PRESS founder Melanie Mowinski currently has a solo exhibition on view at MCLA’s Gallery 51 (next door to the exPRESS space on Main Street)! Wayfinding presents an investigation of the motivations behind the paths taken in life through Mowinski’s installation, letterpress, book arts, and collage pieces. This stunning exhibition concludes Melanie’s year-long sabbatical, and she returns … 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
The final DownStreet Art celebration of the 2015 season featured some firsts for us! If you joined us, you witnessed the first time we printed with two presses during a reception. The PRESS on the MOVE, our Golding Official #3, was sporting bright orange ink last night to add a pop of color to our … Continue reading
If you couldn’t make it to the opening, it’s time that we shared with you the big news: the PRESS space at 49 Main Street is transitioning to exPRESS, a new collaborative space. Most of the PRESS equipment is moving to the newly remodeled Bowman Hall on MCLA’s campus. This long-planned transition will happen in the … Continue reading
On August 27th, Printmaking @ PRESS opened to the public here on Main Street. We’d like to send out a huge thank you to everyone who stopped by to look back on five years of making in the letterpress medium with us. All of the old favorites made an appearance in this retrospective exhibition, and … Continue reading
We are frantically getting ready for PRESS’ final show, Printmaking @ PRESS. It features the work made at PRESS from the past five years, and selecting the exclusive few was not easy, because students and interns have made a lot of high quality art at PRESS. The first chance for the public to see the “best of” … Continue reading
Latitude is only on view for a few more days! Today’s featured artist is Erin Paulson, you’ve probably seen her animations lighting up our front windows, but read more about her inspiration below: Erin’s largely interdisciplinary practice relies heavily on time-intensive processes. Which is fitting since many of her interests revolve around time and space … Continue reading
Latitude is only up for one more week! Today our featured artist is Charissa Schulze, find out more about her work below: Charissa’s work Tempus Florae is adapted from a different clock based theory from the same era. In 1751, Carl Linnaeus theorized a clock of flowers by way of observing their circadian rhythms. … Continue reading
Today’s featured artist is Erin Malkowski, read more about the inspiration for her works in our current exhibit, Latitude, below: Erin’s work seeks to lessen the distance between “out there” (galactic bodies such as the sun) and “down here” (the sundials). She wants to hold in her hands what exists in the vast cosmos … Continue reading
Over the next two weeks we will be presenting features on the artists from our current exhibit, Latitude. Our first featured artist is Tara O’Brien! Learn a little more about Tara and her inspiration for the show below: For Tara, who works with old books and an artist who creates new ones, the image … Continue reading
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