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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4h

Show opens December 10!! www.newberry.org/calendar/pri...

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Impressive Textiles: Printing on Fabric

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 19h

Highly recommend this keynote on the Colored Conventions! Given by Dr. Andre Johnson (@aejohnsonphd.bsky.social) at Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia. Several days of events & programs led by CCP's very own Dr. Denise Burgher. A landmark day!

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Andre E. Johnson @aejohnsonphd.bsky.social · 22h

“Let Us Remain Here”: The Role of the Declaration of Independence at the Colored Conventions ther3project.substack.com/p/let-us-rem...

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“Let Us Remain Here”: The Role of the Declaration of Independence at the Colored Conventions

A Keynote Address by Andre E. Johnson, Ph.D. at Mother Bethel AME Church

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 20h

There's an episode from the early seasons of The Incredible Dr. Pol in which Charles gets his mom a large caliber handgun and they squeeze off a few rounds in the backyard. It might be the strangest thing I've ever seen on TV.

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#bookhistory #letterpress anybody in bookish/printish circles have a sense of typesetting rates, past and/or present? ⏬⏬⏬

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trying to have it both ways over here 😆😆😆

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rad time tonight at the 9/25 Dolly Art Show at Revelry Gallery! Dolly4Eva!

Partner and I posing near the show poster I designed for Imagination Library, displayed next to lots of cool paintings and drawings at a Dolly Art Show and fundraiser

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good morning and what a way to make a livin'! #DollyForever

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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can highly recommend applying for the Rare Books School M.C. Lang Fellowship! It was a boon to my teaching, helped me develop a new area of our curriculum, provided funding for my teaching development. Feel free to DM me if you're interested!

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well, the day just got much better! My neighbor asked if I wanted some peppers. He had a bumper crop. I picked a peck. This is only half of them!

About 75 Serano, Bell, Anaheim, and Banana peppers from neighbor's garden, sitting in a wrought iron table

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

DMV hell, flat tire, broken dishwasher, missed meeting. What a day.

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

back on my bullshit...proofs and make ready tomorrow

Galley of upside-down, mostly medium sized wood type, locked up, before make-ready stage of preparation

Galley of upside-down, larger sized wood type, locked up, before make-ready stage of preparation

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sylvester Stallone: "Writers are like braindead cats."

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The invention of modern paleontology and small town drugstores with soda fountains are very important!

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have ~10 percent of the fix-it knowledge of my engineer dad. Yet that is still enough to make me the Ron Swanson of every community to which I belong. I am conflicted.

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just heard from a student who was freaked out that a writing assignment would not be conducted entirely in class because they're afraid of being falsely accused of using AI Hang in there, folks

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Somebody is deaccessioning their wardrobe. Nice.

Virginity rocks sweatshirt for sale on FB marketplace

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think "Specific Socks" would be a good name for a Lo-Fi band whose members are knitters

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just submitted my sabbatical application for leave next fall. If successful, this would be my first postdoctoral research leave. I'm lucky and glad to be able to apply for this opportunity, and that I work at a research institution. That said...

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe there IS a literacy crisis after all? Sheesh.

Screencap of NY Times headline, "Can Mr. Beast Get Gen Z to Read James Patterson?"

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you want to know more about the history of #DHmakes, we wrote a journal article on it 👇 (or for a blog length, no history/just "what is this hashtag?" quick explainer: tinyurl.com/whatisDHmakes)

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"What is #DHmakes?" blog post

What is #DHmakes? Amanda Wyatt Visconti, Claudia Berger, Quinn Daedel (crossposted on our various blogs, including Stanford Textile Makerspace, LiteratureGeek.com and ScholarsLab.org) This post is by...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s excellent getting to say to a group of students, We’re gonna read X & we’re gonna spend 75 minutes talking about it, & ideally the way you think about the world & yourself is gonna be a bit more nuanced, complex, & satisfying, & that’s today’s “product.” Or, as @cnygren.bsky.social & I said:

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While in recent years universities have promoted student “productivity” (projects, online portfolios of their work, social media posts about their research papers, the list goes on), little of this push to deliver outputs and create content serves the actual purpose of education, which is to foster the capacity to think well, read well, listen well, and look well. Higher education strengthens the process; if we are going toteach sophisticated materials and challenging content, students need to learn how to think,read, listen, and look their way through it. The emphasis on “content creation” is detrimental to the educational mission.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ART IN THESE TIMES October 2-4! events free and open to all: exhibition of political art neighborhood party bookbinding workshop poetry reading theory reading group on Ranciere's The Paradoxes of Political Art join us!! #falloffreedom CHICAGO!! interccect.com/2026/09/10/a...

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Art in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibition

ART IN THESE TIMES affirms art’s special obligation to refuse authoritarian assaults on free thinking and creative making. Spotlighting works that circumvent familiar gestures of political ar…

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sometimes I ask myself, which copy should I hang up in my studio? Sometimes the studio provides the answer... #dhtries #dhmakes #letterpress

ABC poster, wrecked under drying rack wheel

ABC poster, wrecked under drying rack wheel, hanging up in the studio next to other beautiful failures

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Would you like to feel better about life? ⏬⏬⏬

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My buddies secured an amazing matching grant for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library-Louisville. I'm going to donate every dollar raised thus far tomorrow! The pre-order remains open thru September, but if you've been on the fence, this is the moment! www.etsy.com/listing/4528...

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hatch Show Print in Nashville. Bucket list stuff today!

Me looking ridiculous next to a KY State fair poster from 1998

Me, selfie with interior of Hatch Show Print shop

Inked tympan that reads Hatch Show Print

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

way too few hot dogs on this labor day timeline, and bbq hours are waning, get it together

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

and now for some better literacy news: ideas are for everybody! @downboundbooks.bsky.social @ahablives.bsky.social many other good heads "Just the act of reading together, in other words, was the bulwark against despair and alienation that so many of us were seeking.” defector.com/what-do-book...

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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

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