POSTCARD EXCHANGE! Letterpress Workshop
Instructed by Elizabeth Isakson-Dado (The Aquarius House)
Saturday, May 3, 10am-4pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
In this fun and fast-paced workshop, participants will use Signal-Return’s collection of lead type, images, and ornaments to design and print a set of 10 postcards!
These postcards are perfect to send to friends or save for the memories! We print extras so that each class ends with a postcard trade among the group of printers.
Students will learn letterpress basics like composing with movable type, locking up designs in a chase, and mixing ink by hand. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print their own design on one of our tabletop platen presses.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff 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, May 3, 10am-4pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
In this fun and fast-paced workshop, participants will use Signal-Return’s collection of lead type, images, and ornaments to design and print a set of 10 postcards!
These postcards are perfect to send to friends or save for the memories! We print extras so that each class ends with a postcard trade among the group of printers.
Students will learn letterpress basics like composing with movable type, locking up designs in a chase, and mixing ink by hand. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print their own design on one of our tabletop platen presses.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff 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, May 3, 10am-4pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
In this fun and fast-paced workshop, participants will use Signal-Return’s collection of lead type, images, and ornaments to design and print a set of 10 postcards!
These postcards are perfect to send to friends or save for the memories! We print extras so that each class ends with a postcard trade among the group of printers.
Students will learn letterpress basics like composing with movable type, locking up designs in a chase, and mixing ink by hand. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print their own design on one of our tabletop platen presses.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff 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.