Hatch Show Print: An American Poster Shop
Thursday, December 6, 2007
6:30pm
Cloud Place
647 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116
647 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116
Join us for a night of letterpress show and tell, with Jim Sherraden of Nashville's Hatch Show Prints. If you follow country music, country music history, or the history, art, and culture of the American South, sooner or later you're bound to run into the letters, images, and unmistakable "look" of Hatch Show Print. They are one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in America, and over the years their posters have featured a host of country music performers ranging from Hall of Famers Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash to present-day stars Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, and Shania Twain.
Jim Sherraden will discuss his letterpress work, which reexamines the aesthetic culture of American entertainment and revisits the curiously colorful world of dancing girls, politics, and music. Sherraden began working with Hatch in 1984, and has been creating beautiful original letterpress artwork using Hatch Show Print's shop archives since 1992. During his tenure at Hatch, Sherraden has helped revive the store by focusing on poster production and through reexamining letterpress printing.
For more information about Hatch and to get a sneak peek at their work, visit: http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/experience-hatch.aspx
Cost
$5 AIGA Members
$20 Non-Members
$3 Students with ID
Directions
By Subway
Take the Green Line to Copley Station. Cloud Place is located directly across from the Boston Public Library.
By Car
Take Storrow Drive to the Copley Square exit. Take a right onto Beacon Street. Take the fourth left onto Exeter Street. Take the fourth left onto Boylston Street. Cloud Place is on the left next to the Old South Church near the corner of Dartmouth Street.
Parking
Parking is available at the Prudential Center garage, at the lot at the corner of Newbury and Dartmouth Streets. or at the garage on Exeter Street between Newbury and Boylston Streets.
This event is sponsored by Crane & Co.
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