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The Letterpress & Book Arts Center at the Ringling College of Art + Design is an interdisciplinary facility for education, creative research, collaboration, and production. The mission of the center is to bring together students, faculty, staff, visiting artists, alumni, friends, and other members of our community to honor, explore, and advance the potential of artists' publications to serve as connections between art, media, technology, and theory. The Center hosts undergraduate classes, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations, and facilitates the production of artists’ publications by students, faculty, staff, and visiting artists.
Location
Location
Room 101
Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center
1188 Dr. Martin Luther King Way
Sarasota, FL 34234
Hours
Hours
Monday 8:30–11:30 am, 3:30 pm–midnight
Tuesday 8:30–11:30 am, 12:30 pm–midnight
Wednesday 12:30 pm–midnight
Thursday 8:30–11:30 am, 3:30 pm–midnight
Friday 8:30-11:30 am, 12:30–6:30 pm
Saturday noon–8:00 pm
Sunday noon–8:00 pm
Authorizations
Authorizations
Users are required to complete an online or in-person authorization before using the equipment in the studio. Authorizations are given for each piece of equipment, rather than the space as a whole, and are good for one year from the date the session is completed.
To complete the online authorizations, click the button below to enroll in the Makerspace Canvas course then go to Modules and begin the training for the equipment you wish to use.
For the in-person authorizations, contact makerspace@c.ringling.edu and we will try to accommodate you.
Authorizations Available:
Risograph Printing (online)
Guillotine & Paper Cutting
Typesetting for Letterpress
Letterpress Printing
Book Binding
Access
Access
The Letterpress & Book Arts Center is open to all authorized Ringling College of Art + Design students and faculty.
Staff may make a written request for special permission from the Vice President for Academic Affairs to use the facilities for a specific project for a specific period of time.
Continuing education students may use the facilities only during their scheduled class times.
Upon arrival at the studio, you will be asked to sign in and your authorization status will be checked before you begin working. If you have any questions about access, please contact the Makerspace staff.
Links & Downloads
Links & Downloads
Equipment
Equipment
Vandercook Cylinder Presses
C&P Old Style Platen Press
Nolan Standard Proof Press
Charles Brand Etching Press
Risograph EZ591 Digital Duplicator
Orbital XI Photopolymer Platemaker
Bookbinding Equipment & Tools
Paper Guillotines & Cutters
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