LETTERPRESS - Saddleback College

My goals with this externship were to see working letterpress shops in action,
and to spend time learning more about the flat showcard presses we currently
have at Saddleback, and the self-inking Vandercook #4 press that we’re hoping
to get. So in March I traveled to Hatch Show Print in Nashville, Tennessee, the
oldest letterpress shop in the country, and then in April and May I spent two
days at the International Printing Museum in Carson, California. The designers
and craftsmen I met were inspiring and generous, and I’m grateful for the
opportunity to spend time learning from them. I learned a great deal of new
technical and practical information to share at Saddleback. I also got to
experience the history and the beauty of the artform of letterpress.