katie works with the idea cooperative on the 2018 rivertown revival poster
in 2018, the amazing folks at The Idea Cooperative joined me for an afternoon workshop to create a letterpress poster for a local music festival in Petaluma. read the full article here.
Katie’s Vandercook proudly sits central in her shop surrounded by over 200 drawers of type – living in California Cases. Her shelves are loaded with leading, spacers, Kelsey presses, a plethora of tools and gobs of wood furniture used to lock up the type on the press.
We arrived with a box of wood type and an idea and clearly left that afternoon with more than a printed poster. We are now infused with a deeper appreciation for an era passed. Thanks to Katie and her will to care and preserve. She’s an artist, a poet and her studio is a quiet nod that letterpress is here. Alive.