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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-indent:0.25in"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">On Thursday, March 9,
at 7:30 PM, The Aldus Society presents <b>The Art of Printmaking</b> presented by
Sergio Soave, Professor, The Ohio State University. The meeting takes place at
The Thurber Center, 91 Jefferson Ave., Columbus.</span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-indent:0.25in"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The inclusion of
prints in books has been an integral part of publishing for centuries, yet few
people are intimately familiar with the many processes – intaglio, relief,
planographic, and so on – used to produce them.<span>
</span>Professor Sergio Soave will give us an overview of the various
techniques, their preparation, and execution.</span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-indent:0.25in"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> Professor
Soave currently serves as chair of the art department at The Ohio State
University. His computer works, lithographs, etchings and silkscreens have been
included in more than 120 regional, national, and international exhibitions and
in many permanent collections. </span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-indent:0.25in"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> He
helped establish the OSU Urban Arts Space, an exhibition/community facility
located in the downtown core. He also leads the OSU Public Arts Committee and is
spearheading commissions of significant works by noted artists. </span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-indent:0.25in"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The Aldus Society is
an organization for people who appreciate the many facets of text and image
through various media, but principally the book, past, present and future.
Aldus provides a wide variety of programs and activities on book collecting,
the history of printing, publishing, and book selling, book illustration, book
design, book bindings, paper making, typography, calligraphy, and libraries.</span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-indent:0.25in"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">This month’s
pre-program socializing begins at 700 p.m. allowing members and guests time to
discuss their latest bibliophilic adventures. The program is free and open to
the public.</span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-indent:0.25in"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For more information,
please contact Leah, the Membership Chairman at 614-390-6080.</span></p>
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