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Studio Use Training: Letterpress Printing
Apr 04

April 4, 2025

Studio Use Training: Letterpress Printing

Participants will learn and practice the basics of letterpress printing and typesetting. Instructed by Erica Honson, the studio coordinator of Common Press, attendees will use metal and wood typefaces to create prints. This orientation is required for working on independent projects at Common Press. No experience necessary.

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S 34th St.

two sets of arms over a hand-operated printing press, one set with gloved hands putting ink on a metal cylinder and the other placing a printing plate with an image of a tree without leaves on the flat surface in front of the cylinder