Dan Wood is an artist and printer living in Providence. After a brief stint studying history at McGill University in Montreal, he received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from RISD in 1994. He has continued his education in printing ever since, learning the crafts of offset lithographic and letterpress printing in commercial printshops from Washington, DC to Providence, RI. He is presently immersed in his work in letterpress printing, establishing Garbaszawa Press in 1994, and re-inaugurating it as DWRI Letterpress in 2004 to work collaboratively with other artists and designers. He has shown his own work nationally and internationally, and is represented in private and public collections, including the print collections of the New York Public Library and the RISD Museum of Art.
Academic areas of interest
Dan Wood has a longstanding interest in toilets, printing and politics. It is rare that these three interests collide, but when they do, watch out!
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
PRINT 4640-01 - LETTERPRESS PRINTING ON THE VANDERCOOK PROOF PRESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PRINT 4640-01
LETTERPRESS PRINTING ON THE VANDERCOOK PROOF PRESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: TH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Dan WoodLocation(s): Memorial Hall, Room 111Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will introduce students to contemporary letterpress printing. While keeping the broad historical role of letterpress printing in mind, the course will allow students to use the various incarnations of letterpress printing to further their own work. The focus of the course will be learning to print, and print well, how to troubleshoot on the Vandercook proof press, and exploring how the different approaches, processes, papers, and techniques effect and direct the finished work. The course will begin with an overview of letterpress printing history and its relation to the evolution of typography, and its major impact on, and reaction to, societal change. We will first focus on setting and printing from handset type, and more traditional image making techniques (read: Linocuts!), and then introduce digital images through the use of polymer plates. Once the basics of the process have been covered, the focus will be on students using the techniques and processes to further their own work, and the creation of a final project using any of the techniques as appropriate to the piece.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $100.00
Elective
Spring 2025 Courses
PRINT 4640-01 - LETTERPRESS PRINTING ON THE VANDERCOOK PROOF PRESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PRINT 4640-01
LETTERPRESS PRINTING ON THE VANDERCOOK PROOF PRESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: TH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Dan WoodLocation(s): Memorial Hall, Room 111Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will introduce students to contemporary letterpress printing. While keeping the broad historical role of letterpress printing in mind, the course will allow students to use the various incarnations of letterpress printing to further their own work. The focus of the course will be learning to print, and print well, how to troubleshoot on the Vandercook proof press, and exploring how the different approaches, processes, papers, and techniques effect and direct the finished work. The course will begin with an overview of letterpress printing history and its relation to the evolution of typography, and its major impact on, and reaction to, societal change. We will first focus on setting and printing from handset type, and more traditional image making techniques (read: Linocuts!), and then introduce digital images through the use of polymer plates. Once the basics of the process have been covered, the focus will be on students using the techniques and processes to further their own work, and the creation of a final project using any of the techniques as appropriate to the piece.
