New Impressions Exhibition 2024
July 2-September 28, 2024
The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum is dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. New Impressions is an international, juried exhibition to showcase exploration and creativity with letterpress printing techniques. From this age-old tradition, we strive to challenge and inspire artists to continue the love of printing.
2024 Calendar
- July 2 – Exhibition opens
- Friday, July 12, 4-6pm CDT – Gallery Reception in Two Rivers
- August 24, 12-1pm CDT – Virtual Reception
- September 28 – Exhibition closes at Hamilton
- Spring 2025 – Exhibition Travels
This is the 9th year of the New Impressions exhibition. This call attracted 192 diverse entries from around the globe. The final 43 works on display are from artists in Brazil, Spain, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The exhibition is on display at the museum from July 2–September 28, 2024 with an in-person reception at Hamilton on July 12 and a virtual Zoom reception on August 24.
The show was juried by Celene Aubry of Hatch Show Print, Naomi Kent of Ink Squasher, and Jim Moran, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Master Printer emeritus.
The catalog was designed by Nick Larson. You can purchase this catalog online at https://woodtype.org/products/new-impressions-2024. The digital version is available at https://woodtype.org/new-impressions.
The type used on the cover and for the display titles in this catalog were designed by Erin Moore and inspired by lesbian hand lettering from periodicals from the 1970s–1980s. AIAW and Leaping were used in this publication. For more information please visit Erin's website.
Specific works from the New Impressions 2024 exhibition are available for sale in the Hamilton Dry Goods Store. View available works now.
Awards
Aetna Award: $250, Chosen by the jurors
2024 Recipient= Christine Felce for “P - Plastic Part of the Activist Alphabet Series”
Directors Cut: $100, Chosen by the Hamilton print staff
2024 Recipient= Katherine Fries for “Hattie, The Matriarch Series”
People’s Choice Award, In-Person: $100; Chosen by in-person gallery visitors
2024 Recipient= Christy Nesja for “Bagel Story”
People’s Choice Award, Online: $100; Chosen by online gallery visitors
2024 Recipient= Henrique Nardi for “BR20+”
Jurors
Celene Aubry, Hatch Show Print
Celene Aubry is the Director and Shop Manager at Hatch Show Print, the iconic letterpress print shop continuously operating since 1879 in Nashville, Tennessee. While the business thrives as a letterpress poster and design shop, expanded programming includes a visiting artist program, a gallery showcasing print-centric art, and offering hands-on tours and workshops from the education space. In between poster runs and whatnot, she also enjoys analog photography, making cyanotypes and van Dyke photoprints specifically.
Naomi Kent, Ink Squasher
Naomi Kent is the senior technician in the printmaking department at Birmingham City University, UK. She specialises in letterpress printing and in particular non-linear typesetting and is inspired by the artistic printers of the late 19th century. Her MA degree looked into reviving some of these traditional obsolete printing processes using equipment available at the local school of jewellery to replicate some of these techniques. Her approach is experimental and breaks the traditional typesetting rules by bending the brass rules. With access to a laser cutter Naomi has revived the adjustable circular chase and the Figgins angular and circular quads, enabling letterpress printers and of course the students she teaches to set type at an angle, on a curve or embark on rotational printing, with ease! Passionate about networking and encouraging young letterpress printers on their journey Naomi founded Student Letterpress Workers in 2018 which brings together students from universities across the UK on a 3 day collaborative printing workshop.
Jim Moran, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Master Printer emeritus
Jim Moran, retired as the Master Printer and Collections Officer at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2023. Jim ran letterpress workshops, archived the collection and maintained the museum on a daily basis. Previously he had volunteered at Hamilton and donated presses and equipment from his Green Bay, Wisconsin, printing firm, Moran’s Quality Print Shop, where he worked as apprentice, pressman, partner and owner with his father and grandfather for over 35 years.
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See the New Impressions 2024 Catalog
Purchase the printed catalog from the Hamilton Dry Goods Store.
View the New Impressions 2024 Virtual Exhibit