King Library Press Hammer Worldwide Ebook Arts Biennale welcomes printer Richard Kegler

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 4, 2022) — Be part of the University of Kentucky Libraries’ King Library Press for the 2022 Hammer International Book Arts Biennale with letterpress knowledgeable and impartial scholar Richard Kegler and his presentation honoring the legacy of distinguished printer, Victor Hammer.

Kegler will kick off the weekend with the free public lecture, “Victor Hammer, The Man from Uncial” at 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, within the Nice Corridor of the Margaret I. King Library Constructing. The subsequent morning, Kegler will host “A Letterpress Workshop,” alongside King Library Press Director Paul Holbrook, Ph.D., working from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12.

Richard Kegler fashioned the impartial digital sort home P22 Type Foundry in 1994 and after beginning the nonprofit Western New York Book Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, he grew to become the director of the Wells College Book Arts Center in Aurora, New York. Kegler has spent his profession combining an curiosity in conventional printing crafts with entrepreneurial initiatives. His present mission Dry Inc. focuses on pre-digital letterpress printing applied sciences, typography and new printing software growth. Kegler is the co-author and designer of a number of books on typography and the producer of the documentary movie: “Making Faces, Steel Sort within the twenty first Century.”

Throughout Friday’s lecture, Kegler will probably be discussing analysis from his latest publication, “The Faces of Victor Hammer,” which has been closely illustrated with supplies from the Wells School Ebook Arts Heart, together with visible research recordings of Victor Hammer’s letterforms. This lecture will probably be a hybrid in-person/on-line occasion and will probably be supported partly by the Bibliographical Society of America, the oldest scholarly society in North America devoted to the research of books and manuscripts. Register for the free Zoom occasion, here.

“I’m actually enthusiastic about not solely the upcoming occasions but in addition this opportunity to work extra intently with a company so intently aligned with our pursuits as a press. This would be the first time that the press will maintain a hybrid occasion, so I’m excited to mix each the thrill of an in-person gathering with the power for these additional away to hitch alongside in actual time,” UK Libraries Uncommon Books Librarian Colleen Barrett mentioned.

On Saturday, Kegler will current a collaborative hands-on letterpress printing workshop. The fundamentals of conventional letterpress printing will probably be coated together with some experimental strategies towards the manufacturing of a commemorative poster for every participant to take dwelling. The main target of the poster will probably be a subject chosen by the group and will probably be created utilizing the flat mattress cylinder (Vandercook) press with varieties and ornamental printing blocks from the King Library Press Assortment. No prior letterpress printing expertise is critical.

Advance registration is required for “A Letterpress Workshop with Richard Kegler.” Value for the workshop is $45 per particular person and $25 for college kids. Workshop house is proscribed and requires reservation. Name Paul Holbrook at 859-608-9623 for extra info or to order an area.

The Hammer International Book Arts Biennale was established in honor of Carolyn and Victor Hammer and their legacy to positive printing. Each different 12 months a distinguished scholar or guide artist of worldwide repute is invited to the Margaret I. King Library to lecture on printing, typography, illustration, bookbinding, graphic design or different features of guide arts. An endowment fund has been established by means of the King Library Press, based by Carolyn Hammer in 1956, which strives to proceed the positive press custom of Victor and Carolyn Hammer.

Based in 1956, the King Library Press is among the many longest-running presses on a school campus. Dedicated to the custom of positive printing, the press produces books and broadsides by means of typesetting, printing and binding, and hosts a number of lectures, workshops and different outreach occasions annually. Varied alternatives to interact, intern or volunteer are additionally obtainable. The press, a part of UK Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center, is within the basement of the Margaret I. King Library Constructing.

The Particular Collections Analysis Heart at UK Libraries sustains the Commonwealth’s reminiscence and serves because the important bridge between previous, current and future. By preserving supplies documenting the social, cultural, financial and political historical past of Kentucky, the middle offers wealthy alternatives for college kids to develop their worldview and improve their important pondering expertise. Particular Collections Analysis Heart supplies are utilized by students worldwide to advance unique analysis and pioneer inventive approaches to scholarship. UK Libraries’ Particular Collections Analysis Heart is the Archives, the Uncommon Ebook assortment, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the King Library Press, the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center, the Bert T. Combs Appalachian Collection, the John G. Heyburn Initiative and ExploreUK.

Because the premier analysis library within the Commonwealth, UK Libraries empowers lifelong learners to find, create and join by offering ever-expanding entry to high quality info and collaborating with tutorial and artistic communities worldwide to advance data, improve scholarship and protect the historical past and tradition of the Commonwealth. Extra details about UK Libraries might be discovered on its web site.