Core77 Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club Tonite with Katy Meegan, Em-Space Book Arts Center
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Tonight, Core77 welcomes Katy Meegan of Em-Space Book Arts Center to our bi-weekly creative speaker series: The Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club hosted at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast! Read our Q+A with Katy here!
Tuesday, March 8th
6PM PST
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR, 97209
“Letterpress Printing and the Artist Book”
Katy will discuss a brief history of letterpress printing and movable type and how it is evolving in its contemporary applications. She will show and discuss examples of the kind of book art that is made in the Em Space Studios. Everyone will have a hands-on experience printing their very own piece of print ephemera on table top platen press or poster press.
Katy Meegan is a letterpress printer, bookbinder, teacher and artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. She got her start in the field of book and paper arts at the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts in Minneapolis and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Arts Management, Studio Arts and Gender Studies. She teaches workshops regularly at both Em Space Book Arts Center and the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC). She is the co-owner of Keeganmeegan & Co. and a member/co-founder of Em Space Book Arts Center.
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