If you love wood type and letterpress printing... especially the bold and exciting work being done these days in the showcard poster/broadside world, you need to go to Two Rivers, Wisconsin for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum Wayzgoose.
We arrived Thursday for the three-plus day affair and took a selfie at their wood type wall:
On Thursday we printed a folder to hold the broadsides the students printed on Friday in our workshop titled letterpress printing with wood type. By the way Hamilton IS the "coolest place in town..." at least in Two Rivers, WI anyways.
The participants in our workshops were challenged to make images of bugs or beasts using wood type. The wood type museum is a paradise for wood type lovers. We taught 2 classes, each for 3 hours, with 15 people in each, working in teams of 3 on 5 different presses. We had them make 40 copies, so that each participant would get one of each print that was made. Most of the folks got at least 30 "perfect" copies and most had time to do 3 different color runs.
Here are the classes and the work: You are really going to have to zoom in to see what they made!
Next year... Can't wait!
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