Andrea Shaker

Experience letterpress printing with MCBA’s new collection of Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, and Swedish wood type in this hands-on workshop taught by MCBA artists and staff. This in-person workshop is designed for those with curiosity about how to work with type in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, and Swedish, and a desire to build skills and community while making collaborative prints! Some text will be pre-designed with type locked up in presses in advance to maximize printing time and allow for the basic concepts of printing to be introduced. We will make 2-3 distinct prints (approximately 10 x 14 inches in size), each with a line of text. Participants will have some creative input with ink colors and may select and hand-set additional words in wood type to print. Participants can take home a selection of ten to fifteen prints at the end of the workshop.

Andrea Shaker (she/her) is an Arab American artist living on Dakota and Anishinaable ancestral lands in mní sóta. Her work is interdisciplinary, spanning photography, moving image, experimental film, installation, letterpress printing and writing. rough image and word she addresses how the spaces of home, homeland and migration are remembered, embodied, and imagined. Her work, albeit oftentimes quiet, has an urgency by which she seeks to (re)construct and (re)imagine home and homeland in the face of erasures, fragmentations, and dispersals. Shaker earned her BA from Georgetown University and MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a professor of art at the College of St. Benedict|St. John’s University.