Wayzgoose! *
April 22, 2012 * 11 am - 4 pm
Join us for our eighth annual Wayzgoose, or, letterpress and book arts extravaganza! Meet local printers and view their wares! Print your own keepsake! Make paper! Make paper creations! Create letterpress magnetic poetry. And, returning for the fourth year...Steamroller Printing!!! We'll be creating 3' x 3' prints designed by local artists, some of which will be raffled off at the Wayzgoose! Thanks Tacoma Arts Commission!!
The Players!
All below artists (or groups) have tables at Wayzgoose!
New artists will be added as they are confirmed.
Jessica Spring, of Springtide Press in Tacoma, designs, prints, and binds unique artist books, broadsides and ephemera incorporating handmade paper and letterpress printing. Small finely-crafted editions consider historical topics and popular culture with a twist. Jessica teaches book arts at Pacific Lutheran University. This is her eighth Wayzgoose! Photo by Aaron Locke.
Jenny Craig of Notta Pixie Press in Seattle studied Book Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and in Seattle at Day Moon Press on Beacon Hill. Her work wavers between general amusement at the antics of household objects & experiments with ink and paper. This is her seventh Wayzgoose! Photo by Aaron Locke.
Chandler O’Leary of Anagram Press in Tacoma, is a 2003 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), with a BFA in Illustration and a year in Rome under her belt. Her work includes artist books, illustration, graphic design, textiles, letterpress printing, and drawing, to name a few. Her books and prints are collected and exhibited internationally. Chandler lives and creates art full-time. This is her fourth Wayzgoose! Photo by Aaron Locke.
Community Print of Olympia is a small, collectively-run letterpress/ silkscreen studio located in downtown Olympia. Their materials are scrappy, their training uncouth, and their love of type/graphics/fonts downright nerdy. They are open to the community seven days a week, and hold low-cost proficiencies once a month (or so) for new members. Get type high with us! This is their third Wayzgoose! Photo by Chris Tumbusch.
wayzgoose n. The name of the annual feast give by a master printer for the staff of the press.
In modern parlance, it is an annual gathering of printers. The word is of obscure origin.
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