Intima Press Letterpress Designs

06/15/2026

I am so pleased to be able to talk about Mary Goddard and the Declaration of Independence for "The Revolutionary Work of Woman Printers," at the Peabody Essex Museum, Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 1pm:

Women have always been actively engaged in printing. They continue to disseminate challenging texts, educate the next generation, create beautiful work and run printing businesses. Join artist and master printer Mindy Belloff, historian of early America and digital scholar Jessica C. Linker for a discussion of their own work, the role of women printers in the American Colonies and the Declaration of Independence. Director of PEM’s Phillips Library Dan Lipcan will moderate the discussion.

Join Mindy Belloff and Jessica C. Linker for a discussion of the role of women printers in the American Colonies and the Declaration of Independence.

04/30/2026

I look forward to seeing you there! Table B-6.

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THE MANHATTAN RARE BOOK & FINE PRESS FAIR: May 2, 2026

The most diverse and dynamic New York book fair returns with longer hours and even more booksellers and book artists!

The Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
869 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York

12/09/2025

A big thank you to Michael Ryan for his beautiful review of "The Golden Hair of Medusa," published in Parenthesis 49, the Fine Press Book Association Journal. At the conclusion of his Review entitled, "When Looks Can Kill," he writes:

"The Golden Hair of Medusa" is thus a remarkable work
which exists on several different levels. It provokes and
challenges. It invites us to consider what may be really going
on in this tale. Above all, it demonstrates what a mature
artists’ book can be, utilizing text and artifact to create a
complex integrated whole. But this is what we expect from
Mindy Belloff, an artist whose body of work never lets the
viewer off easily. While Hawthorne intended his volume for
children, Medusa metamorphoses it into something
altogether different.

Above all, "Medusa" the book subverts Medusa the myth. In
its sheer beauty, its drama, its subtleties, and its powerful
creativity, it completely reframes the myth as a magnificent
piece of art to behold, rather than turn away from. We can
look at Medusa in the last pages of the book and behold not
a monster, but the beautiful girl blessed by the gods that she
once was. To look at this Medusa is to marvel and admire,
not die. To behold Medusa here is to live and learn. Like
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Belloff herself has reconceived the
myth, and in doing so has rehabilitated it for a 21st-century
sensibility. We must hope that the artist continues her
journey through the bequest of remote antiquity in future
work.

12/02/2025

It is Giving Tuesday, and annual donations went out as promised: A percentage of sales from the edition, "The Tragedy of Othello/ The Tragedy of Desdemona," is donated to organizations helping victims of domestic violence, thanks to the support this year of collections including the State Library of New South Wales, the University of Georgia, and the University of Delaware.

10/08/2025

Uptown/Downtown: If you’d like to re-live the ‘80’s or introduce your youngin’ to a bit of it, head to Lévy Gorvy Dayan.

10/06/2025

Beautiful exhibition of books from the JTS at the Grolier

07/04/2025

In 2008 I announced I would be recreating the printing of the Declaration of Independence by Mary Katharine Goddard. I then re-wrote the Declaration, creating a 2nd, inclusive, unambiguous edition stating “all People” are created equal.
I have worked for 18 years to try to get Mary K written back into the historical record and happy to see the Goddard being talked about, not just the Dunlap, lecturing and writing about the accomplishments of this extraordinary woman - newspaper editor, compositor, and Postmistress of Baltimore. A true proponent of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
We all have to work to make sure this inclusive language reflects a true and ongoing democracy.
Happy Independence Day❣️

06/06/2025

Fine Press Book Association Award
I am so pleased to have received a lovely certificate sent by "Royal Mail" for the Judge’s Choice Award given to “The Golden Hair of Medusa” edition at the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair last month. It is hanging next to the Collector’s Award received for “A Golden Thread: The Minotaur,” the companion book, presented at the Manhattan Fine Press Fair in 2020.

05/04/2025

I am so pleased my new edition, “The Golden Hair of Medusa” received a Judges’ Choice Award 2025, at the Oxford Fair, a companion book to the award winning “A Golden Thread: The Minotaur,” in 2020. Many thanks to the Judges for their support, much appreciation to binder extraordinaire, Celine Lombardi, and Peter Geraty, and congratulations to 2 colleagues who also received recognition. It was a lovely Fair in a beautiful building. And now Medusa has a new home in London.

05/03/2025

Happy to be back in Oxford. There is one more day for the Fine Press Fair, tomorrow, Sunday 11am-4pm!