APHA / Chesapeake Chapter
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, May 17, 6:00 pm - Corcoran Gallery of Art & the College of Art + Design, Film Screening: Where Soldiers Come From, directed by Heather Courtney; Exhibition Tour: Veteran Made: Selections from the Combat Paper Project | details
Thursday, June 28, 11:00 am - A tour of the Washington Printer's Union who has been accumulating a library of printing and a small museum over the last few years. | details
RECENT PAST EVENTS
April 14 - A group visited Donald Farren Collection of printing matter of Elmer Adler and the Pynson Printers of the 1920s and 1930s | details
February 8 - Chesapeake Chapter members were treated to Linotype: the Film, a recent film directed by Doug Wilson on the history of one of the most important machines ever developed held at the Government Printing Office | details
November 19 - Chesapeake Chapter members work with Corcoran Book Arts students to produce broadsides using GPO woodtype | details
The American Printing History Association encourages the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including letterpress printing, calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. APHA is especially, but by no means exclusively, interested in American printing history.
The national organization of the American Printing History Association lists approximately 720 members, 61 of whom are also members of the Chesapeake Chapter. Many members of the Chesapeake Chapter are active letterpress printers.
The Chesapeake Chapter of the American Printing History Association is centered in the Washington, DC area. The adjacent map shows a 100 mile radius.
We invite anyone with an interest to join with us to maintain and promote the craft of letterpress, book binding, book collecting, scholarship and other issues relating to printing history.
Chapter officers through December 2012 are
Ray Nichols, President (bio | email)
Val Lucas, Vice President (bio | email)
Greg Robison, Treasurer (bio | email)
George Barnum, Secretary (bio | email).
Mike Denker, chair of the Program Committee (bio | email)
Chris Sweterlitsch and George Barnum of the U.S. Government Printing Office
watch over some of their wood type | story
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