Who knew that the Scratch Negative Process would be so freakin’ awesome. This is one of the greatest’s things I learned while at Penland for the past two weeks. The Scratch Neg. How I love you! What is it you ask? You are not going to find too much about it online. Steve Miller teaches … Continue reading
I am in North Carolina at the Penland School of Crafts studying with Steve Miller of Red Hydra Press. OMG. The Sandragraph. So simple. So fun. So you make a very low relief collage–a collagraph on three-quarter MDF board. Then you cover that with matte medium and a thin layer of muslin. Follow that with … Continue reading
PRESS was totally psyched to see a public art process happening over on River Street yesterday. And even more excited to learn that it was edible. North Adams Sourdough: A Gift of Cultured Culture is presented by Eryn Foster as part of Oh, Canada, a large scale exhibition of Canadian artists taking place at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary … Continue reading
Come visit PRESS during the City of North Adams 15th Annual Winterfest Celebration on February 25th! Take advantage of this surprisingly spring-like winter and take a walk downtown to experiment with letterpress by making your own type composition. Drop on in and choose from our large assortment of found wood type and bring your words … Continue reading
About two years ago, maybe even three, I bought a Poco #2 press. It has been in my barn since then. I nervously watched Doug and three college athletes muscle it up the fairly rickety stairs to the studio. This time, I got the help of men who know their way around tools and machines. … Continue reading
We at PRESS would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season! And we would also like thank everyone that follows us here online and visits us on Main St. We are going to be closed for a little bit until mid January when we open up again. All of the PRESS & Co. staff … Continue reading
This is our Inspiration Book, Melanie made this herself just for PRESS! Check out some of the things visitors have written in it. We sometimes use this book as a source of inspiration for new projects and are always looking for new things in the book. If there is something that inspires you; something that … Continue reading
As per usual, PRESS has been busy while not letting the snow be any reason at all to slow down. Printing and developing new events through out these quickly approaching winter months is how you will find PRESS & Co. spending their time. Jason has been developing our new series of events called the PRESS … Continue reading
Kyle Durrie’s Type Truck arrived at 105 Main St. today and prints were made! Melanie had one of her classes come down to the arrival, listened to Kyle tell her story with the truck, and then Kyle had everyone collaborate on a print right in the truck! Check out some photos of Kyle’s Type truck … Continue reading
As Melanie has been in Italy this past week, there has been no one to run the printing demos. Or is there? On this past Monday, Pam and Jason embarked on their first print project without the supervision of Melanie so that the print demonstrations could still be happening. The product was this new limited … Continue reading
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