[394] MTSU Library Welcomes Visiting Graphic Artist Brad Vetter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

MTSU LIBRARY WELCOMES VISITING GRAPHIC ARTIST BRAD VETTER
Nashville Poster Designer to Demonstrate Art on Library’s Franklin-Era Design Press

(MURFREESBORO) – Printer, graphic designer and fine artist Brad Vetter will deliver the 2010 Visiting Artist talk from 11:00-11:45 a.m. tomorrow, April 1, in Room 462 (the printing press room) of the James E. Walker Library at MTSU. Vetter also will conduct two workshops from 4-5 p.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 5, in the same room. Participants will have the opportunity to talk with the artist and work with the library’s 18th-century reproduction printing press. The press is based on the English Common Press used by Benjamin Franklin during his days as a journeyman printer in London. It was constructed in 2004 of hand-hewn chestnut and white oak.
Vetter works at Hatch Fine Print, a 130-year-old poster shop in Nashville. He has designed posters for numerous bands and companies, including Anthropologie, Rebel Wine Co., Neko Case, The Dead Weather and Bike magazine. His areas of expertise include letterpress, Xerox transfer and screen printing. “Most of the stuff I am doing now is letterpress with a bit of Xerox transfer,” writes Vetter on his Web site, bradvetterdesign.carbonmade.com. “The work is my response to the aesthetics that surround me in Nashville and the South. I am also really drawn to the errors and imperfections of certain printing processes, things that are (to a small degree) beyond my control.” The morning discussion and afternoon workshops are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the library at 615-898-2772.


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