November 2011

November 30—7:00 pm / An Exhibition of Broadsides
Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art | story & photos

November 12—Annual Chesapeake Chapter WAYZGOOSE and business meeting | story & photos

November 2—Kyle Durrie brought her Moveable Type: cross-country adventures in letterpress printing to the Library of Congress | story & photos

September 2011

William and Sylvia Peterson spoke at the Library of Congress telling the story of their newest book, The Kelmscott Chaucer Census. The Petersons have succeeded in locating approximately two-thirds of the pressrun of The Chaucer. | story

A visit to three artists' studios focused on printmaking at the Torpedo Factor Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. | story

November 2, 2011—Kyle Durrie brought her Moveable Type: cross-country adventures in letterpress printing to the Library of Congress | story & photos

August 2011

A rare opportunity to visit the Conservation Lab at the Folger Shakespeare Library. | story

A well-received papermaking workshop at Pyramid Atlantic. | story

July 2011

We met with the Public Printer, along with George Barnum, GPO historian for a tour of the exhibition Keeping American Informed : The U.S. GPO : 150 Years of Seervice to the Nation, 1861 - 2011. The tour was followed with a showing of the film, Making Faces: Jim Rimmer, a fascinating movie about the making of a new type face by Canadian printer, typographer, type designer, Jim Rimmer.

March 2011

Russell Maret spoke at the Rosenwald Room in the Library of Congress about Visionaries and Fanatics, a high-spirited rant about the need for new, proprietary type design for the twenty-first century private press. | story

January 2011

Ray Nichols and Jill Cypher of Lead Graffiti attended the APHA Annual Meeting at the New York Public Library for which they also produced the meeting program that was given to all attending the meeting.

The Chesapeake Chapter elected new officers.

These are the new officers who will serve through 2012.

President / Ray Nichols | Lead Graffiti
Vice President / Val Lucas | Bowerbox Press
Treasurer / Gregory Robison | Peregrinus Press
Secretary / George Barnum | Government Printing Office

The Program Committee

Joan Boudreau | Smithsonian Institution
Jackie Coleburn | Library of Congress
Mike Denker | The Stoney Creek Press and Committee Chair
Donald Farren
Mark Samuels Lasner | University of Delaware Library
Chris Manson | Crooked Crow Press
Casey Smith | Corcoran College of Art & Design

November 2010

APHA’s national conference was held in Washington at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Our chapter will play a vital part in the conference.

A Chesapeake Chapter Lifetime Achievemen Award was given to Roland Hoover

An exhibition of letterpress work by Chesapeake Chapter members will be held at the Corcoran

October 2010

APHA’s national conference was held in Washington at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Our chapter will play a vital part in the conference.

A Chesapeake Chapter Lifetime Achievemen Award was given to Roland Hoover

An exhibition of letterpress work by Chesapeake Chapter members will be held at the Corcoran Gallery during the conference.

Roland Hoover/ (Pembroke Press
Ray Nichols / Lead Graffiti
Mike Denker / Stone Creek Press
Val Lucas / Bowerbox Press
Chris Manson / Crooked Crow Press
Greg Robison / Peregrinus Press
Stuart Bradley / Railway Station Press
John Johnson / The Birdhouse Press
Mike Kaylor / The Lit Press
Will Lockwood / The Creekside Press 

Panel of APHA Chesapeake members “Private Presses and the Life of Letterpress"

Roland Hoover/ (Pembroke Press
Ray Nichols / Lead Graffiti
Mike Denker / Stone Creek Press
Val Lucas / Bowerbox Press
Chris Manson / Crooked Crow Press
and moderated by Greg Robison / Peregrinus Press

story & photos | Photos of the exhibition installation

As a sort of monthly meeting that we involve ourselves each October a group of members met at Oak Knoll Fest in New Castle, Delaware and stopping by Lead Graffiti on the way home. | story & photos

April 2010

On Thursday, April 22 a group of Chesapeake Chapter members gathered at the Library of Congress to visit with twenty examples of Books of Hours, lead by chapter member Dan DeSimone. | story & photos

March 2010

On Saturday, March 27 a group of Chesapeake Chapter members gathered at the Birdhouse Press to look at their collection of presses, type, dingbats, and composing sticks and to talk about the future of my collection. | story & photos

November 2009

The Chesapeake Chapter of the American Printing History Association held its annual meeting along with a Wayzgoose and a printing with woodtype demonstration and workshop at the home / shop of Chapter President Mike Denker. | story & photos

September 2009

Chapter member David Lasko of Berryville Graphics in Berryville, Virginia gave a grand tour of their hard and soft cover trade book printing capabilities. BG produces upwards of 11,000,000 trade books a month at the faciility including 3 million of the most recent Dan Brown bestseller, and a sizeable portion of each of the seven Harry Potter books (always under heavy security). | story & photos

