Thursday, September 25, 2025

     
    4:30 – 5:00 pm Registration at the Drury Plaza Hotel St. Louis at the Arch

    Meet and Greet
    5:00 – 6:30 pm Buffet Dinner at the Hotel
    6:00 – 6:15 pm Isabel Uria and Suzanne Karr Schmidt – Welcome Statements
    6:15 – 6:30 pm Charlotte Johnson & Bill Harroff (site hosts) – A Special Welcome to St. Louis
    6:30 – 7:15 pm Simon Arizpe and Isabel Uria – Pop-Off: Season 2
    6:30 – 8:30 pm On-Site Silent Auction open for Bids
    7:15 – 7:30 pm BREAK
    7:30 – 8:15 pm Emerging Engineer Prize Presentation 
     

    Friday, September 26, 2025

     
    Before 8:30am Breakfast on your own
    8:30am – 1:30pm TOURS: Curated Books and Exhibitions at Washington University Special Collections and Medical Library

    LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
    1:30pm – 6:30pm On-Site Silent Auction open for Bids
    1:30pm – 2:15pm “What’s New” with Simon Arizpe – Presentation on his recent Pop-Ups
    2:15pm – 2:30pm BREAK
    2:30pm – 3:15pm Ellen G. K. Rubin & Larry Seidman – History of Meggendorfer Presentation
    3:15pm – 3:30pm BREAK
    3:30pm – 3:50pm Emily Beck & Jenny Schmid – Disembodied Reembodied:
    Reproductive Justice & Collaborating to Create Movable Prints
    3:50pm – 4:10pm Charlotte Johnson – Collection of Flipbooks
    4:10pm – 4:30pm BREAK
    4:30pm – 5:10pm Bruce Foster & Seth Berg – Large Scale Pop-Ups
    5:10 – 5:30pm Kelli Anderson – On her latest book: “Alphabet in Motion”
    5:30pm – 6:15pm OPEN MIC 
    6:15 – 8:00pm Dinner on your own
    8:00pm Informal Show-n-Tell 

    Theme: SPEAKEASY – Pop-Ups After Dark (Clark Room)
     

    Saturday, September 27, 2025

     
    Until 12:30pm On-Site Silent Auction open for Bids
    Until 6:00pm Voting: Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineers –Trade Publications
     PLEASE give your ballots to Ellen G. K. Rubin no later than 6pm
    8:00 – 9:00am Breakfast on your own
    8:45 – 9:00am Business Meeting – Marianne R. Petit (MBS Treasurer) and Suzanne Karr Schmidt (MBS Board Director)
    9:00 – 9:45am Amy Lopez Nayve – New Works of Pumapapel Crafts
    9:45 – 10:00am BREAK
    10:00 – 10:30am Maike Biederstädt – Selected Works
    10:30 – 11:15am Alastair “Ally” Low – Video Games & Pop-Up Books
    11:15 – 11:30am BREAK
    11:30am – 12:15pm DEMO: Make-and-Take with Amy Lopez Nayve
    12:15 – 1:15pm Lunch on your own
    1:15 – 2:15pm Panelist Discussion – Ellen G. K. Rubin, Charlotte Johnson, Dr. Amanda
    Bahr-Evola, and Thomas W. Bassett, CPA, JD, AEP – Options for Downsizing Your Collection: Gifting, Donating, and Selling. Q&A
    2:15 – 2:30pm BREAK / Set-Up for Book Sales, Swaps, Signings
    2:30 – 4:00pm Book Sales, Swaps, Signings
    4:00 – 4:30pm BREAK
    4:30 – 5:45pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Cracking the Paper Code: Uncovering the Secrets of Meggendorfer’s Movable Mechanisms
    By: Julie Chen, Book Artist, Flying Fish Press
    5:45 – 6:00pm BREAK
    6:00 – 7:30pm On-Site Auction Checkouts
    6:00 – 6:30pm Pre-Banquet Reception
    6:30pm – 8:00pm Buffet Dinner at the Hotel
    8:00pm Silent Auction proceeds announced / Meggendorfer Prize for Artists Book  Announced / Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineer – Trade Publications winner announced / Closing Remarks

    Sunday, September 28, 2025
    ALL DAY EVENT Optional Post-Conference Activities

    Movable Book workshop at Central Print
    Flag Books with Printed ImageryLearn the basics of making a folded accordion structure for attaching flags to create this dynamic book structure. Explore folding, scoring, and cutting decorative letterpress “Makeready” papers to attach to the accordion folded spine of your book. A tour of the studio and demonstration on letterpress printing will be included in the class. Materials will be provided and tools will be available for use during class.
    Sunday, September 28th, 11am-1:30pm$45 class fee – Paypal item for purchasing the class.

     

    Central Print

    2624 North 14th St.

    St. Louis, MO 63106

    314-241-1346

    www.centralprint.org

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