At the Dome of the Rock

Description:	Shehabi, Deema (author)Moxon, Paul (printer) Letterpress. This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalitions focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content. I am firmly in the camp of designers who believe it’s our mission to visually underscore the text. While satisfaction can be found in the finished product, I find greater joy in the prepping that we letterpress printers call makeready and in the melding with my hand-cranked machine during the press run. But the real pay off? It’s that glimpse of raking light seen in the impression on each sheet just before it’s lifted off the press.
Origin:	2007
Created By:	Shehabi, Deema; Moxon, Paul
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	Fameorshame Press (Mobile, Alabama)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/207
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	broadsides letterpress printing art

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