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Photo of a typeset
  • Workshop
April 15, 2026

Printing Your Own Postcard: Learning how to set type and letterpress-print

Learn and practice the basics of letterpress printing and typesetting with the Common Press collection of metal typefaces. Create a simple postcard design and print a small edition on the Vandercook printing press!

  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Common Press Space, Fisher Fine Arts Library
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff
Person operating letterpress machine
April 22, 2026

Common Press: Studio Use Training

The Studio Use Training is a one-hour intensive session focused on proper studio practices to use the Common Press independently as an advanced user.

  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Common Press Space, Fisher Fine Arts Library
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff
Black and white illustration of papermaking: one individual walks with a stack of paper and another works with material in a barrel
  • Workshop
May 1, 2026

Papermaking on Weitzman Plaza

Common Press will be demonstrating hand papermaking, pulling sheets of paper from our vat of cotton and linen fibers. The paper pulp was made from fabric collected from our fall 2025 community-wide rag collection, and beaten during our spring 2026 residency at Historic Rittenhouse Town. We invite you to come understand the ancient craft of papermaking, and to make a sheet or two of paper for yourself!

  • 1:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Weitzman Plaza
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

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