DESCRIPTION
Create hand-made books incorporating your own letterpress-printed text and imagery in MassArt’s letterpress shop and book arts studio. Learn to combine metal and wood type with ornaments and print with a variety of papers on a flatbed cylinder press. Students also gain insight into how to monoprint or edition work with letterpress. A variety of traditional book bindings will be covered, all of which can be combined with letterpress work to produce one-of-a-kind books, small editions or portfolios.
INSTRUCTOR
Peter Madden studied at MassArt, Parsons School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, NY and Pratt Institute. He currently teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has exhibited his one-of-a-kind books at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Center for Book Arts, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards including: a St. Botolph Club Foundation Fellowship, Artists’ Foundation Printmaking Fellow and a Massachusetts Cultural Council award. Recent exhibitions include: Houghton Library, Harvard University; East End Gallery, Provincetown; the Society of Arts & Crafts and Gallery Naga, Boston.
Keith D. Cross is a designer, printer, educator and principal of Milk Row Studio, a creative design studio in Worcester, MA. He offers clients and students the individual attention of a creative professional with traditional hot metal and digital typography experience and resources. He holds a BFA from MassArt in Graphic Design and Printmaking and continues to teach letterpress design/printing at the MassArt Press. Keith is also a member and former President of The Letterpress Guild of New England as well as a Board member of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts.