William Morris and his cohort of designers, printers, bookbinders, writers, and friends founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891 as a reactionary response against cheap mass printing and (to their mind) shoddy design work. Running for a short seven years but producing an intense array of beautiful objects, like most of Morris’s endeavors the Kelmscott Press was a complicated mix of aesthetic desires, a fight for workers’ rights, art for the affluent, and a celebration of the historic. This presentation will touch on the various facets of the Kelmscott Press, and its influence on American printing. Presented by Anna Wager, the Curator of Exhibitions at the University at Buffalo Art Galleries
Roycroft Fall 2023 History Course: Session 1
October 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
$20.00
The Roycroft Campus is offering its annual Fall History Course Series.
This presentation will be offered both in-person on Wednesday, October 18th at 7pm EST in the Roycroft Power House
and virtually through Zoom on Saturday, October 21st at 11am EST.
You can attend either or both.
Session 1: Kelmscott, Roycroft, and the Complexities of “Fine” Press Printing
This cost of this lecture is $20 per person. To purchase the whole series for $50 (includes all 3 presentations) click here.
Zoom link will be sent in a separate email the week of the class.