Letterpress 2-Day Workshop

This workshop is two days, SAT & SUN FROM 1PM-4PM - PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU'RE ABLE TO ATTEND BOTH DAYS WHEN SIGNING UP. - ONE TICKET IS FOR BOTH DAYS

Taught by Gaby Hurtado-Ramos

What's your message to the world? Learn how to print bold woodtype flyers and posters with letterpress! This two-day workshop will cover the basics of designing, laying out, locking up, and printing wood type using Vandercook proofing presses and table-top sign presses.

Open to all levels.

We will be making a collaborative print and individual flyers with quotes or messages of your choice using the beautiful wood type collection at Red Bird. Great for both first-timers as well as those wanting to brush up on their experience.

Gaby Hurtado-Ramos is an artist and educator making drawings, prints, zines, and multimedia work around the cracks and glimmers in queer social spaces. Freeze frames of people dancing, scenes from a party, and decorative streamers make up their assemblage approach through photography, screenprint, drawing, zines, and mixed media. They are originally from Houston, Texas, received their BA from Oberlin College (2016) and their MFA from the University of Tennessee (2025) with a concentration in printmaking. They have taught workshops nationwide including at The Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), Relay Ridge (Knoxville, TN), and for the Tennessee Art Education Association. Gaby’s work has been shared and exhibited in print and zine expos, markets, academic archives, and galleries. They have completed residencies at Penland School of Craft (North Carolina), The Printing Museum (Houston, TX), Dirt Palace (Providence, RI), and The Wedding Cake House (Providence, RI). As a resident at The Printing Museum they published a zine documenting lesbian bar history in Houston. Their illustration work has been commissioned by ProPublica, the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Tucson Jewish Museum. Gaby currently works in Houston and teaches as a consultant at the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

Host or Publisher Red Bird Press