In the next couple of weeks, PRESS anticipates a number of exciting changes! 1. We are MOVING! Not far, just down the street to 49 Main Street. We’ll be right next to Gallery 51. We can’t wait. Look out for the PRESS taking a walk down the street this Thursday morning. Stay tuned to FB … Continue reading
Category Archives: Downstreet Art
PRESS 2013 Downstreet Art Exhibitions: Coming Soon!
Spring is in the air, finally! So that means Downstreet Art and a new season of exhibits at PRESS is just around the corner. We can’t wait, and we have some really exciting news related to the summer, but you’ll just have to stay tuned for that! For now, check out what’s up for the … Continue reading
Fun with Fourth Graders from Brayton Elementary School
Sally Sussman, a wonderful artist educator, who took one of the workshops at PRESS this year approached me about doing a small workshop with five fourth graders from Brayton Elementary School. She had ridiculously tight perimeters, no budget, and only an hour and five minutes of time printing at PRESS. I agreed. Sally and I … Continue reading
Thanks to all for a great opening of Captured Life!
Wow, thank you North Adams, MCLA, Michael Chapman–who gave us the desk that Julia McDonald used in her installation, Greg Scheckler, Laura Christensen and all the family and friends of MCLA’s soon to be newest art major graduates for coming out and supporting a great night of art. Adriana Alexatos, Kim Lavigne, Sarah Howard and … Continue reading
Captured Life, OPENING TONIGHT!
Captured Life, opening at PRESS tonight! The four graduating MCLA art majors featured in this show have been hard at work the past week installing, preparing and getting their work, PRESS and themselves ready for the big night. Everything is ready. Work is hung. Vinyl is up. Labels are mounted. Nerves are … Continue reading
Getting ready for Thursday’s opening
MCLA art majors Adriana Alexatos, Sarah Howard, Kim Lavigne and Julia McDonald, graduating this December 2012 will be featured at the next PRESS exhibition, CAPTURED LIFE, opening this Thursday. They are hard at work prepping the gallery, installing and getting ready for their big show. We can’t wait for it all to be up and … Continue reading
DIY Holiday Card Workshop–coming November 17
PRESS HOLIDAY CARD WORKSHOP! Saturday November 17th from 10am-4pm $95 + $30 material fee An intro to letterpress, this class will take you through the basics of setting up and running our magical Vandercook Universal III letterpress. You will carve your own 4×6 relief print from your own design or drawing. A relief print is created … Continue reading
Fly By: The Bird at PRESS
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
Getting ready for Fe-Mail
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 opening!
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
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