INSTRUCTORS

Dana King is a multi-media artist whose practice embraces papermaking, poetry, photography, and artist’s books. In their process, they combine scholarly research, intuitive praxis, and a sense of humor. Motivated by empathy and curiosity, Dana approaches their work as an artist and a teacher with kindness. A current MFA Candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, Dana has taught Book Arts and Alternative Screen Printing at the Center for the Book and Public Space One and has edited and produced independent zines and chapbooks using Xerox and Risograph printing. Dana has shown work and curated exhibitions in Ohio and Iowa, and their work can be found in national and international publications, including Oranges and Sardines and Photo Trouvée Magazine, as well as online and in broadside form at Prompt Press. Dana is a member of Public Space One and the Iowa City Press Coop and loves every dog.

Margaret Yapp is from Iowa City, Iowa. She works as the managing editor at Prompt Press and runs Rampage Party Press, an ongoing poetry broadside project. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has taught classes in literature, creative writing, and book arts for the University of Iowa and Iowa City Poetry. Her work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Second Factory, Asphalte, and elsewhere. Her debut book of poems, Green for Luck, is forthcoming from EastOver Press (spring 2024). You can read more at Margaret’s website which is margaret yapp dot com / instagram @bigbabymarg

workshop presented in partnership with Iowa City Poetry

tuition: $100 (includes all materials)
tuition assistance is available

Have you ever wanted to make a broadside of your own writing? Or of somebody else’s? A broadside is basically a fancy word for poster — and broadsides have historically been used as a way to cheaply disseminate writing! There are infinite ways to make a broadside — one-of-a-kinds and editions — and in this four-session class, participants will design, develop, and print at least two of their own broadsides.

We’ll experiment with digital and analog forms of print and image making, with a special focus on technologies that are affordable and accessible from home. Possible activities include: carving our own stamps, linocut, xerox transfers, collage, trace monotype, cyanotype, tracing, rubbings, gelatin printing, and stencils. We’ll also do a crash course on digital design using Microsoft Word and other accessible programs, and learn the very basics of typography and design. We’ll experiment with printing on both digital printers and hand presses. Participants should expect to walk away from this course with at least one digitally-printed broadside and at least one hand-printed broadside, as well as the knowledge and confidence to continue making broadsides on their own following the course.

This class is open to all levels of writers and artists — lessons will be catered to participants’ interests and ideas!