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Blue Canary Letterpress is owned and operated by second generation printer Jodi Bortz in her hometown of Chestertown, MD.

After winning a 1921 Chandler & Price 10X15 platen press in an auction several years ago, Jodi learned letterpress working with artist and childhood friend Robbi Behr and her husband Matthew Swanson at Haywire Letterpress. When their childrens’ book career took off, Jodi moved the press out of their barn and began Blue Canary Letterpress.

Blue Canary Letterpress specializes in custom creations for special events, businesses, and other art quality print needs. Jodi has been privileged to work with many emerging brands to integrate letterpress branding and packaging into their launch or new product lines. As a fellow entrepreneur, she’s able to understand the challenges of other small business owners and provide support from her experience.

Meet Jodi at the combined 11th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair and 3rd Annual Chesapeake Print & Book Arts Fair on Saturday, September 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Graw Alley in Havre de Grace, MD.

For more information, visit http://www.chesapeakeprintersfair.com

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After 23 years on the fourth floor at 55 North Chicopee Street in Chicopee, MA, Letterpress Things was forced to relocate when their lease was not renewed. After auctioning presses and other equipment, and moving fixtures and inventory to short-term warehouse storage, a "build out" in a smaller, more compact and attractive space in Holyoke, MA, began.

John and JoAnn Barrett's intentions are to continue Letterpress Things as a resource to the letterpress community for type, tools, supplies and other letterpress items, functioning as before both online and from a warehouse for distribution and pickup.

Join them at the combined 11th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair and 3rd Annual Chesapeake Print & Book Arts Fair on Saturday, September 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Graw Alley in Havre de Grace, MD, and sample Letterpress Things’ impressive assortment of type, plates, icons, papers as well as various other letterpress things for the working printer.

For more information, visit http://www.chesapeakeprintersfair.com

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Kristen Fava, founder & owner of REXMAKE, was introduced to the art of letterpress printing while she pursued a degree in graphic and web design. In an attempt to step away from the computer, Kristen took the opportunity to work with her hands and explore a more tactile approach to design with printmaking. All of her stationery products are created using antique printing equipment. She views each machine as a piece of history and is thankful to have the opportunity to care for every one.

Meet Kristen at the combined 11th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair and 3rd Annual Chesapeake Print & Book Arts Fair on Saturday, September 21, at Graw Alley in Havre de Grace, MD, where she will be exhibiting her work.

For more information, visit http://www.chesapeakeprintersfair.com

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Eric Leland considers himself to be an illustrator with a letterpress print studio. He loves to use the antique machinery in his Baltimore studio to create products inspired by his interests in gardening, travel, architecture, and industrial history, among other sources. After starting his career as an architect, he quickly realized he was happiest when working with pencil and paintbrush and has been creating ever since.

His 2024 Bunny Calendar is inspired by a fall outing to Quebec. Each month features a reproduction of one of his original gouache paintings created just for this calendar. The pages are digitally printed on sturdy card stock, then trimmed and bound by hand. Currently, he is putting the final touches on a 2025 edition sparked by his travels in France and Germany.

Visit Eric Leland’s Manufactory at the combined 11th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair and 3rd Annual Chesapeake Print & Book Arts Fair on Saturday, September 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Graw Alley in Havre de Grace, MD, to check out books and calendars that use his own stories and illustrations and are printed with various letterpress and digital techniques. Also discover letterpress prints and greeting cards created from Eric’s own woodcuts and moveable type.

For more information, visit http://www.chesapeakeprintersfair.com

MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Saturday, September 21!

The .918 Club and Glyph Design Studio will co-host the combined 11th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair and 3rd Annual Chesapeake Print & Book Arts Fair on Saturday, September 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Graw Alley in Havre de Grace, MD.

If you're coming to visit, why not make a weekend of it? There are plenty of fine places to stay, interesting shops to peruse, enticing restaurants and lots of fun things to do before or after visiting the Fairs.

