This colorful poster was designed and printed in the summer of 2024 to commemorate the 50th Gilbert family reunion. Every August generations of the Gilberts gather in Dorset, Vermont to celebrate our connection to each other and to the little corner of the Green Mountain State where at least five generations have resided. We have a fire, bury a pot of beans, go for a hike, attend to gravesites or hold memorials, sleep, dig up the beans and have a potluck, hold an auction, eat fresh strawberry ice cream, look at scrapbooks and note the “best beans ever” in the official record. It’s no ordinary reunion.
Letterpress, wood and metal type, carved linoleum block, relief background tint
Dimensions: 12” x 18”
Hand-set wood type and metal type, dutch oven (bean pot) carved from a mounted linoleum block.
Color tint printed from a litho blanket. Letterpress printed on Tango C1S in three colors.
