Calendar for the 2011 - 2012 Season*

Per tradition, cocktails at 5:30pm - 1st Wednesdays, October through May, except as noted.

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September 24th - SP Pilgrimage: A visit to the North Bennett Street School.

October 5th — Erstwhile Boston book artist Peter Madden on “Street Alchemy”.

November 2nd — The First Annual Charles A. Rheault Lecture. John Kristensen on “William Dana Orcutt: A Life in the Half-Round”.

December 7th — Nicholas B. Clark, founding director of the Eric Carle Museum, asks
But Is It Art? The Art of Illustration and its Art-Historical Sources”.

January 4th — Bruce Kennett on Austrian calligrapher, book designer, and teacher Friedrich Neugebauer.

February 1st — Robert Darnton on “The Digital Library Post-Google” and his personal vision for the largest library in history.

March 7th — David Berlow of The Font Bureau, Inc., on “Type For Crude Media”.

April 18th — 39th Annual Dwiggins. David Lemon, on the “Changing Traditions: Adobe's Work to Preserve, Revive, and Enhance the Legacy of Type”.

May 2nd — Members Meeting. Reprise of the Pecha Kucha Night.

 

*The Society of Printers is a private organization.