Elizabeth Isakson-Dado

Learn to remain flexible and spontaneous on press, embracing the imperfect qualities of type and image in letterpress printing!

This workshop focuses on creating beautiful backgrounds for a small edition of letterpress prints, highlighting several alternative processes for dynamic, relief-printed imagery.

Guided by collaborators Liz Isakson-Dado and Maddy Underwood, participants will explore collage techniques for texture layers, with materials like craft foam, oil board, wood glue, and more. Each participant will letterpress print their own short message in black ink with Hamilton wood type on top of their imagery.

This class is an exciting exercise of working with color and shape for beginners and seasoned printmakers alike!

Elizabeth Isakson-Dado is an artist, educator, and curator. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Wayne State University in Detroit and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Art from Columbia College Chicago. Liz has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, and has work in institutional collections including The Center for Book and Paper Art, The Poetry Foundation, ETC Editions, and Art in Print Magazine. She works as a teaching artist and independent curator in Southeastern Michigan, where she also keeps a home printmaking studio, The Aquarius House.

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