TYPA letterpress and paper art centre invites everyone to celebrate Slow Art Day on 11th April at 1PM!
To mark the occasion, we’ll take some time out, sit down, and draw. Drawing offers a wonderful opportunity to learn about, observe, and understand our surroundings, and to get our hands dirty. For an hour, we’ll forget the fast pace of life and focus on the present moment.
This is a Drink&Draw style event, but with a bit more instructing!
In the workshop, each participant will choose one of the printing presses on display in TYPA’s permanent exhibition in the print hall and sketch it in three different ways. First, we’ll draw the chosen machine in a traditional style, as best as we can. Then we’ll test the coordination of our eyes and hands and sketch blindfolded, without looking at the paper. We’ll finish with a memory exercise and draw the printing presses from memory.
While during a typical museum visit we focus more on how our printing presses work, this time the main emphasis is on what makes them work. What kinds of screws, levers, wheels, and bolts are part of the complex yet magical mechanism that has produced books, newspapers, magazines, illustrations, posters, postcards, and more for us over the centuries? Come and see for yourself!
Price of the workshop is 5€.
Buy your ticket from Fienta here!
Workshop takes place at TYPA centre, Kastani 48f, Tartu.
The workshop will be led by Karoliina Tomasson, TYPA’s education manager and a graduate of the Pallas University of Applied Arts.