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The letterpress classes listed here are offered at the Mass Art Press located at the Massachusetts College of Art. Unless otherwise noted,
these letterpress classes are taught by Keith Cross. The Bookarts and Letterpress class is team-taught with Peter Madden.
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Summer 2008
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This seven-week intensive class is perfect when you're short on time and long on ambition. This class meets two nights a week and covers the same material as the full semester course.
The main benefit is that you're focused on printing and making books and not distracted by frivilous meal consumption and superfluous hygiene issues. :)
If you're not able to
attend the Spring or Fall offerings at the Mass Art Press, be sure to contact the Program for Continuing Education at the
Massachusetts College of Art and express your interest in more book arts courses. Thanks!
Instructors: Keith Cross and Peter Madden Schedule: Wed./Thurs. nights, 6:15-10 PM, May 21 - July 10, 2008 (note July 2/3, no class)
This course is offered through
Continuing Education at the Massachusetts College of Art.
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August 2008
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This workshop is an introduction to letterpress printing and manual type setting with
metal type, wood fonts and ornaments. You'll learn to compose text and print from existing
typefaces, which may be combined with found or hand made images and printed on special papers.
There are no required texts for this workshop.
Schedule: August 15-17, 2008; Friday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Saturday 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Sunday 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
This course is offered through Continuing Education at the Massachusetts College of Art.
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Fall 2008
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This letterpress class is offered for fulltime students at the Massachusetts College of Art.
The letterpress class takes place at the Mass Art Press and offers an introduction to hand set metal and wooden type,
letterpress printing techniques, and limited edition printing on fine papers. Each semester the students devise a theme
for an exchange portfolio. An exchange portfolio provides an
opportunity for the students to recieve a copy of each other's work. The first class introduces the basics of hand typesetting
with an "Exquisite Corpse" Poem workshop. Eeach student
sets 1-2 lines of type, normally a quick thought, quip or idea made up on the spot. The combination of those lines of type
comprise an impromptu poem. Results vary as studnets choose seemingly disparate idesas, and types, but soon
see the interconnected practice of setting their thoughts into letters of a physical nature.
The next five weeks of the letterpress class covers additional typesetting techniques and cylinder press
operation. The most intense class is called "Meet the Press". Letterpress class participants learn to to ink the press,
adjust pressue, adjust roller height, register and feed a sheet of paper, make an impression (or many!), and then clean the rollers with loving care.
The second half of the course is all about producing the work. I meet with students to discuss direction and feasibility
of design concepts in letterpress. Once a portfolio theme is chosen, students set their types and often carve linoleum, wood or
sintra blocks.
Past themes and titles for the letterpress exchange portfolio include "Fantasy Rock Concert", "Relief", "Space Tourism" and "Anatomy of a Typeface". Each student can design and print whatever they want provided it fits some simple
size specifications and have hand-set type in the design.
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Create hand-made books incorporating your own letterpress
printed text and imagery in MCA's new letterpress shop and book arts studio.
You will learn to combine metal and wood type with ornaments and print with
a variety of papers on a flatbed cylinder press. You will also gain insight
into how to monoprint or edition your work with letterpress. A variety of
traditional book bindings will be covered, all of which can be combined with
your letterpress work to produce one-of-a-kind books, small editions or portfolios.
Instructors: Keith Cross and Peter Madden Schedule: Thurs. nights, 6:15-10 PM, Sept. 11 - Dec. 18, 2008
This course is offered through
Continuing Education at the Massachusetts College of Art.
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