Join Graduate Research Fellow Anna White and members of the project advisory board for a discussion of how The Printing Museum is addressing gaps in its permanent collection exhibition to create a more accurate and inclusive history of print.
Advisory Board:
Dr Xiapong, Cong, University of Houston
Dr. Linda Reed, University of Houston
Dr. Faye Yarbrough, Rice University
Dr. Cihan Yuksel, University of Houston
This event is free to the public and takes place at:
United Way
50 Waugh Dr Houston,
TX
77019United States713-685-2300 View Venue Website
Do you have a press that could use some added electrical grounding? Studio Manager Jessica Snow will share her recent experiences updating the wiring on two Vandercook SP-20 motors to add ground. She will also be joined by electrician, Chris O’Donnell. At the end, we’ll have time for Q&A.
The event is will be held virtually over Zoom. Please consider making a tax-deductible gift; your donation helps keep our program fees accessible to all. Thank you! In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. During programs, registrants can watch the instructor live or work alongside them, ask questions, and get feedback.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We are planning to make a recording of the program available, so you will be able to watch the entire program at your convenience even if you can’t join us live, although we do hope you will!
Dan is an active volunteer printer and instructor in the museum’s letterpress studio with long-time interests and experience in hand-set letterpress type and platen press operation. Currently, he prints in his own studio using lead type and photopolymer plates on tabletop presses, entirely for enjoyment. As a teen, he had a very active letterpress printing business producing tickets, announcements, and stationery. Through the years, he has owned and used a variety of presses. Dan has especially enjoyed demonstrating printing for visitors to the museum’s letterpress studio as well as refurbishing several of the museum’s presses.
Are you excited about letterpress printing and thinking about setting up shop or maybe just curious about what this would involve? Well, owning and operating a tabletop press is a great way to learn the essentials of letterpress printing especially with limited space and a limited budget! This seminar, presented in a fully equipped tabletop letterpress studio, will equip you to determine if a tabletop press could be right for you.
TOPICS COVERED:
Tabletop press as a category and how they compare to other presses
What a tabletop press can and cannot do
Some examples of makes and models
Skills to learn for tabletop printing common to all platen presses
Suggestions for accessory equipment and supplies
Considerations regarding type selection, quantity, and organization
The event is FREE and open to all. It will be held virtually over Zoom. Please consider making a tax-deductible gift! Your donation helps keep our program fees accessible to all. Thank you! In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. During programs, registrants can watch the instructor live or work alongside them, ask questions, and get feedback.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We are planning to make a recording of the program available, so you will be able to watch the entire program at your convenience even if you can’t join us live, although we do hope you will!
Cranston press at the loading dockRemoving The Printing Museum letters from the front facade of the building
The process of moving a museum — collections, offices, and equipment some of which weigh thousands of pounds — is no simple task. Executive Director Brian Hodge will speak to how moving The Printing Museum was a once in a generation opportunity to take a long, hard look at our programs, facilities, and collections to determine how best to use all three to advance our mission to ignite creativity, foster hands-on self-expression, and champion history and power of print.
We will be sharing more pictures from the move. If time allows, there will be Q&A at the end with The Printing Museum’s Executive Director, Brian Hodge.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
We are planning to make a recording of the program available, so you will be able to watch the entire program at your convenience even if you can’t join us live, although we do hope you will!
Support The Printing Museum
The FORWARD @ 40 campaign supports our relocation to Midtown which will give Houstonians and visitors from near and far greater access to our outstanding exhibition, studio, and education programs. We depend on the generosity of supporters like you to ignite creativity, foster hands-on self expression, and champion the history and power of print. Make an investment in your independent, community museum today, so thousands more can benefit. Support us today; every little bit helps! Thank you.
Leaf from Luther’s Bible, 1576. Wittenberg, Germany. Hans Krafft, printer. The Printing Museum Collection 1998.057.01.
