PAST SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
A READING AND TWO LECTURES
&
A BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP ON MARBLING AND BINDING
THE KING LIBRARY PRESS:
A CELEBRATION OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS
W. Hugh Peal Gallery, Margaret I. King Library - North
Friday, 11 October 1991, 7:00 p.m.
"We're Still Here: Typefounding and Punch Cutting in Today's Computer
World,"
a Lecture
R. Stanley Nelson, The Smithsonian Institution
"The Rise," a Reading
Wendell Berry, The University of Kentucky
Reception to Follow
Saturday, 12 October 1991
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
"Printing and the Loss of Innocence," a Lecture
Kim Merker, The University of Iowa
Type Casting Demonstration
R. Stanley Nelson
Panel: "Modern Fine Printing and Contemporary Publishing"
R. Stanley Nelson, Kim Merker, Jonathan Greene, Gray Zeitz
Printing of Keepsake at the King Library Press
WENDELL BERRY is celebrated as a writer, a teacher, and an environmentalist. The University of Kentucky's Distinguished Professor for 1971 - 1972, he is the author of novels, short fiction, poetry, and essays that address the individual's relationship to nature, often in light of the physical, social, and ethical consequences of rapid technological development. His story The Rise was printed at the King Library Press in 1968 and his commentary on James Lane Allen's Mountain Passes of the Cumberlands; and Civilizing the Cumberlands in 1972.
R. STANLEY NELSON, of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, is an authority on antique printing apparatus. Although trained in art history, his special interest is graphic arts, especially the craft of producing moveable types through the hand processes of punch cutting, striking matrices, and casting type with hand molds. He has participated in seminars in the United States and Britain and is a founding member of the American Type Casting Fellowship.
KIM MERKER, Professor of English at the University of Iowa, is the director of the Iowa Center for the Book. He studied the art of fine printing with Harry Duncan and established the Stone Wall Press in 1957. He is also the director of the University of Iowa's Windhover Press, begun in 1967, a laboratory press publishing modern literature and translations.
PANELISTS, in addition to R. Stanley Nelson and Kim Merker, will include two former apprentices at the King Library Press, Jonathan Greene, publisher at the Gnomon Press, Frankfort, Kentucky, and Gray Zeitz, proprietor of the Larkspur Press, Monterey, Kentucky.
A BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP
ON MARBLING AND BINDING
Saturday, 26 October 1991
Morning Session
INTRODUCTION TO MARBLING, with Carolyn Whitesel
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
Participants will receive a brief narrative overview of historic marbling patterns with exhibits from the rare book collection, observe a demonstration of basic marbling technique, and take part in producing papers of their own marbled patterns.
Carolyn Whitesel, a paper artist and craft bookbinder in the Cincinnati area, is a former apprentice at the King Library Press.
12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Lunch (Box Lunch Provided)
Afternoon Session
INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBINDING, with R. Marshall Shepherd
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Participants will receive a brief narrative overview and exhibit of historic binding styles, view historical binding apparatus, and produce a simple sewn binding.
R. Marshall Shepherd, who teaches graphic art in the University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts, studied binding in New York under Hope Weil and is a member of the Guild of Book Workers.
Registration
To register for the book arts workshop, send your check in the amount of $35.00 payable to the University of Kentucky Libraries. Enrollment will be limited to fifteen. For further information, please call (606) 257-8611.
Special Collections Department
University of Kentucky Libraries
King Library - North
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039
