A talk and workshop tour by Kitty Maryatt on traditional French Pochoir Techniques

This event has now taken place, you can view the recording of this talk and workshop tour here. 

About the Event

In this talk, Kitty Maryatt will discuss her project re-creating the 1913 La Prose du Transsibérien with original pochoir and letterpress in an edition of 150 copies, plus 30 copies hors commerce.

About the Speaker

Kitty Maryatt is the former Director of the Scripps College Press and Assistant Professor of Art at Scripps College in Claremont, California, taught Typography and the Book Arts at Scripps College for thirty years. Maryatt instituted a program in 1986 of collaborative book editions created each semester by the students, printed by letterpress and hand-bound by the students. Descriptions of the sixty limited edition letterpress books were published in 2016 in a bibliography of the Press, called Sixty Over Thirty. Since retiring from teaching in 2016, she has been working on her grand project at Two Hands Press (established in 1974) to re-create the 1913 La Prose du Transsibérien with original pochoir and letterpress in an edition of 150 copies, plus 30 copies hors commerce. She has published and bound her own artist books, most recently Figure of Speech.

Image is from page 4 of La Prose du Transsiberién Re-creation, left side. It shows part of a long, vertical print of multiple colours - black, purple, blue, green and red, many in semi circular patterns or in rectangular blocks.