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
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
What an amazing day! If you subscribe to our mailing list and read our newsletters, you might remember that I am in Italy right now. (If you don’t subscribe to our mailing list, and you want to hear our latest news go here to sign up.) I have a six-week residency at the Scuola Internazionale di … Continue reading
Mid-February found me traveling across the state to New Bedford, the whaling center of Massachusetts to participate in their version of Downstreet Art, their Aha! Night. It was part of their Big Read Project, Stark Raven Mad. In addition to printing with my mini-presses at the Aha! Night, the Aha! staff put me in touch with … Continue reading
Melanie is part of an international art exchange. Along with 2 American and 3 Australian artists, every other month they send eachothers artwork following instructions given by one of the artists. When you take a sheet of paper, cut it and then fold it in a certain way, you get a one page book, also … 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
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