Pyramid Atlantic Art Center Pulp Fiction Night Press Release
2019 Conference
Academy of Maryland, Higher Park
College Park, Maryland, October 25-27, 2019
APHA invites you to bring together us for our first briefing expressly devoted to the rich history of press and publishing in America from diverse groups. Our 2019 annual briefing will join the conversation on intersections of printing history, the book arts, bibliography, and print civilization studies with gender studies, queer theory, indigenous studies, Black studies, Jewish studies, and Latin@ history. Through lectures, panels, and workshops, participants volition accept the opportunity to engage with a disquisitional exploration of the history of press among America's underrepresented communities.
Registration | Travel | Accommodations | Schedule | Keynotes and Artists | Tours and Activities | Sponsors
Registration
Registration is currently open to everyone but is limited to 130 participants. We strongly encourage early registration, as previous conferences have sold out quickly. Tours and workshops accept limited chapters and tend to fill up fast. The fee includes access to keynote and panel sessions, Saturday lunch, evening receptions, and eligibility to sign up for local tours and both workshops.
Secure pay registration tin can be establishhither. Registration fees cannot be refunded for cancellations made inside the xxx days prior to the briefing.
Travel
The University of Maryland is served by 3 major airports, Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), Baltimore Washington International (BWI), and Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD). Shuttle and Metro options are available for each airport. The Shuttle UM-104 "College Park Metro" will bring you lot to campus from the Higher Park/U of MD station.
From Washington Dulles International:
This airport is located 36 miles southwest of Higher Park. Public transit options include taking the 5A Express motorcoach to the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station. From there y'all will have the Green Line (toward Greenbelt) and go off at Higher Park/U of Doctor station.
Baltimore Washington International:
Baltimore Washington International airport is near 25 miles n of College Park. Metro express passenger vehicle from BWI to the Greenbelt metro station brings you lot to one cease from Higher park. Take the B30 metro bus to the Greenbelt metro and the train to College Park. MARC Railroad train service is available from the BWI Rail Station to College Park.
Reagan Washington National:
This airdrome is in Arlington, Virginia, approximately 15 miles south of College Park. A Metrorail is accessible from the aerodrome. Accept the Yellow Line (toward Mt. Vernon Foursquare), transferring to the Green Line (toward Greenbelt), and get off at College Park/U of Medico station.
Sightseeing in Washington, D.C.
The Smithsonian Museums and other related sites are between 10 and 15 miles from the conference location. Traffic can be heavy during rush hour, simply public transit options to the D.C. expanse are readily available. From College Park Metro Station take the Metro Yellow Line (Reagan National) to Fort Totten. From in that location take the Red Line (Shady Grove) to your desired destination.
Accommodations
Guests are encouraged to make reservations at The Hotel, as we have a cake of rooms reserved for the nights of October 25 through October 27, 2019 at a rate of $149 a dark for the single to $169 for the quad. Included is a discounted rate for self-parking at $7 per day for attendees. Reservations must be made before September 25, 2019 to receive the discount. Please brand your reservation through the The Hotel's Reservation Center, 844-954-6835, and place yourself every bit part of the group. The Hotel is located less than a mile from the University of Maryland, Higher Park's master campus at a walking distance of between 15 and 20 minutes to Tawes Hall, or by taking the Metro C2 (to Wheaton Station) at a travel fourth dimension of four minutes. The Metro C2 (Wheaton/Greenbelt Station) runs approximately every 20 to xxx minutes depending on the fourth dimension of day.
Schedule
Friday, October 25, 2019
Tawes Building
Registration. 8:00am – four:00pm, Tawes Hall Antechamber
APHA Board Coming together. 12:15pm – i:45pm, Room 2115
Academy of Maryland, Higher Park Tours
Special Collections Tour. 11:00am – 12:00pm | Recap
David C. Driskell Center. 2:00pm – three:00pm | Recap
Workshop Sessions
Tawes Building
BookLab, "Edifice Bridges through Letterpress Postcards" with Lynette Spencer. 9:30am – ane:30pm | Epitomize
Open Forum on Diversity in the Field with Jesse Erickson. 2:00pm – three:00pm, Room 2115 | Recap
Special Screening Sessions
Tawes Building, Room 1100
83M80: Letterpress in the Digital Era, a documentary by Gonzalo Hergueta and MRKA.
