Hilltop Print Shop letterpress and papermaking hands-on demonstrations

Join the Print Culture and Archives working group and the Hilltop Print Shop for a hands-on exploration of early printing methods! We'll be set up in the LLC department seminar room (Sherman 202A) on Thursday November 13 from 11-2pm. Stop by and try out the Book Beetle letterpress and a tabletop provisional press, use moulds and deckles to make your own paper, and learn to use a composing stick with our lead and wooden type sets. Although our target audience includes UMBC instructors, staff and graduate students, everyone is welcome. 

Interested in working with early printing methods in your classes? Join the Print Culture and Archives Working Group! PCA provides space to share research and works in progress as well as discuss current debates, questions, and conundrums in the field(s). We also exchange pedagogical ideas and best practices, develop PCA-related programming, curricula and makerspaces on campus, and cultivate relationships with presses, archives, libraries, book artists, and collectors in the region. Subscribe to our myUMBC group for updates!