This list of equipment is intended to give you an idea of what the studio is like. Two 5″x7″ and two 6″x 8″ magnetic plate basesġ2 72″ x 30″ individual work tables with cabinets 4 Vandercook Proof PressesĬhandler & Price NS 8″ x 12″ platen press The Paul Hayden Duensing Letterpress Studio is equipped with the following: There are work tables for each student, pin up space, a darkroom with exposure unit, and an extensive selection of metal and wood type, ornaments, and press furniture. Our workshops take place in a well-equipped, well-maintained, and safe studio designed to accommodate diverse content and working styles. Recent instructors include Steve Miller, Eileen Wallace, John Horn, Bridget Elmer, Julie Chen, Martin Mazorra, Gaylord Shanilec, Caren Florance, Sara Langworthy, Bryce McCloud, Eleanor Annand, Brad Vetter, and Sarah Bryant, among many others. Topics also include design and composition, color theory, and idea generation. Traditional letterpress processes as well as other approaches such as digital imagery, mixed media, and performance may be used to translate the written word or in the exploration of imagery and abstraction. The range of workshop topics includes but is not limited to expressive typography, text as image, linoleum block printing, modular pattern, wood engraving and woodcut, poetry and print, digital fabrication for letterpress, pop ups and ephemera, letterpress as a social medium. The studio is very flexible, but is particularly well equipped for letterpress processes such as handset type, photopolymer plates, relief printing, and pressure printing. Our programming is current in spirit and respectful of craft traditions. We offer workshops that inspire and challenge students from curious beginners to accomplished professionals. We strive for a balance of technical and aesthetic content and value all cultural and historical perspectives. Our versatile facility and high caliber artist/educators allow us to provide relevant programming in topics from type setting to experimental image making and artist books and everything in between. The technical and conceptual scope of each workshop is determined by the instructor with input from our program director and support from our programming staff. The letterpress studio provides the space and specialty equipment to explore typography and image-making through the lens of materials and craft, via work in primarily two-dimensional and folded formats. The Penland letterpress program offers beginning to advanced workshops in traditional and contemporary methods.

Letterpress studio