Currently showing at The Austin Museum of Art is American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print, a collection of works from the legendary Nashville-based letterpress shop. Started in 1897 by two brothers, Hatch Show Print is a still-functioning letterpress shop that is perhaps best known for its posters of Grand Ole Opry stars. The show is presented in conjunction with the Smithsonian and the Country Music Hall of Fame, the latter of which now owns and operates Hatch Show Print. more ›

Among Austin printmakers, screenprinting reigns supreme - the sometimes messy process requires relatively little equipment and nicely compliments our rock and roll lifestyle. For every collective of anarchists kids squeegeeing patches in their kitchen, there is an Austin printmaker pursuing a different printing technique. Kat and Brad Murph are a pair of such printers, and in 2006 they founded Vertallee Letterpress, a design and print studio in East Austin. Letterpress is like screenprinting's older, more refined sister - the delicate embossing instantly gives paper a polished aesthetic. Vertallee provides custom design and printing for invitations, business cards, and all manner of ephemerata. Vertallee Letterpress are participating in East Austin Studio Tour - stop by their studio at 701 Tillery St. to see their work and try your hand at printing on their Heidelberg Windmill press. Vertallee's creative director, Kat Murph answered some questions for us about the letterpress process and the future of the printed word. more ›