Handmade Letterpress Notebooks

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May 12th, 2014 6:30 PM

  • Instructor: Lara Durback
  • Workshop Type: Printing
  • Workshop Status: Closed
  • Workshop Start: May 12th, 2014 6:30 PM
  • Workshop End: May 19th, 2014 9:30 PM
  • Sessions: 2

There is nothing better than a good notebook! Print a few sturdy covers on the Vandercook using wood and metal type. Learn what types of found materials work well when printing on the Vandercook or assembling a notebook at home. Discover how to create a quick assembly line with friends to bind a few notebooks quickly. The Handmade Letterpress Notebooks workshop will send students home with one to three completed notebooks as well as a few extra letterpress covers to make more notebooks later.


Materials to bring: None

Date & Time: Mondays, May 12 & 19, 2014 | 6:30pm-9:30pm

Workshop Fee: $135

Location: 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

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About the Instructor | Lara Durback

Lara Durback works as Studio Director of Book Art at Mills College, where she completed an MFA in Poetry in 2007. She especially enjoys fixing Vandercooks. She teaches letterpress classes that integrate the use of foraged materials at the San Francisco Center for the Book. She also taught a letterpress course at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program, and gave a talk on printing at SFMOMA's Shop Talk series. You can see her printing and/or writing work in DriftMrs. MaybeBombay Gin, the UK journal Hi Zero, and The Artist's Book Yearbook 2012-13, and her archiving work on www.deepoakland.org. Evidence of her daily practice was exhibited in the ILSSA (Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts) exhibit Every Day Work Hammes Gallery, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN, in 2012. In 2013, with designer Andrew Kenower, she produced the letterpress publication Field WorkPoems on the Occasion of Mark diSuvero at Crissy Field for SFMOMA.