Hourly screenings from 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Twenty-four hour period One Plenary
Ulrich Recital Hall
Opening Remarks. 4:45pm – 5:00pm
2019 Lieberman Lecture and Artist Keynote Address with Colette Gaiter (open to the public) | Recap
5:00pm – six:20pm.
Reception. 6:30pm – 7:30pm.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Tawes Building
Registration 8:00am – iv:00pm, Tawes Hall Anteroom
Concurrent Sessions
Morn Coffee. Bachelor from 8:30am – 11:00am
Labor and Identity Session I
nine:30am – 10:45am, Room 2115
Panel – "The Question of Skin/The Problem of Piece of work: Race & the Politics of Printshop Labor" with Andrew Raftery
Charmaine A. Nelson, "'RUN-Abroad, FROM the Printing-Office': Slave Labour, Slave Literacy, and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture in Quebec"
Phillip Troutman, "Stipple and Skin Tone: African American Engraver Patrick Henry Reason's Apprenticeship to Stephen H. Gimber, 1833-1837"
Julia Grummitt, "Making McKenney and Hall: Philadelphia Colorists and the Production of the History of the Indian Tribes of Due north America, 1836-1844"
Labor and Identity Session II | Recap
9:30am – ten:45am, Room 1107
Special Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship Paper
Hashemite kingdom of jordan Wingate, "The 'Negro Press-hand' of the Charleston Courier"
María Helena Barrera-Agarwal, "Lanuza, Mendia & Co.: A Castilian-language Publishing House in Early on Nineteenth Century New York"
Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, "The Role of Illustrators, Engravers, and the Printing Press in the Word of Race in America"
Break. ten:45am – xi:00am
Concurrent Sessions
Constructions Session
11:00am – 12:15pm, Room 1107
Mallory Haselberger, "'[Shaping] upwardly earlier my optics and in my own loving hands': Jane Grabhorn's Jumbo Printing and the Feminist Possibilities of Print"
Dylan Lewis, "Graphic 'Germanness': Fraktur and German Nationalism in Early-American Print Culture"
Maryland Session | Recap
11:00am –12:00pm, Room 2115
Kadin Henningsen, "Biblionormativity and the Structure of Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Publishers' Case Bindings"
Douglas P. McElrath, "Moses the News Vendor: Newspapers and African Americans in Ante-Bellum Baltimore"
Lunch (Practiced Tidings). 12:00pm – ii:00pm, Room 1310
Concurrent Sessions
Networks Session | Recap
ii:00pm -three:30pm, Room 2115
Miriam Intrator, "Collecting the Diverseness of American Historical and Contemporary Printing: A Librarian's Perspective"
Dianne L. Roman, "Early Nineteenth Century Boston Weekly Provides Diverse Employment for Women, Supporting an All-Female Communication Excursion"
Jamie Mahoney, "Incarcerated Authors, Activist Poets, Student Designers, Led by Women Printers: Publications of the Bowe House Press are Truly Created past Many Easily"
Frontiers Session | Recap
ii:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 1107
Steve Cox, "A Radical Press in Kansas: Haldeman-Julius'southward Forgotten Publishing Dynasty"
Jessica Barness and Amy Papaelias, "Radical Scholarship: The Visual Language of Emerging Disciplines in the United states"
Matthew Kirschenbaum, "Kamau Brathwaite's Printer"
Interruption. 3:30pm – 4:00pm
Day Two Plenary
Ulrich Recital Hall
3:45pm – 6:00pm
Casey Smith on Kampala, Marakere University Printmaking. iii:45pm – four:00pm | Recap
Keynote Address with Kinohi Nishikawa, introduced by Edlie Wong. iv:00pm – v:30pm | Recap
Endmost remarks
Reception. 6:00pm – 7:00pm. Tawes Building, BookLab
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Gateway Arts District Galleries and Studios (shuttle pick up and drop off at The Hotel)
Pyramid Atlantic Letterpress Studio Bout and Workshop. 11:00am – 2:00pm
Keynotes and Artists
Colette Gaiter
Colette Gaiter—a multimedia artist, graphic designer, and writer—is a Professor of Visual Communications and Visual Studies at the University of Delaware's Department of Art & Design and the Section of Africana Studies. Her work spans multiple artistic practices, including photographic digital prints mixed with other media, artist books, websites, video, and interactive installations. She besides writes about artists and designers, particularly the work of Emory Douglas, electric current activist and sometime artist and designer for the Black Panther Party. She wrote a new introduction to the 2d edition of Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, which includes her essay on the messages embedded in his work. E'er investigating creative activism, her writing appears in various publications and books. Her talk, "Outside In: Images and Words of Absorption and Resistance in American Print History," will explore how impress culture in the United States has worked to represent the voice of diverse communities.
