& now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

V.M.BEE, proof sheet on the press & print made with CNC routed wood type & Goudy metal type, french paper, 12.5 inches x 19 inches, 2015

let the countdown begin! so lucky & grateful to get to experience Vandercook heaven again, to learn lots at Penland School of Craft, to just be inspired, & so much more.

this print was made last summer there, & with the past year I've had & listening to the audio version of the book again when I couldn't read, only makes the words more powerful to me.

thank you all, for your ongoing love & support.

&, I can't wait to share my adventures with you. &, everything else that's ahead, it's going to be so damn good.

cheers & xo!

Recipient of a scholarship to attend a letterpress workshop at Penland School of Crafts this summer!

So excited & grateful! Can't wait!

Eileen Wallace
Drawing with the Press

This workshop will teach good printing practices in tandem with a healthy dose of experimentation. We’ll use handset type, carved blocks, and photopolymer plates and expand our choices through alternative materials. We’ll build our own type-high blocks and design creative lock-ups in the press in an effort to stay connected to the process and use the press as a way of drawing. To escape the ease and convenience of digital tools and enlarge our material vocabulary, we’ll experiment with alternatives and bring a new voice to the letterpress conversation.

Lecturer at University of Georgia; other teaching: Haystack (ME), OxBow (MI), Washington University (St. Louis), Columbia College Chicago; residencies: Haystack (ME), Arrowmont (TN), Penland; exhibitions: Lamar Dodd School of Art (GA), University of Georgia, Southern Graphics Council (WI), American Academy (Rome).

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