We have started an employee book club here at PRESS! The first book we read was The Secret History by Donna Tartt. To practice our typesetting and printing skills, we each chose a word to describe the book and set on the press bed. Melanie chose SPOILED, Nicole chose FOREIGN, and Jonas chose a Greek … 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
You know you want one. The PRESS 2014 Calendar. Get inspired every month with our Mantra Calendar. Every month was printed at PRESS gallery on our infamous Vandercook letterpress, on 100% cotton paper locally made by Crane Paper and includes quotes from Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, Emily Dickinson, VIrginia Wolfe, and more. Every month will contain … Continue reading
So, our press stopped working on us. Why, Vandercook, WHY?! We were in the middle of printing postcards for the Tricks of the Trade Seminar: Word Becomes Art, Art Becomes Word panel discussion, and the cards were turning out swimmingly until the press decided it didn’t want to move anymore. We were going to pair the cards 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
I hope your day yesterday was as great and amazing as ours at PRESS Gallery! It was busy, and very instructive. The day started with the making of our special 4th of July give away card. Melanie seized this opportunity to teach me the basics of typesetting. We set up the quote from Melanie’s friend … Continue reading
Everytime I realize how ignorant I am, I look at all the things I don’t know, and I feel overwhelmed. And most of the time, for lack of motivation, the feeling is so powerful that I just give up on these things. Which is absolutely not the right thing to do. Deeply, I think that … Continue reading
Melanie made this print this week as a promo for our membership drive. You can get one at any membership level, but it’s our gift to you when you join for $25. And know, membership money goes directly to intern salaries and supplies for educational and community workshop! You can learn more about it by … Continue reading
This week will be the first in a series of posts I will be doing on various subjects to do with printing, printmaking, and PRESS studio on Main Street, North Adams. To start us off on this project I thought it would be appropriate to take a look at some of our favorite press shops … Continue reading
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
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