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Intro to Letterpress: Linocut & Type Setting

Intro to Letterpress with Mary V Marsh

Join us for an immersive introduction to letterpress printing! Students will learn to hand set lead and wood type, carve an image with linoleum, and print them together using a Vandercook proof press. We will also cover how to ink the press, lock up the press bed with type, set up for printing and clean the press. Students will work together on the press as we print and learn multiple troubleshooting techniques. By the end of the workshop, everyone will print small editions of their two-color prints to take home. No experience necessary – all are welcome!

General Tuition: $380
Pay It Forward: $405
Scholarship Tier I (Limited): $330
Scholarship Tier II (Limited): $355

Accessibility Notice –
This class takes place in the Heinz Printmaking Studio which is located on the third floor and requires participants to climb two flights of stairs. This class may require materials or processes that are hazardous for animals. Please email classes@kala.org prior to enrolling so we can assess if we are able to accommodate you and your service animal safely and efficiently.

  • Tuition: $380
  • Location: Heinz Printmaking Studio
  • Instructor: Mary V. Marsh
  • 3 Classes
  • Saturday, May 3, 2025 — May 17, 2025
  • 10:00AM — 4:00PM
  • $35 Materials Fee - Payable to the instructor on the first day

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About the Instructor:

Mary V. Marsh makes prints, artist’s books and installations exploring changing technologies of communication through a personal lens. Her work in libraries provided a foundation for ideas, materials, and research. She has had solo shows at San Jose Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Center, SFPL Skylight Gallery, and Mercury 20. She makes artist’s books and prints as Quite Contrary Press, including collaborative works with Tony Bellaver, showing at CODEX, The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, in the collections of SFMOMA Library, The Bancroft Library, and many others. She received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1992, a 2018 Fellowship Award from Kala Art Institute, and a 2022 Small Plates award at San Francisco Center for the Book. She has taught extension classes at SFAI, printing workshops at Oakland Public Library, and letterpress demonstrations at Kala Art Institute.