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It is worth noting that trying to keep up with exhibitions of interest to our chapter members is difficult at best and be sure to check with appropriate websites for dates, times and visiting.
Scheduled APHA &
Chesapeake Chapter events
July 2010
Nothing currently scheduled
October 2010
October 2-3
Oak Knoll Fest XVI / New Castle Delaware | website
This year, Oak Knoll is happy to continue a tradition started at the last fest: a special Friday Symposium. This is a unique opportunity to listen to six panelists share their opinions on artist and fine press books as well as provide each of you the chance to discuss the question, "Artists' Books - Press Books: Siblings or Distant Cousins?" The event, taking place on Friday, October 1, 1:30 to 5:00pm, is open to librarians, private press printers, collectors, and any other interested parties.
On Saturday and Sunday, our speakers will be exploring two perspectives on the book arts: artists' books, represented by The Center for Book Arts in New York (Oak Knoll Press's newest distribution partner), and more traditional fine press printing, represented by Martyn Ould of The Old School Press in Bath. The lectures will be held on the second floor of Oak Knoll Books, which is now The Bookshop in Old New Castle.
The fine press exhibition and sale will also take place during these two days and will be held at the New Castle Senior Center.
The chapter organizes a picnic in New Castle on Saturday the 2nd. Be sure to join us.
For details on the different programs, please see the website.
October 15-17
National APHA conference / Washington, D.C. | website
APHA’s national conference will be held in Washington at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Our chapter will play a vital part in the conference. If you are a chapter member and are a letterpress printer we would like you to be incuded in an exhibition during the conference of work by our membership.
November 2010
APHA / Chesapeake Chapter Wayzgoose
Likely November 6th or 13th.
This will be our chapter’s annual Wayzgoose or gathering of printers at the home of one of our chapter members.
OTHER CURRENT OR UPCOMING EVENTS
of printing history interest
chronological by ending date
Museum of Modern Art / New York City | website
through July 26, 2010
The New Typography
In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions. Taking his lead from currents in Soviet Russia and at the Weimar Bauhaus, the designer Jan Tschichold codified the movement with accessible guidelines in his landmark book Die Neue Typographie (1928). Almost overnight, typographers and printers adapted this way of working for a huge range of printed matter, from business cards and brochures to magazines, books, and advertisements. This installation of posters and numerous small-scale works is drawn from MoMA’s rich collection of Soviet Russian, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian graphics. They represent material from Tschichold’s own collection, which supported his teaching and publication from around 1927 to 1937.
Check their website for times.
Grolier Club / New York City | website
May 19 - July 31, 2010
Bound for Success: Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition
The Grolier Club in May welcomes an exhibition of the work of some of the best bookbinders worldwide. "Bound for Success" features 117 superb bindings that were judged the best out of 240 entries in the 2009 international bookbinding competition, organized by Designer Bookbinders in conjunction with the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Binders representing 21 countries offer highly creative and surprisingly diverse interpretations on the theme of "water."
"Bound for Success" will be on exhibition at the Grolier Club from May 19 – July 31, 2010, Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm.
Folger Shakespeare Library | website
Through September 4, 2010
Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550–1750
On display are the tools early modern mariners used—from maps, astrolabes, and compasses to books, symbols, and stories—to plot locations and understand their place in the world, both literally and figuratively.
Baltimore Museum of Art / Baltimore, MD | website
Through September 12, 2010
On the Mark: Contemporary Works on Paper
(editor's note: Not exactly books and printing, but related) When multiplied or magnified, a single element takes on new meaning. Such is the case in this intimate exhibition of eight recently acquired prints and drawings. The highlight is Ellsworth Kelly’s monumental print, River II. This epic lithograph, more than six feet by nine feet in size, presents a grid of enlarged brushstrokes, each fragment taken from other images and rearranged in what appears to be random order. Also shown are prints by Tara Donovan, Ann Hamilton, and Vik Muniz. These works and four additional prints and drawings find beauty in the ordinary—the curve of a rubber band, the repetition of word, an artist’s mark.
Walters Art Museum / Baltimore, MD | website
July 31, 2010 - October 10, 2010
Great Illustrations: Drawings and Books from The Walters’
Great Illustrations: Drawings and Books from The Walters’ Collection
July 31, 2010 - October 10, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
This focus show unearths treasures of illustration hidden in the permanent collection of the Walters Art Museum. Featuring preparatory drawings for Gustave Doré’s Bible and Paul Gavarni’s lively sketches of the London underworld, the exhibition explores the variety of ways in which 19th-century artists approached the art of illustration.
Grolier Club / New York City | website
September 15 – November 20, 2010
John Wiley & Sons: 200 Years of Publishing
Folger Shakespeare Library | website
September 24–December 30, 2010
Vivat Rex! Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII
Rare books, manuscripts, handwritten letters, and prints offer an in-depth look at the real Henry and the machinations of his court in a time of extraordinary change for England. First seen at the Grolier Club in New York.
Grolier Club / New York City | website
December 8, 2010 – February 5, 2011
Varied Pages: Voices from the Womens Studio Workshop
Washington, DC / National Museum of American History
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW (on the National Mall)
Artifact Walls - Civil War Field Printing (ongoing exhibition, first floor center)
Artifact walls, consisting of 275 linear feet of glass-fronted cases lining the first and second floor center core, highlight the depth and breadth of the collections and convey that the Museum collects, studies and exhibits objects from our nation's rich and diverse history.
About this case. The ability to communicate quickly in wartime can profoundly affect military actions and outcomes. The invention of portable tabletop printing presses at the time of the American Civil War (1861-1865) allowed for better communication in the field. Portable presses were purchased by several Union and Confederate military units. They allowed for the rapid production and wide distribution of urgent orders, and also routine documents such as requisitions and entertaining material such as unit newsletters. Albert Adams’ New York cylinder press, the Cottage press, was advertised to the armed forces and to merchants. This press, along with at least three other similar inventions, became particularly popular during the War. The use of portable printing presses expanded after the War and a movement of amateur printers was born.
The exhibition features: Three portable printing presses available during the Civil War, invented between 1856 and 1862, one type chest used by the Union Army of the Potomac, circa 1862, advertisements for the portable printing presses, distributed in New York, Boston and Cincinnati.
New York City / The Morgan Library & Museum | website
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
Highlights (ongoing exhibition)
Highlights from the Morgan's Collections presents masterworks from four of the Morgan's six collecting areas—medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, printed books and bindings, literary and historical manuscripts, and music manuscripts and books. This ongoing exhibition demonstrates the nature and scope of one of the world's greatest repositories of artistic, literary, musical, and historical works. Objects will change approximately every three months, to accommodate the exhibition of as wide an array as possible of the Morgan's vast and eclectic holdings. The exhibition includes objects that the Morgan's curators regard as especially outstanding, as well as representative of the collections' strengths. There will always be a sampling on display of the Morgan's oldest, rarest, and most valuable items.
Walters Art Museum / Baltimore | website
October 1, 2011 - January 1, 2012
Mind and Matter: The Amazing Story of the Archimedes Palimpsest (working title)
From the birth of its texts in the cradle of Western civilization to their obliteration on April 14, 1229, in Jerusalem and their recovery in Baltimore 700 years later, the Archimedes Palimpsest is an iconic example of the epic and perilous journey that every record is making.
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