Given the historic importance of wooden type in printing the documents of the 19th century, I thought the list might enjoy knowing of this workshop, of the renown special collection section of the UWM library, and of the internationally known wood type museum in Two Rivers. Contact Max Yela, who sent this notice out just Wednesday the 24th, for more information, please. If you haven't already made your plans for Friday and Saturday, consider this. The type museum has previously not had regular hours and this may be your best opportunity to see it, especially with knowledgeable guides. Ashley Max Yela wrote: > The Typocrafters, an organization of individuals interested in the design, form, and use of printing type, and the study and practice of typography, will hold their 2001 meeting this Friday, October 26, in UWM's Special Collections, fourth floor of the Golda Meir Library. On Saturday, the group will head up to the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. This meeting and the tour in Two Rivers is FREE AND OPEN TO ALL who wish to attend. > > Here's the schedule: > > Friday, October 26 > > 9:00am > Meet at Special Collections in the Golda Meir Library > Welcome to UWM > Richard Zauft, Associate Dean > Peck School of the Arts > > Welcome to the Golda Meir Library Special Collection > Max Yela, Head > Special Collections > > 9:15am-10:30am > Presentations and discussion of press work by nationally recognized Stevens Point letterpress printers and book artists > Caren Heft, Arcadia Press, and Jeffery Morin, sailorBoypress > > 10:30-11:00am > Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery, Golda Meir Library > View Exhibition on Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum > Presentation by Richard Zauft > > 11:00-1:30pm > Lunch break > > 1:30-4:00pm > Meet at Special Collections in the Golda Meir Library > Presentation by Max Yela, Head of Special Collections > * General introduction to the collection. > * Focus specifically on collections of contemporary fine-press printing and examples of materials documenting the history of printing and publishing. Examples of contemporary printing including a wide variety of mainly American printers from throughout the US, especially Wisconsin and Minnesota. > * Historical pieces, including incunabula, Aldus, Second Folio Shakespeare, 1st illustrated edition of Paradise Lost, Baskerville > imprints, William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, and early 20th-century presses such as Golden Cockerel, Shakespeare Head, Philosopher Press, etc. > * Demonstrate the collection as a useful resource for members of the Typocrafters > > Evening open > *************************************** > Saturday, October 27 > > 9:00am > Depart for Two Rivers, Wisconsin > > 10:30am > Arrive at Two Rivers > > 10:30am-11:30am > Tour of Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum > > 11:30am-1:00pm > Lunch break > > 1:00pm-5:00pm > Printing workshop with wood type > Instructor: Richard Zauft > > 5:00pm-6:00pm > Social hour, Light House Inn > Host: Jim Van Lanon, Two Rivers Historical Society > > 6:00pm-8:00pm > Dinner meeting > > 8:00pm > Depart for Milwaukee > > 9:30pm > Arrive in Milwaukee > > For more information contact Richard Zauft at 414.229.4259, or at zauft@uwm.edu > ******************************************** > The exhibition in the Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery, "New Work from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Two Rivers, Wisconsin," will be on view through February 1, 2002. The exhibition presents historical examples from the Hamilton Wood Type Manufacturing Company, one of the leading wood type manufacturers in the country founded in 1880 and in operation until the early 1980s; and original typographic prints by Richard Zauft, professor in the UWM Department of Visual Art and associate dean of UWM's Peck School of the Arts, and Dennis Ichiyama, professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. > > The meeting and the exhibition have been organized by Bad Water Book Club member Richard Zauft, associate dean of UWM's Peck School of the Arts, founder of UWM's Book Arts Workshop, and co-founder with Max Yela of the annual Book FOR[u]Ms Book Artist Speaker Series at the Golda Meir Library. > > ******************************* > Max Yela > Head, Special Collections > Golda Meir Library > UW-Milwaukee > Milwaukee, WI 53211 > Tel: 414.229.4345 > Fax: 414.229.6791 > Email: maxyela@uwm.edu > Web: www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special