Kinohi Nishikawa
Kinohi Nishikawa is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University, where he currently holds the John Due east. Annan Bicentennial Preceptorship. A specialist in African American book history, Kinohi is the author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground (Chicago, 2018), a report of the commercialization of race in the postal service-civil rights paperback industry. Kinohi's other writing has been published in the journals PMLA, MELUS, and American Literary History, and in the collections Confronting a Sharp White Background and The Blacker the Ink. His major research-in-progress examines the function graphic arts and book design accept played in shaping modern African American literature. Nishikawa's accost, "Reading the Fine Print: Frank Marshall Davis at the Black Cat Press," will discuss the collaboration betwixt the poet Frank Marshall Davis and Norman Forgue's Black Cat Press in Chicago between the years of 1935 and 1938.
Lynette Spencer
Lynette Spencer is a professional person artist and educator that specializes in relief printing and bookmaking. She graduated in 2011 from the Corcoran College of Fine art & Design with a Masters in Volume Arts. She is co-founder of Anchored Compass Studio based in Syracuse, NY and has taught local youth nearly books and print. Themes present in her work chronicle to nature, animals, birds, figures and travel inspiration. Lynette has taught workshops at volume and print symposiums, and she enjoys sharing her knowledge of book arts.
Tours and Activities
Academy of Maryland Libraries Special Collections
Friday, October 25, xi:00am – noon, limited to 15 participants. Registration required.
A tour and viewing of the Special Collections in Hornbake Library volition exist offered to interested conference goers. The University of Maryland Libraries Special Collections are known for their distinctive holdings in mass media and civilization, labor history, and women'southward history.
Driskell Center
Friday, October 25, 2:00pm – three:00pm, limited to 15 participants. Registration required.
The David C. Driskell Centre for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park is dedicated to the commemoration, promotion, and preservation of the African American experience as expressed in paintings, prints, sculpture, and mixed media. It was established in 2001 to honor the legacy of David C. Driskell, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Fine art, artist, art historian, collector, curator, and philanthropist. The eye features important prints and other artwork by such renowned artists as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, and Faith Ringgold.
BookLab
Fri, October 25, nine:30am – four:30pm, express to 8 participants. Registration required.
"Building Bridges through Letterpress Postcards"
APHA 2019 is proud to collaborate with the Academy of Maryland, College Park'south newly established BookLab for an exciting workshop on letterpress postcards. This workshop will address how postcard prints tin be used to promote unification and credence of various groups. Information technology looks at how posters made for social causes tin can be translated into a smaller format to accomplish more people. Participants will generate phrases and images that could brand an bear upon and reach a wide audience. Each postcard can be created for a unlike purpose, such as a call to action, invitation for a meetup group or dissemination for educating the receiver on the selected topic. Included will be instructions on layout and blueprint using type and linoleum relief carving.
Pyramid Atlantic Fine art Center
Lord's day, October 27, 11:00am-2:00pm, limited to 24 participants. Registration required. | Recap
Pyramid Atlantic is a nonprofit gimmicky art center devoted to newspaper-making, printmaking, and the book arts within a collaborative community. Located in historic Hyattsville, the Center regularly features workshops and classes on various technical aspects of the book arts including bounden, paper-making, letterpress, intaglio illustration, lithography, and photomechanical printing. This activeness will feature a tour along with an introductory letterpress workshop with local artists.
Pyramid Atlantic Letterpress Studio Tour and Workshop. 11:00am – 2:00pm
Sponsors
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors and hosts!
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