The End

Thanks to all of you who sent in info for the blog - I hope you all had successful weekends!

I just wanted to share a few of my photos from the fair.....

Take Care,
Kris Merola

Chip Schilling | Indulgence Press

Only 3 more days until the book fair!!!!!!

Time is running short and I am glued to the election results on tv so I thank Chip for his wonderful bio (see below) and I will see you all in a few days!



Wilber “Chip” Schilling owns and operates Indulgence Press, since 1992, a letterpress studio specializing in the design and production of limited edition books and prints. Chip earned a BA from Clark University and an MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Working as both a fine artist and a commercial artist, he has exhibited and been collected nationally and internationally. Collections include: Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Walker Art Center, The Getty Center, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, The British Library and, the Whitney Museum of American Art Library. Chip has served as the president of the Ampersand Club (founded in 1930 to foster an appreciation of the historic and artistic importance of the printed book) and has been a member of the Artist Advisory Committee at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and a faculty member of the College of Visual Arts. For more than a decade, he has taught workshops in letterpress printing, bookbinding and photography throughout the United States.

Leopard Studio Editions

Leopard Studios is the Press of Sue Huggins Leopard who is a printmaker and book artist in Rochester, New York. Because Sue and I live in the same town I have had the pleasure of going to her amazing studio and seeing her work in progress. I am excited to find out that she is finally done with Past Surmise, a suite of etchings with poems by Emily Dickenson, I am more than excited to see the finished work. (Photo by James Via)

Green Chair Press

I looked up Green Chair Press and smiled when I saw it was located in Burlingame, California. When my parents first moved to the San Francisco area visiting Burlingame was the highest priority on my to-do list. What you may not know is that Burlingame is home to an amazing PEZ museum and as a long time collector I was dying to see it. On the Green Chair Press blog I was surprised and delighted to see a broadside with an Obama PEZ design and mention of the PEZ Museum! Hooray for all of the beautiful letterpress work at Green Chair Press and of course for PEZ dispensers!

Mary Tasillo | Cake & Pie Press

Once Whole, Now Homeless

Mary Tasillo is Cake & Pie Press…at least some of the time. Cake & Pie Press is currently a Philadelphia-based though slightly itinerant operation. Mary’s work is driven by a constant worry that the world is going to pieces. She participates in the book arts, paper arts, print culture, and interactivity as sites of democratic access and narrative possibility. She balances work in the limited edition artist’s book and gallery-based work with work in the democratic multiple, such as zines and free broadsides, to ensure the broadest possible work as she examines the beastly in the American political body and citizenry. (statement courtesy of the artist)

Check out Mary's blog here

Don't miss Mary's talk at the conference talk entitled, "Context is King," at 11am on Saturday, November 8th!

Amber Hares

Right next to Masumi Shibata upstairs at the book fair will be the lovely and talented Amber Hares. Don't miss her table and be sure to buy a copy of I have a dollar before it is too late! Check out all of her work here.

Masumi Shibata

Check out masumiEDUCATIONAL an amazing and talented artist from New Mexico new to the book fair.