I LOVE STATIONERY!
INTRODUCTION TO LETTERPRESS
with Mindy Belloff
(Beginning Letterpress)
Saturday, 2:30-5:00PM
March16
$80 plus $30 studio fee


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Description: Do it yourself as you make your own personalized stationery! Learn the elegant printing of the 15th century letterpress. You will hand set real metal type, understand the origins of our alphabet, learn press lock-up, & printing, as you run your own small edition on our vintage Vandercook Uni III. A great introduction to printing beautiful impressions! You will go home with a set of at least a dozen personalized notecards in type you set and printed yourself!

Description: In this intensive you will have a block of time to print with metal and wood type. Create beautiful note cards, print a quotation, and work on an art poster - all in one day! Increase your knowledge of operating a Vandercook proof press, learning composition, inking and impression. A great way to begin or extend your letterpress journey, and sign up for future independent class sessions.

IMAGE PRINTING MADE EASY!
with Mindy Belloff
(Prints/Letterpress All Levels)
Sunday 10:00AM-3:00PM
February 24
$150 plus $40 materials fee


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Description: Create an image and print an edition in one day! Using a linoleum relief block, learn secrets for carving your image & print it in 1 or 2-colors in perfect registration on our letterpress. Image printing is demystified in this one-day workshop, as you create a print series in the studio. You will also be shown the "green" way to create additional images at home for your art prints and greeting cards.

Description: With close guidance, you will make your own personalized, custom wedding invitations as you learn to design your cards, hand set your text using “real” fonts from our metal foundry type collection, and print them with perfection, one at a time on our awesome press. You will gain an understanding of planning, paper qualities, and specialized printing. You will create a one-color main invitation + reply card for your special day, on paper you will choose on your own, and print them in elegant letterpress! If you would like to combine this with a design from your home computer, we will guide you in this too. This is perfect for a quantity of 50-100. If you are planning on a larger edition or complex design, you may rent additional time outside of class (please inquire).

(Suggested: Introduction to Letterpress)

ADVENTURES IN LETTERPRESS
with Mindy Belloff
(Letterpress All Levels)
Wednesday evenings, 6-9PM
TBA
3 sessions: $245 plus $35 studio fee


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Description: Experiment with historic letterpress printing, as you set type by hand, in the 15th century tradition. Discover the elegance of working with moveable wood and metal type. Learn type composition, inking, impression, and press adjustment on the Vandercook printing press. Extend your current art making practice, integrating your own ideas and narrative elements into a broadside edition poster, postcard, greeting card, or print series. You may combine digital, photographic and painterly images utilizing multiple colors and overlays, and add lyrical writing and poetry, as you develop your individual projects. Come get your hands dirty, and make beautiful, multiple impressions!

Description: Delve into the world of letterpress in this awesome class. Whether you are just beginning or have some printing experience, you will discover an appreciation for working with movable metal and wood type as well as plates! We will begin by setting type and printing personal note cards on press.  Then we will move to wood type and experiment with hand printing multiple colors. You will pursue individual projects, which may include a variety of editions: poetry broadsides, wood edition posters, greeting cards, business cards, and/or print series. Students usually print a new project each week in this unique setting!  Experiment with combining digital images and learn about using your own files to create metal or polymer plates.  You will produce an amazing amount of work as you become comfortable on the Vandercook press, learning inking and adjustments as you create beautiful, multiple impressions!

FROM COMPUTER TO LETTERPRESS: Printing From Plates
Stationery, Greeting Cards, Art Prints, & More!
with Mindy Belloff
(Letterpress Printing All Levels)*
4 Wednesday eves, 6:00-9:00PM
TBA
$365 (+ outside plate costs)

 

Description: Polymer plates allow flexibility in printing image and text. Combine digital design with classic letterpress printing. Learn how to set up your computer files, consider typography and composition, and set up specs for plates. You will gain an understanding of multiple color printing. Complete a number of independent projects. In our Studio you usually print one project a week in one or two colors!   Many beginning students have printed numerous note cards, business cards and holiday cards, so come see what all the fuss is about! (Basic computer knowledge required of Word, Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, or Quark - any program that you can savfe as a PDF!)

POP-UP BOOKS
with Marianne Petit
(All Levels)
Saturday 10:00AM-4:00PM
TBA
$160


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Description: Explore the basics of paper engineering. Beginning with fundamental techniques, you will work step-by-step, advancing through more complex structures. From simple box supports, to v-folds and floating layers, you will learn how to use these techniques creatively in your books and cards.

Description: In this weekend you will explore basic to advanced hand typesetting. Whether you are a beginner discovering the elegance of working with movable metal and wood type, or more advanced, extending your current art making practice, you will have a block of time to experiment and create beautiful cards, prints, & art posters. You will also increase your knowledge of operating a Vandercook proof press.