August 2009

A chapter gathering watched "Proceed and Be Bold!" a film about Alabama letterpress printer Amos Kennedy held at the Government Printing Office. Lead Graffiti displayed about two dozen of Kennedy's posters. | story & photos

June 2009

A chapter gathering and show-and-tell on The Black Letter Tradition After William Morris in Fine Printing and Private Press Work held at The Library of Congress. | story & photos

May 2009

Maybe making up for a couple of slow months a nice second May meeting on the 28th took a group of Chesapeake Chapter members to the National Library of Medicine for an in-depth look at selection of books illustrating plants from 1480 up to the 18th Century. Michael North, Head of the Rare Books & Early Manuscripts Section, lead the tour. | story & photos

A dozen members and friends gathered on May 13th at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for a visit to the St. John's Bible exhibition, a look of Books of Hours from the museum's collection, and a closeup, behind-the-scenes look at the Manuscript and Rare Book Collection. | story & photos

January 2009

Roland Hoover's 80th birthday was celebrated by a group of twenty Chesapeake Chapter members of the American Printing History Association and special guests. | story & photos

The Chesapeake Chapter, along with the Washington Rare Books Group, held a monthly meeting at the Library of Congress with chapter member, Dan DeSimone, Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, talking about books on calligraphy and lettering. | story & photos

December 2008

The Chesapeake Chapter of the American Printing History Association has elected the following to serve a two-year term starting in January 2009 and running through December 2010.

Mike Denker - President

Ray Nichols - Vice-president

Sara Stone - Treasurer

Greg Robison - Secretary

Elected to the Program Committee were
Jackie Coleburn
Donald Farren
Roland Hoover
Chris Manson
Stan Nelson
Chris Sweterlitsch

Feel free to contact any officer or program committee member to suggest events or other items relating to the Chapter.

The Chesapeake Chapter joined with the Delaware Bibliophiles for an exhibition tour / talk on "The Well-Dressed Book", an exhibition on cloth bookbinding in the United States 1830-1920 held at the Hornbake Library, University of Maryland. | story and photos

November 2008

The Chesapeake Chapter held its annual business meeting at the home of member Stan Nelson. | story and photos

October 2008

Chapter members Mike Denker, Sara Stone, Stan Nelson, Jill Cypher, & Ray Nichols attended the annual national conference of the American Printing History Association held at the Grolier Club and Columbia University in New York City, October 10th - 12th. Saving the History of Printing, the 33rd annual conference of the American Printing History Association, addressed the preservation of both the materials and practices which are the primary sources of printing history. As the digital revolution continues its creative destruction, we are faced with saving not only physical materials like presses, type, and other equipment; manuals, catalogs and other printed material; and drawings and other archives, but the skills and knowledge to use and produce them. Click links below for photos and a bit of the story.

          Bowne & Co., Stationers | Friday, October 10 | Saturday, October 11

A dozen members of the Chesapeake Chapter visited Oak Knoll Fest XV and Lead Graffiti, the letterpress studio of chapter members Jill Cypher, Ray Nichols, & Mike Kaylor | photos

September 2008

Paul Shaw talked to the Chapter on type and book designer W.A. Dwiggins and his alter ego, Hermann Püterschein, on September 25, 2008 at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. | photos

August 2008

The chapter gathered at the Library of Congress to talk American Printing for Children in the 18th & 19th Century. | photos

June 2008

The chapter gathered at the home and studio of chapter president Mike Denker. One of the events of the day was the erection of Mike's 'new' R. Hoe iron handpress | photos

February 2008

Chapter event: tour of the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, Thursday, February 28, 2008 | review with photos

January 2008

Annual Chapter Business meeting at the home & studio of Chapter President Mike Denker, Saturday, January 19 | review with 19 photos

APHA National annual meeting held at the New York Public Library in New York City on Thursday, January 26th. | story and photos

November 2007

Thirteen APHA / Chesapeake Chapter members participated in an APHA / Chesapeake Chapter members exhibition at the May Gallery, Mullen Library at the Catholc University of America in Washington, D.C. from November 5th - December 28th. Participants included:

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

Click to see photos taken while hanging the exhibition on Saturday, November 3.

Click to see photos of the public opening on Thursday, November 8.

July 2007

The Catholic University of America Rare Books Department, Thursday, July 12 | review & photos

June 2007

Railway Station Press party, Boyce, VA, Saturday, June 23 | review & photos

May 2007

Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Washington, DC, Tuesday, May 22 | review & photos

February 2007

Union Printmakers, Washington, DC Thursday, February 8 | review & photos

January 2007

APHA national, New York City Saturday, January 28 | review & photos

December 2006

Chapter meeting at Mike Denker's, Potomac, MD, with talks by Mike Anderson, Chris Manson and Stan Nelson - Saturday, December 9 | review & photos