Desert Dog Press

04/25/2025

Only two classes left! Currently diving into the vandercook press and combining wood type with illustrations that were lasered into wood.

03/07/2025

Project 2 was experimenting with reductive pressure printing

02/22/2025

Project 3 of the new semester was coasters! At least two colors

09/13/2024

This week's project was centered around cutting up books and putting some kind of reminder or inspiration for the semester. It was a great way to see how ink interacted with different types of papers and overlays, as well as working with different page sizes.

09/06/2024

First project of the semester is completed! Students handset two fonts of lead type, 1 cut and two colors. The theme was at least three lines from a song. Once everything was completed the prints were assembled into boxes so everyone got to take a set of each print home.

07/15/2023

.crocetto will be teaching a variety of bookbinding workshops at our shop and we wanted to take a moment to share more about her. We are so excited to have her share her knowledge!

About Julia March Crocetto

Julia March Crocetto is an artist working at the intersection of ecology and craft, chance operations and intentionality. Her research- and process-based practice employs printmaking, fiber arts, and sculpture. Her philosophy has been influenced by living and working in many parts of the American West. Through creative mapping, she synthesizes her observations of the “Post-Frontier” West, transforming materials and layering processes in a manner analogous to her emotional responses and experiences. Leveraging the visual languages of textiles and contemporary resources such as satellite imagery, she investigates water and land use and her own recollections of the West.

Years of working as a professional observer – naturalist, guide, and park ranger – inform her outlook as artist and educator. As a non-traditional student she earned her B.F.A. summa cm laude in Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico and her Master of Fine Art at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Crocetto’s list of honors includes Artist-in-Residence for 970West Studios and 2004 Holland/Alaska Cultural Exchange invitee. Her work is held in public and private collections and has been shown internationally. She has taught workshops for children and adults since 1985. Her work with Elderhostel sparked her desire to promote Lifelong Learning. She has lived and worked in Kansas, Wyoming, Alaska, Oregon, Arizona, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Colorado. Currently, she teaches art at Colorado Mesa University and lives on Ute land in the Upper Colorado Basin with fellow artist Tony Crocetto

09/07/2022

Tomorrow! We have a few more spots open for our letterpress poster workshop.

This class is a great introduction to letterpress. You will use wood type and vintage images to design and print your very own poster.

05/12/2022

**new workshop**

Please join guest printmaker for a block printing workshop in June! All supplies will be provided as you choose from three designs and learn how to transfer an image, carve and then print your pattern onto vintage tea towels.

Ouida taught a workshop at Desert Dog Press last year and it was amazing. We are super excited to have her back for another workshop!

There are two different sign up times and you can find the sign up through our website or by following the link in our bio!

10/23/2021

Some photos from the nature monoprinting workshop we had at the shop today, taught by ! Everyone's prints turned out so cool, and to think some of the people in the class have never done any printmaking before!

10/18/2021

We are so excited to have Ouida Touchon in our shop teaching this workshop! The workshop is this Saturday with two available sign up times. Thursday is the last day to sign up! Hope to see you there!

You can sign up at this link --> https://secure.touchnet.com/C21035_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=8767&SINGLESTORE=true

10/10/2021

08/26/2021

Our first workshop is our poster class! This is the quick and hands on way to learn the basics of letterpress printing. We will have images and wood type available to help you design, set and print 10 posters.

Click the link in our bio to learn more and sign up.

Want to take the class but can't make the date? We can do private classes with you and at least 2 friends, send us a dm for more information.