APHA / Chesapeake Chapter
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Friday, February 3 - Casey Smith is speaking to the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies on "Advertising as Everyday Spectacle: Thomas J. Barratt, Pears’ Soap, and the Revival of Print” | details
RECENT PAST EVENTS
November 19 - Chesapeake Chapter members work with Corcoran Book Arts students to produce broadsides using GPO woodtype | details
November 12, 2011—Annual Chesapeake Chapter WAYZGOOSE, business meeting, and all around good yaking about printing stuff | details
November 2, 2011—Kyle Durrie brought her Moveable Type: cross-country adventures in letterpress printing to the Library of Congress | story & photos
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 woodtype | story
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