Pacific Northwest Tour Classes!

Saturday + Sunday, August 14-15 | 10am-4pm
Magic Books and Paper Toys with Esther K. Smith
Seattle Center for Book Arts
Location: 2100 Building (in Rainier Valley), 2100 24th Ave. S., Seattle, WA [map] | Cost: $345

Saturday + Sunday, August 14-15 | 10am-4pm
PurgaColor© and Other Secrets of Purgatory Pie Press –
Printmaking on the Letterpress with Dikko Faust
Seattle Center for Book Arts
Location: Cornish College of the Arts, 1000 Lenora St., Seattle, WA [map] | Cost: $345

Monday, August 9-Thursday, August 12 | 10am-4pm
Instant Artist Books Workshop with Esther K. Smith
Pacific Northwest College of Art
1241 NW Johnson St., Portland, OR 97209 [Map] • 503.226.4391
Tuition: $425 | Department fee: $70

Monday, August 9-Thursday, August 12 | 10am-4pm
Experimental Letterpress with Dikko Faust
Pacific Northwest College of Art
1241 NW Johnson St., Portland, OR 97209 [Map] • 503.226.4391
Tuition: $425 | Department fee: $70

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Esther K Smith Book Arts Classes | Cooper Union, NYC

Instant Artist's Books | Tuesdays June 1- June 29 6:30 - 9:30 pm
5000007 | 5 sessions | $200

Magic Books and Paper Toys | Mondays June 7- 28 6:30 - 9:30 pm
5000008 |4 sessions |$175

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Dikko Faust's Letterpress Classes | School of Visual Arts, NYC
An Introduction to Letterpress
FGC-2459-A | 6-9:30PM | Tuesdays, Jun 08 - Aug 10

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Have Purgatory Press teach a class at your organization! Sample classes:

Cake Box Books—Esther K Smith — Pop Art meets book arts!
A delightful introduction to longstitch binding, which you can also use with leather.
You can bring some old leather pants to recycle. Warning: grocery shopping will never be the same.
And you’ll never throw away another box.

Magic Books and Paper Toys—Esther K Smith
Amaze your friends with an array of tricky bookforms from a myriad of traditions: hexiflexigons, magic
wallets, simple popups, origami-based forms, exquisite corpses, woven pockets, animations,
concertina-based flip/flaps, jewelry books, etc. Learn these easy structures, making quick models, and
then make them into finished pieces using collage materials, stickers, buttons and beads, etc.

Letterpress Printing—Dikko Faust
Learn to set wood and metal type by hand. Set a page, a postcard or a whole book. Print on a variety of hand-and machine-made papers. Courses available for beginners and experienced students.

Experimental Printmaking on the Letterpress—Dikko Faust
Edition images from a variety of traditional and experimental plates: photopolymer, wood and linoleum cut, collagraph, texture plates. Learn to incorporate a variety of materials into your work, such as lace, sandpaper, grass, you name it—if it fits on the letterpress we can print it!

Hands-On History of Typography—Dikko Faust
When is a font not a font? Where is the lead in leading?
Learn typographic history by experience as you hand-set type and print it on the letterpress. Moveable type ended the Dark Ages and ushered in the Renaissance, the industrial revolution, and literacy for the people.

Instant Artist Books—Esther K Smith
Make ten books from start to finish. Explore simple bookbinding from Eastern and Early Western traditions
Make individual and collaborative books, unique books and small editions—even popups! See the work of
contemporary book artists. and discuss how you can publish and distribute your own Artist Books.

Purgatory Pie Press
Dikko Faust & Esther K Smith
19 Hudson St. #403 NYC 10013
212 274 8228