Here are just a few of the many options. For more, visit www.chesapeakeprintersfair.com

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Spencer Silver Mansion
Super8 Motel
Vandiver Inn

EATERIES:
Abbey Burger
Backfin Blues Creole de Graw
Bella’s Tea Room
Bomboy’s Home Made Ice Cream
Coakley’s Pub
Concord Point Coffee
Goll’s Bakery
Java By The Bay
La Cucina Italian Restaurant
Les Petits Bisous
MacGregor’s Restaurant & Banquet Room
Tidewater Grille
The Vineyard Wine Bar
Vintage Cafe

SHOPS:
Blooms at the Boutique Florist
Blue Earth Leather Boutique
Blue Heron Gifts & Floral
EZ To***co and Gifts
Found Vintage Co.
Glyph – Stationery, Gifts, Home
JoRetro Vintage Market
Joseph’s Department Store
Karen’s Natural Market
Lyon’s Pharmacy
Moon & Sea Creations
Unlimited Art
Vincenti's Decoys
Washington Street Books
Zodiac Records

Friday, August 4, 2023 4:45 PM

Hello Mr. Kulakowsky:

This email will serve as official written notice from Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology that it is terminating the Memorandum of Understanding between The .918 Club and the College, dated November 16, 2015. The effective date of the termination and expected date of vacancy is July 1, 2024. The relationship between the Club and the College has been good. However, because of transition space requirements due to planned construction, the College must reclaim this area. I will be out of the office next week. If you have any questions, I will return the week of August 14.

Thank you,

George M. Longridge
Vice President of Finance and Administration
717.391.6947
750 E. King St.Lancaster, PA 17602

𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲

The .918 Club has used a building on the Thaddeus Stevens campus to keep the art of letterpress printing alive since 2009. Now it's being asked to leave. Details below.

If you have a lead on potential space for The .918 Club, please contact: [email protected]

Lancaster County letterpress shop now pressed for time to find new home The .918 Club has used a building on the Thaddeus Stevens campus to keep the art of letterpress printing alive since 2009. Now it's being asked to leave.

We appreciate your support!

Thank you to the 26 extraordinary exhibitors who helped make yesterday’s 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair a resounding success: APHA Chesapeake Chapter, Base Press, BookBeetle Press, Boss Dog Press, Bowerbox Press, Boxcar Press, Colonial Bindery Inc., Conestoga Press, Crow Press, Debra Baseden, DRI-Inc., Eric Leland Manufactory,Frederick Book Arts Center, Freshly Pressed Prints, Gingerly Press, Green Trike Press, Harsimus Press, Josh Johnson, Lambs Ear Press, Lead Graffiti, Letterpress Things, Melissa Strawser, Sea Heart City Press, Stark Press Company,
Tradecraft Press, and Typothecary Letterpress.

Thanks, too, to the members of the .918 Club who generously offered printing demonstrations and hands-on experiences and to Make717 for kindly opening its makerspace for the day.

Finally, a big thank you to all of the enthusiasts who turned out on Saturday to celebrate the best of letterpress printing, book arts and the paper arts. We appreciate your continued support - see you in 2024!

Lancaster Printers Fair Countdown

Don’t miss the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair on Saturday, September 16, at 117 Parkside Ave. in Lancaster, PA. More than 25 exhibitors will offer for sale custom posters, printings, hand-printed cards, memorabilia, handmade paper, and artists books, along with a range of letterpress equipment and printing supplies. (See full list below.)

And .918 Club volunteers will give visitors an up-close look at printing with demonstrations and hands-on experiences scheduled throughout the day. Plus there’s a Make717 open house adjacent at 1151 Clark St. for those curious about this innovative and collaborative makerspace. The fair will run from 11 am to 4 pm with free admission, free parking and food truck fare for sale.

