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December 5, 2011
2012 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship Applications Due
Columbia University
An award of up to $2,000 is available for research in any area of the history of printing in any form, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms. Read the complete details.
Saturday, December 10, 1:00 PM
For Decoration and Agitation:
Stencil and Pochoir Books and Prints
Newark Public Library
5 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07090
APHA members and their guests are invited for a guided walk-through of the exhibition, For Decoration and Agitation: Stencil and Pochoir Books and Prints, with its curator, Jared Ash, Acting Head, Special Collections Division. Drawn almost entirely from the Library's Special Collections, the exhibition is international in scope, and explores stencil and pochoir in book and journal illustration (children's literature, fine press, and fashion design), fine art, and political and social action-oriented prints and posters. Artists in the exhibition include: Guy Arnoux, Georges Barbier, W.A. Dwiggins, Shepard Fairey, Serge Gladky Albert Gleizes, E. McKnight Kauffer, Jane Kent, Ivan Maliutin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Joan Miro, Georges Lepape, E.A. Seguy, Keisuke Serizawa, Anthony Velonis, and M.P. Verneuil, among others.
Following a tour of the “official” exhibition, APHA members will have the opportunity to see additional pochoir works from the Library's collections, not included in the exhibition.{Exhibition on view from October 18, 2011, through January 14, 2012}
Travel Directions: From Broad Street-Newark train station–(973) 733-7800.Travel time from New York Penn Station to Broad Street-Newark station (NJ Transit) is approximately
20 minutes. Approximate walking time from Broad Street station to the Library is 5–10 minutes (0.2 miles). APHA members planning to travel together should meet near the ticket booths in Penn Station at
12:00 noon.
The APHA board has agreed to move forward with a redesign of the APHA website. The front page will feature articles, news and a calendar, and will replace the pdf newsletter. While a Summer launch is expected, the editor is now seeking short articles of 200-400 words in length, plus images. Please write to website@printinghistory.org.
The 2013 Winter Newsletter, featuring a summary of the Annual Meeting in New York is now available. Download or read online.
Individual and Institutional Awards for distinguished achievement in printing history were presented at our Annual membership Saturday, January 26.
Details.
Back issues of Printing History are now on sale at a deep discount at Rochester Institute of Technology Press
The complete listing of Printing History's contents have been put back online. See the contents (and a few select articles) from the Original Series, or a complete listing of the New Series. See something you like? Order Directly from RIT Press.