COVERS & ORIGINALS, SOLOS & DUETS

A workshop at the Cannon Beach Arts Association gallery offered in conjunction with the May 2012 invitational altered books exhibition. This is a three hour introduction to using books as medium and/or subject in art, incorporating disciplines from conceptual writing to collage to sculpture. During the second half of the workshop we will learn a few basic techniques including carving niches and tipping-in pages. A collection of cast-off books will provided for you to choose from.

RSVP: 503-436-0744, or just show up!
Wednesday, February 1st from 1pm – 4 pm.
CBAA Gallery. 1064 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
$15

The shop is looking great (some “new” work tables! more organized type & spacing!) and we are pleased to offer two workshops in February. Email Sarah a.s.a.p. to reserve your space.

LETTERPRESS FUNDAMENTALS
Sunday, February 5th 2012
11am – 5pm with break for lunch
$65 (includes all materials)

In this workshop we will collaboratively print a poster on the Vandercook no. 2 galley proof press, learning typesetting, hand inking technique, & shop procedure in the process, plus a little typography & color theory. Participants will take home their own print or two and thereafter be qualified to use the proof press– perfect for printing linoleum and wood image blocks as well as moveable type– during supervised open studio hours.

INTERMEDIATE LETTERPRESS
Saturday, February 11th 2012
10 am – 5pm with break for lunch
$80 (incudes all materials)

This class is for those who have taken Letterpress Fundamentals (or ANY workshop from me in the past) and would like to learn to operate the Chandler and Price platen job press (or refresh their muscle memory). By designing and printing a postcard together, participants will advance their typesetting skills, learn to lock up the form, pack & ink the press, & troubleshoot until achieving ideal registration and impression. Participants will go home with an edition of at least 20 beautiful postcards and will thereafter be qualified to use the job press for their own projects during supervised open studio hours.

both taught by Sarah Archer, director of Manzanita People’s Print: accidentalpress at gmail.com

Starlight’s prints from our November 3rd Fundamentals workshop. Sozei requoted from the stunning book Plainwater by Anne Carson.

I already have two lovely registrants and I will accept two more. the description is the same, as this model seems to work really well for introducing People to People’s (such a weird word) print shop. also I’m getting better at teaching it every time! with fancier handouts! so here ’tis again:

LETTERPRESS FUNDAMENTALS. THURSDAY, November 3rd. 11am -5pm $60
In this workshop we will collaboratively print a poster on the Vandercook no. 2 proof press, learning typesetting, hand inking technique, & shop procedure in the process. plus a little typography & color theory. Participants will thereafter be qualified to use the proof press– perfect for printing linoleum and wood image blocks as well as type– during supervised open studio hours. contact Sarah: accidentalpress at gmail.com to register. cost is $60.

ashby collinson

Lucky Dragons

my new life has an estimated 4,900% increase in elevator rides per month.

In August 2008 I moved from Nehalem, Oregon (pop. 203) to Chicago, Illinois on a train, Amtrak’s Empire Builder.  that vacuum sound when the doors open between cars, wandering around the Spokane station in pajama pants at 2 am, drinking Heinekin and eating stale sandwiches, knitting, writing in my notebook, falling asleep with moonlight traveling along my face, crook in my back, listening to midwesterners coming home from their summer vacations at Glacier National Park (“great scenery up there”), reading Where I Was From by Joan Didion, splashing water on my face in the aluminum sinks, crossing the Great Divide