2023 Exhibitors:

APHA Chesapeake Chapter
Base Press
BookBeetle Press
Boss Dog Press
Bowerbox Press
Boxcar Press
Colonial Bindery Inc.
Conestoga Press
Crow Press
Debra Baseden
DRI-Inc.
Eric Leland Manufactory
Frederick Book Arts Center
Freshly Pressed Prints
Gingerly Press
Green Trike Press
Harsimus Press
Josh Johnson
Lambs Ear Press
Lead Graffiti
LetterpressThings
Melissa Strawser
Sea Heart City Press
Stark Press Company
Tradecraft Press
Typothecary Letterpress

Faces of the Fair: More than 25 exhibitors and 500 visitors will come together on Saturday, September 16, to celebrate the best of letterpress printing, book arts and the paper arts. The 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair will feature accomplished letterpress and printmaking artists from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C., New Jersey, New York,
Massachusetts and Virginia. (See full list below.) They will offer for sale custom posters, printings, hand-printed cards, memorabilia, handmade paper, and artists books, along with a range of letterpress equipment and printing supplies. With the Ken Kulakowsky Center at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology on Orange as a backdrop, the fair also will give visitors an up-close look at printing with demonstrations and hands-on experiences scheduled throughout the day. The fair will run from 11 am to 4 pm, with free admission, free parking and food truck fare for sale.

2023 Exhibitors:
APHA Chesapeake Chapter
Base Press
BookBeetle Press
Boss Dog Press
Bowerbox Press
Boxcar Press
Colonial Bindery Inc.
Conestoga Press
Crow Press
Debra Baseden
DRI-Inc.
Eric Leland Manufactory
Frederick Book Arts Center
Freshly Pressed Prints
Gingerly Press
Green Trike Press
Harsimus Press
Josh Johnson
Lambs Ear Press
Lead Graffiti
LetterpressThings
Melissa Strawser
Sea Heart City Press
Stark Press Company
Tradecraft Press
Typothecary Letterpress

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Boxcar Press is celebrating 25 years of letterpress printing. Owner Harold Kyle started in Minnesota in 1998 and early on moved to Syracuse, New York, where the business has grown and expanded to include foil stamping, engraving, embossing, digital printing and die cutting.

Boxcar Press still strongly supports letterpress printing with its photopolymer platemaking, Boxcar Base and Flurry 100% cotton paper. It is known for helping printers with whatever they need to print, whether they are brand new to letterpress or veterans of putting ink to paper. The team enjoys talking to folks about their projects and their presses, comparing techniques, and admiring the work of the letterpress community as a whole. Boxcar’s motto is to print beautifully and to provide services and supplies to help you do the same. The team also loves giving tours at the Delavan Studios location and appreciates those rare chances to visit other shops. Boxcar finds that the Lancaster fair is a great time to chat up old and new friends, add some prints to its own collection, and score a new pressroom tool or an orphaned letterpress ornament.

Check out Boxcar Press at the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16, from 11 am to 6 pm, to find multiple printing press-themed t-shirts (iron hand press lovers take note), Boxcar Base, windmill swing away lay gauge, printing inks and more.

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A hub of innovation and collaboration in Lancaster, PA, Make717 Innovation Center offers makers ready access to advanced tools such as a 3D printer, laser cutter, Carvey CNC router and SawStop table saw, without the capital investment. Makers can get started on their own projects quickly and easily and benefit from a creative learning environment. Launched in 2015, make717 has continued to build its presence in Lancaster County, adding new equipment and opportunities for members while more than doubling its available space on the Orange St. campus of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. To deepen community engagement, make717 has also initiated a program in conjunction with the county library system called STEM Pass as a way to offer free access to the space and its resources.

During the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16 from 11 am to 4 pm, make717 will host an open house adjacent at 1151 Clark St. Volunteers will be on hand to show the equipment and tell about the software. Stop by and learn how make717 has designed a makerspace for independent project-based learning.

