“Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms.” That’s the longstanding motto of Hatch Show Print , one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in the United States.

Johnny Cash is one among dozens of musicians for whom Hatch Show Print has produced iconic posters.

Hatch opened in Nashville in 1879 and has been supplying the legendary Ryman Auditorium with show posters for more than a century, not to mention playbills the place has done for folks like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, B.B. King and Bruce Springsteen. Still and all, when Jim Sherraden got there in 1984, the storied print shop was headed toward bankruptcy. The Kansas native-turned-Nashvillian has spent the last 15 years in creative collaboration with Hatch, revisiting the classic letterpress method and shifting the shop’s focus to poster production. Thanks to AIGA Birmingham, the local chapter of the American Institute for Graphic Arts, Sherraden will be at Bottletree on Thursday, June 25, and at The Rest Press on Saturday, June 27. On Thursday, he’ll offer a history of Hatch in a program that runs 6-8 p.m. at Bottletree. The Saturday event is a printing workshop that runs 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and costs $150 ($125 for AIGA members). The Rest Press is located at 207 22nd St. North. To register or learn more, call (205) 298-8548 or visit http://birmingham.aiga.org