WORKSHOP: Letterpress Broadside with Robert Walp
Letterpress Broadside Workshop
Class Times: Saturday, March 6th, 10am-5pm & Sunday, March 7th, 10am -3pm
Cost: $100.00, plus material
Age: 15 years & up, no experience necessary
Master book artist and printmaker Robert Walp will lead a letterpress broadside workshop on March 6 & 7. The class will start on Saturday beginning at 10am and continue on Sunday from 10am-3pm. The studio will remain open that same evening for those who would like to stay and work on their project.This two-day workshop is designed to hone your skills in typesetting and image printing on the Vandercook proof press. Participants will combine type and relief printing processes to create a single page broadside, or broadsheet. Images will be printed from your choice of woodcut, linocut, or polymer plate. A basic knowledge of setting metal type will be helpful but not necessary.
Please come prepared with a short poem or prose passage and an image that will then be scanned and made ready to transfer to a block or polymer plate. Instructions for making polymer plates will be given at the workshop. Images can be no larger than 8”x11” and you will be allowed to run an edition of 15 one color broadsides.
Paper and polymer plate material will be available for purchase at the workshop, as well as woodblocks. If you plan to make a linocut please bring your own type-high (.913") linoleum block. Cost for this 2-day workshop is only $100 plus materials ($10.00 – $20.00).
Instructor:
Robert Walp began his bookmaking career in the spring of 2000 at Vermont College in Montpelier, Vermont. He has participated in numerous book arts workshops since then and in 2006 earned an MFA in the Book Arts from The University of Alabama, where he received the Raymond F. McClain Book Arts Award. His work can be found in many collections including The University of Vermont Bailey Library, Dartmouth College Rauner Library, Brown University’s Rockefeller Library in Providence, Rhode Island, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, the Penland School of Crafts Archive and The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont.
Robert works from his studio in the Adirondacks under the imprint of Chester Creek Press and has taught workshops in New York at The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake, Bluseed Studio in Saranac Lake, the Town of Chester Public Library, and the Lake George Arts Project. He has also taught at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and at The Great River Arts Institute in Bellow Falls, Vermont. He is a member of The Guild of Bookworkers and The Fine Press Book Association, and is curator of the Book Arts Collection at the Town of Chester Public Library. To view Bob’s work visit Chester Creek Press at www.chestercreekpress.com
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