The Book Arts Program presents this fascinating look at handmade and moldmade paper in microscopic detail. Slip on a pair of our 3-D glasses and enjoy this exhibition, which will feature enlarged images of paper samples no larger in actual size than the period at the end of this sentence. In addition to capturing paper fibers in intimate detail, the images themselves are works of art. The exhibition is curated by biologist Charles Kazilek of Arizona State University and papermaker Gene Valentine, proprietor of the Almond Tree Press and Paper Mill in Tempe, Arizona. Paper Interiors will be accompanied by selections from our rare book collections, including works by Dard Hunter, widely considered the foremost authority on papermaking in the twentieth century.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Lectures are free and open to the public. In 1925, he set up a foundry in order to produce his own type and began engraving the matrices himself. Join the Book Arts Program as we present a demonstration of typecasting in the style of Goudy by Steve Pratt of Pratt Press Works. Pratt will use handmade mats, matrices, and molds to cast the type. Well known for his excellent antique replicas and restorations, Pratt has reproduced a number of historic printing presses including the acorn and the Gutenberg.