Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Continuing Education | Summer 2008 Courses

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.

DESCRIPTION
A love for ink on paper and a modicum of manual dexterity are required! This workshop will demonstrate typesetting by hand, on-press page composition and printing multiples on a Vandercook cylinder press. You will explore the nuances of impression, inking and paper selection as well as improve your typographic sensitivity. We will also experiment with overprinting colors and printing illustrations. Please bring words and ideas for your project to the first meeting.

INSTRUCTOR
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.

DESCRIPTION
The combination of relief and monotype printmaking with the creation of artists’ books affords participants rich and varied possibilities for working with imagery in sequence. We will experiment with a variety of printmaking techniques and generate one and two-sided printed surfaces that will be combined in several ways within sewn and folded book formats. Basic bookbinding techniques along with collage, image transfer, carving and printing will be addressed. The pace will be fast and furious, with inspiration and creative mischief-a-plenty.

INSTRUCTOR
Annie Silverman is a relief printmaker and book artist who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, in South Africa, Cuba, and Japan. She holds degrees from Clark University, MassArt and Tufts University. Her work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library and DeCordova Museum. She is involved in creating print installations, the most recent of which, "Vanishing Pollinators" was exhibited at Brickbottom Artists Gallery in the spring of 2007.

DESCRIPTION
A love for ink on paper and a modicum of manual dexterity are required! This workshop will demonstrate typesetting by hand, on-press page composition and printing multiples on a Vandercook cylinder press. You will explore the nuances of impression, inking and paper selection as well as improve your typographic sensitivity. We will also experiment with overprinting colors and printing illustrations. Please bring words and ideas for your project to the first meeting.

INSTRUCTOR
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.