BE MY VALENTINE! GREETING CARD WORKSHOP
Instructed by Elizabeth Isakson-Dado (The Aquarius House)
Saturday, February 15, 10am-4pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
Celebrate with your special someone the day after Valentine’s Day by learning letterpress together!
Design your own letterpress Valentine’s Day cards in this one-day workshop. Students will learn basic lead typesetting and printing techniques to create a set of twenty 4x 6 folded greeting cards with your custom design. This workshop will teach the primary skills of letterpress printing using type from Signal-Return’s extensive collection. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print a form on our presses.
Enjoy learning something new or refine your letterpress skills to create a special Valentine love note! Come with an idea of your message. Think short and sweet, keep text within 6 words or less or about 40 letters.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by guest instructor and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.
Instructed by Elizabeth Isakson-Dado (The Aquarius House)
Saturday, February 15, 10am-4pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
Celebrate with your special someone the day after Valentine’s Day by learning letterpress together!
Design your own letterpress Valentine’s Day cards in this one-day workshop. Students will learn basic lead typesetting and printing techniques to create a set of twenty 4x 6 folded greeting cards with your custom design. This workshop will teach the primary skills of letterpress printing using type from Signal-Return’s extensive collection. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print a form on our presses.
Enjoy learning something new or refine your letterpress skills to create a special Valentine love note! Come with an idea of your message. Think short and sweet, keep text within 6 words or less or about 40 letters.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by guest instructor and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.
Instructed by Elizabeth Isakson-Dado (The Aquarius House)
Saturday, February 15, 10am-4pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
Celebrate with your special someone the day after Valentine’s Day by learning letterpress together!
Design your own letterpress Valentine’s Day cards in this one-day workshop. Students will learn basic lead typesetting and printing techniques to create a set of twenty 4x 6 folded greeting cards with your custom design. This workshop will teach the primary skills of letterpress printing using type from Signal-Return’s extensive collection. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print a form on our presses.
Enjoy learning something new or refine your letterpress skills to create a special Valentine love note! Come with an idea of your message. Think short and sweet, keep text within 6 words or less or about 40 letters.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by guest instructor and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.
Elizabeth Isakson-Dado (The Aquarius House)
Elizabeth Isakson-Dado is an artist, educator, and curator. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Wayne State University, and an MFA in Book & Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Liz has exhibited widely in the US and has work in institutional collections including the Poetry Foundation, the Center for Book and Paper Art, and Art in Print Magazine. For the past 10 years, she has taught university classes and community workshops in letterpress printing. Liz also sells her own prints through her Instagram, @theaquariushouse, to raise money for social justice campaigns. She lives and works in Berkley, Michigan.