![]() ![]() Note: Students should bring a computer if they can contact the studio operations manager if you are enrolled and are unable to bring a computer. We’ll cover software and tools for laser cutting and 3D printing as well as hand typesetting, ink mixing, Vandercook and platen press operation, paper choices, and basic bookbinding. Students can choose to make a small edition of prints, a book, or a series of monoprints. We’ll also use the 3D printer to make experimental letterpress tools and furniture and the laser cutter to make delicate cuts and perforations on finished prints. In this workshop students will learn how to make alternative matrices for letterpress printing using laser cutting/engraving and 3D printing. Letterpress printer, designer, collagist, writer, optimist futurist founder and partner in the graphic design consultancy MATTER (Denver) designer of the Black Astronaut Research Project () teaching: Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (Denver), University of Denver, University of Colorado at Denver, Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design (Prague), East Carolina University (NC) collections: Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum (WI), Tweed Museum (MN). We’ll cover techniques of typesetting, printing, collage, and image manipulation. Whether they bring a theme or choose to shoot from the hip, students will develop an intuitive practice and the ability to discuss what is happening in real time. In this workshop combining letterpress printing with collage and writing, students will learn how to improvise in multiple directions simultaneously and find balance between text, form, and process. ![]() What do you do when the paper isn’t big enough, when the text isn’t small enough, or when the press needs to be bigger? Letterpress as a collage mechanism can be a profound exploration of scale and is ideal for creating larger-format works. Professor at University of Minnesota grants Fulbright (Slovakia), McKnight Fellowship, Bush Artists Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board grants residency: The Frans Masereel Center (Belgium) collections: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, Library of Congress representation: Davidson Galleries (Seattle). The work of various artists will serve as inspiration, and students will be encouraged to work in the style of their preference, as both figurative and abstract approaches will benefit from these uniquely stunning processes. Then we’ll move on to multiple-plate registration, color combinations, and ink mixing. We’ll start with textural processes to create tonal range: aquatint, spit bite, soft ground, crayon resist, scraping, and burnishing. Using no specific key plate, we’ll explore three-layer printing and registration to create a full range of color. Multiple-plate intaglio offers unparalleled color intensity, saturating paper with layers of pigmented ink. Studio artist, founder of Little Chair Printing (Portland, OR) creator of the bicycle screenprinting shop, which she has used for live printing of T-shirts and poster at protests and community events created an exhibition with students at Sweet Briar College (VA) during a two-week residency leader of small and large screenprinting workshops including Open Door and OutMaine, both at Haystack (ME). We’ll work from the prompt, “What positive message do you want to send to your community?” Starting from drawings or digital files, we’ll use direct methods to expose images on our screens, and students will learn how to screenprint with or without dedicated equipment. This workshop will examine the relationship between words and image as we design and screenprint single- or multiple-color posters and T-shirts. ![]() Speak Your Mind Through T-shirts and Posters ![]()
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