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The Trump administration is finding out that the majority of Americans are outraged by its murderous occupation of Minnesota. Now that pro a

Lisa Needham at Daily Kos:

The Trump administration is finding out that the majority of Americans are outraged by its murderous occupation of Minnesota. Now that pro athletes and teams are calling out that behavior too, you can probably expect a hearty round of “stick to sports” from conservatives. However, the sheer number of statements is tough to ignore—and it’s not just limited to Minnesota athletes.

The day after the killing of Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents, the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) released a statement that did not mince words, saying it was time to “stand in solidarity with the people in Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice.” The NBPA also reminded everyone that sports are global: “The fraternity of NBA players, like the United States itself, is a community enriched by its global citizens, and we refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all.”

[...] There is no shortage of current big-name players speaking out. Karl Anthony-Towns, who played nine seasons for the Minnesota Timberwolves before joining the New York Knicks in 2024, called for “accountability, transparency, and protections for all people.” His teammate, Guerschon Yabusele, went further, saying that what was happening in Minnesota is “beyond comprehension. We’re talking about murders here.” On Tuesday, San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama declared, “Every day I wake up and see the news, and I'm horrified. It's crazy that some people make it seem like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable.” Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Spencer Strider went the more intellectual and historical route, posting a picture of a 1770 engraving from Paul Revere titled “The Boston Massacre Perpetrated in King Street.” But the bluntest statement so far has come from Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton posting on X simply, “Alex Pretti was murdered.”

Happy to see certain athletes speak out against ICE’s thuggery in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

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It’s Fine Press Friday!

This week we present The Wood-Engravings of Gwenda Morgan with an introduction by John Randle. Printed and published at John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Gloucestershire, England in 1985 in an edition of 335 copies, signed by Gwenda Morgan. It was set in 12-point Bell and printed from original engravings on Zerkall mould-made papers. 35 copies were quarter bound in leather with a set of fifteen prints of the engravings.

Gwenda Morgan (1908-1991) was a British wood engraver who lived in Petworth, West Sussex. She studied at Goldsmith’s College School of Art until 1929. Iain Macnab taught her wood engraving at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, and recommended Gwenda to the Golden Cockerel Press and put forward her name for membership of the Society of Wood Engravers. The Samson Press commissioned Gwenda Morgan’s first book, Pictures and Rhymes, which was published in 1936. Gwenda illustrated a number of books for other private presses throughout her life, as well as prints for exhibitions, and smaller items such as greeting cards. The Sussex countryside was a constant source of inspiration. John Randle wrote in the introduction: “Her wood-engravings with their downland farms and villages and the people and animals who inhabit them portray a way of life which has all but vanished as tractors and silos have displaced horses and hayricks.”

This book is another generous donation from our friend, Jerry Buff.

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Pochoir Printing for Decoration

Today we present “Pochoir: Practical Watercolour Stencilling of Illustrations & Designs for Books &c” an article by Vance Gerry found in Matrix 8, Winter 1988, printed at the Whittington Press in Gloucestershire, England, edited by John and Rosalind Randle. The article gives instructions for printing using the pochoir printing method, which involves cutting your own stencils. It is illustrated with five original pochoir prints.

In the “Pochoir Postscript” included at the end of the article, Dennis Hall, whose wife Sylvia Stokeld did much of the pochoir for Matrix 8, writes:

“The scale of the work is interesting. As Matrix’s run is 950 copies, it represents a large undertaking for pochoir work, and as one person could not complete it in the time, it had to be spread between four (Geoffrey Bamford, Carol Boothman, Marlene Sanderson, and Sylvia Stokeld), which presented something of an organizational problem as, with two or more illustrations on one spread, reams of sheets were sent dashing about Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. And pochoir is labour intensive: each illustration means picking up the sheet and positioning it accurately, bringing down the stencil, getting the correct liquidity of paint, removing the sheet, stacking it, covering it with blotting paper and lowering a large dictionary to prevent cockling.”

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern

It’s Fine Press Friday!

This week we present Nine Artists & a Press: An Exhibition of the Work of Nine Artists Working for the Whittington Press, Held at the Fiery Beacon Gallery, 2-17 December ‘89. The book was printed in an edition of 950 copies in Walbaum type at John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire in 1989. Our copy is another generous donation from Jerry Buff, and it is one of 50 copies bound in paper marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt and signed by the artists. The book features nine artists who worked with the press over a long period of time and includes information about each artist’s work under one of their illustrations. These artists are: John Craig, Brian Hanscomb, Richard Kennedy, Miriam Macgregor, Gwenda Morgan, John O’Connor, Howard Phipps, Judith Verity, and Hellmuth Weissenborn.

The book notes:

“These nine artists have talents that lie in many different directions. The common thread that runs through their work is that they have been published by the Whittington Press, which is fortunate indeed to have such a galaxy of talent at its disposal.”

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Assistant