Letterpress Lab is for all levels of letterpress experience, including beginners. Perhaps you need a refresher on how to set type, or want to learn how to do that. Do you know how to set type but have no access to type and presses? Maybe you have a project you'd like to print, and just need equipment and time to do that. Or you may have some great ideas but need a little (or more) guidance and a review of the process. Can one letterpress class be all things to all printers? Let's find out.

Learning Objectives:

• Typesetting with lead and wood type
• Printing press operation and safety
• Proper ink mixing and application

10/16-12/11 (8 sessions) no class 11/27, 6-9 pm, Wednesdays

Tuition: $335 + $40 studio fee

CEUs: 2.4

522 Congress St. Room 406

Faculty:
Crystal Cawley is an artist who works with paper, textiles, collected objects, and re-used and re-purposed materials. Her work explores ideas of identity, time, memory, and loss, and draws on various traditional skills like embroidery and letterpress printing. She teaches in the Continuing Studies program at the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine, and is an artist member of Portland's Pickwick Independent Press, a printmaking collective. She has shown her work around the US and in England, Greece, and Japan. Her work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library; Columbia University Library; The Library of Congress; Maine Women Writers Collection; MOMA/Franklin Furnace Artists’ Book Collection; the Smithsonian Institution Graphic Arts Collection at the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.; and the Munakata Shiko Museum, Aomori, Japan, among others. She has received grants from the Maine Arts Commission, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Supplies:

Notebook and something to write with