APHA's Annual Meeting & Awards
January 27, 2007
New York Public Library, NYC
Sara Stone, Ray Nichols, and Jill Cypher represented the Chesapeake Chapter.
The events started with a business meeting and from all the information APHA is in very good shape financially. The one point that seemed to jump out is that with all of the interest in letterpress that is going on we should have more members nationally and surely we should have more members to the Chesapeake chapter.
The business meeting was followed with a presentation of the APHA Individual Award to Michael Twyman, the major historian of lighography in our time, and the author of numerous books and articles on typography, printing and graphic communication.
The APHA Institutional Award followed to The Society of Printers, Patricia Peterson, President, who accepted for the Boston-based association whose moto, "For the Study and Advancement of the Art of Printing," is exemplified by a century-long record of exhibitions, lectures, and publications on "the art preservative of all arts."
Russell Maret produced a nice broadside for the occasion.
A few photos of the meeting and the reception that followed.
Ray Nichols, Vice President of the Chesapeake chapter, congratulating Michael Twyman on his award and seeking out an autograph on the broadside.
Renowned San Francisco letterpress book publisher Peter Koch (center) exhanging stories with Michael Twyman.
Mark Samuels Lasner (left), Senior Fellow at the University of Delaware Library, enjoying reengaging with APHA friends.
A look over a small portion of the crowd at the reception.
