Letterpress is versatile and adaptable, and mixes easily with other printmaking processes. Through hand typesetting vintage metal and wood type faces, students will gain a broader understanding of typography. Printing blocks and plates range from completely manual, hand-cut and collaged, to digital photopolymer plates. Accurate color registration is simple and easy. The quality of image can range from hard edge to feathered and painterly, and the relief impression adds a third dimension. Operation and maintenance of several different letterpresses is included. Each session begins with a demonstration followed by studio time to work on individual projects ranging from type-based graphic designs to fine art limited editions.

Dikko Faust
Hand typographer; letterpress printermaker; founder, Purgatory Pie Press

Collections include: Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; New York Public Library

Retrospective exhibitions include: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art