I’ve always loved ink and carving linoleum blocks. Even three visits to the emergency room, one that involved stitching the tendon in my thumb back together never got in the way of this love. Right now, managing PRESS, teaching and other work sometimes takes priority over nurturing that love of the knife against lino or … Continue reading
On Thursday, Oct. 25, PRESS: Letterpress as a Public Art Project will open its fifth DownStreet Art 2012 installation, “Fly By: The bird at PRESS.” An opening reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served, including something special for those with … Continue reading
No one knows Murphy’s Law better than a printer. Rarely does a day in the print shop or studio go by without some hiccup or problem to be solved. And while most problems are a speed bump, there are those doozies that hit us, challenge us, and make us wonder why we ever thought printing … Continue reading
This Thursday, Getting There is Easy, the End of Summer Exhibition opens! This show celebrates the hard work and vision cultivated within PRESS, and features works by students, workshops and independent projects conducted at PRESS this summer. Sandragraphs, pressure prints, linoleum prints, prints with moveable type, books art, and paste papers will be on display … Continue reading
PRESS would like to thank Suzi Banks Baum and Karen Arp-Sandel of Fe-Mail for a fantastic morning of mail art making. Ten of us worked for three hours cutting up great packages of papers–some from Fe-Mail and some from PRESS into glorious postcards to send to that special someone. We had so much fun we … Continue reading
Saturday Melanie spent part of the day taking old prints and various paste paper scraps and making them into fabulous collage packets. You should have seen the fun she was having curating these packets. It’s one of the best ways to “reuse” those prints that have a typo, are misaligned, or otherwise not worthy of … Continue reading
What a great summer! So hard to believe that a new school year is upon us–can’t wait to see what it will bring. We said goodbye to Sharbreon, who is now back in Louisiana and studying away. Andy returned to MCLA as a senior and Pam is preparing for a big installation that will be … Continue reading
What a fabulous night, one of those glorious Berkshire Summer days, not a cloud in the sky, warm enough to wear a sundress and be out in the streets, and why not at the August Downstreet Art opening!! Great shows opened up and down the street, Richard Criddle’s Compendium, Experiment in Inspiration at the Jarvis … Continue reading
Postal Pinocatheca opens tomorrow, Thursday, August 30, from 6-9 p.m. We hope you can join us! Tara O’Brien, the instigator of the exchange will be there, too! Tara also came up with the title Postal Pinocatheca, by doing the following exercise, an exercise we both use in our own work and in our teaching. This … Continue reading
We are so excited about our upcoming exhibit at PRESS, and it seems other people are too. Check out these great articles written this past week in the Berkshire Eagle’s Berkshire’s Week and The North Adams Transcript. Big thanks to Laura Lofgren and John Seven for these great articles. Hope to see you at the opening, … Continue reading
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