HANDPRINTING WORKSHOPS IN THE USA: A DIRECTORY

Compiled and written by Richard Mayberry Print Studio Manager Spirit Square Center for the Arts 1993.
Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Several copies for sale - $10 each.

This reference volume comes in a printed white plastic 3-ring binder which mearures 11 1/2"h x 11"w and 3" thick, weighs 2.5 lbs and has approximately 325 pages. The volume contains a workshop alphabetical listing, data information on each workshop, workshop listing by state and workshop mailing list in ZIP code order. The background graphic on the cover is from an original graphite drawing by the author and artist Richard Mayberry.

From the introduction...

"During the last year, over three hundred print shops in forty states were identified for profile in this directory.
There is no attempt made to qualify or judge the shops listed. The workshops in this volume meet the following criteria:

• the workshop has a creative component;
• the workshop ios oriented, at least in part, towards limited editions;
• the workshop uses "hand-pulled" printing techniques;
• the workshop allows access by artists and/or printmakers other than the owner, or allows access outside a normal class structure. (College and university print departments are included if they allow non-student access.)

Click on the thumbnail images below to see examples of workshop data pages. Use the browser back arrow to return to this page.

Letterpress and book arts oriented shops are included if they work with hand-made illustrations. Screen shops are included if they make limited editions using hand-made color separations. Screen shops are included if they make limited editions using hand made color separations. Offset presses are included if they are involved in creative collaboration with artists.
The search to identify print shops benefited from mailing lists and previous compilations as well as networking among the shops. Material in this directory has come from written responses to questionnaires, fax transmissions, telephone interviews and shop publications."