BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:253@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T171500 DTSTAMP:20190319T204340Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/kanter-2018/ SUMMARY:On Books\, Soap Opera\, and River Rafting DESCRIPTION:Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing\n\n–lec ture by Carolee Campbell (Ninja Press)\n\nIn celebration of Ninja Press’ s 35th anniversary\, sole proprietor Carolee Campbell will discuss her lif e leading up to the founding of the press\, share her influences along the way\, and explain how an actress\, trained in and devoted to the theatre\ , fell into a long and successful Emmy Award-winning career on television\ , yet left acting behind at her peak.\n\nCampbell will present details of her particular approach to book design along with aspects of her pre-Ninja Press life: some seemingly disparate pursuits\, which\, when braided toge ther\, create a solid foundation for the art and practice of bookwork. The talk will abound with pictures and Ninja Press books will be available fo r perusal at the close.\n\n\n\nWhile there was no specific literary agenda governing the selection of works to be published by Ninja Press at the ou tset\, the abiding interest has been\, in the main\, contemporary poetry. The decision to embark on the path of bookmaking came from Campbell’s ex tensive experience as a photographer working in the darkroom in both ninet eenth and twentieth-century photographic processes. Turning photographic s equences into bound books ushered the way into bookbinding training. Event ually Campbell expanded the work to include letterpress printing\, thereby opening the way into contemporary poetry – confronting it for the first time with a directness and penetration she had seldom experienced as a re ader.\n\n \;\n\nAll Ninja Press books\, broadsides\, and keepsakes are handset in metal type and printed letterpress on a Vandercook Universal I flatbed proof press by Carolee Campbell. She designs\, prints\, and binds each of the editions at the press\, some of which she illustrates as well .\n\nOne of the primary goals set at the inception of Ninja Press was to a chieve the highest standards of excellence in craftsmanship while explorin g the union between word\, image\, and book structure. That aspiration con tinues to fuel the inspiration for future edition works.\n\nThe 2019 lectu re is being dedicated in memory of Dr. Stephen A. Kanter\, who passed away in September 2018.\n\nThe Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Pr inting is dedicated to an exploration of the history and practice of the p rinting arts\, especially as practiced in California. The biennial Kanter lectures\, established through the generous support of Stephen A. Kanter\, M.D.\, began in 1998 and have featured various printers and scholars. Vis it http://1718.ucla.edu/about/kanter/ to view past lectures. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08 /The-Persephones_poems-by-Nathaniel-Tarn_Artwork-by-Carolee-Campbell_Ninja -Press_2009-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Lectures LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR