The Art and Practice of Wonder, an Artist’s Talk with Julie Chen at the New Mexico History Museum

• Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 1 pm to 2:30 pm
• New Mexico History Museum,113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501
• Open to the public; free with regular museum admission

The Palace Press at the New Mexico History Museum is delighted to host visiting artist Julie Chen as our distinguished speaker on the contemporary letterpress and handmade books for the inaugural Palace Press Presents: Visiting Artist Lecture Series. This biannual event features public presentations and programs by experts in the field of book arts, letterpress, and printing history. Programs at the Palace Press celebrate the centuries old history of printing in New Mexico and highlight contemporaries in the fine press and book arts community.
In addition to the public lecture, our visiting artist will print a series of broadsides to be sold/auctioned by the Palace Press for funds to sustain the Visiting Artist program.

Julie Chen is an internationally known book artist who has been publishing limited-edition artist’s books under the Flying Fish Press imprint for more than 36 years. Julie’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including the University of Washington, the Kohler Art Library at the University of Wisconsin, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at the Wits Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work can be found in numerous collections worldwide including the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. In 2009 she was a featured artist in the PBS television series “Craft in America” and in 2020 she was one of the featured artists in the documentary film “The Book Makers.” Visit her website & social media here: https://flyingfishpress.com/ and @flyingfishpress (Instagram).