Letterpress Classes at IPM
Email bookarts@printmuseum.org to register or for more information on any of the classes below.
Letterpress Basics - Saturday, September 12, 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
Immerse yourself in the traditional process of letterpress printing in this class. First you will take a brief tour of the Museum tobecome familiar with the various presses in our collection, then move on to learn to hand-set metal type and an image before printing two small projects on a Vandercook. We’ve designed this course for the beginner interested in learning the fundamentals of letterpress printing.
Instructor: Madeleine Zygarewicz
Prerequisites: None, but must be at least 18 years old.
Fee: $115
Intermediate Letterpress –
Saturday, October 3, 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
Expand your letterpress techniques, by applying print knowledge in a more complex manner. Collaborative and individual projects will be printed on a Vandercook press. Processes covered include multiple layers/complex registration, hand-set type, photo-polymer plates and if time permits, other techniques. This class will also address problem solving techniques around fine tuning lock up, registration, impression and training your “printer’s eye” in order to achieve beautiful, high quality letterpress printing.
Madeleine Zygarewicz has been captivated by Letterpress printing for over 12 years, crankingpresses throughout the country and abroad. She received her BA in Book Arts at Mills College in 2000. Shortly after, she began a residency at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany to print a collaborative artist book, Body of Text. Her work can be found in special collections around the country and has been exhibited internationally. Inspired by the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, she established her imprint Panorama Press, offering a wide survey of printed matter ranging from greeting cards, posters, invitations as well as limited edititon prints and artist books. She is also a letterpress printer at Two Piglets and an art teacher at Oakwood School.
Instructor: Madeleine Zygarewicz
Prerequisites: None, but must be at least 18 years old.
Fee: $115
C&P Letterpress – Come & Print Letterpress
Saturday, September 26, 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
Learn letterpress from setting the type to printing your project. You’ll set type using a stick and the California Job case and lock up a form to run on a 10 x 15 Chandler and Price press. You’ll learn important ways of correcting for all the mishaps that can occur as you move through the process on the way to your final project run. If you are interested in learning the nitty gritty of letterpress operations and don’t mind getting your hands dirty, this is the class for you.
Instructor: Gary Marc Remson
Prerequisites: None, but must be at least 18 years old.
Fee: $115
Gary Marc Remson is a Printing Museum docent, letterpress printer and papermaker. He studied with Richard J. Hoffman atCalifornia State University Los Angeles. In his shop. the Buffalo South Press, he has a Vandercook proof press, 12 x 18 C&P, Miehle Vertical V50, Linotype model 31, Ludlow, and handset type and mats for both the Linotype and Ludlow. Recent projects at the Museum include guiding Dr. Leland Whitson in the printing of his The Surgeon Factory book on a 1922 vintage Miehle V-36press and restoring the Hoffman- Hollander