Print & Letterpress Summer Session 3
June 21–July 3, 2020
Jim Sherraden
Opening & Pushing the Envelope in Letterpress
This workshop will cover intro-to-advanced letterpress and intro-to-advanced image carving on multiple surfaces. If it will go through the press, we’ll try it: wood type, metal type, hand-carved blocks, the leaves in the fields. We’ll look past the use of type as letters and investigate its value as forms. Once our imagery is created, words can be integrated. We’ll aim for excellence not perfection, and students will go home with a carload of work. No presses or type will be injured. Each day will include the three Cs of this workshop: courtesy, community, and comedy. All levels. Code 03L
Studio artist; manager, master printer, and archivist at Hatch Show Print for 30 years (Nashville); Tennessee Distinguished Artist Award; work toured nationally with the Smithsonian; author of Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop.
