About

Using poetry or prose of your choosing, you will learn to set and space lead type, ornaments, and/or cuts to reproduce and illuminate your chosen words. With type set, we'll go over how to use the Challenge cylinder press, which is ideal for high-precision printing, as well as refinements to the type form. Once we've finished, you will trade prints so everyone goes home with an assortment of the class's work!

This course covers all material necessary for letterpress certification on typesetting and using the Challenge Press. With a little practice in open studio after this course, you should be ready to take the certification test and demonstrate your capabilities to safely and effectively run a press unsupervised.

Details

• Bring a poem or piece of prose between 65 and 85 words.
• Registration closes May 25.
• Bring a lunch. BARN has a refrigerator and microwave on the lower level.
• The $10 materials fee, included in the cost of the class, covers all materials you'll need (except for the poem or prose you need to bring).
  
• This class does not cover use of the C&P Letterpress machines, or provisional presses. For information regarding those presses, or questions about certification, contact printandbook.lead@bainbridgebarn.org

Class Policies

• Ages 14 and up are welcome.
• View BARN’s current COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
• BARN is committed to accessibility. Tuition assistance is available. Fill out the application before registering.