All aboard! Your donations this year will help the Letterpress Depot get heat for our historic 1915 Depot building so that we can print with more people in the community, and so we can bring traditional printing – and an iconic building – back to life. Your donations have gotten us this far: Help us take the next warm step forward! Come along for the ride as we celebrate the past while creating a new future.
Testimonials
1,500 people have agreed to be on our Mail Chimp email list and many hundreds more follow us on social media. We have had many expressions of support and enthusiasm, including:
Peter Bergman, Assoc Prof. MSU: "The Letterpress Depot has potential to become a national attraction in the world of artisan printing and printmaking – both in a contemporary context and through its historic preservation initiatives. The organization has also proudly embraced the restoration and preservation of the historic Englewood train depot building as central to its mission."
Christiane Citron, Esq. "The plan to develop this historic structure into a living museum of letterpress arts, with hands-on opportunities for discovering the nitty gritty of book arts, seems a match made in heaven."
Leon Loughridge, artist: "I have been in the printing world since the 1960’s and have watched an industry change drastically from manual to digital production. My artistry is based on that manual production and so I greatly value that the Englewood Depot is preserving the equipment and tools of this manual art form. The facility, when complete, will become an asset to the Englewood and Denver arts communities as it will offer equipment that has been lost to the changing world. It will also become an invaluable educational tool for schools of all levels. I personally will welcome the opening of the Depot as a resource to continue printing my hand-printed books that I sell to library collections, museums and private collectors."
Alissandra Seelaus, Cherry Creek High School Teacher: "The Letterpress Depot has volunteered their time, resources, energy, and attention to share the letterpress process and its history with our students on numerous occasions. They have attended a semi-annual event we host called Fine Arts Friday for two years…The Letterpress Depot is always a highlight of this flagship event, and our students are eager to bring them back to campus at any/all opportunities. They happily oblige with enthusiasm for the subject and compassion for all our students and their families."