Lecture: Bilingual Printing: The Cherokee Phoenix and a New Art Institute in North Carolina - Colorado College

Lecture: Bilingual Printing: The Cherokee Phoenix and a New Art Institute in North Carolina

Frank Brannon, visiting Summer Session artist teaching at the Press at Colorado College, will offer a slide-illustrated talk on the history and future of printing among the Cherokee people. In this lecture, he will discuss the Cherokee Phoenix, the newspaper printed before the removal of the tribe in the 1820s from its Appalachian homeland, in relation to the current development of a letterpress printing studio at the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts in Cherokee, North Carolina. This event invites discussion among those interested in book arts and Native American history as well as the history and technology of printing. Sponsored by the Robert G. Cosgrove Fund of the history department.

Location: W.E.S. Room, lower level of Worner Campus Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave. (map)

Tickets: free

This event is open to the general public.