Summer Letterpress Workshops at Penland School of Crafts

Penland School of Crafts is an international center for craft education located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This summer, Penland will offer a range of workshops in letterpress printing in our dedicated letterpress studio. Workshops are open to serious students of all levels. Scholarships are available for all classes.

Summer 2016 workshops include:

• “Text as Image, Type as Thought” with Marianne Dages (experimental applications of traditional letterpress techniques; May 29 – June 10)
• “Kern, Baby, Kern” with Eleanor Annand and Colin Frazer (typography through hand-set type, polymer plates, digital, and more; June 12 – 24)
• “Modular Pattern Letterpress” with Dikko Faust (moiré, interference patterns, shifted and pinwheel prints, ink transparency, and color overlay techniques on the press; July 10 – 22)
• “Drawing with the Press” with Eileen Wallace (using handset type, carved blocks, and photopolymer plates to create imagery; July 24 – August 9)

For a complete list of letterpress + printmaking courses, including course descriptions and artist bios, visit: http://penland.org/print/index.html

For registration and scholarship information, visit: http://penland.org/classes/summer/summer_registration.html

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