Lisa Rappoport
Sunday, June 1, 2025
10:00 am – 4:00 pm (Includes 1/2 hour lunch)
$165 non-member/$150 member
$15 materials fee paid directly to the instructor
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler Street, #116, Benicia
Level: All levels
Age minimum: 18+
Minimum 3 | Maximum 6
Class Description: Join Lisa Rappoport in this coaster making class! Who doesn’t love coasters?? They do present a few printing issues, but their charm makes it all worthwhile. This class is suited for beginners to letterpress, who will learn how to set type, mix ink, and operate a tabletop press; as well as experienced printers, who may or may not have printed on coaster stock before but would like to spend the day having fun doing so at Arts Benicia. Everyone will take home an assortment of 4″ round coasters.
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Lisa Rappoport publishes poetry broadsides and artist’s 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. Her poetry has appeared in Nostos, Caesura, 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. She teaches workshops in letterpress printing and book arts at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Lisa’s work has been displayed nationally and is in collections throughout the U.S.
Instructor website: littoralpress.com