Martha Chiplis

We demand a new Board of Directors at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Our beloved printing museum faces an unprecedented situation. Board overreach has cancelled programming, rescinded residencies and cancelled exhibits of Black and LGBTQ+ artists, and silenced communit...

Some good printers created a site documenting Hamilton Wood Type Museum board's actions (wearehamfam.info) & linking to a petition (I signed!) calling for new governance that includes museum staff & community members (sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...). If you do letterpress, please consider signing:

Wherever you went to college and grad school, write the presidents and urge them to stand up to Trump and with other universities. This will take you maybe 20 minutes to do.

Bloomsbury explores AI licensing deal - The Society of Authors Our campaign for the rights and interests of authors in the face of big tech companies using copyrighted work to train their generative AI models continues this week.

An article about Bloomsbury's recent AI licensing offer- societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/b...

People responding to this saying “the internet is forever”, but actually 38% of web pages that existed in 2013 are no longer online. Data, documents, and websites need to be archived and (importantly, this is a distinct thing) preserved or they will go away.

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez An immigration agent killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago. The initial narrative was quickly disproven by witnesses.

Read the story here: chicagoreader.com/news/ice-sho...

Press shot with type form and first proof of a print that says ‘it’ll be better in Chicago. -Mavis Staples’

Setting up a print for folks to pull at the Ravenswood Art Walk this weekend. The ‘Chicago’ type was designed by @chgohoods.bsky.social based on the Starsiak store signage; I had it laser cut as a wood font. #letterpress

Gaining ground: Native plants surge as gardeners try to save bees, butterflies Gardens benefit insect population, a vital link in the food chain and one that is in steep decline.

“At a time of growing concern about declines in insect populations, native plants are having a moment … ” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/11/i...

I found 8 of my things in here and 10 of Todd's. GRRRRR.

Incredible showing for democracy and against occupation today.

Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful.

authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

Sub-versive DC Protester Becomes Memeorable Tributes to the “hero with a hero” who flung a Subway sandwich at a federal agent have emerged across the nation’s capital and online.

Nothing outsmarts autocrats like humorous resistance: The latest unlikely people’s hero famously flung a Subway sandwich at Border Protection officers last week in Washington, DC.

Emerging Artist Fellowship - Codex Foundation The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships aim to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of book arts by helping to reduce the financial barriers to exhibiting at the CODEX Book Fair. […]

The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships are a great opportunity. The deadline is approaching! Please help spread the word! www.codexfoundation.org/opportunitie...

#bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #printmaking

It was a wonderful day!

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Very grateful for John's work on the new website!

Owner of our local-ish native plant nursery, Possibility Place-

I will be part of this tomorrow

Thousands to line Ogden Avenue Sunday to protest Trump administration Thousands of people are expected to line Ogden Avenue from Aurora to Chicago Sunday as part of the Hands Across Chicagoland demonstration to protest the Trump administration

Tomorrow more than 20,000 will not be silent.
www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-...

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?

This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

The annual blossoms of this lily magnolia in central Berwyn are always such a welcome site after a grey winter. The smells reach across and down the block.

Complete Streets Too often an afterthought in street design, urban trees make streets safer, longer-lasting, healthier and more pleasant.

“Too often an afterthought in street design, urban trees make streets safer, longer-lasting, healthier and more pleasant.”
vibrantcitieslab.com/research/cit...

A letterpress printed poster in green ink, reading I YIELD FOR A QUESTION WHILE RETAINING THE FLOOR

My demo for my letterpress class today. 12 line wood type printed on a Vandercook press. @booker.senate.gov

Tune in on April 26 for real talk on running your own letterpress print shop, with Jennifer Farrell!

This month’s interactive Long-Distance Letterpress class is packed with useful topics, gleaned from 25 years of running @starshapedpress

⚡️Register at partnersinprint.org/events

Senator Durbin @durbin.senate.gov -- we implore you to join Senator Duckworth in voting NO across the board on the GOP's catastrophic funding bill!

They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

Donald Trump stood in front of Congress tonight and reinforced what we already knew: He’s a corrupt megalomaniac lunatic who is running our country to the ground. These are not normal times. Everything is not fine. We are in crisis.

4 protesters hold signs that say Support Ukraine, not Russia. Putin out of Ukraine. Impeach Trump now.

Support Ukraine, not Russia! We need a president who doesn't align with dictators over democracy.

Boreal Owl braving the wind!

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#Nature #Birds #Owl #Birdoftheday

AICWU Faculty Strike Fund Give to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Workers United (AICWU) Faculty Strike Fund!

If you're willing & able, please donate to the AICWU Faculty Strike Fund!✊

SAIC has relied on the underpaid labor of Non-Tenure-Track faculty while inflation has devoured paychecks; currently, more than 300 faculty teach w/o benefits (including health insurance).
app.betterunite.com/aicwufaculty...

Judge temporarily halts mass firings at CFPB, preserves agency data The order also blocks acting CFPB Director Russ Vought from taking steps to defund the agency.

A judge just blocked Elon Musk and co-president Donald Trump from firing the financial cops at the CFPB who protect consumers from Wall Street scams.

There's power in fighting back.