Date Night Printing: Type Specimens

Name: Date Night Printing: Type Specimens
Start: 2025-02-15T13:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-15T16:00:00-08:00
Location: 1921 N Ash Street, Spokane, WA, United States, Washington 99205

Schedule

Sat Feb 15 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

1921 N Ash Street, Spokane, WA, United States, Washington 99205 | Spokane, WA

Join SPPC letterpress instructors Thom and Pixie for this fun date-night (or not!) printing class. We’ll have a multi-layer print pre-selected and ready to go (a type specimen of Cooper Black). Printers—that’s you!—will select the colors to print in, learn some inking processes on our Vandercook proofing presses, and make their own custom versions of the poster. No experience necessary, this class will be an easy and fun look at the way letterforms can become art, and you’ll get to take home a beautiful piece of collaborative art for your home!
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The class is taught by Thom Caraway and Pixie Carlson.
Thom the designer and publisher for Rock & Sling and Trochaic Press. He has designed over 50 books and magazines, and teaches courses in editing, book design, and publishing at Whitworth University. He has been working in letterpress printing since 2016, and is a founder of the SPPC.
Pixie is a queer femme artist who started learning letterpress and relief printing weeks before the pandemic shut everything down in 2020. She became enchanted with letterpress as a way to combine her passions for the written word and visual art. Her work has been featured in shows at the Liberty Gallery and Terrain in downtown Spokane and Emerge in Coeur d’Alene. Pixie is the printer and co-proprietor of R&P Paperie. You can find her work on Instagram at @pixiereadsbooks and @rp_paperie. She has been a member of SPPC since 2020, and recently joined the organization's board.