What are you thinking about this week? This semester, PRESS has an artist-in-residence. In January Dr Alke Gröppel-Wegener came over from Staffordshire University in the UK for two weeks to work with students on visual ways of integrating writing into a number of subjects. As part of her stay, she also ran a number of … Continue reading
What a winter! PRESS has taken a bit of a pause after all the effort required to create our fabulous calendars. During this time, I traveled to Vancouver to present a workshop about our the monthly mantra cards that we make that inspired our calendar at the Design Principles and Practices Conference. Title: Make your own … Continue reading
You know you want one. The PRESS 2014 Calendar. Get inspired every month with our Mantra Calendar. Every month was printed at PRESS gallery on our infamous Vandercook letterpress, on 100% cotton paper locally made by Crane Paper and includes quotes from Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, Emily Dickinson, VIrginia Wolfe, and more. Every month will contain … Continue reading
We’ve been busy little bees at PRESS the past few weeks–working to make today’s 5 pm deadline. What happens at 5 pm? RISING opens–our new exhibit featuring our first ever calendar. If you haven’t seen it, you’ve got to come by tonight. We have it displayed in a couple of different ways to help you … Continue reading
We finished our 2014 first-ever, mantra inspired calendar today! It will be officially available for sale this Thursday at the opening of RISING, from 5-8 p.m. You can still pre-order one by downloading the 2014CalendarForm and mailing it in or bringing it to PRESS. We have already sold 20% of the calendars…we think they will sell … Continue reading
We are in the homestretch! We have eleven out of twelve months finished–looking forward to getting that last one done this week in between meals and weather events. And then it will be ready for the big reveal on December 5th at our next opening RISING. (If I were you I would download the order … Continue reading
Don’t forget we are hosting a great Holiday Card Making workshop THIS SATURDAY, only $75, from 10 am – 2 pm. We have partnered with our Alchemy Initiative friends for this very special event. Participants will receive one of our fabulous PRESS collage packs–for this workshop they include 10 red Crane paper envelopes, 10 Crane … Continue reading
We are hard at work at PRESS on our **new** 2014 Monthly Mantra Calendar! Stay tuned for pictures! We know our fans love coming into the shop for our monthly mantra cards that we give away and definitely love our Monthly Mantra workshops! So new for 2014, a calendar with some of our favorite mantras … Continue reading
We hosted a group of lifelong learners participating in Road Scholar‘s Museums Gems: From Boston to the Berkshires at PRESS today. Road Scholar is the name for the programs developed and offered by Elderhostel, Inc. I first encountered Elderhostel while working for the summer programs at Case Western Reserve in the early 1990’s. The program and … Continue reading
What a great show! See what my friend and gallerist Leslie Ferrin says about the show! Thanks Leslie! Can’t make it to the show? Here are some some shots of the show, without anybody in the gallery–this is more for the artists in the show, so you can see how your work looks. Enjoy, please … Continue reading
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