The Analog Counterculture & Low-Tech Publishing Series: Part 4: Mimeographs and Stencil Printing (Fall 2024)
Course Code: 24FPM010I
This in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Thursday, December 12th, from 6:00PM to 9:00PM ET.
- Thursday, December 12th, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on November 28th, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This in-person workshop is taught by CBA instructor Rich Dana and Leisha Stanek.
Evening four of our Analog Counterculture & Low-Tech Publishing Series focuses on mimeography and stencil duplication. Participants will learn how to operate vintage copiers, and create their own simple copiers from off-the-shelf materials. Participants will have full access to all of the materials and equipment to create their own editions with guidance from the instructor.
This series of four in-person evening workshops taught by instructors Rich Dana and Leisha Stanek explores pre-Xerox copier technologies and how contemporary artists and writers can use them to create new works and publish small editions of zines, chapbooks, prints, and flyers.
Before there was social media, even before photo-copied zines, marginalized creators challenged the mainstream by publishing their works using DIY stencil prints (mimeographs) and dye-transfer prints (hectographs). Developed during the industrial revolution for copying documents without the use of a printing press, these quick and cheap techniques have been used by Avant Garde artists and poets, political dissidents and underground publishers since the 1800s.
Required Materials:
- All needed materials will be provided by the instructors. Bring your ideas!
About the Instructors
Rich Dana is a copier artist and founder of Obsolete Press. He is an adjunct instructor at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and project organizer of UI Libraries’ Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. He is the author of Cheap Copies!: The Obsolete Press Guide to DIY Mimeography, Hectography and Spirit Duplication.
Leisha Stanek is a performance poet and publisher. She specializes in zines, chapbooks and DIY printing. She’s currently producing a hand-made limited edition of her first novel, OBJECT, which will be available in early 2025.
All images courtesy of the instructor.