For 25 years, Kevin Bradley has been scouring old barns and basements east of the Mississippi for these rare fonts and types from the 1800s and 1900s. He wants to bring to life the way the world communicated hundreds of years ago, only in a modern way — much like how modern folk musicians keep old songs alive, bringing them to contemporary listeners in new forms and textures. Bradley has even developed his own type of poetry called Storetry — a form of poetry/stories turned into posters. But at the most basic level, he’s a typographer — a last craftsman in a dying profession. He has a series of original images — robots, dinosaurs, Godzilla. Each of these images is made with letters, which you can see when you look up close. He’s experimenting every day with the form. “It’s a repository of the real stuff,” says Bradley.


Numi Tea and snacks will be provided. Talk begins at 4pm.