Free international letterpress workshops 2011, Denmark

A graphic play with wood & metal types

FREE INTERNATIONAL LETTERPRESS WORKSHOPS 2011, Denmark

I hereby invite all letterpress printers to come and work in my letterpress studio with full access to all printing equipment etc.

The workshops will be held from 20th-23rd & 26th-29th of May and 16th-19th & 22nd-25th of September - all days included.

The plan is during the four workshops to produce, the participants in cooperative, eight art prints of a complex, innovative and high quality, helping promoting the art and craft of letterpress printing in Northern Europe. It’s also the intension to give the participants a challenge working with letterpress on other conditions, technical as well as creative and personal, than they use to do in their private shops - and to have a good experience, a lot of fun and networking.

The topic for the workshops will be:
PRINTING WITH MOVEABLE TYPES AS A CONTEMPORY ART FORM

The artworks will be printed on 38x56 cm Somerset Velvet in a limited edition of twenty.

There will also be an opportunity to print some individual and private jobs.

To provide optimal working conditions the workshops are limited to two participants per workshop.

All participants will after the last workshop receive a complete set of all art prints of the main project. Four sets will be reserved to my workshop and the cooperators. The remaining sets will be sold in the autumn of 2011 on etsy.com. An eventually profit of the workshops will be used financing free international letterpress workshops in the future.

The work and atmosphere during the four workshops will be documented on the internet.

Participation to the workshops is free of charge. I will open our home and provide you with local transport, a bed, good food etc. You will only have to pay the costs of your journey and the paper you are using for your private jobs.

Please remark that these workshops are for people already familiar with graphic design and letterpress.

If you are interested in joining the workshops, please send me a mail within 20th of March with information about your experience in letterpress printing and your wish for dates. If necessary I will choose among the applicants and make a waiting list.

For further information please contact me at bogtryk(a)hansen.mail.dk

Gott grüß die Kunst
Jens

Jens Jørgen Hansen, bogtrykker
Workshop for Letterpress Printing & Type Studies
Nørregade 85
DK-6670 Holsted
Denmark
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bogtrykkeren/

(Holsted is situated 35 km from Billund Airport and have a station on the railway between Kolding/Lunderskov and Esbjerg)

The project is supported by:
Keith Bassford, Graphic Workshop & Aart de Vos ApS - Artists Materials.

Program:
Day 1: Arrival, introduction to the workshop and planning of the main project.
Day 2: Typesetting and printing.
Day 3: Typesetting and printing*.
Day 4: Typesetting, printing, finishing the projects and departure.

*If wished there will be an opportunity to visit the National Printing Museum in Odense - Danmarks Mediemuseum

Available equipment:
2BS Eickhoff proof press (54x74 cm)
Farley galley press (46x70 cm)
Approx. 250 cases of metal and wood types.
For the small private jobs also two table tops.

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