{printing at Penland School of Crafts during my 2013 winter printmaking residency}

Thanks to Rory Sparks, I was able to realize some of my printmaking visions!

the form on the letterpress
hand-set type and dingbats are locked onto the press bed
and printed to form the prints below

Sphyrapicus varius prints
(yellow-bellied sapsucker)
letterpress and relief print

 

Sphyrapicus varius

Dream - Letterpress & Relief print

Letterpress broadside created from my poem, printed on a Vandercook press at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, and completed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!