Workshop Fee (includes materials fee): $190
Scholarships available; click here to apply.

This instructor requires that all students be masked. If you choose to enroll you will be expected to bring and wear a mask for the duration of class. 

Students will use the Vandercook proof press to decorate blank sheets of paper with words and/or images. Each student will choose from SFCB’s collection of type, ornaments, and photopolymer plates to create their own design. After printing their assemblages, they'll combine their paper with a supplied lampshade frame to create their own very useful work of art! Each student will take home one assembled barrel-style lampshade plus an additional sheet for use as wall art, gift wrap, or a matching shade.  

This workshop is open to novice printers as well as those with more experience. Students will learn the basics of letterpress printing and press operation.
 

>> Prerequisite: None << 

Materials to Bring: None. All tools and materials will be provided.

Date & Time: Saturday, January 14, 2023 :: 9:30am-5:30pm

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

NOTE: Please read over the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class. Registration will close three days prior to the start date of the workshop to allow the instructor time to prep materials for class. 
 

About the Instructor | Lisa Rappoport (she/her)

Lisa Rappoport publishes poetry broadsides and artists' books under the imprint Littoral Press. Since 1998 she has produced a series of broadsides by the poets who teach at the Community of Writers; she has also printed poetry broadsides for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books, the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, the Northern California Book Awards, and many others (last but not least, the Poets Pulling Prints series of the SFCB). Her poetry has appeared in Nostos, Five Fingers Review, Literal Latte, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 1998 Icarus Poetry Competition and the recipient of a poetry residency at Centrum. Her poetry collection Penumbra was published by Longship Press in 2019. Her book The Short Goodbye received the Alastair Johnston Fine Press Award and was a runner-up in the Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design. Lisa has taught at the New College in San Francisco, at a middle school in Lafayette, and in her own studio. Her work has been displayed nationally and is in collections throughout the U.S. You can visit her website at littoralpress.com

Past Student Reviews:

 “Lisa was very knowledgeable and had a relaxed, yet attentive teaching style.”

[What did you like most about the workshop?] “The small class size and freedom to play with all the type and ornaments available.”