Printing Broadsides with Community, A Wheat Paste Project

Through this interactive public-facing printmaking project participants will develop content in writing and printmaking workshops to make broadsides on topics relevant to their community. Join us for this free program and raise your voice through print activism.

Saturday, May 16th, 10 am - 12pm, introduction and writing workshop
Saturday, May 30th, 1-4pm, Printmaking workshop
Saturday, June 13th, 10am -2:30pm, Wheat paste prints in the community
Saturday, July 11th, 1-5pm, exhibition of prints and photographs of wheat pasting action

Free program for printing and sharing what’s on your mind
Sign up here or call 314-241-1346 to rsvp

On View: Promotional poster for Wheat Paste Printing free public program

Writing and Printmaking for Activating Community

Inspired by Jessica Snow’s paste-up program during the Ladies of Letterpress Conference in 2023 we are hosting Printing Broadsides with Community, A Wheat Paste Project. At the first meetup participants will develop their content with Pacia Elaine Anderson and learn about the basics of printing with type.

During the second workshop participants will compose and print their original works onto newsprint with help from a team of printmakers including Libby Scobee, Kenya Mitchell, Delmar Taraggó, and Maddie Klaus.

The third time we meet, everyone will go into the community to post their broadsides in approved locations throughout the neighborhood. The prints will be adhered to walls and boards using wheat paste(temporary method for gluing paper to porous materials).

An exhibition in July will feature pictures detailing the entire process, and a selection of their original prints will be exhibited.

Central Print

2624 North 14th Street
St. Louis, MO, 63106