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Christa Carleton
@printerpal.bsky.social
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Artist┃Printmaker┃Letterpress Fixation
⚲ Missoula, MT
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#NoKings #letterpress #powerofthepress
A protest poster with red and black text reads “Stop eroding our rights. no kings, Missoula”
October 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Happy #halloween month from favorite Candy Corn gal.
A dog licking her chops wearing a candy corn hat next to a letterpress type cabinet and a print of a very glum jack o lantern.
October 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Made myself a #glumpumpkin using #woodtype & a #letterpress! How many of u have seen the cartoon “The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile”?

#halloween #jackolantern #pumpkin
September 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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#letterpress printers today be like:
The aliens meme guy from the history channel is saying “.918” for letterpress type high day.
September 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#letterpress My hands look like this:
Dirty hands stained with dust and grim are palm up in the foreground, resting on a pale sea foam green letterpress type case that is filled with dirty individual lead letters.
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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A 21st century postcard made with 19th century tech. #letterpress
Holding a chipboard postcard that says ‘made with human intelligence’, printed from 19th century type and ornament.
August 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Today’s print…
#printmaking #letterpress #democracy
July 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Transforming a summertime delicacy from Dixon.
A signature melon salad for Montana
Transforming a summertime delicacy from Dixon.
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July 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Stumbled upon #wesanderson in Idaho today.
An old school motel is in the foreground in rusty red and desert colors. A backdrop of fluffy clouds and blue sky with mountains is in the background.
July 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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A penstemon super bloom.

#wildflowers #meadow #frolicworthy
The foreground is covered in lilac purple flowers. The middle ground shows an old wildfire burnt forest. The background distant mountains. The sky is azure blue with many puffy clouds. A large swathe of purple wildflowers covers a meadow on a blue bird day.
June 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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#NoKings ready thanks to a little help from pals in the Missoula community.

#letterpress #poster #woodtype #art #printmaking
Two letterpress printed posters are propped up in my studio. The one on the left is printed in green and pink and says “another world is possible”, the other print on the right says “when cruelty becomes normals compassion looks radical”.
June 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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This is a process print from a recent #letterpress edition. Spring in motion.
June 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I made this #exlibris print for a friend. Bright and cheerful for spring!

#letterpress #printmaking #centaur
June 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Anyone got any good #podcast recommendations that aren’t super newsy/current events? (I listen to plenty of those already) I really despise banter/interview styles and prefer a sweeping story told. I sincerely miss podcasts like The Truth and Heavyweight and I love Criminal and This is Love. Help!
April 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Studio views, wish I was there right now.

#printshop #printmaking #letterpress #typecabinet #printing #printingpress #artstudio #printstudio #artistsstudio
Christa Carleton’s studio is pictured. There are multiple letterpress type cabinets against the walls, some are robin’s egg blue, others green, and one a dark grey. The walls are decorated with other artist’s prints. On the floor is a black and tan dog in her dog bed, laying down, looking at the camera. Her name is Cokie Roberts. To the right of the photo is a large Master Printer Sign Press.
April 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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My newest print! “Take Cover" #Woodcut, E.V. of 25 (b/c some prints are on Mulberry & the other paper is Cougar) Mulberry here measures 25"x31". I printed this with the talented students at The University of Utah!

#printmaking #reliefprint #art #linocut #figureart #blendroll #print #currentevents
A woodcut print with a female figure standing in the center. Her acid green hair glows to the right of the page while her brows furrow and and hand fist up against her mouth. Above her head is the word “take” and below her waist is the word “cover” both in a bold San serif in a gradient warm grey. The background color is a cool paynes grey. A close up of the figure’s face. She has acid green eyes that match her hair. The facial expression is simultaneously pissed off but guarded. A close up photo of the windswept acid green hair. This shows off the texture of the woodcut which highlights the grain of the birch plywood when it’s printed as a woodcut.
April 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I love that Tonja Torgerson’s and I’s free prints from Body Politic are being used in this context!

#risograph #letterpress #chromaticwoodtype #enough #protestart #handsoff #montana #protest
minnetana.bsky.social DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Apr 5
Great turnout (and day) for the #handsoff Missoula, MT rally!
Hand screenprint sign in yellow and blue that says, “ENOUGH” being held up at a Handds Off rally. Large group of Missoulians at the Hands off rally
April 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I’m one week (& 40%) into crowdfunding Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a concise hardcover book that will teach you exactly everything you wanted to know about how we went from the first forays into inking letters on paper to today’s digital marvels. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
Six Centuries of Type & Printing book (green cloth cover, foil stamping at top in bronze showing title and author) at left; digital previews of three two-page spreads with illustrations at right, stacked one above the other
March 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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'Ye Olde Sign Shoppe at the American Sign Museum' is the latest at bl.ag online, where I get to indulge my fetish for photos of old sign painting shops and related tangents.

https://bl.ag/ye-olde-sign-shoppe-at-the-american-sign-museum/

Pictured are the dapper […]

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Six suited men posing in the doorway of a shop adorned with signs for the Raiford Sign Co.
March 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Every time, I am tempted by the devil to drink from the forbidden airport cocktail.
A container where folks can empty their reusable bottles before going through TSA security where large amount of liquids are not allowed. It whispers my name to drink from it…
March 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Happy mail day to me 😬

#woodtype #letterpress #font #archimedes #mansard
A photo of letterpress moveable type made out of wood with numbers and letters A through Z. Missing letters K and V and some punctuation. It’s old and dirty but has a nice patina from being printed in past lives.
February 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Before and after ink!

#woodcut #printmaking #reliefprint #linocut #notactuallyLinobutWTV
February 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Blue sky I want to love you but sharing on evil meta is still easier as an image based artist…

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall— I mean all the blocks of my latest #wooduct
February 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Happy Valentines Day! Little guy is from “The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)” slapped together by me.

#valentinesday #valentinesdaycard #stationery #handmade #screenprint #Pantagruel #bosch
A Valentine’s Day card that’s says “you stir me” in red letters surrounded by 2 gold hearts. Below the text is an image from The Dreams of Pantagruel of a weird half man half cauldron who appears to be tasting his own soup body with a spoon. The soup is a gold color and a little steam comes off the soup. The cauldron has a clawfoot tub and the centaur-ish guy has a hooded cape. It is truly bizarre which is why it makes an excellent Valentine’s Day card.
February 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Local UM college radio station KBGA 89.9fm has been playing “I Believe In Love Again” - Jex Opolis Remix ON REPEAT since at least 9:30am this morning. Is this subliminal messaging?

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Peggy Gou, Lenny Kravitz - I Believe In Love Again - Jex Opolis Remix Edit
YouTube video by Peggy Gou
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February 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM