J. Peter Moore

This workshop will introduce strategies for exploring photopolymer plate development in home studios. We will introduce an affordable exposure system for creating and developing photopolymer plates and review techniques for effective image-making and printing. Participants will learn how to use everyday items to reliably create high-quality polymer plates.

These methods are intended to provide printers who lack access to a formal exposure unit an improvised setup with which to experiment. Much of the stigma associated with printing from polymers follows from the assumption that it represents an “easy” way out of the careful scrutiny entailed in composing forms from type. With this workshop, the hope is to challenge the idea that polymer implies outsourcing, while demonstrating the potential for novelty within the medium.

J. Peter Moore is a scholar, poet, and printer. His academic training is in the field of contemporary American poetry, which he engages in his current monograph on postwar theories of vernacular poetics. He is the author of two collections of poetry Zippers & Jeans (2017) and Southern Colortype (Three Count Pour 2012). As a printer, he is the founding director of the PrintBay, a letterpress teaching studio, at Purdue University, where he is Clinical Associate Professor in the John Martinson Honors College.

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