Speakeasy Press

12/12/2021

Mary, Queen of Scots used a complicated “letterlocking” process to conceal the secrets of the last letter she wrote before she was beheaded, researchers have discovered. Written in French on 8 February 1587 to Henry III, king of France from her prison cell, the letter sees Mary write that she ha...

04/04/2021

New edition of book, including a SpeakEasy Press broadside

I'm so excited to announce the new edition of the Celebrate People's History book! The culmination o...

06/05/2020

Art activism at its best. Welcome to Black Lives Matter Plaza.

The city of Washington, D.C., is echoing a call for justice by naming a road and painting an unmissable message on a street that leads to the White House: Black lives matter. A section of 16th Street in front of the White House is now called Black Lives Matter Plaza, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announc...

03/07/2020

Virginia mulberry

02/15/2020

Edgeworthia aka gampi is blooming!

Fragrant blooms opening on this paperbush (Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Akabana’)

11/17/2019

“New” Double Yankee cases from John Barrett

10/23/2019

I’ve accepted I appreciate any ligature, even if it’s sans serif.

10/18/2019

Tororo aoi roots for next spring’s Penland class. A formation aid used in papermaking.

10/04/2019

Describes process of papermaking and paper recycling.

As we turn our backs on single-use plastic, paper is seen as a more sustainable alternative. But is it?

08/11/2019

08/11/2019

A bookmaking collective in San Cristobal de las Casas is helping keep the Tzotzil language alive.

07/08/2019

Getting organized in new studio.

05/25/2019

Hi·a·tus, /hīˈādəs/, n., a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process.

I’m happy to report SpeakEasy Press has reopened in Falls Church, VA. Stay tuned!

04/02/2019

I’m thankful to Virginia Humanities for their support of the Cherokee/Tsalagi work. Video is of a talk I gave there today.

03/28/2019

Connecting People and Ideas

12/27/2018

“If you have a hand and you can write, you can hand-letter,” said the co-founder of the Unofficial Hand Lettering Society of Silver Spring.

01/25/2018

12/05/2017

Red Onion Press has a new home in Kennesaw, Ga. Go visit Clemens and Shirley.

Fine Arts Printmaking and Letterpress Publications Workshop and Gallery Learn More

11/17/2017

Much thanks for having me today as a part of this workshop at Kennesaw State University. JoyEllen Freeman Valerie Wright Dibble

The RSVP deadline is coming up for the KSU Archives' Native American Community Curation Workshop!

Be sure to RSVP to JoyEllen Freeman at [email protected] by November 27, 2017 to guarantee a space. Lunch will be served, and all attendees are encouraged to bring at least one archival item from home to present during the show-and-tell session. Please see the official flyer for more details.

This workshop is funded by a grant from the Society of American Archivists.

10/11/2017

I've been enjoying these, but man does this logo typography bug me. Watch out Ed! T is far behind.

08/02/2017

Mills College is pleased to announce a $2 million gift to support the study of Book Art. The gift will establish the Lovelace Family Chair in Book Art, which will appoint the first endowed faculty chair for the program, and is among the largest gifts ever made to the field, nationally.

07/04/2017

Article on this weekend's installation with artist Jeff Marley

https://theonefeather.com/2017/07/art-installation-set-up-on-island/

07/03/2017

Mary Katherine Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document. To do it, she had to face down the Twitter trolls of 1776.

05/31/2017

Paper mulberry tree at Monticello.

05/18/2017

UNC Greensboro artist: "I treat the academic institution like a correctional institution, so I’m not allowed to stop outside and talk. I can only go to point A and B, one classroom to the next."

"Once I saw what goes on in jail, how we were treated, I will never forget. We need to have more conversations about it."

04/30/2017

A thanks to Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, for having me visit this month to speak about Cherokee language printing.

02/28/2017

William and Dr. Wesley Harris donated a plaque to the University of Virginia hall where MLK spoke in 1963. It's coincidently the subject of this year's SpeakEasy Press MLK card.

02/17/2017

...in support of immigrants....

All art created or donated by immigrants has been removed from the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. The intent is to send a message.

01/24/2017

A thanks to those who attended today's talk at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Between 50 to 90 percent of the world’s total languages are anticipated to be extinct by 2100. Cherokee is one of them. Join book artist and VFH Residential Fellow Frank Brannon as he describes the history of Cherokee printing, and an artist/scholar’s efforts to support the revitalization of an indi...

01/16/2017

MLK Day card. He was at the University of Virginia two weeks before he was arrested in 1963, in Birmingham, and his resulting letter.