CP will be returning to vendor with an activity this year and it’s FREE to attend!

“Tacoma Wayzgoose is a community letterpress, printmaking, and book arts extravaganza. Meet local printers and view their wares, print your own keepsakes, make paper and bind books. A highlight of the weekend is steamroller printing, where local artists carve 2 x 3-foot sheets of linoleum and print on giant paper. It's pretty cool.”

Visit Tacoma Wayzgoose to learn more about this exciting event!

Note: Friday is education day and Saturday is the main public event. Friday runs from 11-7, however CP will only be vending until 4.

Saturday we will be celebrating the return of the Procession of the Species with two interactive projects. For a small donation, you are invited to make a limited edition Procession inspired postcard on our antique printing presses (all ages & no experience necessary.) We will also be creating a collaborative zine inspired by the natural world.

There will also be plants for sale and Community Print members will be available both days and selling a variety of printed material created in our studio. We're happy to answer questions and talk about classes, membership options, and volunteer opportunities. We look forward to seeing you!

Please visit the Arts Walk site for full details of events happening in Olympia.

Note: Our Saturday hours differ from regular Arts Walk hours - we will be open from 12-4.

Please visit the Arts Walk site for full details of events happening in Olympia.

During this one day class you will learn the ins and outs of operating a single drum Risograph and explore multiple methods of translating your artwork into Riso prints. This class will revolve around each participant creating several copies of their own 2-color, 8-page mini zine to take home, trade, or sell!

Our first color pass will involve printing a digital image file, and our second color pass will be printed by scanning a collaged or hand-drawn image directly on the glass. You will experiment with different forms of mark-making, color layering, and learn how to navigate the quirks of printing with our Risograph SF5130. We’ll also touch on how to utilize the free ANEMONE Spectrolite app, a great tool for printing digitally.

Further info on artwork preparation will be emailed to attendees prior to the class date. Please view our current Riso colors on our Stencil page.

This class serves as a general studio proficiency for our Standard Risograph Equipment. It also provides a path to membership, meaning that upon completion of this class, you may choose to become a Community Print Member in order to continue using the studio for Risograph projects. Please see our Membership page for more info.

Register Here

Collage in community during these monthly drop-in sessions facilitated by Grace Duda and Kelsey Smith. Collage is a low-stakes, playful, accessible art form requiring minimal experience and supplies. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own to share. Attendance is free, but we will pass the hat for donations to keep the lights on at Community Print.

NEW LOCATION! Due to the success of our previous Weirdo Collage events and limited space at CP, we’ve partnered with our neighbors down the street Three Magnets Brewing Co., who graciously agreed to let us set up in their back room. Buying some drinks or snacks is encouraged but not required and you do not have to be 21 to attend.

HOURS ADJUSTED TO 1-5 DUE TO WEIRDO COLLAGE

Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

In this fabric printing class with fiber artist and shepherd Faith Hagenhofer of Hercules Farm and Catspaw Studio, you'll design and carve two EZ-cut soft printing blocks, then use them to print a repeated pattern with white ink on two black bandanas. We also encourage you to share your blocks with other class members to broaden your design outcomes. Participants may bring up to 3 additional 22-inch pre-washed cotton fabric squares of their own choice for printing.

No prior carving and printing experience necessary. All materials provided.

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Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

Do you know how to make purple - red and blue, right? How about red and green? Ever been mystified by the Pantone color mixing system or color in general? You are not alone. Let's demystify the mystery during a playful session of mixing ink and printing color exercises individually and collaboratively. No color theory or printing experience is needed for this workshop.

This workshop runs from 12 - 4 PM.

REGISTER HERE

Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

Our Intro to Letterpress Class consists of 2 parts that will introduce you to our letterpress studio and guide you through traditional letterpress techniques with a fun hands-on group project!

Part 1 - Occurs on the date as selected here. During this approximately 5 hour session, participants will receive a tour of our studio and a thorough explanation of the letterpress process. We will collaboratively set 20th century movable type and take turns printing a simple one-color broadside on an antique proof press.

Part 2 - After the small group session, you will schedule an independent project session with a Community Print Member at a mutually agreeable date and time. During this session, you will use what you learned in Part 1 to create individual work of your choosing and strengthen your knowledge of this meticulous and rewarding process.

This class serves as a general studio proficiency for our Standard Letterpress Equipment. It also provides a path to membership, meaning that upon completion of both parts, you may choose to become a Community Print Member in order to continue using the studio for Letterpress projects. Please see our Membership page for more info.

Dive deep into the world of antiquated technology. Learn to make beautiful things in a slow and steady way. Get type high with us!

Register Here

Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

Prerequisite: completion of our Intro to Letterpress two-part class

Platen presses were developed to print in higher volumes with shorter production times. Jami Heinricher of Sherwood Press will walk us through the basics of printing on our Chandler & Price 10x15 treadle press ("Big Girl") and our Kelsey Mercury 6x10 tabletop press ("Kiri").

Register Here

Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

Collage in community during these monthly drop-in sessions facilitated by Grace Duda and Kelsey Smith. Collage is a low-stakes, playful, accessible art form requiring minimal experience and supplies. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own to share. Attendance is free, but we will pass the hat for donations to keep the lights on at Community Print.

NEW LOCATION! Due to the success of our previous Weirdo Collage events and limited space at CP, we’ve partnered with our neighbors down the street Three Magnets Brewing Co., who graciously agreed to let us set up in their back room. Buying some drinks or snacks is encouraged but not required and you do not have to be 21 to attend.

