Arrival: 19 May 2025
5:00 – 7:00pm
Open House at Skeuomorph Press/CU Community FabLab
Day 1: 20 May 2025
9:00 – 9:45
Session 1 – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Welcome + Agenda Setting
9:45-10:00
BREAK: Coffee + Conversation
10:00-12:00
Workshop Block 1
| Topic | Workshop Leader | Location |
| Improvisational Letterpress: Collaborative Broadside | Amelia Fontanel | Skeuomorph Press |
| Printing in Difficult Times | Matthew Kirschenbaum, Kari Kraus, and/or UMD BookLab team | FabLab Classroom |
| Low-Fi Screenprinting x Concrete poetry | Éireann Lorsung | FabLab Wet Lab |
| Needlework as a Means of Documenting Literacy | Jennifer Burek Pierce | Fab Front/Computer Room |
| Planning Programmatic Outreach or Strategic Goals | Colleen Barrett | RBML Main Room |
| Rare Book Petting Zoo | RBML Reading Room |
12:00-1:30
LUNCH
1:30-3:00
Session 2 – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Roundtable: Contextualizing & Making the Case for BookLabs
- Chair: Laurie Humphrey Newcomb
- Cait Coker
- Lynda Yankaskas
- Madeline Keyser
- Melissa Adams-Campbell
- Dot Porter
3:30 – 5:30
Workshop Block 2
| Topic | Workshop Leader | Location |
| Improvisational Letterpress: Collaborative Broadside | Amelia Fontanel | Skeuomorph Press |
| Printing in Difficult Times | Matthew Kirschenbaum, Kari Kraus, and/or UMD BookLab team | FabLab Classroom |
| Low-Fi Screenprinting x Concrete poetry | Éireann Lorsung | FabLab Wet Lab |
| Illuminated Initials | Dot Porter | Fab Front/Computer Room |
| Planning Programmatic Outreach or Strategic Goals | Colleen Barrett | RBML Main Room |
| Rare Book Petting Zoo | RBML Reading Room |
6:00 – 8:00
Drinks + Pecha Kucha Sessions – Location TBD
Teaching in BookLabs
- Sarah Marcella Parella
- Kirstyn Leuner
- Luca Messarra
- Levi Sherman
- Todd Samuelson
- Nora Cornell
- Arielle VanderSchans
- Sara Penn and Kate Moffatt
Day 2: 21 May 2025
9:00 – 10:30
Workshop Block 3
| Topic | Workshop Leader | Location |
| Teaching Printing with the BookBeetle | Josef Beery | Skeuomorph Press |
| Writing a Charter for Your Lab | Amanda Visconti | FabLab Classroom |
| Papermaking on a Budget | Kit MacNeil | FabLab Wet Lab |
| Teaching with Typewriters | Isabella Viega | Fab Front/Computer Room |
| How & Why to Incorporate Letterpress into Classes | Katherine M. Ruffin | RBML Main Room |
| Rare Book Petting Zoo | RBML Reading Room |
10:30-11:00
BREAK: Coffee + Conversation
11:15-12:45
Session 5 – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Roundtable: How to Think & Talk about Research in Book Labs
- Chair: Ryan Cordell
- Alberto Campagnolo
- Carson Koepke
- Kit MacNeil
- Kadin Henningsen
- John Shanahan and Ana Lucic
12:45-2:00
2:00-3:30
LUNCH
Workshop Block 4
| Topic | Workshop Leader | Location |
| Teaching Printing with the BookBeetle | Josef Beery | Skeuomorph Press |
| Writing a Charter for Your Lab | Amanda Visconti | FabLab Classroom |
| Papermaking on a Budget | Kit MacNeil | FabLab Wet Lab |
| Teaching with Typewriters | Isabella Viega | Fab Front/Computer Room |
| How & Why to Incorporate Letterpress into Classes | Katherine M. Ruffin | RBML Main Room |
| Rare Book Petting Zoo | RBML Reading Room |
3:30-3:45
BREAK: Coffee + Conversation
3:45-4:45
Session 7 – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Roundtable: BookLab Sustainability & Funding
- Mary Tasillo
- Melanie Leung
- Patti Harper
4:45-5:00
BREAK: Coffee + Conversation
5:00-6:00
Wrap Up