Century Paper in Circulation }
“Print paper ought to be as free as the air and water”: American Newspapers, Canadian Newsprint, and the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1909-1913; Geoffrey Little ¶Forest/Trees/Paper/Documents: Proposals for Papermaking at the U.S. Government Printing Office; George D. Barnum
{ PANEL 2. Nineteenth-Century Paper II: Networks }
Literary Pirates and Mammoth Journals in the Nineteenth Century: Remapping the Antebellum Publishing Industry; Nathan Steele ¶ The Geographies of Paper and Printing; Laura Sorvetti and Russ White
{ PANEL 3. Paper for Pedagogy }
Printing and Papermaking in the Ivory Tower: Carl Purington Rollins and the Origins of the Bibliographic Press Movement in America; Katherine M. Ruffin ¶ Through the Lens of Paper: Using the Medium’s Cultural Significance to Introduce Freshmen to Higher Education Concepts; Jae Jennifer Rossman
{ PANEL 4. Paper Trails }
Valley of Venetian Ties: Historic Paper Mills and Printers of Toscolano Maderno;Megan Singleton ¶ Much to Do with Little: Paper and Book Making at Aba House, Nungua, Ghana; Kathy Wosika
Reception at the Olin Library, Heller Room, with Janice Braun, Special Collections. View the exhibit Paper Trail: Selected Works on Papermaking from the Special Collections of the F. W. Olin Library. Starting with the work of incomparable paper historian Dard Hunter, this exhibition features books on a range of topics including Japanese papermaking, the history and techniques of papermaking, paper mills, and commercial paper. Fine press and artists’ books on handmade paper will also be on display.
First bus back to the conference hotels departs Mills College.
Join friends and colleagues new and old for a Mediterranean Buffet Banquet and Silent Auction in the lovely Julia Morgan-designed Mills College Student Union. A separate ticket is required for this event; please purchase when you register for the conference. With wine and beer cash bar.
Final bus back to conference hotels departs Mills College.
Dennis Ichiyama Printing Wood Type: 7 Letters x 7 Vandercooks
Monika Meler Diffused Relief Printing Using an Etching Press
Sculptural Forms: Casting Pulp in Ceramic Molds with Jon Hook and Andrea Peterson
Up to twenty vendors will be selling their wares, including tools, supplies, crafts, and fine art related to paper, print, and book arts.
Magic Moments Tour of Magnolia Editions Fine Art Print Studio.
A vibrant center for fine art & craft, located in the historic Best Foods building in the Mission District. FDH/APHA Member’s Exhibition. [This is Ourselves] UNDER PRESSURE. Reception 6 to 9 pm
Informal Open House. Display of its Dard Hunter holdings. ¶ A master copy of The Dwiggins Marionettes. ¶ Exhibition on view: Food & Wine & Good Design: The California Fine Printers’ Legacy curated by Randall Tarpey-Schwed in conjunction with A Feast for the Eyes: Gastronomy & Fine Printing.
Friends of Dard Hunter Member’s Exhibition. {This is Ourselves} UNDER PRESSURE.
This astounding floor to ceiling handmade paper installation, by Judy O’Shea and her husband Mike, greets conference attendees upon arrival at the San Francisco Center for the Book.
The APHA/Friends of Dard Hunter conference is here. Today’s events:
Exhibitions at San Francisco Center for the Book:
• Water Paper Stone: A Walk-through Book by Judy O’Shea
• Dennis Ichiyama: Wood Type Prints
• W.A. Dwiggins Pop-up Show
Celebrating 50 Years of Special Collections at the San Francisco Public Library
Tour of Grabhorn Institute Tour, Arion Press and M&H Type
Short Tours of the Internet Archive
Keynote address by Kathryn & Howard Clark“Twinrocker Handmade Paper: A Chunk of San Francisco in a Hoosier Cornfield” at the Internet Archive
From “Pulp Diction” to be presented by Amy LeePard and Suzanne Sawyer, part of the Techniques and Technologies panel. Letterpress printed text using a photopolymer plate on a newly formed wet sheet of handmade paper. (Suzanne Sawyer)
Revised. “Paper on the Press” is less than two DAYS! away, but a few panels still need conference goers to file brief write-ups for this website. Will you help? Please review the remaining events and volunteer.
Working layouts for a celebratory broadside for J. Ben Lieberman, designed by Herbert Johnson and printed by Pat Taylor, 1978. Gift of H. Johnson to RIT Cary Collection, 2014.
By Herbert H. Johnson
*And a Footnote on Its Erstwhile Companion, Arrighi by Frederic Warde
Monday, November 17, 2014, 6:30 p.m.
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester, New York [Read more]
The upcoming APHA/Friends of Dard Hunter conference is nearly filled to capacity. As was done for the 2013 conference, this website will recap the presentations, demos, and tours. But we need your help: just summarize an event in about two hundred words. The editor is coordinating assignments to make sure that all events are covered. Please see the program and sign up now.
Grendl Löfkvist operating the Presstek 34 DI-X at Inkworks Press. Photo by Scott Braley.
Members of APHA and the Friends of Dard Hunter, will soon receive by mail, the program for the upcoming conference in San Francisco. It was printed on a Presstek 34 DI-X four-color waterless offset press at Inkworks Press. On this high-tech machine, plates are imaged directly on press using lasers, bypassing film entirely. The press can produce up to 300 lpi and stochastic screening in perfect register. [Read more]
Via the contact form:
I have a printing plate from the title page of Festoons of Fancy, William Littell, 1814, Louisville, Ky. I have been told that the title page would have been typeset and not printed from a plate. Have researched endlessly on line with very little success. Can it be determined by looking at the book which printing method was used? Thank you in advance for your time and any insight you can provide. See image. [Read more]