Slow Art Day at TYPA centre - Printing machine drawing workshop
Saturday 11. April at 13:00 - 14:30
TYPA letterpress and paper art centre, Tartu
Location: TYPA centre, Kastani 48f, Tartu
Instructor: Karoliina Tomasson
Date: 11.04.2026
Time: 1 - 2.30PM
Price: 5€
TYPA letterpress and paper art centre invites everyone to celebrate Slow Art Day on 11th April at 1PM!
To mark the occasion, we’ll take some time out, sit down, and draw. Drawing offers a wonderful opportunity to learn about, observe, and understand our surroundings, and to get our hands dirty. For an hour, we’ll forget the fast pace of life and focus on the present moment.
In the workshop, each participant will choose one of the printing presses on display in TYPA’s permanent exhibition in the print hall and sketch it in three different ways. First, we’ll draw the chosen machine in a traditional style, as best as we can. Then we’ll test the coordination of our eyes and hands and sketch blindfolded, without looking at the paper. We’ll finish with a memory exercise and draw the printing presses from memory.
While during a typical museum visit we focus more on how our printing presses work, this time the main emphasis is on what makes them work. What kinds of screws, levers, wheels, and bolts are part of the complex yet magical mechanism that has produced books, newspapers, magazines, illustrations, posters, postcards, and more for us over the centuries? Come and see for yourself!
The workshop will be led by Karoliina Tomasson, TYPA’s education managerr and a graduate of the Pallas University of Applied Arts.
TYPA letterpress and paper art centre • Kastani 48f, 50410 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia