Celebrate George Clymer and the Columbian hand press in 2017 A guest post from Robert Oldham on the opportunities presented by the two-hundredth anniversary of the production of the first Columbian hand presses in the UK in 1817. (Ad Lib Press, Turrialba, Costa Rica) George Clymer, of Philadelphia USA, invented the Columbian hand…
From the President of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Dear colleagues, In light of the recent Executive Order signed by the US President resulting in an immigration ban that restricts the flow of scholarly communication and participation, the SHARP Board and Executive Committee have agreed to release the following…
The Leipzig Typotage This year the 23rd edition of the Leipzig Typotage will take place on May 13. The one-day conference in the Leipzig printing museum will be devoted to the subject of ‘Writing and knowledge’. Seven speakers have been invited to approach the conference theme from different angles. The speakers include: Tobias-David Albert (Leipzig), Marcel Henry (Basel), Lisa Neuhalfen…
Steendrukmuseum acquires one of the founding documents of chromolithography We are proud to annouce the addition of a very interesting and exciting supplement to the museum collection. It’s the ‘Album chromolithographique par Engelmann’ from 1837. The pictures show the album and a proud museum founder / curator Peter-Louis Vrijdag with the former owner of the album, Herwig…
Aepm annual conference 2017 Call for papers The next annual conference of the AEPM will take place 11-13 May 2017 and is being hosted by The Museum of Typography, Chania, Crete (Greece). The theme of the conference is: Making history: collections, collectors and the cultural role of printing museums The conference will look at the ways in…
Manual extraction and dressing of litho stones During the recent AEPM annual conference at the Dutch Lithography Museum last November, the lithographic artist Li Portenlänger stopped the show with an extraordinary film showing the manual extraction and finishing of stones at the famous Solnhofen quarries in Germany where the finest litho stone has been quarried since Aloys Senefelder first…
New Spring date for the Aepm annual conference As of 2017, the Aepm annual conference will be held in the Spring rather than in the Autumn, as was the case up until now. The change will allow the annual general meeting of the Association – which is held back-to-back with the annual conference –…
Registration is now open for the 2017 Lyon Book History Workshop 26-29 June 2017 Lyon, France The Lyon Book History Workshop’s main purpose is to improve skills in the interpretation and understanding of specific fields relating to our written and printed heritage. Each course is taught by a leading international expert in the field…
3rd edition – call for entries The not-for-profit association « Espace René Carcan » as organizer of the René Carcan international prize for printmaking, has launched its 3rd call for entries, open to printmakers and students of printmaking, of any nationality and with no age limit. Established in 2014 to mark the 20th anniversary of the death…
The AEPM at the Jikji International Festival: an unforgettable experience! Thirty members of the AEPM made the trip to South Korea to take part in the inaugural meeting of the future International Association of Printing Museums which was held in Cheongju City on the 3 September 2016. The following account, by Sheza Moledina (Lyon, France), gives the flavour…
Visit two great printing museums and meet people interested in collecting, restoring, preserving and exhibiting printing heritage materials! From stone to chip Dutch Lithography Museum Valkenswaard, 3-5 November 2016 Registration for the next annual conference of the AEPM is still open. The theme the AEPM’s conference (jointly organised this year with the IADM) is lithography but, as…
The city of Stavanger (Norway) receives substantial funding for the renewal of its Graphic Museum The Sparebankstiftelsen SR-Bank charitable foundation has announced its intention to grant 4.4 million Norwegian Krone (4,7 million euros) to the relocation and installation of the Norwegian printing museum (Norsk Grafisk Museum) in the city of Stavanger (Norway). The Museum, which was founded in…
A new addition to the AEPM Flickr gallery of printing museums The Early printing museum (Cheongju, South Korea) has just been added to the AEPM’s gallery of printing museums on Flickr. There are now 21 museums in our Flickr gallery: Belgium – Plantin-Moretus museum (Antwerp) – Speelkarten museum (Turnhout) Colombia – Museum of graphic arts…
The Nederlands Steendrukmuseum looks ahead and that includes rejuvenation and diversity of the board. The museum, after a period of preparation, can proudly introduce four new board members: Mrs Jacqueline Slagter, Architect, graduated from TU / Eindhoven. Mrs Lisette Almering-Strik, Graduated and active at the Open University, Faculty of Cultural Studies. Mr Henk Hanneman, Graduated TU / Eindhoven,…
Today the Nederlands Steendrukmuseum (Dutch Museum of lithography) in Valkenswaard, Netherlands, added a rare book to it’s steadily growing collection. It is a copy of the the drama ‘Das Urteil des Paris’ published in 1785 by Peter Senefelder, the father of Alois Senefelder (inventor of lithography). In the book also was found a handwritten letter…
[Groningen, The Netherlands] Local authorities threaten to cut subsidies to the GRID Graphic Museum This week we unfortunately received a disturbing message. Our local municipal and county authorities have decided to ignore the positive advice from the local Arts Council that the GRID Graphic Museum in Groningen should be subsidized. This would mean that for…
3rd poster contest organized by the Museum of typography The “Museum of Typography”, in Chania, Crete, invites once again professionals, students and amateurs of graphic and visual arts, but also people with innovative ideas that can turn them into a poster, to participate in the 3nd international poster contest about typography. As the greek word “τυπογραφία”…
Reminder call for papers Centre for Printing History and Culture Printing Historical Society, UK The National Print Museum, Ireland From craft to technology and back again: print’s progress in the twentieth century 30-31 March 2017, National Print Museum, Dublin, Ireland Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2016 Guest speakers Professor Michael Twyman, University of Reading, Industrial…
Club de gráficos eméritos The Club de Gráficos Eméritos organizes activities related to culture and printing in different contexts. Its latest visit, on May 27, was to the Casa de la Moneda Museum in Madrid, which is part of Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre. The majority of members have had professional relations with the Spanish …
Recently, a large delegation of Club Graficos Eméritos visited the excellent and spectacular printing museum established by the Alzamora Group at its facilities in Sant Joan les Fonts in Girona (Spain). The Alzamora Museum, designed and owned by Pere Alzamora i Carbonell, offers an educational journey through the history of printing, from the distant seventeenth century until…
