“Screwing Around With Presses”
Saturday, April 29th, 2:00 p.m.
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Hyattsville, MD

Seth Gottlieb and Josef Beery discussed of the impact of the screw press on the history of printing, at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 4318 Gallatin Street, Hyattsville, MD.

Seth and Josef individually decided to build screw presses in 2016. Seth will present the story of building a reconstruction of an eighteenth-century wooden press using modern day tools and historic methods. The press built by his team is now a working tool in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology. Josef has been demonstrating printing on the replica eighteenth-century wooden press at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. After receiving requests to take his demos on the road, he built a small desktop screw press which accurately recreates all of the processes involved in printing with a full-size press. He will demonstrate the BookBeetle, his exciting new press which is proving quite popular for teaching, printmaking, and book arts.