Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Michelle Dreher is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute where she would have her first experience with 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 the 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 along with Cultural Producer Grant from Charlotte Street Foundation, been featured in numerous local and national publications, and shared their work in various gallery shows both nationally and internationally. They even recently wrote a children's book together called The Monster of the Celadon Sea. Over a decade of operating side-by-side, they still work collaboratively and fairly seamlessly together...(as long as they're not too hangry).
For more information on this and other happenings at the college, visit http://www.jccc.edu.
Michelle Dreher is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute where she would have her first experience with 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 the 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 along with Cultural Producer Grant from Charlotte Street Foundation, been featured in numerous local and national publications, and shared their work in various gallery shows both nationally and internationally. They even recently wrote a children's book together called The Monster of the Celadon Sea. Over a decade of operating side-by-side, they still work collaboratively and fairly seamlessly together...(as long as they're not too hangry).
For more information on this and other happenings at the college, visit http://www.jccc.edu.