CLASSIC BOOKBINDING
with Mindy Belloff
(Bookbinding All Levels)
Tuesday & Thursday 11AM - 2:30PM
TBA
$190 plus $40 materials fee


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Description: Learn to sew a blank book of multiple signatures in this classic, versatile codex binding. This is a great workshop for the beginner or more advanced binder. Working with archival papers (watercolor paper is optional), learn proper scoring and folding, the use of templates, and sewing techniques. Then case in your pages with archival boards and adhesives, creating a lovely silk wrapped hardcover book. A great structure for journal writings, drawings & collage.

THE ART OF THE BOOK
UNDERSTANDING & PLANNING YOUR EDITION
with Mindy Belloff (Book Arts Level I)
Saturday & Sunday, 10AM-4:30PM
TBA
$310 plus materials fee $40


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Description: Combine text & images to effectively communicate ideas, emotions and stories in the form of an artist's book. For the binding component, you will make 4 different bookbinding structures.  You will also create a mock up book dummy as you plan a future project. For the printing component, you will set type, print letterpress on day one and create a drypoint image that you will print on our etching press on day 2. Printmaking processes will be demystified and digital techniques revealed. We will view and discuss over 50 artist books from the instructor's collection. The wealth of information in this weekend is like our 12-week semester in only two-days! You will emerge with a solid understanding of processes involved in producing an editioned book, your own book mock-up, and new ideas to jump start your artist's books and editions.

(Follow-up recommended: The Artist's Book: A Personal Journey.)

THE ARTIST'S BOOK: A PERSONAL JOURNEY
with Mindy Belloff (Book Arts Level II)*
Eves. 6:00-9:00PM
* Dates Ongoing *
(please inquire)

 
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Description: Turn your conceptual ideas into an incredible object, & expand your knowledge of designing & printing as you gain the skills to formulate your unique or editioned book. You will be guided to develop your vision & choose the best techniques for your project: wood or linoleum relief, drypoint, etching, typesetting, digital processes and/or polymer plate printing. Create an intimate artwork, explore narrative sequencing, & release your inner voice.

VINTAGE POSTERS IN
WOOD & METAL TYPE
with Mindy Belloff
(Letterpress AII Levels)
5 Wednesday eves, 6:00-9:00PM
TBA
$365 plus $30 studio fee


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Description: Create classic looking broadsides with our wood & metal foundry type in the tradition of musical posters, poetry and art prints. You will learn how to print on our Vandercook press and will play with various hand printing techniques on and off press, creating colorful, painterly prints. Experiment with handmade papers, collage, and overprinting on existing images. Each student will create a series of prints or small edition broadside. A class print exchange is encouraged for a unique portfolio of prints.

STRESS-FREE CLAMSHELL BOX
with Mindy Belloff
(Bookbinding All Levels)
Saturday & Sunday 10AM-4:00PM
Weekend Intensive
TBA
$295 plus materials fee $40


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Description: A complicated box structure, in this weekend we will break it all down as you learn to measure, cut, and glue with precision, constructing a sturdy 2-tray clamshell box. This beautiful structure is an art object in itself. You may use it to house a rare book, artist book, album, or portfolio of prints. Trays will be lined with Japanese papers and the box will be covered in silk bookcloth. The size will be approximately 6" x 8".

(Recommended: Bookbinding)

THE ARTIST'S BOOK: ADVANCED
with Mindy Belloff
(Book Arts Level III)*
Inquire: eves. 6-9PM
* Dates Ongoing *


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Description: From the historic to the digital and back again, continue your mastery of book arts techniques, as you become more proficient in your use of the Vandercook letterpress and your ability to combine text with various printing processes. Continue your personal journey & develop a discriminating eye, as your book ideas become reality!

{Required: The Art of the Book weekend intensive}

THE MINIATURE BOOK
TEXT + IMAGES
with Mindy Belloff
(Book Arts/Letterpress All Levels)
Weekend Intensive F/S/S
Friday 6-8PM, Sat & Sun 10AM-4PM
TBA
$340 plus materials fee $35

 
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Description: In the tradition of the hand printed, illustrated book a la Gutenberg, print a series relief blocks with 3 pages of text. Learn all phases of creating & printing an image: designing, planning, & transferring the image; cutting the blocks; mixing colored inks; and operating a press. You will set your text in metal foundry type and print it on the letterpress. In this intensive, you will make beautiful impressions in 2-colors, completing 10 printed books!

Description: Print a small book edition in one day, combining text & image with hand printing & waterbased inks. Even if you have never made an image before, you will gain confidence and amaze yourself and your friends when you show off your very own book! Create and design your image, learn to transfer the image, plan the printing sequence, carve a soft block, and print it by hand with a brayer and waterbased inks. Each letter of text will be set in rubber fonts. Collage elements will be encouraged. Soon you'll have no more blank books collecting dust on the shelf. All aspects of this green printshop can be re-created at home!