Depot year in pictures

We were excited to see so many of you at printing events this year. And we were touched by how many of you also donated to help us get our Depot home in shape for occupancy. Thank you. You still have a few minutes to make a 2024 donation (although of course we will happily accept them in 2025 as well😉). As always, we are grateful to the State Historical Fund for believing in and supporting our project.

See you in 2025! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and NEW** on BlueSky. Email info@letterpressdepot.org or call/text 720-4805358 anytime.

GRATEFUL

Our capital campaign is chugging along, thanks to all of you who donated recently. And wow, with all our efforts this year, we have reached our first goal of $83,000 – that was the amount needed to activate our grant from the State Historical Fund! With these funds, construction can start on the deteriorated parts of our Depot home. We are beyond grateful for longtime supporters and new donors who made this happen. And to History Colorado for recognizing the importance of saving this iconic building.

But like the little engine that could, we can’t stop here. We now are pushing towards our overall goal—another $217,000 to finish the entire building and get occupancy. Once we have that, we will have workshops, exhibits, community events. We can welcome in everyone from kids to seniors, as they learn the joy of letterpress printing. We will show off presses that told the stories of the West.  So if you missed out on giving earlier, we always are open for donations. 

Questions? Ideas for others to ask for donations? Email info@letterpressdepot.org, call/text 720-480-5358. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, X and just now! BlueSky.

It takes a community!

Lots of smiles when we printed recently at Cherry Creek High School with students and their families. Now we need your donation to help us open our Depot home to bring more smiles, more printing to the community. To achieve full occupancy and use of the Depot, we need $550,000 and we’ve already raised half that! The State Historical Fund has given us a grant for $250,000 to rehab more of the interior and our immediate goal is to raise $83,000 as a match for that grant. The Colorado Gives incentive program (now through December 10) is the perfect time to give us a special gift.

Your donations have already helped make it possible for us to accomplish construction milestones like a new eco-friendly HVAC system and electrical service.

Once we have this $83,000 match, we can: Fix the walls! Raise the floors for ADA access! Install plumbing! Repair plaster! Fix windows! Add fire safe doors!. We will be so much closer to opening the building, allowing people of all ages to participate in this historic art form. Please give before midnight December 10 to help us access the Colorado Gives incentive match.

Checks also welcome to PO Box 798, Englewood, Colorado 80151. Questions? email info@letterpressdepot.org or text 720-480-5358. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. And check out the most recent episode of the Hot off the Press Podcast to hear from our board members Jason Wedekind and Cara Jo Knapp about the Depot’s mission and how your donation will make an impact!

Things are heating up!

Heat pump installation has begun at the Depot! It will be so nice to have heat this winter (and dare we hope AC as the temps go up?)  Donations helped us get a start on paying for this system.  THANK YOU. (We still do have a ways to go, so assistance  always welcome.) And while hese next pix may not throw sparks…

they are one of the last steps (we hope) to get the electricity working. To connect power from the Xcel pole to the building, we had to dig an almost 40 foot long, 2-3 foot deep trench for undergrounding the conduit. Thanks to Tom, Jason, Robert, Kirk, Bryan and Jasper for straining their muscles for the cause! Note the tool of choice - a pickax -in the first image. Now we’re hoping for the electrician to complete the circuit.

Meanwhile we’ve been printing at the Rocky Mountain Stamp Show. Some Scouts were there working on their merit badge in stamp collecting.  And other kids having fun too. Thanks to Marc, Tom and Patti for showing them how to get inky.

It’s spring at the Depot. If you can…spring…for any donations, go to https://www.coloradogives.org/organization/LetterpressDepot or click below.

For more info about any of our work, email us at info@letterpressdepot.com, or text 720-480-5358. Follow us @letterpressdepot on Instagram, Facebook and @letpressdepot on X.

What an ending to Month of Printmaking!

Photo by board member Bryan Dahlberg

Letterpress Depot printers Bryan Dahlberg, Marc Silberman and Tom Parson and volunteer Tim Vermeulian joined over 70 other makers at this year’s Small Press Fest. Note the mini-press in a box thatBryan used to print Jabberwocky on - he made that press himself!

Thanks to Bryan and Dave Laskowski III for capturing the scene. And to all who came to print with us! For more Depot intel, contact us at info@letterpressdepot.com or call/text 720-480-5358. Follow us on Facebook & Instagram (@letterpressdepot) and on X (@letpressdepot). See you somewhere!

Next Up: Belleview Park March 23 & Spectra Gallery

If you missed us at Arvade Center, come see us at the Spring Market in Belleview Park this coming Saturday, 10-2pm. And see our work on display the rest of March at Spectra Gallery (1836 S Broadway). If you haven’t been to Spectra and seen its immersive display, GO!

And here’s what you missed at Print Jam! Lots of people, lots of printing - Bryan Dahlberg on a mini etching press, LEGO (tm) printing conceived of by Dave Laskowski II and printed on an Adana by Jason Wedekind, Tom Parson on another Adana, and Marc Silberman on a Vandecook proof press. And note the mini press in a box made by Bryan too!

For more info, get in touch: info@letterpressdepot.com, 720-480-5358. And see you at the Spring Market!

Last year’s Spring Market

Fun with families in Sheridan

Depot executive director Tom Parson and board member Marc Silberman worked the roller proof press and the Curtis and Mitchell Columbian platen press for those attending Sheridan Celebrates on September 24, 2016.