Tess LeNoir

Print Futures is back by popular demand! Hear from three Print Futures all-stars LIVE. Rapid-fire presentations from emerging printers Gabby Rivera, Maggie Murphy, and Tess LeNoir will get you excited about the future of letterpress. Pushing the boundaries of letterpress tools, text, and image, these new voices in letterpress not only move the craft forward, they give us an inspiring glimpse of where the field of letterpress printing could go in their capable hands. Let’s give them all a warm Wayzgoose welcome!

Print Futures provides a new, unique platform for upward mobility in the letterpress community. To date, Print Futures has featured 28 emerging artists and educators, whose virtual lightning talks and ensuing discussions build bridges, encourage, and support the next generation of printers. Print Futures is co-produced semi-annually by Partners in Print (PiP) and Letterpress Educators of Art & Design (LEAD).

Tess LeNoir

Tess LeNoir (Seattle, WA) possesses the singular distinction of growing up in the apartment above a commercial letterpress shop—Day Moon Press—founded in 1976 by her mother, Maura Shapley. When the business officially passed on to Tess in 2023, she expanded the use of its resources in new, innovative, and deliciously painstaking directions.