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At the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16, The .918 Club will host exciting hands-on experiences and demonstrations throughout the day that include:
-Guiding visitors in using a composing stick and small lever-operated platen press to print personalized letterpress notes.
-Hand setting visitors’ names and casting metal slugs for them using a Ludlow Typograph.
-Demonstrating how a Linotype machine works, from composing type, to casting a complete line from metal, to assembling the lines for printing.
-Hand pulling prints on a 1640-pound Reliance New B iron press.
Stop by the fair from 11 am until 4 pm to check out these activities as well as more than 20 exhibits.

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The Chesapeake Chapter of the American Printing History Association (APHA) is an active group of collectors, letterpress printers and scholars hosting monthly lectures, field trips and other opportunities to connect on an informal basis. With most members from within 90 miles of Washington, DC, the chapter enjoys close-by access to a variety of major APHA-related collections, such as the Library of Congress, The Folger Library and the Smithsonian, along with many other museums and libraries with important book and printing history holdings.

Since 2012, the chapter has printed a collaborative letterpress calendar showcasing the work of its diverse members. Featuring a variety of printing techniques, mostly centered on letterpress, the calendar presents an opportunity to experiment with both printing and typography. Donations from this project go toward funding up to 10 student memberships for Denker Fellows each year as well as supporting group programming and guest speakers. The online 2024 calendar price is $30, which includes shipping.

Find out more at the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16, from 11 am to 4 pm, when members will be on hand to share information on the Chesapeake Chapter and national association.

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Eric Leland has created a new garden-themed game inspired by his own horticultural experiences. Players compete to plant gardens full of as many plants from as many botanical families as possible, but there are some furry friends who have other ideas. Visit Eric Leland’s Manufactory 16 from 11 am to 4 pm at the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair to check out games, books and calendars that use his own stories and illustrations and are printed with various letterpress and digital techniques. Also discover letterpress prints and greeting cards created from Eric’s own woodcuts and moveable type.

With his own small letterpress printing and bookbinding studio in Baltimore, Eric loves to use his antique machinery to create products inspired by his garden, travel, architecture, and industrial history, among other sources. After starting his career as an architect, he quickly realized he was happiest when working with pencil and paintbrush and has been creating ever since.

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For the last year, Lindsay Schmittle has been working on the Lungs of the Earth Collection inspired by the time she spent deep in the Peruvian rainforest for an Artist Residency with the Amazon Center for Environmental Education & Research (ACEER) Foundation.She was invited as the pilot artist for this 2022 residency program where she joined a group of scientists, assisted in field research and worked alongside the indigenous Maijuna community.

Now back at Gingerly Press, her Pittsburgh print studio, Lindsay has created colorful artwork to share the story of the vulnerable biodiverse rainforest and the Maijuna community fighting against a proposed highway corridor threatening their land and livelihood. This collection features landscapes as well as story-based abstracts, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the ACEER Foundation.

At the10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16, from 11 am to 4 pm, Gingerly Press will highlight the collection, while offering a full range of prints, bookmarks, cards, journals, produce bags and more. All of the letterpress work is designed not only to brighten your home but also empower you to explore the outdoors more, appreciate nature’s beauty, and adopt more sustainable living practices for a healthier planet.

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Harry Franklin Stauffer founded Conestoga Press 70 years ago in his Farmersville, PA, home, following a long printing career. He began in the print shop of Silas Bard’s Denver Press in 1915 and continued until his 1956 retirement as the printer for Weaver Book Store in Lancaster. Harry was a familiar face at historic and cultural events, where he demonstrated printing to locals and tourists alike. In the 1960’s, he donated much of his printing equipment, including a mid-19th century Ramage/Bronstrup wrought iron hand press, to the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley. He carried on with much of the Press’ activity from there, while also working on a wooden Ouram press at the Ephrata Cloister, until his death in 1982.

