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Letterpress: Challenge Press Certification Part 2

Demonstrate how to use the Challenge Press and take the certification test to use it independently.

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Letterpress: Challenge Press Certification Part 2

Letterpress: Challenge Press Certification Part 2

Demonstrate how to use the Challenge Press and take the certification test to use it independently.

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Demonstrate your knowledge of how to properly use the Challenge Press and take the certification test so you can use the press independently, in this second of two classes required for independent use.
Before class, you must prepare 65 to 85 words of type, set with a leading capital, ornament or cut, and using at least two different fonts, as discussed in Letterpress: Challenge Press Certification Part 1. 

During class, time will be given for everyone to share what they have prepared, collectively ask questions about your work, discuss studio letterpress policies, and ask questions about the certification test. You'll then take the test, one at  a time, to demonstrate safe and effective use of the press and type. Upon successful completion, you'll be certified for independent letterpress use. If you don't achieve this during class, you can retake this class to be certified.

Details

  • Prior to class, on your own time, you need to prepare 65 to 85 words of type, set with a leading capital, ornament or cut, and using at least two different fonts.
  • Bring lunch. There is a refrigerator and microwave on the lower level.

Details

A $10 materials fee, included in the cost of the class, covers everything you'll need.

Prerequisites

You must have completed Letterpress: Challenge Press Certification Part 1.

Class Policies

Ages 18 years and up are welcome.

Instructor
Eli Backer

Eli Backer is an artist, composer, and engineer who works in a wide range of media and is constantly making. A Bainbridge native, she holds a master's degree in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a bachelor's in computer engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Her work can be found in the Cynthia Sears Artist’s Books Collection at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, at the Center for Book Arts in NYC, and at the Fleet Library in Providence, R.I. She finds setting type and working with the presses quite meditative. In the Print and Book Studio, this monitor can certify people to use these pieces of equipment: metal type setting, wood type setting, the Vandercook proof press, the provisional presses, and the Challenge press.

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