End of Summer Approaching . . .

As the end of summer approaches, I figure it is about time to look back on the past spring.

The end of spring brought some really exciting adventures!

There is one exciting escapade I’d like to share. I took my Pratt Institute Print Production class on a letterpress field trip. Thanks to Dan at The Arm, I was able to bring my class to his studio to do some letterpress printing. At The Arm, my students (in groups of three) spent a bit of time designing, typesetting, and printing a poster for their senior show. Each group got to help with a different part of the letterpress process. Thanks to student Steven Mallia, we have some great documentation of the field trip (see a peek at what we did in his pictures below!).

You can also see write-ups of the field trip from Emily Wilbur and Christine Park. Emily and Christine were two of the other amazing students in my Print Production class.

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The End of a busy 9 months.

For the past 9 months, I’ve been in Mississippi teaching up a storm. The academic year is over, and I’ve finally decided to update the web space that bares my name. I gave a presentation to the art faculty here at the end of my year at Mississippi State University, and I just wanted to share a few images from that presentation that show the crazy-fun that has been this year.

MSU AIGA group (I was their faculty advisor. Be aware, this is but one sixth of the group):
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Pix(elated!) Opening (MSU AIGA 4th Annual National Student Competition and Show):
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Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Letterpress Workshop:
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An Independent study I did with Carl Carbonell called Get American:
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And Finally, a Letterpress Workshop with Brad Vetter from Hatch Show Print:
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this post actually dates: May 4th, 2009