Typeface: A New Film on American Wood Type

A NEW DATE ADDED

With the 7pm screening sold out, the Walker has added a second screening at
9pm on Thursday, November 6.
We recommend purchasing tickets in advance!

Also on site as part of this evening, Lunalux, MN Center for Book Arts, Studio on Fire, and the Hamilton Wood Type Museum will also have displays in the lobby outside of the Walker Cinema. Walker Gallery admission free is from 5-9pm as well! See you next Thursday!

Although the heyday of wood type was more than a century ago (think “Wanted” posters and circus broadsides), its revival and preservation carries on today. A new film, Typeface, chronicles this effort by documenting the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, which houses one of the premier wood-type collections in the world and runs letterpress workshops for designers and artists from across the country.

Join us for Drawn Here: Contemporary Design in Conversation, featuring a special sneak preview of the documentary film and a post-screening discussion with director Justine Nagan; Bill Moran, St. Paul–based designer and letterpress guru from Blinc Publishing who cowrote a book documenting Hamilton; and Greg Corrigan, designer and technical director of the Hamilton Museum. Presented by the Walker Art Center, AIGA Minnesota, and Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Thursday, November 6 at 7 and 9 pm (ADDED SCREENING)
$10 ($5 Walker, AIGA, and MCBA members)
Tickets: 612.375.7600 calendar.walkerart.org

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