Letterpress Core Skills: Summer Session 2024

Name: Letterpress Core Skills: Summer Session 2024
Start: 2024-08-22T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-25T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Virginia Center for the Book, 233 4th Street NW, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Virginia 22903

Schedule

Thu Aug 22 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun Aug 25 2024 at 04:00 pm

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Location

Virginia Center for the Book, 233 4th Street NW, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Virginia 22903 | Charlottesville, VA

This summer our multi-session, signature typesetting, and press usage class will feature the printing of broadsides, cards, and ephemera.
Four Consecutive Classes – Thursday thru Sunday – August 22, 23, 24 & 25, 2024 (10 AM – 4 PM)
Explore the art and craft of typesetting and letterpress printing in the Center’s Pressroom which features Vandercook cylinder letterpresses and the largest publicly accessible collection of movable type in the mid-Atlantic region.
We’ll have multiple small assignments/projects demonstrating metal type, lino & wood block, polymer, and multi-color printing.
All participants will receive a copy of our type specimen book Speaking in Faces.
The goal is to achieve a demonstrable level of skill and confidence on a Vandercook press; it would be a first step toward being “licensed” on the press, which comes with sufficient experience and exposure to all aspects of printing.