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 […]
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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,
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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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Two of Abigail’s relief engravings, Salisbury Gargoyle and Ebony Jewelwings were accepted into the Society of Wood Engravers 88th Annual Exhibition, February–October 2026, in the UK. societyofwoodengravers.co.uk
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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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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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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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The Lone Oak Press will be one of the presses participating in this virtual book fair. Oak Knoll Fest XXI: Now VirtualOctober 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
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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,
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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.
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.
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
