Letterpress Transformations Workshop with Cait Harris - April 8-9
The upcoming Pocatello workshop April 8-9, 2022 with visiting artist Caitlin Harris is open to students, faculty, and community members.
Workshop Description:
Letterpress Transformations
Work with artist Caitlin Harris to create an interactive letterpress print. Learn to set type by hand in the Pinyon Jay Press and print a collaborative movable book. Explore letterpress composition and printing to create a paper device that transforms to reveal and conceal hidden information.
BIO:
Cait Harris is a multidisciplinary artist, printer, and designer. She is the co-proprietor of Wheelhouse Press and an adjunct instructor in the Boise State University Department of Art, Design & Visual Studies. Her work investigates the form of the book and engages with sequential information that transforms over time. She makes intricate folded paper structures, inky prints with wood type, and dot matrix poems. Collaboration with students, writers, and community organizations enables her to share printing and publishing skills in support of the exchange of underrepresented voices.
Cait has taught art and printmaking classes at Oregon College of Art & Craft, Boise State University, and Boise Art Museum. She served as the Studio Manager at the IPRC , a non-profit organization that provides open access to printing and publishing skills in support of visual and literary work. Currently Cait serves as President of the Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance, and Vice Chair of Member Relations at the College Book Arts Association.