Museum of Printing Workshops in 2024

Saturday, March 2, 10am–4pm

Press Refurbishing and Maintenance Workshop at the Museum of Printing

This workshop covers Tabletop, Platen, Vandercook, and Showcard letterpresses.

• What to look for in a press
• The importance of lubrication
• Inking suggestions
• Where to acquire ink rollers
• Cleaning kit requirements
• Dealing with Broken/Missing parts
• Tools needed
• Disassembly suggestions
• Hints for moving presses

Wear clothes that can get dirty. There will be a pizza lunch.

$125 per person | Limited to 8 registrants   SOLD OUT

Saturday, February 3, 10am–4pm

Fabric Printing Workshop

Pizza lunch included | $100 per person | Limited to 8 people

This one-day 5-hour workshop covers a broad range of materials and techniques for letterpress printing on fabric. Fabrics may include, muslin, drill, canvas, cotton t-shirts and flour-sack dish towels. Varieties and behaviors of inks will be discussed, and a variety of impression techniques: the barren, the hammer, body-weight, roller press, sleigh press and others. Working in color and registration will also be reviewed. Students will print their own work on flour-sack dish towels (provided).

Participants who practice linoleum block cutting are urged to bring some of their work for printing. Mitchel will bring examples of his own letterpress on fabric work, including dishtowels, canvases, and both horizontal and vertical large-format scrolls.
Mitchel will have a 35 foot banner on press, and workshop participants will be able to assist in its printing. The banner will read “MUSEUM OF PRINTING • GARAGE SALE”

Email for registration information.

Saturday, January 6

Letterpress Intro+ Workshop, 10am–4pm

Pizza lunch included | $100 per person | Limited to 6 people

This class is both a beginners and intermediate letterpress class. It will cover the basics, but more advanced students can go directly to more advanced work, such as floor platen printing, printing on fabric, or basic two-color printing with the assistance of the instructor.

Students who have successfully completed two workshops, are MoP members in good standing, and have been checked out on the equipment can use the MoP Letterpress Studio on open days, with advance notice, and by arrangement.