Abigail Rorer & The Lone Oak Press

Reading & Exhibition with Barbara Hurd

Abigail Rorer — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:43:00 +0000

On Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 7:00 pm, Abigail Rorer will be joining Barbara Hurd (barbarahurd.com),the author of theSwamp Impressions book, for a reading and exhibition. Barbara will be reading and discussing excerpts from her books and Abigail will be exhibiting blocks and prints from the book and discussing the fine press book making process plus discussing how their collaboration came about.

Main Street Books
2 E. Main Street
Frostburg, Maryland 21532
301-689-5605

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Women to Watch 2027

Abigail Rorer — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Abigail Rorer has been selected as one of the four nominated book artists from Massachusetts for possible inclusion in the 2027 A Book Arts Revolution: Women to Watch in the Book Arts exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Museum in Washington, DC. The artists were chosen by guest curator John Buchtel, Curator of Rare Books and Head of Special Collections at the Boston Athenaeum. Women to Watch is an exhibition series from the National Museum of Women in the Arts designed to increase the visibility of, and critical response to, promising women artists who are deserving of national and international attention.

Learn more at https://ma-nmwa.org/women-to-watch-2027

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Codex X Book Art Fair & Symposium

Abigail Rorer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

The Lone Oak Press was an exhibiter at the Codex X Book Art Fair & Symposium, February 7–10, 2026, in Oakland, CA.

www.codexfoundation.org/codex-2026/

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Society of Wood Engravers 88th Annual Exhibition

Abigail Rorer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Two of Abigail’s relief engravings, Salisbury Gargoyle and Ebony Jewelwings were accepted into the Society of Wood Engravers 88^th Annual Exhibition, February–October 2026, in the UK.

societyofwoodengravers.co.uk

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WEN Conference 2025

Abigail Rorer — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Abigail was invited by the Wood Engraver’s Network to be the guest artist at their annual WEN Conference. This year it was held from June 17–21 at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, Maryland with the first three days spent in Washington, DC, viewing the special collections of various museums and libraries.

woodengravers.org

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Codex IX Book Fair 2024

Abigail Rorer — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:15:38 +0000

I’m heading to California! The Lone Oak Press will once again be exhibiting at the Codex IX Book Fair on February 4-7, 2024 at the HJK Convention Center in Oakland, California. I’ll be showing new books, prints, and silverpoints. Learn more here.

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UK Fine Press Book Fair 2023

Abigail Rorer — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:49:09 +0000

Abigail Rorer and The Lone Oak Press will be exhibiting in Oxford December 9th and 10th, showing new books, engravings, and silverpoints. Here is more information about the fair itself. Hope to see you there.

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Oak Knoll Fest XXI

Abigail Rorer — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:16:50 +0000

The Lone Oak Press will be one of the presses participating in this virtual book fair.
Oak Knoll Fest XXI: Now Virtual
October 28, 2021 12:00pm through October 30, 2021 8:00pm (EDT)

Oak Knoll Fest XXI, a premier artists’, fine press and private press book fair, originally scheduled for October 2020 and then postponed to October 2021, will now be virtual. We are very excited to be organizing a fully virtual event, which will include speaker presentations and a book fair. We will be hosting virtual presentations via Zoom, and a virtual book fair will be held October 28, 12:00pm through October 30, 8:00pm (EDT) on Getman’s Virtual Platform. the theme of Oak Knoll Fest XXI, as originally planned, will be Women in the Book Arts.

To view the book fair go to: www.oakknoll.com/fest/

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Reed Contemporary Books

Abigail Rorer — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:17:00 +0000

The Lone Oak Press is one of the presses included in the To Have and to Hold exhibition at Reed Contemporary Books, Bath, UK, November 15-28, 2021

Josie Reed of Reed Contemporary Books is presenting an exhibition of Artists’, fine press& private press books, fine bindings, and the etchings of Ros Ford entitled TO HAVE AND TO HOLD in Bath, UK on November 15-28, 2021.

For more information visit: www.reedcontemporarybooks.com

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Oxford Fair 2022

Abigail Rorer — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:18:00 +0000

Rescheduled for March 2022

Every two years the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) in the UK organizes the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair with the assistance of the UK team of the Fine Press Book Association. The Fair runs over a Saturday and Sunday with around 100 stands for presses, dealers, suppliers, and related organizations.

The Fine Press Book Association organizes a Fair Dinner held at St Cross College on the Saturday evening and a program of three lectures and the presentation of various awards on the Sunday.

The 2020 Fair was originally planned for March 28-29 but was postponed to November 21-22, 2020 due to Covid. This fair, also, was cancelled due to Covid and has now been rescheduled for March 2022. All being well, it will be held, as originally planned, in the Examination Schools in central Oxford. As soon as there are firm details from the PBFA they will post them here: www.fpba.com/fpba-events/oxford-book-fair/

The Lone Oak Press was scheduled to be one of the exhibitors in March and November, and is now planning to attend the fair in March 2022 depending on the status of the pandemic.

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The Seasons

Abigail Rorer — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:23:00 +0000

The Seasons

Another project to celebrate the Society of Wood Engravers Centenary in 2020 is four box sets of 20 engravings, each by a different member of the Society, on the theme of the four seasons. I was invited to participate and chose to do an engraving for winter. Only 20 boxes of each season were for sale and all sets have sold.

The Storm Has Finally Ended

For more information contact The Society of Wood Engravers at:

woodengravers.co.uk

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2020 Vision

Abigail Rorer — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:52:50 +0000

Published in 2020 to mark the Centenary of the Society of Wood engravers, this book links past with present and provides a fitting tribute to the skills of the engravers and the part played by the Society in the history of wood engraving. Nineteen wood engravers were asked to choose their major artistic influence, write an introduction about why they feel this way and, wherever possible, to work on a new engraving which sits side-by-side in the book with an engraving or illustration by their ‘inspirer’. I was invited to be one of the engravers and chose Leonard Baskin as the artist who had a major influence on my work. I chose a portrait of George Minne, the sculptor, by Baskin and engraved a portrait of Robert Frost, whom Baskin knew, to accompany it.

For more information go to: nomadletterpress.com and woodengravers.co.ukEdit This

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