Pinney Studio Residency
Pinney Studio Residency
Phil Hassett
Call & Response
May 15 - December 15, 2024
Taking inspiration from jazz and improvisational musical practices, Phil’s residency will use letterpress printmaking to explore many levels of interplay and collaboration between text & layout, word and image, letter and ornament, color and form, and artist and community. Over the course of the residency Phil plans to invite patrons into his exploratory processes. From buttons to posters, we’ll explore layering, iterative collaboration, and ways that the rigid grids of letterpress type can be used as a foundation for both carefully planned and improvisational prints. We’ll experiment with the use of letters to create images and the use of ornaments to create letterforms, while thinking about how communities shape words and stories and how words and stories shape communities.
Additional dates and workshops will be released soon!
Explore Phil’s website: https://www.washboardpress.com/about/
Check the Madison Public Library’s calendar for all events in Pinney Library!
See residency photos here!
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Tuesdays from 4:30-6:30pm at Pinney Library through December 14
** Extended studio hours on Tuesday, November 5th from 4:00-8:00pm (election day)See the calendar for all Bubbler events at Pinney Library.
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Phil Hassett is a local letterpress printer living in Madison, WI, where he maintains a small collection of historic printing presses and a growing collection of historic and modern printing type. A lifelong musician, he named his print studio Washboard Press because of the sound one of his presses makes, and because he enjoys doing by hand what is now more usually done in a more automated way.
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What is a Word for Now?
Anyone else feeling like there’s just a lot of everything right now? I’m doing a new thing with my residency at the Pinney Library, and inviting people to share a single word for now, a word for this time. Could be something you are feeling, or a mood, or a vibe. Could be a word you need to be reminded of, or a word you want to remind other people of. Could be a word describing what you are noticing right now, or what you are wanting to make happen. Whatever it is, give me one word, and we’ll print the words we get during the open studio at Pinney on Tuesdays and add them to an evolving installation there.
Submit a word here.
Expressive Typography with Artist-in-Residence Phil Hassett
Saturday, October 26 from 1:00-3:00pm OR Saturday, November 2 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
Join Pinney Library Studio's Artist-in-Residence Phil Hassett, owner of Washboard Press, to learn more about letterpress printing. In this workshop we will work with wood type to explore ways of using color, texture, arrangement of letters on the page, and other printing techniques to print expressively. We will be printing single words for the current “What is a Word for NOW?” project in the studio—you can bring your own words to contribute, or select from words that have been contributed by the wider community. We may explore techniques for layout of text on angles or curves, advanced inking techniques, and other ways to modify the printing process to print words in ways that add new layers of meaning to them.
Both typography workshops (10/26 & 11/2) are the same content and are in high demand; please select one session date to register for. If full, call Pinney Library information desk at 608-224-7100 to be placed on a short waiting list in case of cancellations.
This 2 hour workshop is designed for adults and ages 12+ and is for all-skill-levels.
Registration required (max. 12 participants), please register for each session separately. Please select only one workshop date to register for.
October 26 from 1:00-3:00pm
November 2 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
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This unique residency is made possible with a gift from Madison Public Library Foundation, the Friends of Pinney Library, and funding from the Pinney Library Capital Campaign.
