Print a letterpress poster with your personal mantra. In this one-day workshop students will learn typesetting techniques, with a focus on wood type, to create a set of twenty 12x19 posters.

This class 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 printing presses.

Bring quotes, jokes, words of wisdom, or your favorite text to class to see in print. Think short and sweet. Try to keep text within 8 words or less and/or 60 letters.

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.

PRICE: $150

Class Size: Maximum 8

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.