Book Art and Letterpress Lab

The Book Art and Letterpress Lab supports on campus letterpress printing, experimental printing, paper techniques, binding and bookery.

WHAT IS AN ARTIST’S BOOK?

“A book is done for its own sake and not for the information it contains. That is: it doesn’t contain a lot of works, like a book of poems. It is a work. Its design and format reflect its content — they intermerge, interpenetrate. It might be any art: an artist’s book could be music, photography, graphics, intermedial literature. The experience of reading it, viewing it, framing it — that is what the artist stresses in making it.”

Dick Higgins, in the preface for “Artists Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook,” by Joan Lyons

Book Art and Letterpress Lab

THE FACILITY

The Book Art & Letterpress Lab is a space for classes, workshops and visiting artists. Past visiting artists have included,Dafi Kühne, Francois Deschamps, Karen Hanmer, Keith Smith, Joan Lyons, Scott McCarney, Julie Chen, Clifton Meador, Barb Tetenbaum, Inge Bruggeman, Amos Kennedy, Jessica Spring, Jen Farrell, Philip Zimmermann and Bruce Licher. The lab has hosted the College Book Arts Association (CBAA) meetings as well as the Amalgamated Printers Association (APA) Wayzgoose.

For more information about the facility, please contact Karen Zimmermann

THE EQUIPMENT

The Book Art and Letterpress Lab is fortunate to house a two-color ME9450 RISO with 12 colors; an Epilog Zing Laser Cutter; an Anderson & Vreeland Photopolymer Platemaker; SP15, Universal I, OS 219 Vandercooks; and Chandler and Price and proofing presses. It is home to the James Babbitt Wood-type collection. The lab holds an extensive collection of metal and wood type, ornaments and engraving cuts. There are several board shears, guillotine paper cutters and nipping presses.

THE LOCATION

The Letterpress and Book Art Lab is located at 1231 N. Fremont Ave., in the UA School of Art Graduate Studios, view map.

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