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Learn and practice the basics of letterpress printing and typesetting! This orientation is required as a prerequisite for working on independent projects at Common Press.
July 9, 2025
10:00am -
12:00pm
Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level
The Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library invites you to a screen-free crafternoon to learn how to paint, a popular hobby amongst dental students, faculty, and staff.
July 9, 2025
11:30am -
1:30pm
Room LL02A: Electronic Classroom, Evans Building, Levy Dental Medicine Library
For Coffee With a Codex on July 10, Dot Porter will be at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK. While there she'll look at coins with Lucy Moore, Associate Curator of Numismatic and Object Collections at the Leeds University Library.
For Coffee With a Codex on July 17, Dot Porter will bring out a 15th century Italian manuscript of treatise De spiritu et anima, erroneously attributed to St. Augustine (actually written by Alcherus of Clairvaux).
Learn and practice the basics of letterpress printing and typesetting! This orientation is required as a prerequisite for working on independent projects at Common Press.
July 22, 2025
2:00pm -
4:00pm
Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level
For Coffee With A Codex on July 24, Curator Dot Porter will bring out a copy of the text On calculation with integers and fractions, written in Baghdad in A.H. 590 (1194).
We'll celebrate the 250th birthday of the post office by making mail! Stop by and letterpress print a quote from the first postmaster general Ben Franklin or use our rubber stamp collections to make some mail art.
July 25, 2025
12:00pm -
2:00pm
Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level