Book Arts / Letterpress Printing
Instructor: Jocelyn Webb Pedersen
(photo: Spring 2010 class)
Papermaking & Artists' Books (Fall 2010)
Students studied print, paper and book making with Professor Linda Lyke and Adjunct Instructor Jocelyn Webb Pedersen.
Special Collections hosted artists Donna and Peter Thomas who shared their experiences in the book arts. (photo: Linda Lyke, Peter and Donna Thomas, and student)
Since Spring 2010, an introduction to letterpress printing class has been offered at Oxy, taught by master printer Jocelyn Webb Petersen, a graduate of the University of Iowa Center for the Book.
Students create individual and collaborative projects, and also incorporate original imagery using typographic design, hand typesetting, and letterpress printing. At the end of the semester, an exhibit is set up at the Library with works created by the students, and copies are donated to Special Collections.
Visits to the Library's Special Collections are part of the program, so that students can experience key works from the Fine Printing and Artists' Books Collections, and learn about the historical development of printing and typography.
The program is made possible by the Lawrence Clark Powell and Fay Shoemaker Powell Endowment for the Book Arts. This generous contribution to the college by two alumni funded letterpress printing classes from 1987 to 1992, and it is a pleasure for all involved to see this program come back to life.
Tripich designed and printed by Ani Thomson
Hope is not for the Wise, poem by Robinson Jeffers; collaborative project, Spring 2011
Toni Morison's Song of Solomon (opening), designed and printed by Dave Alpert