PAST SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
You are invited to a reception and a dinner and to hear remarks by Dr. Alice Prochaska University Librarian of Yale University and former Head of Special Collections at The British Library celebrating the 50th anniversary of The King Library Press in the Department of Special Collections and Digital Programs at the University of Kentucky Libraries Lexington, Kentucky The Great Hall, Margaret I. King Library Friday, 17 November 2006 6:30 o’clock P.M. Make your reservation by sending a check in the amount of $60 per person to THE KING LIBRARY PRESS Special Collections Department University of Kentucky Libraries Lexington, KY 40506-0039 Make checks payable to «University of Kentucky»
The King Library Press
Fiftieth Anniversary
BOOK ARTS SEMINAR
SATURDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2006
9:00 A.M. Refreshments The King Library Press, King Library
9:30 A.M. Welcome, and A Tour of the Press Dr. Paul Evans Holbrook
10:30 A.M. Working Girl Printers: Our Personal Stories Carol J. Blinn
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 P.M. Alabama Artisan Books and The Lexington Connection Steve Miller
2:30 P.M. Bible, Blake, Baseball, and Beckett: Recent Arion Press Books Andrew Hoyem
— Registration is required for the Book Arts Seminar —
Founded by Carolyn Reading Hammer in 1956, The King Library Press now completes its first half century. Conceived as a laboratory for demonstrating historical book-making methods, the press grew out of the devotion of Victor and Carolyn Hammer to preserving the traditions of beautiful typography, hand composition, and the sensitive impression of each sheet at the hand press. Today the Press houses the wooden common press built for Victor Hammer in the 1920s in Florence, where he began his experiments with cutting uncial types. Also to be found is the iron hand press of Joseph C. Graves, used at his Gravesend Press, and, on generous loan, the iron hand press of Carolyn Hammer. Under the direction of Carolyn Hammer, W. Gay Reading, Joan Davis, and, today, Dr. Paul Evans Holbrook, the Press has produced over two dozen distinguished books, numerous keepsakes, and, for many years, hosted book arts seminars featuring major figures in printing, papermaking, binding, illustration, calligraphy, marbling, paper decorating, and printing history.
CAROL J. BLINN, well-known for the agreeable elegance of her Warwick Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts, began her career in printing and typography by working at the Gehenna Press with Harold McGrath. Writer, speaker, illustrator, typographer, binder, Carol Blinn began her own press in 1973. Her books include One Man’s Work: Arno Werner (1982), the account of a master bookbinder; The Writer, The Madman & The Printer (2002) with Simon Winchester; and John Barr’s War Zone (1989). Her decorated paste papers are a hallmark.
PAUL EVANS HOLBROOK studied printing with Carolyn Hammer and for many years worked with her each Wednesday in composing, printing, and binding the work of the Stamperia del Santuccio. In 1988, he began work as Director of The King Library Press where he once served as an apprentice while producing The Phenomena of Aratus (1975). Here he has trained many apprentices and led the Press in innumerable projects and programs. He served as the bibliographer to the Victor and Carolyn Hammer estate.
ANDREW HOYEM, poet, artist, printer, and proprietor of The Arion Press in San Francisco, is perhaps the foremost and best-known among present-day fine press publishers. Cultured in the rich Bay area traditions of magnificent book making, he has consistently produced major projects remarkable for their typographical splendor and beauty of illustration. He has collaborated with artists such as Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, and Robert Motherwell in the production of livres d’artistes. Andrew Hoyem is founder of the Grabhorn Institute, and also operates America’s oldest remaining type foundry, Mackenzie & Harris.
STEVE MILLER studied book arts in the marvelously creative studio of Walter Hamady at the University of Wisconsin. In 1976 he founded his Red Ozier Press, moving it to New York in 1979. In 1988, when Steve Miller moved to the University of Alabama, the New York Public Library purchased the Press’s archive, embracing the materials for over sixty publications. Now Alabama’s coordinator of the M.F.A. in the Book Arts Program, he teaches letterpress printing and papermaking and operates his own Red Hydra Press. He has served as president of both the American Museum of Papermaking and the Friends of Dard Hunter.
REGISTER FOR THE KING LIBRARY PRESS’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY
BOOK ARTS SEMINAR
Attend the King Library Press’s 50th Anniversary Seminar by registering prior to Thursday, 16 November 2006. In order to register, call (859) 257-8408 or send a message to klijdb@uky.edu. Then, send your check, made out to "University of Kentucky," in the amount of $45 ($30 student or senior) to THE KING LIBRARY PRESS Special Collections & Digital Programs University of Kentucky Libraries Lexington, KY 40506-0039
Registration will be limited by the scale of our facilities. See our web site for nearby hotels and restaurants.
Restaurants
For lunch on Saturday, there are a number of restaurants within easy walking distance of campus.
At the corner of Rose and Euclid, downstairs, is the Bangkok House, a Thai restaurant, moderately priced.
West on Euclid, on the other side of campus, is a row of inexpensive restaurants. These include Salotto’s, Tolly-Ho, Pazzo’s, Jimmy John’s, McDonald’s, Chipotle, Kashmir, Two Keys Tavern, Subway, Pita Pit, and Huddle House.
If you turn left beyond Huddle House and go one block, you will find moderately priced Joe Bologna’s (in an old church building). A block further is the more expensive Dudley’s Restaurant (in the old Dudley School building).