Monday July 19, 6:30–8 pm, Free
CU Boulder Campus
Norlin Commons room E113
(through the east entrance)
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From Press to Pixels: Historical Tools and New/Digital Media
Is there really anything new about producing text and images? From fine letterpress printing to avant–garde experimentation in digital media production, historical media shapes the contemporary and e-media recapitulates the past.
Listen in on a discussion between [...]

Sunday July 18th, 6pm, Free
CU Boulder Campus
Norlin Commons room E113
(through the east entrance)
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/map.htm
From Homer to BFF: about how we express ourselves
a slide talk by Brian Allen, an interested amateur
A rapid ride from pre-history to a speculative future in the ways humans communicate. Socrates was not happy about the written word; calligraphic writing’s influence on early printed work; printing types [...]

A Collaborative Class in Letterpress Printing

with Brian Allen (co-founder, with Julia Seko, of the Book Arts League)
Using a small project to demonstrate and to stimulate discussion and sharing, we’ll talk about the major aspects of letterpress printing from beginning to end. Brian will share resources, tips, and information gleaned from years of failure and success [...]

A Wayzegoose?!?
Is that how everybody buys letterpresses and other equipment?
The Rocky Mountain Letterpress Society and the Book Arts League are pleased to host a Letterpress/Book Arts Sale and Wayzegoose on July 10 at Ewing Farm.  This is a local opportunity to get the equipment you need, meet book arts artisans, and exchange information with old friends and [...]

The Longmont Times-Call recently published a feature story on the Book Arts League and Ewing  Farm — take a look!

Follow the link to “BAL Classes” on the left. We are hosting top-notch instructors for six fabulous opportunities to expand your book arts repertoire in June and July.
Register soon–The Ewing Farm is a beautiful, unique environment for learning and practicing the book arts, and plenty of book artists are onto us!

Books Pondered, Then Eaten
The 11th annual International Edible Book Show and Tea took place on Sunday, April 11 around tea time at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Several dozen “bookish” entries were created by artists of wide-ranging age and ability. All ingredients in the creations were to be edible, though were not required to [...]

The Book Arts League welcomes everyone to the long-awaited Farmhouse Grand Opening at the historic Ewing Farm, held on February 27, 2010

Phase 2 of the Ewing Farmhouse restoration will be completed around the end of October.  Once it is done, the building will need to be painted inside and out.  Through the efforts of dedicated volunteers, we have a local painter who will donate painting services for the Farmhouse exterior, and we have received donations and [...]

We’ll be there with our small press and peach juice up to our elbows and all over our shirts.  Come and see us on Saturday, August 22, in Old Town Lafayette, on Public Road between Cannon and  Kimbark streets.  The festival runs from 9:00-4:00.
Look for us in booth 13 (our usual spot) in front of [...]