The Printing Museum’s replica Gutenberg printing press and facsimile Gutenberg Bible
Bibles, Bonfires, and Believers: Tracing religious reform and revolution in early modern Europe in the Printing Museum’s collections.
In early modern Europe, religion was a primary driver of unrest and revolution. While to modern eyes, the early modern bibles on display at the Printing Museum may look complicated and inaccessible, their staid appearance obscures the complex and tumultuous world in which these material objects were created and in which they were not only read, but smuggled, hidden, and even burned. Printing Museum docent Philip Mogen’s talk will investigate the exciting lives and afterlives of these printed books and consider how they shaped early modern politics and culture.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We are planning to make a recording of the program available, so you will be able to watch the entire program at your convenience even if you can’t join us live, although we do hope you will!
Noël Harris will discuss the use of social cards throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, through an exploration of a cards collected by her family. Gathered within a 1931 Christmas Card promotional catalog, most of this collection detailed the wedding gifts given to Noël’s grandparents. Social cards, particularly as an historical assemblage as this is, demonstrate individual style, adherence to etiquette norms, as well as community and business relationships. They also indicate the gender, age, and social status of the carrier, and display the array of fantastic typefaces and monograms available in the 20th century.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We are planning to make a recording of the program available, so you will be able to watch the entire program at your convenience even if you can’t join us live, although we do hope you will!
There are many reasons to collect art: decorating, pursuing a passion, investing, or supporting artists. One thing is certain; collecting art has never been easier. Whether experienced or a novice, learn about different art-making processes, how to start collecting on any budget and to take care of your works on paper.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Join docent Matt Adams for a discussion of the book “The Bookseller of Florence” by Ross King.
Ross King’s newly released “The Bookseller of Florence” zeros in on the period of time that written communication shifted from handwritten manuscripts to printed pages. With Renaissance Florence (Italy) as the backdrop, we are introduced to the intellectual, political and religious figures of the time with sharp focus on their interest in the re-discovery of ancient writings. The significance of this rediscovery, which directly led to the Italian Renaissance, means the most important bookseller of the time had many stories to tell. In this presentation, you’ll get an overview and some specifics on how King presents this multilayered look at the Renaissance.
The event is FREE and open to all, and will be held virtually over Zoom.
“The Bookseller of Florence” is also available for sale at The Printing Museum store. Purchase Now »
If you are reading this then you are just our type! What do we mean by type? As in these letters, their history, design, and personality. Join us as we review Simon Garfield’s tour of type over time, their creators, and how well different types get along with each other, or not. His book ‘Just My Type’ is a delightful review of what was several years ago an esoteric subject. Today we enjoy having all sorts of type at our fingertips. Let’s explore Simon Garfield’s story and The Printing Museum’s collection of type. And maybe we’ll discover just what type we are!
The event is FREE and open to all, and will be held virtually over Zoom.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
ABOUT “JUST BY TYPE”
Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product that we buy. But where do fonts come from and why do we need so many? Who is behind the businesslike subtlety of Times New Roman, the cool detachment of Arial, or the maddening lightness of Comic Sans (and the movement to ban it)? Simon Garfield embarks on a mission to answer these questions and more, and reveal what may be the very best and worst fonts in the world.
Typefaces are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty years ago, when the pull-down font menus on our first computers made us all the gods of type. Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Garfield unravels our age-old obsession with the way our words look. Just My Type investigates a range of modern mysteries, including how Helvetica took over the world, what inspires the seemingly ubiquitous use of Trajan on bad movie posters, and what makes a font look presidential, male or female, American, British, German, or Jewish. From the typeface of Beatlemania to the graphic vision of the Obama campaign, fonts can signal a musical revolution or the rise of an American president. This book is a must-read for the design conscious that will forever change the way you look at the printed word.
“A deliriously clever and entertaining book” — The Boston Globe
“Informative, delightful — and essential reading for word geeks everywhere.” — The Seattle Times
