The Los Angeles Printers Fair

The 13th Annual Los Angeles Printers Fair in Carson:

A CELEBRATION OF LETTERPRESS BOOK ARTS & PAPER

The Los Angeles Printers Fair is the largest annual celebration of letterpress book arts and the paper in the West. With the backdrop of the Museum’s world-famous collection of antique presses the LA Printers Fair annually brings together 90 artistic vendors and 2000 visitors to explore the creative worlds of handmade books and printing. 

Exhibitors include some of the finest letterpress and printmaking artists in the Southwest and beyond offering custom posters prints hand-printed cards memorabilia decorative papers and antiquarian books for sale. Throughout the Museum’s galleries visitors can also print their own keepsakes on antique letterpresses have their name cast in printer’s type make paper by hand or even screen print their own shirt! All proceeds from the Fair go to the International Printing Museum a non-profit institution dedicated to the heritage preservation and advancement of the printing arts.

OUR FEATURED ARTIST at this year’s Printers Fair will be Tony Guadagnolo.

The 2021 Los Angeles Printers Fair will be held both in-person at the International Printing Museum in Carson and virtually on printersfair.com where you can find tickets and additional information. 

Host or Publisher Madeline Helland