Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 Lectures
The Susan Garretson Swartzburg 60’ Memorial Book Arts Lecture is a series named for Susan Garretson Swartzburg.
Working closely with Wells faculty and staff, Swartzburg helped to organize the press, bindery and other components that became Wells’ Book Arts Center. She served on the Book Arts Board and established a biannual book arts lecture series in memory of her father, developing contacts, raising funds, organizing events and finding speakers. The list of notable speakers and topics includes:
1994 |
1st Ann R. Montanaro — Pop-Up Books: The History & Production of Pop-Up & Moveable Books from 1860 |
1995 |
2nd Michael Joseph — Wood Engravings 1850’s & 1860’s 3rd Peter Kahn — A to Z: How the Alphabet Got Its Shape |
1996 |
4th Helen Barolini — Aldus and His Dream Book: The World’s Most Beautiful Book |
1997 |
5th David Stam — Bibliomania: Disease or Destiny 6th Mark Diumation — By Design or By Accident |
1998 |
7th Deidre Stam — Good Skills, Low Wages, and Unusual Frings Benefits: Women as Printers in the Nineteenth Century Oneida Community 8th David Godine — The Woodcut Art of J.J. Lankes |
1999 |
9th Sheila Edmunds — Three Wives & a Spinster 10th John Dean — The Role of Bookbinding in Library Preservation: Ancient Crafts to Digital Imaging |
2000 |
11th Jerry Kelly — Who Was Victor Hammer? 12th Sue Allen — The Book Cover Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman |
2001 |
13th Carol J. Blinn — One Woman’s Work 14th Deborah Evetts — Fine Binding My Approach |
2002 |
15th Amos Kennedy Jr. — Put The Message In The Hands Of The People And Move On! 16th Herbert Johnson — Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press |
2003 |
17th Susan Moore — Everything Begins With A 18th Barbara A. Shailor — Bibliophile Or Biblioclast The Unusual Career of Otto Ege |
2004 |
19th Donald Jackson — Walking In The Footsteps Of Giants 20th Buzz Spector — The Book As/In Landscape |
2005 |
21st David Pankow — The Paper Chase 22nd Julie Chen — The Bookworks of Flying Fish Press: A Behind the Scenes Look |
2006 |
23rd Susan Skargard — The Hand In Typ 24th Tatiana Ginsberg — Japanese Handmade Paper And Natural Dyes |
2007 |
25th Terry Belanger — Ever Since I Was Five I Just Liked Books and Other erors, Institutional & Personal 26th Mark Dimunation — Science As An Open Book Early Printing & the Scientific Revolution |
2008 |
27th Martin Antonetti — Arrghi’s New Invention of Letters 28th Ron Gordon — The Oliphant Pres Tradition & Transformation |
2009 |
29th Mindell Dubanky — The Life & Work of Alice C. Morse |
2010 |
30th David R. Godine — 40 Years of Books That Matter |
2011 |
31st Sarah Bryant — Evolution of an Artist’s Book 32nd Michael Peich (Aralia Press) — Serving the Muse:1983-2011 |
2012 |
33rd Maureen Cummins & Nava Altas — Book Artists 34th Steve Miller — Why Books? |
2013 |
35th Katie Baldwin — Text Image Place & The Narrative 36th Nicolas Barker — Printing & the Mind of Man Fifty Years On |
2014 |
37th Dr. Steven K. Galbraith — RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection Highlights From Forty-Five Years 38th Richard Kegler — Just Who Is Richard Kegler And What Is He Doing At Wells Book Arts Center |
2015 |
39th Andrew Steeves — Ecology, Economy, and the Endurance of Printing 40th David Shields — Towards a people’s history of American wood type |
2016 |
41st Jenna Rodriguez — Investigating a Sense of Place through Stillness & Movement 42nd Harold Kyle — Type High Tech |
2017 |
43rd Will Hill — The Poetics of Printing (& the Printing of Poetry) 44th Katherine M. Ruffin — Why Making Things Matters: The Book Arts in the Liberal Arts |
2018 |
45th H. R. Buechler — W+W: Loss in/and Translation 46th Stephen Pittelkow — Taming a Riot of Color |
2019 |
47th Amos P. Kennedy Jr. — https://www.wells.edu/string-room-gallery/exhibitions 48th Peter D. Verheyen — A Bookbinder’s Journey: My analog and virtual life in the book arts |
2020 |
49th Erin Zona and Lauren V. Walling ’97 — Cracking Open the Universe: Women’s Studio Workshop Since 1974 |