It’s that time of year again, when the Vandercook is up and running seemingly around the clock to print our Monthly Mantra Calendar. We will be getting order forms ready for you soon, but first we wanted to share a bit about this year’s calendar. This year the calendar quotes come from students at MCLA … Continue reading
MCLA’s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, one of the partners of exPRESS will be teaming up with Assets for Artists and MCLA Arts Management Assistant Professor Diane Scott to present these three great upcoming workshops. Some of us PRESS folks will for sure be in attendance, we think you should come join us too. Reserve your … Continue reading
Students participating in the Lift Ev’ry Voice Festival’s eLEVate program finished up their second printing at PRESS this week, taking the time to painstaking handset selections from their poems about culture. We were delighted that they spent two rich days at PRESS exploring identity and who they are in the world and their culture. Here … Continue reading
I am so inspired by Star Shaped Press initial letters. I saw one in a recent issue of Uppercase Magazine, and wanted to try it myself. My dad has been wanting me to make something for my mom, so today, a mere few days from Mother’s Day I decided to try my hand at making my … Continue reading
We use lots of paper. And any printmaker or book artist will tell you that paper, book cloth, board and other materials are not inexpensive. So it’s really important to test and experiment with less expensive materials before you commit to your edition. Sometimes you must factor into your process experimentation on the real material … Continue reading
If you’ve been to PRESS in the past month or so, you’ve seen a selection of work by student’s from PRESS Chief’s Introduction to Printmaking class from from the Fall 2014 semester. The assignment? Create a larger work of art that utilizes the repetition of the print as a main component of the piece–keeping in … Continue reading
If you don’t already know about The Itinerant Printer, please check out his website. Chris Fritton is a letterpress printer from Buffalo, NY, who used to run the shop at Western New York Book Arts Center. He is about to embark on a trip to visit letterpress printshops across the US. I am hoping to … Continue reading
We are so excited to reach the halfway point in sales of our calendar. We are significantly ahead of where we were at this point last year. If you haven’t ordered your calendar yet, we think you should do so today! Click this link: 2015Mantra Calendar download the order form and send in your check today. Continue reading
Mad River Press Announces the Publication of WHEN AT LAST I JOIN a poem by Amy Fleury with original artwork by Melanie Mowinski This 10 X 14 inch broadside is printed in 4 colors on 280 gram Rives BFK using a Vandercook Universal III letterpress, and also includes an additional watercolor detail painted … Continue reading
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