Annual Rheault Lecture

Over the course of five years, Dr. Steven Galbraith, Curator of RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection, and Shaun Foster, RIT Professor of 3D Design, collaborated with 15 students to create a Virtual Reality experience in which users learn how to print on a 19th-century cast iron printing press. The centerpiece of the experience is a 3D model of the Kelmscott/Goudy Press, a press once owned by William Morris and Frederic Goudy, and now preserved at RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection. Dr. Galbraith will recount the creative process, from producing an accurate 3D model of the Kelmscott/Goudy Press to designing the experience to capturing the sounds of the press at work. After the presentation, participants will be invited to try out the experience and virtually print a leaf from William Morris’s edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896).

Steve Galbraith is Curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology