from the archives:
june 2008

gap from artist trust!

i was one of 80 artists selected to receive a gap (grant for artist projects) from artist trust this year! this grant provided financial support for a 2 week letterpress class at penland school of crafts. see what i did at penland by clicking the links below:

	1. This is the view from my desk.
	2. For my first project I decided to set some type at various angles. This took only a few hours to set.
	3. Aleatoric – This print went through the press 11 times. The background was printed mostly by chance, without planning how it would look at the end. The colors are varieties of two base colors plus transparent white, which I mixed as I printed.
	4. Vocabulary Word – Alternate version of this print for my Postcard Exchange to document my time at Penland. I hadn’t intended to print the orange text twice, but I liked the way it looked when I was proofing and thought it fit the theme.
	5. For my second project I tried a simple curved line of type.
	6. Lead Heart – One of my goals was to print something that was too large for the platen presses I usually use.
	7. This is why I took this class; this is not something I had thought possible with hand-set type. It took a total of 14 hours to set, after which I felt completely elated.
	8. Close-up of one of the curves.
	9. The Path from Here to There – My prize piece. The background was done with two separate lino blocks.
	10. The Path from Here to There (detail)
	11. Untitled – Once I finished Path I found I still had time to print one more piece. I had wanted to do something that was closer to my usual style, so I printed a bunny using pressure printing and included text and hand stitching.