events
Instructor: Letterpress Printing as Resistance
Creative Works West (April 30 – May 2, 2026)
Seattle, WA
Ditch the pixels, grab an apron, and gather ’round the presses — where we’ll raise our brayers in service to community, the analog way. Moving with agility and embracing the unexpected, you’ll learn how to use wood type and hand-inking techniques to turn a short phrase into a positively powerful poster. No prep or previous experience needed; just good intentions.
Letterpress Instructor: PiP
Partners in Print
402 Cedar St.; Seattle, WA
I teach multi-week letterpress classes and one-day workshops for Partners in Print, a non-profit community arts organization that uses old printing presses to amplify new voices, share knowledge, and spark creativity. Current classes »
Gallery Show: Imaginary Birds
Common Objects (March 2026)
2601 1st Ave; Seattle, WA
Join me on March 13 for a curated art show that brings whimsical feathered creatures to life as paintings, drawings, sculptures, textiles, performances, film and bird calls. This is the debut of “The Pattern of Disappearing Words [197]”, a kinetic sculpture I created with woven strips letterpress printed paper, centered on the topic of censorship.
Instructor: Celebrating All Types
AIGA National Design Conference (2022)
Seattle, WA
Celebrating All Types started as a letterpress printed poster exchange exploring the creative possibilities of being inclusively in community with one another. In 2022 it expanded to the design community in the form of hands-on letterpress printing workshops that generated a public art installation at the AIGA National Design Conference in Seattle. It continues today as an open-ended call for letterpress printed art celebrating diversity and inclusion.
Instructor: AIGA Link Youth Program
Press Power Workshop (2023)
Seattle, WA
Before the modern digital age, the art of letterpress printing was essential for spreading the word — from proclamations to protests and everything in between. Thanks to artists and organizations across the globe, letterpress is still alive and well. Our guest artist from Partners in Print, Amy Redmond, will teach us how typography, combined with the unique hands-on processes of letterpress printing, amplifies the meaning of words.
Instructor: Into the Woods
AIGA “Into the Woods” Design Conference (Oct. 5–7, 2018)
Sleeping Lady Lodge; Leavenworth, WA
I loaded up the wagon for my favorite design conference, with toys from the School of Visual Concepts’ letterpress print shop. During this weekend of creative fun in the American Alps we used natural materials foraged from the forest floor, combined with wood type and hand-inking techniques, to create pictorial & typographic monoprints. Produced by AIGA Seattle.
Hello My Name Is… Most Likely Not Futura (A Letterpress Adventure in Metal Type Identification)
TypeCon XX (August 3–5, 2018)
Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA); Portland, OR
Abstract: The Panama Papers made waves as “Font Gate” in mainstream media last year, illuminating how forensic typography can authenticate documents in the digital age. But for letterpress printers working with analog type collections, an entirely different set of forensic techniques are needed to identify imposters.
In this reverent tale of an apprentice continuing the work of her mentors, Amy Redmond shares how a routine inventory review of Stern & Faye Printer’s metal house face, Futura, uncovered questions about its accuracy. Learn the techniques she used to unearth the true identities of its family members, and why she felt compelled to embark on an adventure in conscientious type stewardship.
Connecting the dots between Portland and Seattle’s living letterpress history, Amy shows how each generation bears the responsibility of custodianship and shares how amateur type-sleuths can help ensure these treasured collections get passed forward with their ancestry intact.
Festina Lente: The New Push to Hasten Slowly
Hive Design Conference (May2017)
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA); Seattle, WA
Abstract: In a society that is rapidly changing with the rise of technology, why are some designers consciously choosing to hasten slowly, adopting more time-consuming, analog methods rumored to be on their way out? Digital progress is distracting us from one of our greatest human needs: the time to pause, reflect, and engage meaningfully with our community. The age-old adage of “Festina Lente” is new again as the analog experience becomes more valuable, not less, in the 21st century.
Visual designers Amy Redmond and Jenny Wilkson share how they’re successfully shattering the binary ceiling in the unlikeliest of places: the School of Visual Concepts’ letterpress studio in South Lake Union, ground zero of Seattle’s tech boom. Drawing on 15 years of experience teaching old tricks to new dogs, they’ll show that innovation doesn’t have to be an either/or battle between the analog and the digital. By embracing the future of technology along with its past, they’ve stumbled upon a formula for fostering social change and scratching the creative itch we’ve all been feeling.
publications
Print / Maker
I’m honored to have my letterpress work (Amada Press) featured alongside some of my favorite letterpress contemporaries in this volume of Janine Vangool’s UPPERCASE “Encyclopedia of Inspiration” series. Print / Maker (Volume P) profiles designers, artists and craftspeople who use printmaking and print technology to make things for themselves and others. The book includes in-depth interviews with printers, stationers, publishers, zine-makers, housewares and clothing designers through studio pictures, portfolios and sound advice from print/makers from around the world. Originally published October 2018 by Uppercase Magazine; re-issued in 2022.
Children’s Hospital Broadside Project (2018)
This collaboration with Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools program at Seattle Children’s Hospital, now called Words of Courage, yields some of the most moving and meaningful work I’ve printed. Pediatric patients write poems from the heart, which a community of artists turn into stunning letterpress broadsides. Article written & published in November 2018 by Boxcar Press.
Letterpress Printing Journeys: Amy Redmond of Amada Press
An interview with Amy E. Redmond of Amada Press, published in November 2017 by Boxcar Press.
A Boy and His Type: The Typographic Art of Christopher Stern
Article for Interrobang, written by Amy E. Redmond & published in 2007 by the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA).
honors
GAP Award (2018)
In 2018 I received GAP Award funding from Artist Trust to add safe, energy-efficient heating to my art studio. This grant helps protect my irreplaceable letterpress equipment from the damaging effects of cold marine air and affords me the mental and physical capacity to pursue printmaking year-round. {Read full Press Release}
Silver ADDY Award (2016)
In 2016 I received a Silver Addy Award from American Advertising Federation (AAF) Seattle, for my poster work for listener-powered radio station KEXP 90.3 FM. {View the Poster}