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Level: All

Instructor: Juan Pascoe

This seminar will introduce participants to the dis-appearing art of fine letterpress printing by hand. You’ll hear from a master the story of how a fine press piece’s content is selected, edited, designed, and finally set and printed and bound by hand using an 1838 R. Hoe Washington hand press. You’ll learn why producing 100 copies of a short book of poems can take the better part of year. And you’ll come to understand how this process has yielded books, broadsides and ephemera by some of Latin America’s most prominent writers, including Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Roberto Bolaño. Come armed with questions about this centuries-old printing tradition that is art, literature, and science combined.

Date: Saturday, Mar. 17, 11am – 1pm

Limit: 15 Participants

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Mar. 14

CPE Credits: 2 Language Arts

Fee: $55 Discounted Fee: $45

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About the instructor:

Juan Pascoe, hand press printer, was born in Chicago in 1946. His father was a Mexican diplomat with the United Nations, and his mother an American. After studying English at Whitman College, Pascoe spent a year as a printing apprentice to Harry Duncan at the Cummington Press in West Branch Iowa. He returned to Mexico in 1973, and in 1975 he founded Taller Martín Pescador, mainly producing chapbooks – typeset, printed, and bound by hand – of contemporary poetry by both established and emerging writers of Mexico’s literary avant-garde. Pascoe received the coveted Premio Eréndira for traditional arts in 2011, and a museum retrospective of his work took place in 2009 in Mexico City.