December 21, 2023

County Fair: A Multi-Sheet, Multi-Color Historic Block Restrike Print

The Hamilton press room recently printed another multi-sheet restrike from the collection. This design, known as “County Fair”, depicts a proudly-dressed female farmer posing with her horse, a sheaf of wheat, several ears of corn, and a prize-beribboned cow in front of a moon or a sun. The blocks for this 4-color, 2-sheet poster were in an excellent condition and... Read More »

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December 5, 2023

In the Gallery: Typographic Jazz, The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher

Courtesy of Letterform Archive, the exhibition 'Typographic Jazz, The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher' is on display at Hamilton from November 9 through December 30, 2023. This exhibition looks beyond the methods displayed in his well-known portfolio editions of wood type prints, and includes his sketches, iterative proofs, and other unfinished work to help us understand his process and give us... Read More »

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September 27, 2023

From Crate to Catalog to Shopping Cart: The Hamilton Process

By Jim Moran Nearly every poster in the Dry Goods Store at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum comes from the museum's Collection. How exactly do they get there? Blocks are chosen as a way of recording what’s in the collection while creating new work to sell. A series of hand-carved blocks from storage get removed carefully from a crate and cleaned.... Read More »

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September 25, 2023

SEED SAVING AND GARDENING + LETTERPRESS, oh yes!

This summer, Hamilton hosted a workshop with an interesting and specific focus: letterpress printing of seed envelopes which each participant filled with saved seeds. Instructor, Katie Ries led the way for this interactive and new-to-us workshop. Katie is an artist and educator who makes drawings, prints, objects, and events about the relationships between people and place and she is an... Read More »

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August 23, 2023

A lot of ink under the bridge: Jim Moran's legacy at Hamilton

After nearly 15 years at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (HWT&PM), Master Printer and Collections Officer Jim Moran will retire at the end of December 2023. Moran served as the museum’s director from 2009–2019 and as Master Printer and Collections Officer from 2019–2023. Throughout his career, Moran has been deeply committed to preserving letterpress printing both for its... Read More »

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