| Date & Time: | Saturday, August 11, 2012
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Letterpress: Typesetting
Class #75 Saturday, August 11, 10am-5pm
Tuition $129
Nif Hodgson
If you are curious about learning to set type, this letterpress intensive covers all the basic processes: hand-setting and printing of type, the history of hand-set type and the specialized terminology involved in the process. You'll also learn how to use, adjust, and maintain the Vandercook press. All workshop participants have an opportunity to set and print type with tips on how to achieve sharp, correct inking. Enrollment is limited to 7 students.
CLASSES
Kala offers some of the best printmaking and digital media classes in the Bay Area. Located in Berkeley, every year Kala offers the community close to one hundred classes in a wide range of techniques, utilizing the exceptional equipment available in our printmaking studio and electronic media center. The small, hands-on classes foster creative exchange with instructors and fellow students, and all of our instructors are exhibiting artists. We offer numerous classes combining digital and traditional printmaking in different ways.
Choose a class that explores a new interest, or refines previous experience. Both beginners and advanced professional artists will find classes at appropriate skill levels, with detailed class descriptions, in Kala’s annual course catalog and on our website. The website has the most up-to-date class information.
Private classes and tutoring sessions in many subjects are also available.
CONTACT
Kala Art Institute
Gallery:
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
tel: 510-841-7000
Studios:
1060 Heinz Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710
tel: 510-549-2977 (office)
tel: 510-540-0935 (emc)
fax: 510-540-6914
web: www.kala.org
email: kala@kala.org
Class #75 Saturday, August 11, 10am-5pm
Tuition $129
Nif Hodgson
If you are curious about learning to set type, this letterpress intensive covers all the basic processes: hand-setting and printing of type, the history of hand-set type and the specialized terminology involved in the process. You'll also learn how to use, adjust, and maintain the Vandercook press. All workshop participants have an opportunity to set and print type with tips on how to achieve sharp, correct inking. Enrollment is limited to 7 students.
CLASSES
Kala offers some of the best printmaking and digital media classes in the Bay Area. Located in Berkeley, every year Kala offers the community close to one hundred classes in a wide range of techniques, utilizing the exceptional equipment available in our printmaking studio and electronic media center. The small, hands-on classes foster creative exchange with instructors and fellow students, and all of our instructors are exhibiting artists. We offer numerous classes combining digital and traditional printmaking in different ways.
Choose a class that explores a new interest, or refines previous experience. Both beginners and advanced professional artists will find classes at appropriate skill levels, with detailed class descriptions, in Kala’s annual course catalog and on our website. The website has the most up-to-date class information.
Private classes and tutoring sessions in many subjects are also available.
CONTACT
Kala Art Institute
Gallery:
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
tel: 510-841-7000
Studios:
1060 Heinz Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710
tel: 510-549-2977 (office)
tel: 510-540-0935 (emc)
fax: 510-540-6914
web: www.kala.org
email: kala@kala.org
