Printing Arts Fair
A great day for kids and families.
Print your name with wood type in the “Alphabet Factory”, see printing presses dating back to 1880s, as well as “ancient” computers, and type on an actual typewriter at the Museum of Printing’s Printing Arts Fair, September 23rd.
Then see and hear the amazing Linotype, the 8th wonder of the world, and hear the soothing sounds of its matts dropping to be cast, then redistributed automatically. Set your name the way news was set for 80 years – from 600-degree molten metal. Then print it on a proof press to prove the world you are a Slug Caster.
Lithographic artist Carolyn Mustak (the Litho Queen) will be producing original prints from her hand drawn designs on a litho stone.
Print a copy of one of local artists Anna Hogan’s woodcuts.
Letterpress and type aficionados can purchase letterpress equipment and handset type from vendors and the Museum store. Rare books sellers will be exhibiting and you can purchase reproductions of some of the museum’s art.
Select Linotype font drawings from the Museum’s Font Vault will be available for viewing. 80% of today’s fonts originated with the Linotype font library. The museum has the most extensive collection with over 3,300 fonts of over 400,000 characters.
The Museum of Printing is located at 15 Thornton Ave.,Haverhill.
The Printing Arts Fair is free, supported in part by grants from the Haverhill, Georgetown, Merrimac, Boxford and West Newbury Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
More info at www.MuseumOfPrinting.org. questions answered at info@MuseumOfPrinting.org.
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