Harry’s print shop at the Historical Society continues as Conestoga Press, operated most Saturday mornings by volunteers Jeff Walgren, Madelyn Marks, Paul Gough, and Randy Newcomer. It is located in the carriage house behind the Victorian mansion on Main Street in Ephrata that serves as a museum of local history.

Find out more about Conestoga Press at the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair on September 16 when volunteers will be on hand from 11 am to 4 pm to share visitor information and examples from the 1850s press.

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Frank Baseman is a letterpress printer, visual artist, graphic designer and design educator. He is proprietor and printer at Base Press, a letterpress design and print studio. He also is Creative Director and Principal of Baseman Design Associates and a professor in the Visual Communication Design program at Thomas Jefferson University, where he has taught since 1998. The work of Base Press has received recognition from national and international design exhibitions and publications, and is in the permanent collections of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum,,Free Library of Philadelphia; and Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione, among others.

2023 has been an exceptional year for Frank. In February, he produced a solo exhibition, “Base Press at Land Collective: Letterpress Prints by Frank Baseman,” at GALLERY Land Collective in Philadelphia. It was his first “proper” exhibition in his hometown since his grad school exhibition nearly 40 years ago. In April, his letterpress print, “12-line Ornamental Condensed Type Specimen, Mixed Tape,” premiered at the New Impressions 2023 juried international exhibition produced by the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.

Explore Base Press cards, books and prints, including rebus quotes, nursery rhymes, and typographic explorations, at the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16 from 11 am to 4 pm. For more information, visit www.basepress.co and follow Frank on Instagram .

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Christine Medley is passionate about printmaking and making it accessible to others. Her grandfather owned Omaha Typesetting until the early 1970s, and she continues the family tradition as owner and operator of Crow Designs Studio/The Workshop, a community letterpress and graphic design studio in downtown Scranton, PA. Christine hosts workshops ranging from basic letterpress, to nature printing, to basic bookbinding, to linoleum block relief printing, and more. Expanding her creative reach, she wrote a 2020 book, Printmaking: How to Print Anything on Everything, as an easy-to-follow guide to 12 projects that can be done at home, often with found objects.

With a master of fine arts in printmaking from the University of Maryland and bachelor of journalism in advertising and fine art from University of Nebraska. Christine is a tenured associate professor of graphic design and printmaking at Marywood University in Scranton. Her relief printing, letterpress, books arts, textiles, animation and collage have been widely shown and nationally recognized.

On September 16, Christine will exhibit her handmade paper, posters, handmade journals and books, and metal fonts along with her printmaking book at the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair. Stop by between 11 am and 4 pm to see her work

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In 2021, Richard Kegler created a new brand, Dry Inc., for all of the physical products previously known as P22 Analog as well as the letterpress printing studio. DRY Inc. focuses on producing letterpress and printmaking tools along with Richard’s own limited edition poster/prints. Located near Rochester, NY, his new studio considers creative collaborations and custom commissions as well as consulting for non-profits and letterpress studio set-up.

Richard was founder and lead designer of P22, a type foundry established in 1994 dedicated to producing quality fonts and related products and presenting historical materials in a contemporary and relevant form. He brings to DRY Inc. a wealth of related experience as past director of the Book Arts Center at Wells College, former trustee for the American Printing History Association (APHA), and past chairman of the board for the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA). He also produced the documentary film Making Faces on graphic artist and type designer Jim Rimmer.

Check out the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16 from 11 am to 4 pm, where Richard will exhibit DRY Inc.’s products, including P22 Blox, rotary angle chases, Dry Dock print drying hangers and P22 type gauges as well as his original letterpress prints and posters.

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For nearly 20 years, Barbara Henry was curator of Bowne & Co. Stationers at The South Street Seaport Museum in New York City. In the late 1980s, she adopted the name Press for books produced in her own Jersey City studio. Her press is dedicated to the exploration and interpretation of texts in metal and wood type and the relationship between text and illustration. With an MFA in painting from American University, Barbara studied typography with Kay Amert at the University of Iowa. She has printed a range of books, from stories told in linoleum cuts to specimen books of metal and wood type to chapbooks of poetry and literary criticism. Harsimus Press has moved to Pottstown, PA, by the Manatawny Creek, and Barbara enjoys sharing her experience in workshops at The Center for Book Arts in New York.

