American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
United States
In this hybrid program, Andrew Volpe looks at two meanings of "Printing Revolution": the printing press and the "revolutionary" materials that printers produced. An expert on colonial printing techniques, Volpe will emphasize the legal battles fought over the concepts of a free press and freedom of speech in the American colonies versus England and the printing of the Declaration of Independence.
Andrew Volpe is an artist, printer, and living history presenter based in Worcester, MA. In addition to studying intaglio/copperplate printing from 1450-1800, he works with the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, MA, giving presentations, tours and demos, and with the printing office of Edes & Gill, where he replicates prints of Paul Revere. When Volpe is not printing, he gives arms and armor presentations at the Worcester Art Museum.