May 2013
On Saturday, May 11 the chapter gathered at the home and new punchcutting / letterpress shop of Stan Nelson. It was a nice picnic atmoshphere except that it rained all day. That didn't bother the group who would always be gathered around the type and equipment anyway. | a bit of the story and lots of photos
April 2013
Chris Manson, Jill Cypher, John Johnson, and Ray Nichols did a planning session to the library at the National Gallery of Art and then Ray Nichols and Jill Cypher, and Casey Smith took in the Symposium Codex Mexico | a bit of the story and lots of photos
Chesapeake Chapter member Mark Samuels Lasner gave us a first-hand view of the exhibition, Pre-Raphaelites and the Book, in the "From the Library" room at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Mark walked us through each piece in the exhibition, placing the work in context and connecting each to the Pre-Raphaelite story. | story & a nice photo of Mark
March 2013
Codex Mexico: The Book as Art public exhibition opening was held on Friday, March 22, 2013, at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. The Embassy of Mexico's Cultural Institute welcomed the Codex Mexico: The Book as Art exhibition to Washington, DC, in partnership with The Codex Foundation and Stanford University Libraries. The exhibition showcased both Mexico's enormous heritage in the arts of printing, and the Mexican artists currently working to renew and enrich such an important legacy.
I seem to be missing a number of months in here for some reason. Will try replicate what I think should be here.
June 2012
June 14—Chapter members gathered at the Library of Congress for a talk by Sydney Jean Reisen, a graduate student in the Art and the Book program at The Corcoran College of Art + Design on Vincent FitzGerald & Co who has been producing fine press books for over thirty years.
April 2012
Aprll 14—Chapter members joined at the home of chapter member Donald Farren for a tour of his collection of printed matter related to Elmer Adler, a printer, publisher, editor, and author. A show-and-tell of recent printing work by chapter members was also included. | story & photos
March 2012
March 15—Typecast Press, owned by Mary Mashburn and Steve St. Angelo, hosted a tour of their facility and a look at their wor. We followed up with a visit to Maryland Institute College of Art and their recently obtained archived from Globe Poster Printing Corporation of Baltimore with a guided tour by Globe owner, Bob Cicero.
February 2012
Aprll 14—Chapter members joined at the home of chapter member Donald Farren for a tour of his collection of printed matter related to Elmer Adler, a printer, publisher, editor, and author. A show-and-tell of recent printing work by chapter members was also included. | story & photos
March 2012
March 15—Typecast Press, owned by Mary Mashburn and Steve St. Angelo, hosted a tour of their facility and a look at their wor. We followed up with a visit to Maryland Institute College of Art and their recently obtained archived from Globe Poster Printing Corporation of Baltimore with a guided tour by Globe owner, Bob Cicero.
February 2012
February 8—The Government Printing Office sponsoring a special preview screening for GPO employees and members of the Chesapeake Chapter of Linotype: The Film, a feature-length documentary about the Linotype type casting machine. We had the opportunity for questions with film director, Doug Wilson, following the screening.
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.
The Program Committee
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.
Panel of APHA Chesapeake members “Private Presses and the Life of Letterpress"
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.
Elected to the Program Committee were
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.
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:
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
