The 2016 Summer Institute registration is open now! Register Here For general participant information please click here Download the 2016 Booklet PDF or request a printed copy Our line-up is official: Week … Read more
Book Arts
Stop by and print a letterpress Christmas or generic Seasonal Holiday card for Free. (Additional cards can be printed for only $1 a pop!) and/or shop at our pop-up shop … Read more
Muster hundreds! Towards a people’s history of American wood type the 40th Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 Memorial Lecture. by printing historian David Shields 5:30 PM October 21st, 2015 Admission is FREE … Read more
Learn how to marble paper with Artist Steve Pittelkow Admission is FREE October 7th 6:30-8:30pm Sommer Center Wells College Aurora-On-Cayuga NY Paper marbling offers a fascinating and magical method for … Read more
Take Action Now! Come be a part of a hands on lecture and learn about the Book Arts In-Residence The Mobile Mill, a traveling paper-making studio on September 24th at … Read more
Take Action Now! Come be a part of a hands on lecture and learn about the Book Arts In-Residence The Mobile Mill, a traveling paper-making studio on September 24th at … Read more
Wells College Press invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Contest. The deadline for the 2016 competition is November 30, 2015. The winner will be announced in January 2016. The author … Read more
In 1985, I was given a font of script type that was the most horrible type ever conceived by man. I could find no trace of it in any of … Read more
The establishment of the Bindery as part of the Book Arts Center at Wells College was due entirely to the generosity of Jane Webster Pearce, Class of 1932. This took … Read more
In the early 1960s I was introduced to Victor Hammer by Dr. Justus Bier, noted Medievalist, while on the faculty of the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky. During the following … Read more