APHA / Chesapeake Chapter exhibition...
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APHA / Chesapeake Chapter members exhibition
Catholic University of America
620 Michigan Avenue, NE, Washington, DC
November 5 - December 28, 2007
Please join us at the opening of an exhibition of contemporary
letterpress printing produced by members of the Chesapeake Chapter of
the American Printing History Association. The exhibition includes a
wide range of books, broadsides, and ephemera.
May Gallery, Mullen Library at the Catholc University of
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Four until seven o'clock
Please RSVP to rouse@... or 202.319.5091, so we can
From the invitation: 'The History of Printing is an integral part of
the general history of civilization. The principal vehicle for the
conveyance of ideas during the past five hundred years, printing
touches on, and often penetrates, almost every sphere of human
activity. Neither political, constitutional, ecclasiastical and
economic events, nor sociological, philosophical and literary
movements can be fully understood without taking into account the
influence which the printing press has exerted on them,' wrote S.H.
Steinberg in 1995. The vigor and function of letterpress printing
remain today and you are invited to see examples of this industrial
craft in contemporary forms in early November.
Participants in the exhibition include:
Mike Anderson | The At Random Press
Stuart Bradley | The Railway Station Press
David Clinger | Press of the Chesapeake Bay Retriever and
Sandy Bottom News
Jill Cypher | Wallflowers Press
Bill Deering | Raven Press
Mike Denker | The Stoney Creek Press
Roland Hoover | The Pembroke Press
Mike Kaylor | Literary Press
Willard Lockwood | The Creekside Press
Chris Manson | Crooked Crow Press
Stan Nelson | The Atelier Press
Ray Nichols | Wallflowers Press
Jim Wilder | Wild Apple Press
Additional information and directions/map are available at http://
Exhibition sponsors include the Chesapeake Chapter of the American
Printing History Association and the Rare Books & Special Collections
Department of the Catholic University of America.
The American Printing History Association encourages the study of
printing history and its related arts and skills, including
calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding,
illustration, and publishing. APHA is especially, but by no means
exclusively, interested in American printing history.
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