Design & Print Photopolymer Letterpress Plates the Low-Tech Way

In the last decade or so, photopolymer plate technology has trickled down from the printing industry into letterpress shops, printmaking studios, and art schools. This workshop takes the photopolymer process one step further to show printmakers, artists, and printers how to set up for themselves a fully functional, low-tech, low-budget, photopolymer studio in the kitchen. We will create negative images – experimenting with various media & techniques, expose our plates in the UV rays of the sun, develop them, ink and print them on a flat-bed proof press. There will be a small collaborative project as well as a chance to devise a small individual piece.

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Instructor Bio: Jenny Sapora is the proprietor of True Bug Press, producing a dozen or so small fine press editions over the past 18 years as editor, illustrator, designer, printer, and binder. Her books range from slender to textful, her content from serious research to general goofiness. Jenny’s fine press work has been honored with the NW Bookfest Up-and-Coming Book Artist Award and she has received an Artist’s Book Production Grant from the Women’s Studio Workshop and a Philip Hofer Commission for Printing. She has taught various book arts and design classes at the School for Visual Concepts, Pratt Center for the Arts, Cornish College of the Arts, and Oregon Book Arts Guild. Jenny holds an MA in design from the University of Iowa and an MFA in book arts from the University of Alabama. However, she adds, her depth of experience in design and her meticulous craftsmanship in printing were born not in a classroom but in a print shop.