John Risseeuw
Cabbagehead Press
Pyracantha Press @ ASU
Tempe, Arizona
[Written: February 2006]
How I Got Involved in Letterpress
Printing: A course in Typography and Graphic Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison taught by Phil Hamilton, 1967. As a printmaking
student in art, I learned all of the graphic processes of lithography, screenprint, intaglio, and relief, plus letterpress, books,
and papermaking. I later taught graphic arts printing (letterpress) and art at a junior high school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for a couple
years before returning to Madison for graduate work in printmaking which included letterpress. In 1975, I started a letterpress shop
within the printmaking and design area of the University of South Dakota Art Department with tons of donated type and presses. In
1980, I moved to Tempe to found a book arts program and a press within the printmaking area of the ASU Art Department.
Presses
& Equipment: Vandercook Model 4 in Cabbagehead studio. 2 Vandercook SP-20s, Universal-I, and 10x15 C&P platen presses in ASU
shop; Vandercook 232 in storage.
Work History: Professor of Art, Arizona State University School of Art, Tempe, AZ, 1980-present;
Previously taught at University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 1975-1980
Education: BS, MA, MFA; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Group
Memberships: American Printing History Association, Boston Printmakers, Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild, Center for
Book Arts, NY Council of Book Arts Programs, Friends of Dard Hunter, Hand Papermaking, Inc., Board of Directors International Association
of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA), Pacific Center for Book Arts, Southern Graphics Council
Birth
Date or Birth Year: June 5, 1945
