with Mackie Garrett
Sun. February 9, 16, & 23, 1-4:30pm
at the IC Press Co-op (225 N. Gilbert)
pay-what-you-can: $25-170
Join Mackie Garrett for an introduction to the art and craft of letterpress printing. We’ll learn the basics by working with the classic presses that live at the Iowa City Press Coop. Each participant will have the chance to learn about basic care and set up of the presses, typesetting and print matrix preparation, inking and printing techniques, and the ever popular clean up procedures. We will start with some collaborative work and then move into individual projects. Participants will be able to print independently on the Showcard press by the end of the workshop. Mackie is happy to guide you as you start or renew your adventures in letterpress.
Open to ages 18+.
Registration deadline: Feb. 6
*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from Hills Bank and individual donors. $155 is the true cost of the workshop, and we encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford, or pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.
TEACHING ARTIST:
Mackie Garrett is a poet, artist, and caregiver based in Iowa City. His poems have appeared in Plainsongs, Spoon River Poetry Review, Slant, and other publications. Mackie founded 508 Press, a collaborative micropress specializing in limited edition hand-printed poetry publications, in 2017. With various collaborators, he designs and letterpress prints poetry zines, chapbooks, greeting cards, and posters. Mackie has taught literature, creative writing, and English as a Second Language in the U.S., Jamaica, and China. He has been offering letterpress workshops at ICPC since 2019.