Where is PRESS? PRESS is now on the MOVE! In the past year we moved the Vandercook down the road into the newly renovated Bowman Hall on the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’s campus (MCLA). We replaced the Vandercook’s motor, launched our PRESS on the Move initiative, partnered with students in MCLA Professor Frances Jones-Sneed’s class Women, … Continue reading
I went to visit my sister in Germany, as a close to my amazing Italian adventure, the one where I spent six weeks at the Scuola Internazionale di Graficia. And my sister kindly asked me what I hoped to do while visiting. Without missing a beat, I told her I wanted to visit Johannes Gutenberg’s birthplace, … Continue reading
What an amazing day! If you subscribe to our mailing list and read our newsletters, you might remember that I am in Italy right now. (If you don’t subscribe to our mailing list, and you want to hear our latest news go here to sign up.) I have a six-week residency at the Scuola Internazionale di … Continue reading
We have entered the 21st century, (finally!) and you can now order our fantastic calendar online. If you order by 2 pm, today, December 22, it will ship today and hopefully arrive by Christmas. We are humbled by the overwhelming response to this year’s calendar. We have sold over half of our run already! This … Continue reading
I am delighted to have PRESS calendars and postcards at the Northampton Book Fair this weekend. If you live in the Pioneer Valley or the surrounding towns, come on by to pick one up, check out some of the work printed under my own imprint 29 PRESS, and see Liminality artist Valerie Carrigan and her new … Continue reading
Big shout out to all of our friends who came to the PRESS Calendar Preview Party. We loved sharing our new space with you and celebrating the calendar. All kinds of people were there, from this year’s calendar collaborators MCLA Professor Frances Jones-Sneed and PRESS founder Melanie Mowinski to past and present interns, and all kinds … Continue reading
PRESS is delighted to celebrate the release of the 2016 annual Monthly Mantra calendar at a preview party in the new letterpress space on MCLA’s campus, in Room 303 Bowman Hall, on Wednesday December 2 from 5-7 pm. The event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. This year’s calendar is … Continue reading
This year’s calendar printing was interrupted with 23 runs to go by the most inconvenient mechanical failure. When we moved from Main Street to our new location, the motor that moves the carriage back and forth over the print form needed to be removed. All seemed to be well after the Vandercook was back together, … Continue reading
As part of this year’s calendar creation, PRESS is collaborating with MCLA’s Gallery 51, and students in MCLA Professor Frances Jones-Sneed’s Women, Race and Society class. In addition to the calendar Frances Jones Sneed and PRESS founder Melanie Mowinski will be curating at exhibit centered on the Black Lives Matter movement to open January 28 … Continue reading
PRESS is on the MOVE! Five years ago this summer I founded PRESS up the street from our current location as part of DownStreet Art, never imaging that I would still be here on Main Street printing with the Vandercook and sharing the magic of letterpress, five years later. As many of you may know, this … Continue reading
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