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Print & Book Open Studio

Work on your own projects, with a monitor available to answer questions.

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Print & Book Open Studio

Print & Book Open Studio

Work on your own projects, with a monitor available to answer questions.

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About

Members are welcome to attend the Print & Book Arts Letterpress open studios to work on personal projects of all kinds. Each session includes a monitor who can answer questions, although no specific instruction is provided. The Challenge letterpress is available for supervised use by those who are not yet certified for independent use. The etching press and other equipment may only be used by those who are certified. The last half hour is devoted to cleanup.

Registration is required for open studio because there is a set number of artisans who can be in the workspace at one time.

Details

  • Typesetting and Challenge Press certification check-off is available at this open studio.
  • You must register. No drop-ins, please.
  • If you have questions, or are interested in becoming  a studio monitor, email Print & Book Studio Lead Jane Kim at printandbook.lead@bainbridgebarn.org.

Prerequisites

You must have taken introductory classes in either printmaking, letterpress, or book arts or have attended a studio orientation.

Class Policies

  • Ages 14 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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