Pressroom as Classroom: the Press at Colorado College. A Traveling Exhibit.

Exhibits

Pressroom as Classroom: the Press at Colorado
February 2 – March 26, 2005

Since 1978, The Press at Colorado College has issued nearly forty books and twenty-five broadsides by letterpress, which its founder Jim Tressel (1930–1999) called "slow tech." Trissel taught that painting and typography were not separate studio practices but artistic disiplines that informed the design and printing of books. Selections of this body of fine printing, including five books from The Press owned by the Newberry, demonstrate the continued pleasures of fine bookmaking in the twenty-first century.

Curator

Betty Bright (Minnesota Center for the Book)

Related Public Programs

Curator's Gallery Walk
February 3, 2005 at 6:00 pm
DOCENT: Betty Bright (Minnesota Center for the Book)
The Press at Colorado College as a Teaching Opportunity and Learning Experience
March 26, 2005 at 11:00 am
PANEL: Marcia Dobson (Colorado College), Carol Neel (Colorado College), and former Colorado College students
CHAIR: Paul F. Gehl (Newberry Library)

Resources

Exhibit Catalog — The Press at Colorado College: the Pressroom as Classroom. Curated and edited by Betty Bright; with a foreward by Paul F. Gehl; essays by Jim Tressel, Betty Bright, David Mason, and Joan Stone. ISBN 0-935052-39-9.

Pressroom as Classroom: the Press at Colorado was made possible in part by the generous support of Colorado College.

Exhibits

Pressroom as Classroom: the Press at Colorado February 2 – March 26, 2005

Curator

Related Public Programs

Resources

Pressroom as Classroom: the Press at Colorado
February 2 – March 26, 2005