Visit the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16 from 11 am to 4 pm, to explore the fine art books, chapbooks, cards and prints of Harsimus Press.

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Ray Nichols and his wife Jill Cypher opened Lead Graffiti in Newark, Delaware, in 2008, after successful careers in advertising, graphic design and education. Committed to printing slowly and patiently via letterpress, while striving for creative experimentation, spontaneity, and collaborative experiences, they designed their 2,2000-square-foot space as a lab. They’ve collaborated with the Metropolitan Opera, Sundance Film Festival, and The Art Directors Club of New York, among others over the years, while producing creative typography, books, cards, and posters. Ray and Jill also are passionate educators, hosting tours and workshops for both adults and children.

Come to the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16, from 11 am to 4 pm, to explore Lead Graffiti’s creative range, including paste paper mini keepsake albums and mantel books along with fine press books, cards, broadsides, and posters.

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In 2000, with a friend and a Ryder truck, John Barrett relocated letterpress stuff from a small store and several different storage locations and consolidated it on the fourth floor of a well-worn New England mill building and former brewery in Chicopee, MA. From that humble beginning, John B and his wife JoAnn have built Letterpress Things, one of today's most eclectic letterpress destinations, over the past 23 years. The store has purchased inventory from print shops all over New England and the Middle Atlantic, and printers from around the world have made the trek to Chicopee and up the four flights of stairs to this now 6,500-square-foot letterpress nirvana.

Join John B and JoAnn for the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair, September 16 from 11 am to 4 pm, and sample Letterpress Things’ impressive assortment of wood and metal type, plates and icons as well as books and supplies for the working printer.

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Admirers of Charles Brand’s work, Mike and Thomas Stark wanted to continue the tradition of providing the printmaking community with precise, reliable, quality presses. In 2020, the brothers launched Stark Press Company to produce replicas of Brand’s 12”x24” tabletop model at their Kenilworth, New Jersey, shop. The standard and deluxe presses are designed for a variety of etching and intaglio techniques such as engravings, aquatints, mezzotints and drypoint as well as monotypes, woodcuts, collagraphs and linocuts.

Come by the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair on September 16 from 11 am to 4 pm to learn more about Stark’s new presses as well as its used presses, parts and supplies, and relocation, repair, restoration and maintenance services.

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Meredith Akery is the creator, designer and printer of Sea Heart City Press. Her letterpress cards are concise, heartfelt and witty with hand-lettered and illustrated designs. Inspired by a love of the city and the sea, Meredith launched Sea Heart City Press in 2013, two years after taking her first letterpress class. She began in Washington DC and moved to Philadelphia before settling into her garage studio in West Belmar, NJ. Meredith’s small collection of vintage presses include a Chandler & Price 10 x 15, a Kelsey Excelsior 6 x 10, a Kelsey Model U 5 x 8, and a Golding Official #4.

Join Meredith at the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair on September 16 from 11 am to 4 pm and shop Sea Heart City’s all occasion and silly anytime cards as well as custom stationery.

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Started by Val Lucas in 2008, Bowerbox Press combines the age-old tradition of handset metal and wood type with woodcut images to create editioned prints, posters, cards, artist books, and more. Based in rural Monkton, Maryland, Val works from a barn/studio with seven restored letterpresses plus a collection of metal and wood type. She draws inspiration from her surroundings, with local birds, foraged mushrooms, woodland flowers, and seasonal landscapes among her many subjects.

Come meet Val on September 16 from 11 am to 4 pm at the 10th Annual Lancaster Printers Fair. Bowerbox will show its hand-carved, hand-printed work along with newly cast type in original designs and letterpress equipment/tools/small items.

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