Session II, Panel 4. “The Paper Artist & the Engineer: How Technology Supports the Creative Process,” presented by Brian Queen ¶ “Flax: The Printer’s Plant,” presented by Josef Beery ¶ “Pulp Diction,” presented by Amy LeePard and Suzanne Sawyer.
Laser Cutting Fine Binding, Artist Monique Lallier, Interpreter of Maladies. (Brian Queen)
Brian Queen started off this sparkling panel with his presentation, “The Paper Artist & the Engineer: How Technology Supports the Creative Process.” He amply demonstrated that new digital technologies have presented book artists and designers with amazing new tools: laser cutters, CNC routers, and 3-D printers are capable of more than you might imagine. The talk was supplemented with several short “demo” videos, and a parade of artifacts that were passed through the audience. Queen pointed out that throughout history, artists have been among the first people to exploit new technologies. [Read more]
The Drinkable Book is a manual that provides safe water tips, printed in non-toxic, food grade ink on paper coated with silver nanoparticles, which kills water-borne diseases like cholera, E. coli and typhoid. Each book is 25 pages, and each page filters water for about 6 months – giving people who receive it tools to have clean water for about 12.5 years. (Jamie Mahoney)
Session III, Panel 4. “Printing the Drinkable Book: Advances in Paper in the Twenty-First Century,” presented by Jamie Mahoney” ¶ Divers Digital Desiderata: Explorations in Digital Printing,” presented by John Labovitz ¶ “Hand Papermaking & the Printed Word: Dynamic Tools for Healing,” presented by Amy Richard. [Read more]
Dennis Ichiyama at the San Francisco Center for the Book. (Photo courtesy of SFCB)
Several Vandercook presses were rolling out impressions of 50-line wood type, each inked with its own vibrant color, as I entered the San Francisco Center for the Book. Because of the informality of the presentation, I was able to ask questions about the materials used in the demonstration. [Read more]
Left to right at the BCC’s Columbian iron hand press: Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Richard Kegler, Casey Smith, Henry Snyder, Fred Voltmer and Paul Romaine.
Members of APHA and the Friends of Dard Hunter had the opportunity to visit the Library of the Book Club of California before the conference got underway at Mills College in Oakland. The Club occupies its own floor in a downtown office building on Sutter Street. Visitors are greeted by a small office, lounge area, small bar, and an antique Columbian printing press restored by APHA member Fred Voltmer. Voltmer has become the go-to man for press restoration in the Bay Area. In “retirement,” he has restored more than a dozen antique presses of various makes and vintages to working order at institutions throughout the Bay Area. Fred, a retired engineer, prints under the imprint Havilah Press in Emeryville. [Read more]
Magnolia Editions, 2527 Magnolia Street, Oakland CA
Because this year’s conference celebrated both printing and papermaking, there were many possibilities for connections between people with different interests. The trip to Magnolia Editions fine art print studio provided such opportunities. It was a fantastic tour of a spectacular place. Don Farnsworth, the maestro, took center stage, and his fellow artists were delightful guides for the behind-the-scenes tour. [Read more]
Photos courtesy of The Newberry Library and The Book Art Museum.
The American Printing History Association is pleased to announce the 2015 APHA Award Winners; they are Paul Gehl for the Individual Award and the Book Art Museum of Łódź, Poland for the Institutional Award. [Read more]
I ran into this website while researching prints by W.T. Littig, a printing Co. In Brooklyn, NY in the early 20th century. I recently acquired several prints that are not colleges along with copper plates and prints from the Andersen-Lamb Printing Co. I am looking for a connection between the two companies other than the address. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rick Seip
The 2014 joint APHA/Friends of Dard Hunter conference is now history. The panels, demonstrations and tours were well received by the 161 registrants. APHA thanks our partner the Friends of Dard Hunter and Jennifer Baker their Vice President for Annual Meetings. Thanks is also due to our own Sara Sauers, Vice President for Programs and the local program committee: John McBride, program chair; Kathleen Burch, site host; with additional help from Grendl Löftvist, Simran Thadani, Kathy Walkup, and Janice Braun, as well as from APHA Treasurer David Goodrich. And let’s not forget the 42 presenters and the helpful onsite volunteers at the San Francisco Center for the Book and Mills College. Look for write ups on the panels, demos, and tours here soon. Meanwhile, enjoy attendees’ photos on facebook.
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
8:30 a.m.
Buses depart the Courtyard by Marriott Oakland Emeryville for Mills College
9:00 a.m.
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.
Session I
9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
{ 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
Session II
10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
{ 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
Lunch
12:15 pm
Box lunch in the Student Union. Mills Book Art studio tours and demonstrations by APHA Northern California Chapter members
Session III
2 to 3:30 p.m.
{ 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
Session IV
3:45 to 4:45 pm
{ 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
5 to 7 p.m.
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.
6:30 p.m.
First bus back to the conference hotels departs Mills College.
Banquet and Silent Auction
7 p.m.
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.
9:15 p.m.
Final bus back to conference hotels departs Mills College.
