Design your own letterpress Valentine’s greetings card in this one-day workshop. Students will learn typesetting techniques to print a set of twenty folded letterpress cards with a custom greeting of your design. Using Signal-Return’s collection of type and ornaments, students will learn to properly compose, lockup, register and print their greeting card on the platen presses and/or proof presses.

Enjoy learning new techniques or refining your letterpress skills to create something special to send to all your Valentines.

Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff and takeaway prints. Paper & envelopes in this workshop are from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.

Saturday, January 27, 10am-4pm

Price: $150

Class Size: Maximum 8

Elizabeth Isakson-Dado is an artist, educator, and curator. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Wayne State University, and an MFA in Book & Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Liz has exhibited widely in the US and has work in institutional collections including the Poetry Foundation, the Center for Book and Paper Art, and Art in Print Magazine. For the past 10 years, she has taught university classes and community workshops in letterpress printing. Liz also sells her own prints through her Instagram, @theaquariushouse, to raise money for social justice campaigns. She lives and works in Berkley, Michigan.