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Girl Printers:
Talented Women
Strut Their Stuff!
Artists' Reception and Gallery Talk by Curator: Thursday September
18th from 4:30 - 6:30pm in the Nott Memorial "Girl Printers" showcases professional work done by thirty-seven women printers. The aim of the show is to introduce college students and the visiting public to a wide variety of ephemeral and substantive printing and book arts work done by a sampling of women from across the United States. With tongue-in-cheek, the title of the show reflects that we are strong, we are talented and we are part of a great tradition of women printers, going back to the beginning of the development of movable type. As curator of the show, Carol J. Blinn is in a perfect position to gather together such special talents. She has been designing with type, illustrating, letterpress printing, binding by hand, publishing books and doing commercial printing work for thirty years. Many of the women in the show she counts as friends and some have been highly recommended by others in the book arts field. All are professionals, some at the beginnings of their careers and some far along the printing path. All have stories to tell. Part of the show revolves around their answers to a long list of questions sent by Carol to each participant. Every printer has a love of a different tool; each one approaches the joys of making art with various methods; every printer tells of mentors or childhood-learned skills that helped her along the way; each printer addresses typefaces used; several printers wrote about their personal triumphs in running shop equipment; many of the printers have an opinion on being treated differently just because they are women; and every one of the printers explains her life's work as work she could not live without. As each
questionnaire arrives I am struck by how varied but connected
our stories are. The gathering of this information has helped me
feel less alone, less odd and more energized at doing my life's
work. I am touched beyond measure by the honesty,
professionalism, determination and humor of all the printers
involved. Putting this show together has been my rare pleasure Carol J. Blinn, Curator
and proprietor of Warwick Press
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