Printing Heart Spells with Oscar Maynard
July 27 - July 31
| $450 – $1300Event Navigation
Printing Heart Spells – Oscar Maynard
Dates: July 27 – 31, 2026
Studio: Letterpress
Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300
Lab fee: $100
Class limit: 6
This workshop will guide you through distilling your most potent wish, spell or prayer, which will become a letterpress poster. Oscar will guide participants through the writing and editing process to get to a succinct and powerful message. Together the class will go through the steps to create a multi-layered poster with multiple “reads” by layering text and image, and finally over-printing a last layer in dense black ink.
This workshop is currently in the week-long members-only registration period. Registration will open to the public on February 4th.
Artist
Oscar Maynard
Tender-Heart Press was founded by E. “Oscar” Maynard in 2017 in Oakland, CA. Oscar makes letterpress posters rooted in heart wisdom, collective healing, and liberatory spellwork. These prints are made from hand-laid type, and they are cranked through a vintage printing press, one by one. Their posters have been used on altars and in ceremonies. In 2018, one of their posters was turned into a sung prayer by Jewish Priestess, Taya Ma.