Michelle Dreher is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute where she would have her first experience with a Vandercook SP15 press. She immediately fell in love with its precision and simplistic mechanisms. After graduating, she worked at a local letterpress shop where she was able to further hone her skills. In 2005, she left that job and started Two Tone Press in the industrial West Bottoms district of Kansas City.
She was later joined by her sister, Angela Dreher in 2011, and together they have designed numerous wedding invitations, posters, and business cards as well as packaging for local soap and jewelry makers. When time allows, they create relief art prints and cards for their storefront. Their aesthetic revolves around a light-hearted sense of humor as well as a great love for fantasy and sci-fi genres expressed through bold colors and layers. The sisters work together on concepts and compositions and Michelle brings the images to life by hand carving linoleum blocks.
The two sisters have been awarded Inspiration Grants from ArtsKC, been featured in numerous local and national publications, and shared their work in various gallery shows both nationally and internationally.
Tour the facilities at Two Tone Press and learn a brief history of letterpress printing. Then get a little inky by creating a relief poster design using a variety of LEGO block tiles printed over hand pressed backgrounds. Each participant will get up to 5 printed pieces of their own creation.