42008. Exploring Letterpress While Printing Greeting Cards

42008. Exploring Letterpress While Printing Greeting Cards

Workshop - Printmaking | This class is completed

251 N Spruce St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101 United States

Print Studio - 204

All levels

10/9/2021 (one day)

10:00 AM-3:30 PM EDT on Sat

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$130.00

$117.00

Join Mary Beth Boone in this introductory letterpress class. Explore the basics of letterpress printing while making a suite of greeting cards. Metal type, wood type and ornaments will be used to learn about printing on a letterpress, setting simple type forms, and designing cards
using text and imagery

Boone, Mary Beth

Mary Beth Boone is a book artist and letterpress printer living in Greensboro, NC. She began making books about thirty years ago. Recent exhibits include Re(f)use at Artspace in Raleigh, NC and It’s Alive!: Frankenstein, 200 Years at Asheville BookWorks in Asheville, NC; both in 2018; and Winter Show at the GreenHill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, NC in 2020. Her work was included in 1000 Artists’ Books and 500 Handmade Books, volume 2. A Winter Residency at the Penland School of Crafts in 2012 inspired her to locate and purchase a Vandercook SP 15. She prints under the imprint Purple Pumpkin Press. Her work is in private and public collections. Mary Beth holds a MFA from the University of SC, Columbia.