Martha Chiplis

Wood type in a composing stick that says ‘WORD’ with a Chicago star. Image is reversed to be easier to read.

Community is everything and printers know that well. So @blountben.bsky.social & I are leading the charge to host WayzgooseORD (WORD) here in Chicago. It’s a new gathering for the print community to share their shops, knowledge and friendship. More info: wayzgooseord.com

New Sherwin Beach Press website launched Keeping in mind that any website is always and forever a work in ongoing progress, the new sherwinbeach.com is now ready for prime time.

John has done some excellent work on the Sherwin Beach Press website this past week in support of my tabling at Codex X. He wrote about the relaunch last summer- Sherwin Beach Press website relaunched share.google/M5MrcbMSQe4u...

A shot of my A1 mini with a plate of in progress whistles. Most are still open so you can see the insides but three have started the bridging layer.

My counting tray next to a huge mountain of whistles.

a close up of some beautiful pink/purple/blue sparkle whistles.

A cardboard box with the lid open showing hundreds of pastel pretty whistles.

Good morning, friends! Here are some melodramatic whistle pics to celebrate the fact that the Whistle Avengers have now shipped...

350,000 whistles?!?!?!?!?

AND 59,253 of those were in February.

Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Want to help? linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...

We’ve made it easy to email your senators and demand they reject any DHS budget that puts more money into Trump’s deadly deportation machine. With a vote expected later this week, it’s extra important for your senators to hear from you right now.

One hour from now, the No Kings coalition is hosting a training on how to exercise your right to monitor ICE, CBP, and other law enforcement agencies as they terrorize our communities.

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

Ways to Support Minnesota’s Immigrant Communities as ICE Activity Escalates Food drives, fundraisers, trainings, restaurant specials, and other resources to support immigrant communities during ICE's massive Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

A really solid list of ways to support folks in Minnesota during this awful time. Trainings, food drives, other resources. Please share if you can 💚 mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

Happening now: a protest is underway in downtown Chicago against the overnight U.S. attacks on Venezuela, which included the kidnapping of its President Nicolás Maduro. Protestors are filing into the city's Federal Plaza despite the dark and below-freezing temperatures.

The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain The classic 1867 travelogue with text following the first edition—paired with twenty pages of cartoon illustrations by Heather McAdams retracing the journey in 1995

Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad with cartoon illustrations by Heather McAdams and an amazing binding- one available from Sherwin Beach Press (fine press edition) sherwinbeach.com/press

Metal type on brass galley that says ‘tonight!’ Photo is reversed to make type right reading. Additional digital type added about location and time of open house (December 13, 5-9 pm, 4636 N Ravenswood Chicago).

Join us for our annual open house tonight! Presses are running, prints and cards are for sale, and we’ve got snacks. The metal type shown here (reversed) is Pastel, designed and cast in Chicago and made popular by silent film intertitles. #letterpress

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.