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Introduction to Letterpress on the Vandercook, June 2022
June 11, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
$160.00An In-Studio Workshop!
Saturday, June 11, 10am-4pm
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About this Workshop:
Get started with letterpress! This workshop will cover the basics of letterpress printing with antique lead type on a Vandercook flatbed cylinder press. You will learn how to set type, operate a Vandercook press, and clean the press; set a few lines of text of your own choosing; and print a small edition (10-15 prints).
Level: Beginner – no experience necessary
Registration closes June 4, 2022. Material fees are included with your registration.
CLASS MATERIALS LIST:
Registration includes a $5 materials fee to cover consumable materials. Student may also wish to bring the following optional items:
- Personal Apron (or substitute clothes that can get inky)
- Pen and paper for taking notes
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Elisabeth Boerwinkel is a printmaker and illustrator from the Netherlands, currently living and working in Washington DC. She was most recently a Keyholder Resident for Fall/Winter 2021. Pulling her first prints in 2015 she fell in love with copperplate etching straight away. Later she wandered into a letterpress studio in Amsterdam and got obsessed with wood, metal, and heavy machinery. You can find her in the letterpress studio smelling the ink. Her work can be viewed @elisabeth_kunegonde on Instagram.
“[I enjoyed the] immediate hands on experience, and space to make mistakes and try things.”
—Recent Workshop Attendee