News Release

The 12th annual Book Arts & Special Collections Center Holiday Lecture will showcase noted local printmaker and writer Alisa Golden, who will deliver an engaging presentation on letterpress printing on Dec. 10 at the Main Library.

Golden, who has used letterpress printing for the past 23 years, will show and read from a selection of her letterpress editions and recent hand-painted books. She will talk about the funny, strange, and emotional things that turn into those books: a love story that includes squashes; memories of a loved one lost; dreams; a nest in a dryer vent; and others.

Golden teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, the San Francisco Center for the Book and the Harding After School Enrichment Program (El Cerrito). She is the author of three instructional books, including her recent Expressive Handmade Books (New York: Sterling, 2005).

Sponsored by the Library’s Marjorie G. & Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center, Letterpress and Lightning will be presented 3–5 p.m. on Dec. 10 in the Latino/Hispanic Community Room B, at the Main Library. For more information, please call (415) 557-4560.

This program is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (415) 557-4277.