HOURS ADJUSTED TO 1-5 DUE TO WEIRDO COLLAGE

Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

Reduction prints are made by printing several different colors using a single relief medium, such as linoleum or wood. We’ll spend an afternoon planning, drawing, carving, and printing your multi-color image. We’ll learn a little bit about a lot of things to get you started on working with this fun creative puzzle. We’ll cover the basic concepts of relief printing, registration, composition, inks, and safe carving techniques. Come to the class with an idea for a simple wordless image, and be ready to have fun and take creative risks!

REGISTER HERE

Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

Our Intro to Letterpress series consists of two companion classes briefly introducing letterpress techniques and our print shop. After completing these two classes, you can reserve time and print independently at Community Print.
Participants will receive a tour of our studio and a thorough explanation of the letterpress process. We will collaboratively set type and print a simple one-color broadside.

After this class, we will schedule a one-on-one project session at a mutually agreeable time. Completing these two classes will allow you to reserve the shop for independent letterpress work

Dive deep into the world of antiquated technology. Learn to make beautiful things in a tedious, slow way. Get type high with us!

REGISTER HERE

Kelsey will be hosting regular Friday open hours from 2-6 pm. Get your questions answered in person, tour the shop, pick up your prints, peruse our paper/ink/type options, browse our small resource library, or spend some time helping us with our endless volunteer projects. We’ll be adding more open hours as we’re able in the future. In the meantime, come and see us on Fridays!

Contemporary letterpress printing isn't always printed using old hand-set wood and metal type. Many designers are printing with thin plastic plates made from a light-reactive polymer processed into a highly durable and flexible printing plate. These plates are mounted on a metal base and used to print many kinds of artwork, including illustrations, hand-lettering, and digital layouts. In this two-part class, we will start by learning what photopolymer plates can do, what kinds of artwork can be used to make them, and how to prepare your artwork for the process. You will have class time for photocopying and pasting-up clip art, drawings, and hand lettering on a letter-sized sheet that will be processed into photopolymer plates for the second class. In the second class session, we will print your plates on two Vandercook proof presses, discuss methods for making photopolymer plates at home, and review best practices for preparing future projects for professional platemaking. All supplies are included in the cost of this workshop.

Instructors are Jami Heinricher, owner of The Sherwood Press, a woman-owned, Olympia letterpress shop established in 1940, and Kelsey Smith of Community Print. 

REGISTER HERE

Collage in community during these monthly drop-in sessions facilitated by Grace Duda and Kelsey Smith. Collage is a low-stakes, playful, accessible art form requiring minimal experience and supplies. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own to share. Attendance is free, but we will pass the hat for donations to keep the lights on at Community Print.

These two companion classes briefly introduce letterpress techniques and our print shop. After completing these two classes, you can reserve time and print independently at Community Print. Upon completion of the January 27 group class, we will schedule a one-on-one project session at a mutually agreeable time.

REGISTER HERE

Contemporary letterpress printing isn't always printed using old hand-set wood and metal type. Many designers are printing with thin plastic plates made from a light-reactive polymer processed into a highly durable and flexible printing plate. These plates are mounted on a metal base and used to print many kinds of artwork, including illustrations, hand-lettering, and digital layouts. In this two-part class, we will start by learning what photopolymer plates can do, what kinds of artwork can be used to make them, and how to prepare your artwork for the process. You will have class time for photocopying and pasting-up clip art, drawings, and hand lettering on a letter-sized sheet that will be processed into photopolymer plates for the second class. In the second class session, we will print your plates on two Vandercook proof presses, discuss methods for making photopolymer plates at home, and review best practices for preparing future projects for professional platemaking. All supplies are included in the cost of this workshop.

Instructors are Jami Heinricher, owner of The Sherwood Press, a woman-owned, Olympia letterpress shop established in 1940, and Kelsey Smith of Community Print. 

REGISTER HERE

Collage in community during these monthly drop-in sessions facilitated by Grace Duda and Kelsey Smith. Collage is a low-stakes, playful, accessible art form requiring minimal experience and supplies. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own to share. Attendance is free, but we will pass the hat for donations to keep the lights on at Community Print.

At long last, it’s our first Risograph class! We’ll be making a 2-color, 8-page mini zine. Our first color pass will be printed digitally, and our second color pass will be printed on the glass using a collaged or hand-drawn master. We’ll learn how to utilize the free ANEMONE Spectrolite app to print digitally, experiment with different forms of mark-making, and navigate the quirks of printing with our Risograph SF5130. Completing this class allows you to print projects independently during our open Risograph hours (coming soon!). PS- our current color ink drum options are red, blue, yellow, and black.

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We are beyond chuffed to host Paul Moxon and Hope Amico together at Community Print! Paul will be working on our presses earlier in the day and Hope is taking down her lovely Keep Writing Project exhibit on Sunday, January 7. This confluence of printing genius seemed optimal for a meet and greet. There will be snacks and significant print nerdery.

Paul Moxon is a letterpress printer, book designer, educator, and Vandercook press expert. He attended the Evergreen State College, and received his MFA and MLIS at the University of Alabama. He has held fellowships and delivered lectures at book arts centers and universities across the U.S. and Canada. In addition to being the author of “Vandercook Presses: Maintenance, History and Resources,” Paul developed and maintains the vandercookpress.info website and is the editor for the American Printing History Association website. You can find his letterpress work at fameorshame.com.

January 7 also marks the closing of guest artist Hope Amico’s "Keep Writing Project” exhibit. Hope will be present to share a sampling of the monthly postcards and prompts she's printed and responses she's received over the past 15 years.

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