long-distance letterpress with david wolske, free for bipoc

the jour­ney
When we could or­der au­dio books on cas­sette from the long riv­er, we thought the world had got­ten smaller.

When in­for­ma­tion turned into a con­stant feed in­stead of hunt and gath­er, we thought the world had got­ten smaller.

When we could text in real time with celebri­ties and com­pa­nies, we thought the world had got­ten smaller.

When we could Pic­ture­Phone with our fam­i­ly on oth­er parts of the earth, we thought the world had got­ten smaller.

This year the world has got­ten small­er again.

Now, events, train­ings, and gath­er­ings that would have been in-per­son are virtual.

Lo­ca­tion – the cost and time of trav­el – is less of a barrier.
(As long as there’s ac­cess to in­ter­net and a con­ducive en­vi­ron­ment in which to connect.)

And, an in­struc­tor in Texas can teach a work­shop for a school in Seat­tle to you in Sacra­men­to or else­where in the world.

Ac­cess and op­por­tu­ni­ty are still needed.

To hear about the op­por­tu­ni­ty, and af­ford the time and cost of registration.

 

to-day
I fin­ished David Wolske’s work­shop at SVC Vir­tu­al on iso­types. It was great. His next work­shop, over two Fri­days, has five open­ings free for BIPOC:

“David’s Wolske’s vir­tu­al work­shop Long-Dis­tance Let­ter­press: Back to the Fu­tu­ra will use scans of his Fu­tu­ra wood type and Adobe Pho­to­shop and Il­lus­tra­tor to cre­ate dig­i­tal mock­ups, and go back and forth be­tween con­tem­po­rary de­sign tools and the vin­tage tech­nol­o­gy of his Van­der­cook press­es … As part of our com­mit­ment to run a more in­clu­sive school, we’re of­fer­ing five seats in this class at no charge on a first-come, first-served ba­sis to any mem­bers of a racial, gen­der, or dis­abil­i­ty minority.”
—School of Vi­su­al Con­cepts Seat­tle, class description

 

the des­ti­na­tion
Sign up for David Wolske’s vir­tu­al work­shop Long-Dis­tance Let­ter­press: Back to the Fu­tu­ra from SVC.
Fri­days, 7 and 14 Au­gust 2020
10 am–noon Pacific
$195.
Five seats first-come, first-served avail­able at no charge to BIPOC or mem­bers of a racial, gen­der, or dis­abil­i­ty mi­nor­i­ty; to sign up free, send an email in­quiry to info@svcseattle.com

Sign up here.

MOR pho­tos here.

 

—dan­ger­squir­rel

Flom­mist dan­ger­squir­rel is mak­ing art while wait­ing for her call­ing. Look­ing for the next place for a FLOMM stick­er, she al­ways trav­els with her jour­nal to have some­thing sen­sa­tion­al to read on the train. Copy­right © 2020 dangersquirrel.

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