This Saturday is the year anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump to the United States Presidency and the start of The 50 Card Project. Join me and thousands of people all over the country and the world in some kind of action. Go to a march. Make some art. Join me in the Bowman … Continue reading
It’s a year ago this week that MCLA alum and former PRESS intern extraordinaire Isaac Wood and I created the card “We are Marching in the Light of Love.” We made it for a student organized rally to help all of us try to cope with how we were feeling after the election. Fear and disillusion dominated conversations, we wanted to cultivate strength, … Continue reading
Hello PRESS friends, Isaac here! Last week PRESS on the Move was visited by the sixth graders of Lee Elementary, to talk about how art and science are related to one another, as part of the annual event “Berkshire County Goes to College,” at MCLA. The students were split into two groups and each had … 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
Figure Me Out, created by MCLA Senior Emily Boughton, is an exhibit that examines self-expression through a coloring book. Using the PRESS gallery space as an incubation space to cultivate and test run her project, Boughton hopes that those who interact with the exhibit will let go and “simply follow whatever urges come to you.” … Continue reading
If you’ve been to PRESS in the past month or so, you’ve seen a selection of work by student’s from PRESS Chief’s Introduction to Printmaking class from from the Fall 2014 semester. The assignment? Create a larger work of art that utilizes the repetition of the print as a main component of the piece–keeping in … Continue reading
Tonight we celebrate three things at PRESS! 1. The release of our 2015 calendar. If you haven’t reserved yours yet, we highly recommend that you do. The first 25 out of 100 have been claimed. Don’t miss out. Download your order form and mail in today. 2015Mantra Calendar 2. The release of When at Last I … Continue reading
“Women hold up half the sky” The artistic collaboration and resulting exhibition that will be Paper Dresses was inspired in part by Nicholas Kristof’s upcoming visit to MCLA. Half the Sky, co-written by Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, chronicles their encounters with extraordinary women all over the globe, and their struggles with the many injustices that … Continue reading
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