As part of the SFU Library Special Collections series, Share the Enthusiasm, long-time printer/publisher, collector and author, Robert McCamant, will discuss his strategies for collecting and publishing.
Robert McCamant was one of the founders of the Chicago Reader, one of the oldest and most successful American alternative weeklies. For 23 years, McCamant was the paper’s art designer and later its vice-president.
In 1984, he became proprietor, designer, and editor of Sherwin Beach Press (www.sherwinbeach.com); the Press publications have been in many exhibitions, recently the NYPL’s “Ninety for the Nineties”.
McCamant is a member of the Association typographique internationale, the American
Institute of Graphic Arts and Chicago’s prestigious Caxton Society for which he edits
their journal, The Caxtonian. He is an advisor to the Codex Foundation and North American chair of the Fine Press Books Association.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Alcuin Society (www.alcuinsociety.com).
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
7:30pm
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Hamber Foundation Boardroom 470
Simon Fraser University Vancouver
580 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
Refreshments following lecture.
Free Admission – limited seating
- please reserve a seat by calling
778.782.6704 or emailing library@sfu.ca
For further information contact:
Eric Swanick
Head, Special Collections
WAC Bennett Library
Simon Fraser University
Tel: 778.782.4626
Email: eswanick@sfu.ca
website: www.lib.sfu.ca/special/
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