Letterpress Printing on a Tabletop Press

Lisa Rappoport

Sunday, August 4, 2024
10:00 am – 4:30 pm (Includes 1/2 hour lunch) (This class is full, to be added to the waitlist email info@artsbenicia.org)

$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 letterpress class where you will learn about the benefits/drawbacks of a Platen press vs. Vandercook, and standing press vs. tabletop. Other skills will be taught including; Type height, vocabulary (pica stick, quoins, etc.), lay of the typecase, how to set type in the composing stick, mixing ink, locking up a form, operating the press, using gauge pins and grippers, distributing type, and cleaning the press.

Here is just one of the fun ORNAMENTS we have available for use on our Platen Press in the ANNEXSelect the appropriate member or non-member tuition rate below.

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