Continuing Education

133/141 West 21st Street

Letterpress is a medium of endless possibilities. This course will start with the basics: ink, rollers, type, paper and a press, and introduce the setting of type, locking up a form and using spacing materials to fill out the press. Relief printing from woodcuts, linoleum and photo-polymer plates made from digital output will also be introduced. Students will learn to print with both the Vandercook flatbed cylinder presses and traditional clamshell letterpresses. Printing on T-shirts and bags, printing from found objects (collagraphs), and even press cutting and folding will be explored. Past projects have included stationery, wedding invitations, poetry, children's books, artist books and calendars. No previous printing experience is required.
Note: Continuing education students enrolled in a printmaking course may access the printmaking facilities outside of class hours as follows: Monday through Friday from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm, and on Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Access is only available during these designated days and times and is based on classroom availability. This access ends on the last day of the course in which students are enrolled. This course is held on campus at SVA.