CURRENT PROJECT

CENTENNIAL No. 6
​2018, Prints 6" x 11", Portfolio 6-5/8" x 11-3/8"
Centennial No. 6 is a suite of four letterpress printed broadsides describing the Centennial No. 6 mine, mill, and surrounding landscape near Calumet, Michigan. Centennial No. 6 was the last active copper mine in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Texts printed on the broadsides describe mining and milling practices, and the lingering environmental effects of the mining operation, primarily in the form of the 40-acre tailings pond illustrated in the fourth broadside.

Centennial No. 6 illustrations are multi-block linocut reduction prints. Illustrations and text were imprinted onto 250 gsm Rives BFK paper using a Vandercook No. 4 proofing press. The prints will be presented in a four-panel, case-bound portfolio with cloth hinges and Hahnemühle Bugra paper. This project is currently in the bindery stage of production.

Text: Hand set Monotype News Gothic
​Title: Hand set Franklin Gothic Heavy

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Sample text:

SHAFT HOUSE

Double drum Nordberg hoist
3,000 h.p.
                  winds heavy steel cable
                  lifts blasted ore
in eight-ton, shop-built ore skips
to the top of the shaft house

Copper rock fed to jaw crushers
                                 primary reduction

Grizzly screen

Hydrostroke feeder loads crushed ore
onto
trucks/ train cars
                            take the ore to the mill