Instructor Bio

Missy Bosch

Missy earned her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Houston with a personal focus on found object collage and assemblage. Her fascination with ephemera led to her interest in book arts and box making, including creating a hand-made book that is on permanent exhibition at the UH Library’s Special Collections Rare Books Collection. Missy is an active member of the Houston Book Arts Guild and produces tools to aid other bookbinders. Her current work can be viewed on her website (missyboschstudio.com), Facebook (Missy Bosch Studio) and Instagram (@missyboschstudio).

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Instructor Bio

Kathy Gurwell

Kathy Gurwell has years of experience in the fields of paper and printing, beginning with her graphic arts study in Paris and continuing as a Curator Fellow at Tamarind Lithography Institute in Albuquerque, NM, at the Museo della Carta in Fabriano, Italy and the Awagami Paper Factory on Shikoku Island, Japan. She has demonstrated papermaking in San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Houston, where she now lives. She makes paper in both Western and Japanese styles, working with fibers such as cotton, linen, kozo, abaca, and flax. She has taught workshops in Houston and the surrounding area for the past 20 years. More of her work can be viewed at kathygurwellhandmadepaper.com

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Instructor Bio

Jessica Snow

Houston based printmaker and graphic designer, Jessica Snow, has been working with relief printing methods since childhood. She loves combining modern and traditional techniques to create images that reflect her curiosity about the world, our relationship to it and each other, and the stories we tell ourselves about that interplay. She is the studio manager for The Printing Museum and teaches courses in letterpress and relief printing.

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Instructor Bio

Kathy Gurwell

Kathy Gurwell has years of experience in the fields of paper and printing, beginning with her graphic arts study in Paris and continuing as a Curator Fellow at Tamarind Lithography Institute in Albuquerque, NM, at the Museo della Carta in Fabriano, Italy and the Awagami Paper Factory on Shikoku Island, Japan. She has demonstrated papermaking in San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Houston, where she now lives. She makes paper in both Western and Japanese styles, working with fibers such as cotton, linen, kozo, abaca, and flax. She has taught workshops in Houston and the surrounding area for the past 20 years. More of her work can be viewed at kathygurwellhandmadepaper.com

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Instructor Bio

Kyle Durrie

Kyle Durrie is the proprietor of Power and Light Press, a letterpress studio specializing in inappropriate greeting cards as well as posters, music packaging, and custom stationery. She has been letterpress printing since 2006, and got her start through classes at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (Portland, OR) and Pratt Art Center (Seattle, WA), as well as through independent study and apprenticeships at Blue Barnhouse (Asheville, NC) and Wolfe Editions (Portland, ME). Power and Light Press is based out of Silver City, NM.

Back in 2011-2013, I (Kyle) traveled around the country in this same truck, visiting small towns and big cities, and spreading the good word about printing the old fashioned way. I was on a mission to share the craft of letterpress with anyone willing to listen, while also exploring the outer limits of my own creativity and sense of adventure. The original “Moveable Type” tour spanned 11 months, 47 states, 2 Canadian provinces, over 37,000 miles, 190 cities and towns, and countless flat tires and empty gas tanks. Several shorter tours followed prior to parking the truck for what I thought would be for good. But sometimes you just can’t see what’s up around the bend. The truck and I are both a few years older, a little bit wiser, and a whole lot rustier, but we’re so excited to hit the road again!

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