Heidi Kyle, one of the foremost practitioners of the book arts, will give the Frederic W. Goudy Lecture on Saturday, March 9, at 8:00 p.m. in the Scripps College Humanities Auditorium. Her talk, titled "The Book in Your Hand: It’s Not All About Reading," is one in a series of events on the Scripps campus to celebrate the founding of the Scripps College Press in 1941. The Goudy lecture is free and open to the public.
Kyle is head conservator at the American Philosophical Society and adjunct professor at the University of the Arts, both in Philadelphia. She teaches book structures to MFA students of the graduate program in book arts and printmaking at the university. Her one-of-a-kind constructions have been shown internationally and are in private and public collections. She is co-founder of PBI, Paper and Book Intensive, and has given workshops throughout the world for more than 20 years.
Other Scripps College Press sixtieth anniversary events that are free and open to the public include the exhibition "Thirty Over Fifteen: Books at the Scripps College Press," at Clark Humanities Museum, March 4 through April 10, with an opening reception on Saturday, March 9, from 5 p.m to 6:15 p.m.; "The Art of Teaching," an exhibit featuring work of faculty at the Press from 1941-2001, at Denison Library currently showing through April 2; "Redressing the 60s: What Artists Wore, Lessons à la Mode," a lecture by award-winning book artist Susan King on March 26 at noon in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons; the Brad and Mary Anne Blaine Faculty Lecture, "Fabrications: Genesis of Ideas for Scripps College Press Books," by Director of the Scripps College Press Kitty Maryatt on April 1, 7 p.m., in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons; and the Fine Arts Foundation Lecture by Kitty Maryatt, on April 10 at 2 p.m. in the Humanities Auditorium, on the Press’s latest book, "Deep Rooted at Scripps."