Artist Statements: Letterpress Broadsides – New!

Artist Statements: Letterpress Broadsides – New!

Adult Intensive | This class has been canceled

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Letterpress + Book Arts

All Levels

10/27/2018 (one day)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Sat

$65.00

$58.50

$10.00

Experiment with broadsides, posters historically used for making proclamations or social commentary. Create your own contemporary broadsides to express yourself, get your message out to the world or start a conversation. We’ll cover the fundamentals of typesetting and create small broadsides on chipboard. Students will print textured backgrounds using random wood type, then their statements will be overprinted in bold text. Everyone will take away several copies of their own statement, as well as an assortment of everyone else’s work.

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Reszies, Heidi

Heidi Reszies is a multidisciplinary artist who holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her visual art is included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts CLARA Database of Women Artists. Heidi is currently a letterpress instructor in the VCUarts Department of Graphic Design, and is the creator/curator of Artifact Press, publisher of limited edition letterpress poetry chapbooks and broadsides. Her poetry collection titled Illusory Borders is forthcoming from The Operating System in 2019, and her collection titled Of Water & Other Soft Constructions was selected by Samiya Bashir as the winner of the Anhinga Press 2018 Robert Dana Prize for Poetry (forthcoming in 2019). Find her at heidireszies.com