ONSITE: Letterpress Printing for All Levels

ONSITE: Letterpress Printing for All Levels

Adult Multi-Week | This class is completed

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Letterpress + Book Arts

All Levels

1/24/2022-2/28/2022

10:00 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Mon

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$170.00

$153.00

$5.00

$15.00

This course encompasses the basics of letterpress printing through demonstrations, guided projects, and hands-on experience. Participants will explore composition, typography, color, and how these elements relate to actual letterpress printing using a wide array of lead/wood type, engraved imagery, and hand-operated printing presses. This course will cover introductory letterpress terminology, typesetting, composition, PMS color-mixing, and printing. Print an edition of greeting cards, poetry broadsides, business stationary...the possibilities are endless!

  • No previous letterpress experience is necessary—participants of all levels are welcome! You'll need to purchase your own paper for individual projects; basic paper, other materials, and equipment are provided. This class uses a historic printing press which requires the ability to stand and use your legs and arms simultaneously to operate.

    Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.

    Students must follow social distancing protocols and wear masks at all times. For more info visit visarts.org. This is an On-site course. On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program: if interested please visit visarts.org.
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