421. Set A Message - Print a Broadside
Workshop - Printmaking | Registration opens 5/13/2025 9:00 AM EDT
The fundamentals of letterpress printing will be explored using wood and metal type, and antique ornaments. Participants will work together designing prints exploring text which will then be printed on an antique letterpress.
Mary Beth Boone
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.