Letterpress Posters: Cut, Collaborate, & Print!
Instructed by Maddy Underwood and Elizabeth Isakson-Dado
Saturday, August 9, 11am-3pm
Class Size: Maximum 6
In this fast-paced workshop, we'll embrace spontaneity while printing 2-color posters with craft foam and vintage wood type. Each participant will create a freehand cut-out shape in craft foam, as a group we will lay out the shapes as one collaborative background layer. Once our backgrounds are printed, each participant will learn how to typeset a phrase to print on top using Signal-Return's collection of antique wood type.
This workshop will be led by our visiting artist in residence, Maddy Underwood, and her collaborator Liz Isakson-Dado, a regular instructor at Signal-Return. This is a type and shape based poster workshop. Come with an idea of shapes to cutout and what your posters might say. Think short and sweet, try to keep text within 6 words or less and/or 40 letters.
The end result will be a set of posters to take home that is both collaborative and unique. All skill levels are welcome!
Instructed by Maddy Underwood and Elizabeth Isakson-Dado
Saturday, August 9, 11am-3pm
Class Size: Maximum 6
In this fast-paced workshop, we'll embrace spontaneity while printing 2-color posters with craft foam and vintage wood type. Each participant will create a freehand cut-out shape in craft foam, as a group we will lay out the shapes as one collaborative background layer. Once our backgrounds are printed, each participant will learn how to typeset a phrase to print on top using Signal-Return's collection of antique wood type.
This workshop will be led by our visiting artist in residence, Maddy Underwood, and her collaborator Liz Isakson-Dado, a regular instructor at Signal-Return. This is a type and shape based poster workshop. Come with an idea of shapes to cutout and what your posters might say. Think short and sweet, try to keep text within 6 words or less and/or 40 letters.
The end result will be a set of posters to take home that is both collaborative and unique. All skill levels are welcome!
Instructed by Maddy Underwood and Elizabeth Isakson-Dado
Saturday, August 9, 11am-3pm
Class Size: Maximum 6
In this fast-paced workshop, we'll embrace spontaneity while printing 2-color posters with craft foam and vintage wood type. Each participant will create a freehand cut-out shape in craft foam, as a group we will lay out the shapes as one collaborative background layer. Once our backgrounds are printed, each participant will learn how to typeset a phrase to print on top using Signal-Return's collection of antique wood type.
This workshop will be led by our visiting artist in residence, Maddy Underwood, and her collaborator Liz Isakson-Dado, a regular instructor at Signal-Return. This is a type and shape based poster workshop. Come with an idea of shapes to cutout and what your posters might say. Think short and sweet, try to keep text within 6 words or less and/or 40 letters.
The end result will be a set of posters to take home that is both collaborative and unique. All skill levels are welcome!
Maddy Underwood
Maddy Underwood is an artist, designer, and letterpress printer from Nashville, and is currently an MFA candidate at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art.
She has worked with Warner Music Nashville, Hatch Show Print, Vanderbilt University, Third Man Records, Capitol Records, Polyvinyl Record Co., as well as a variety of independent recording artists and bands.
She began experimenting with needlepoint & cross-stitch in 2022, teaches papermaking and letterpress workshops, and is passionate about introducing others to the beauty of analog processes.