![]() You will also undergo a full OHS induction prior to using the space. Reinforcing the organization’s mission of arts education access for everyone, this year’s scholarships invite artists working in glass jewelry/metals painting. Numbers are strictly limited, and the price includes all materials, including: paper, ink and use of TROTEC laser cutter to customise your very own type-high wood blocks. Pratt Fine Arts Center welcomes 17 artists who join its creative community through the largest scholarship opportunity ever offered, with 49,700 in total funding. Our facilitator, Phil Gambill (Fresh Lemon Print and past Letterpress Artist in Residence) will work closely with you in small groups to develop a series of beautiful, printed goods, including posters, stationery or printmaking experiments one night a week, for five weeks. Our Mission: We are a non-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the art of letterpress printmaking by providing workshops, classes, and programs. ![]() In the workshop you will have the choice to 'lock-up' your type and print using NM TAFE's coveted Columbia Press, baby Albion, A3 Poco Presses, SRA3 Farley benchtop and our two Adana small job hand crank printing presses. Excelsior Press in Frenchtown, NJ, Alan is a good teacher, he has a good selection of presses you can see running, Frenchtown is near Philly, PA i think. The workshop is designed for the first-time printer, emerging or veteran graphic designers or hobbyist who may have a keen interest in the world of letterpress, 'misprinted' type, handset experiments. Weekend classes, that wolud be 2 coffees and 2 muffins. If you have a design for this we’ll need it a week in advance so that we can get your plate made.Īnd for those who are really serious, we can show you how to use the Heidelberg Platens, we have 3 of these, one with a foiling attachment for foiling up to A4 and an 18×13 for those A3 size prints, workshops on these will be by special arrangement and you will need to have had some substantial printing experience to be able to use them.This is a unique opportunity to enter an analogue typographic world to create unique printed designs on our incredible antique machinery, using a blend of 100+ year old moveable wood and lead type and experiment with your own customised modern laser cut blocks. If you would like to play with posters we have the very lovely Farley SP25CP with a 24 x 36 inch bed size and a large amount of wood type and blocks that you can use to produce your own designs.Īs a bonus we also carry 2 marshall table top foilers, very similar with their clam shell action we can also teach you how to foil. If you would like to print something larger we have a Chandler & Price treadle press that can print a good A4 size, as well as a smaller Jardine treadle for things a little smaller. Because of this we can offer starter courses on one of our smaller Adana 8×5 or Adana QH Quarto presses, or even more advanced… you can hand set your own type from our selection of metal and wood type or you can supply your own design and we can make up a photopolymer plate ready for you to print with on the day. This is not only a saving of material, but it engenders a habit of carefulness and economy. Always pick up a type, lead, rule or quoin, at the time it is dropped. ![]() As a fully functioning letterpress studio we have a lage range of letterpress machinery. A skillful workman has expended time, thought, and labour in it’s production. Step away from the computer No, actually please dont, not yet anyway, this was just the title of the workshop we took part in at the Grafische Werkplaats.
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