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Very pleased that the 50 States print was recently featured on the new Idea Shop website from Neenah Papers. Continue Reading Post

Delighted to have made a visit to lecture at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Continue Reading Post

Completely delighted to participate in the “Celebrating All Types” Print Exchange organized by Partners in Print, Seattle, WA and The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI. Continue Reading Post

Wonderful to celebrate “Type High Day” and get together with some printer pals at the 8th annual Lancaster Printers Fair. Continue Reading Post

Next up for a Letterpress Worskhop at Base Press were some of my dear friends from the Manly Beer Night crowd. Continue Reading Post

After being cooped up and indoors for so much time due to the pandemic, it just started to feel about time to open up the (bilco, or basement) doors of Base Press and start to do long-awaited, long-anticipated Letterpress Workshops for students, friends—and whomever—at Base Press. Continue Reading Post

Way beyond honored to be included in the Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters Exhibition at Standpoint Gallery in London, UK. The project was organized and curated by New North Press, and is “an exhibition of approx. 200 contemporary letterpress protest posters from 105 artists in 16 countries. These are artworks with something to say: sounding a warning signal about the global climate crisis, railing against fake news and surveillance capitalism, calling out racism, sexism and fighting for equal opportunities and, of course, reacting to the coronavirus pandemic.” Continue Reading Post

Was completely honored to co-host the popular Zoom gathering of letterpress printers and type aficionados and enthusiasts, “Ham Hang,” produced by the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. Continue Reading Post

During Summer 2020 I was fortunate to be able to spend a three week residency as Artist/Designer/Printer-in-Residence at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. If you have read this far on this blog you will recognize mention of Hamilton, as I have visited the Museum several times. But this time, with the support of a Faculty Completion Grant from Thomas Jefferson University, I was able to visit and work at this incredible, amazing facility for three weeks. Continue Reading Post

We were completely honored and humbled to be among 25 designers and printers worldwide invited to design and print a “birthday gift” letterpress poster to celebrate and honor the twenty-fifth anniversary of the wonderful Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione Museum in Cornuda, Italy. Continue Reading Post