[BKARTS] Book Arts talk 9/23 at Smith College, Northampton MA

[Barbara Blumenthal <BBLUMENT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sunday, September 23 at 3 pm
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Browsing Room, Neilson Library

"The Book Arts Legacy of Leonard Baskin"
featured speakers:
Mark Dimunation, Chief of Rare Books Division, Library of Congress
Barbara Blumenthal, book arts specialist, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College

Historic Northampton & the Massachusetts Center for the Book will unveil
a plaque to commemorate the Gehenna Press in Northampton

A hands-on exhibition of a few choice Gehenna Press books & a reception will follow
in the Mortimer Rare Book Room (Neilson Library, third floor)

and, On exhibition in the Book Arts Gallery (3rd floor):
"Poetic Science: Bookbindings by Daniel E. Kelm"
    September 10, 2007 through January 21, 2008
"The Face of Poetry: Portraits by Margaretta K. Mitchell"
    September 5-December 20, 2007


FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Mortimer Rare Book Room  413-585-2906 or mrbr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 


BARBARA B. BLUMENTHAL
Rare Book Specialist
Mortimer Rare Book Room 
Neilson Library, Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
T: 413-585-2906  F: 413-585-4486
e-mail: bblument@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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