TYPE HIGH DAY

Also known as Letterpress Appreciation Day
14th Annual Open House
Thursday September 18
Noon to 6 PM
In-House at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts Printshop
Library Third Floor East, Suite 350

During our open house come make a free souvenir print that we've designed especially for the occasion. You'll be printing either on our 1890 Wesel Iron Handpress or on one of our vintage 1940s Vandercook Proof Presses (we've yet to determine which press we will use) and YOU will be the printer. You'll print a broadside (a poster, basically) set by hand from JCBA's collection of historic wood and metal types while we give you a brief introductory immersion into the fascinating and venerable craft of printing. The print is yours to keep and printing it will teach you the difference between clicking PRINT and actually PRINTING.

There will be letterpress-printed things available for purchase (prints, cards, books).

Join us in the Jaffe Book Arts Gallery for a 3 PM screening of Proceed & Be Bold!, the 2008 documentary by director Laura Zinger about the life and work of letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and his socially and politically charged works of art.

Florida Atlantic Libraries' Recorded Sound Archive will be at the event with a record giveaway. Here's a great opportunity to take home some vintage recordings for free. (Victrola owners, you'll find great treasures here!)

JCBA is located on the third floor east of Florida Atlantic University's Wimberly Library. From I-95 or the Florida Turnpike, exit Glades Road, east. The FAU campus is located just east of I-95. If you enter the campus at FAU's main entrance (the one furthest west on Glades Road... and the first you'll see approaching from I-95), you will enter on West University Drive. Continue straight on West University Drive to the traffic light at Volusia Street. Turn right onto Volusia Street. Parking Garage 1 is on Volusia Street, and the Wimberly Library is the next building east.

The I-95 interchange for Florida Atlantic University (Exit 48A) takes you directly from the interstate to FAU. Once you pass the traffic light at Spanish River Boulevard, you are on the FAU campus on FAU Boulevard. Continue to the traffic signal at the intersection of FAU Boulevard and University Drive (FAU Stadium will be on your right). Turn right onto University Drive. Turn left at the traffic signal at Volusia Street. Parking Garage 1 is on Volusia Street, and the Wimberly Library is the next building east.

Visitors to the FAU campus must pay at the meters or use the ParkMobile app (or visit https://parkmobile.io/) to park on campus. Both are available 24/7. Parking is $2.50 per hour. Vehicles must be parked nose-in.

Visitors using the ParkMobile app or website may park in any yellow or blue lot. Blue spots are designated by normal white lines on the ground. Parking Garage 1, which is the garage adjacent to the Library, is a blue lot. The ParkMobile parking zone for the library's parking lot (Lot 19/20) is Zone 6927. The parking zone for Parking Garage 1, which is the building just west of the library, is Zone 6931.

Vehicles paying by physical meter must park in the yellow metered lot and spaces. These will have yellow lines on the ground as well as “Pay By Plate” signs in front of each. These are found in Lot 19 in front of the Library. Find a campus map here: Maps (fau.edu)