Ever since we found this video of printmakers from Texas using a steamroller and a parking lot as a printing press, we haven’t been able to stop thinking about how ridiculously awesome it would be to try this out. These printmakers are a group of artists who go by the name Art To The Third … Continue reading
Category Archives: Printing
Carrie and The Great Wood-type Clean
Ever since we have gotten so much new woodtype in at PRESS, it has all needed a good cleaning. With years of ink and dust build up in between the spaces of the letters, the natural grains of the wood are beginning to come through again. And most of that progress is due to our awesome … Continue reading
Three Little Birds
I’ve been working on this really fun print all week. I’m making it for Fran, one of two sisters who are very generous North Adams residents. Their family had a print shop here many years ago and are letting us borrow some really fun cuts, wood type and other things. I’m making a couple of … Continue reading
Book Bombs Mary Tasillo visits PRESS
Mary Tasillo, is a book, print, text, and paper artist based in Philadelphia, PA. She is also a teacher, writer, and independent scholar. She balances limited edition work with the democratic multiple to ensure the broadest possible audience. She visited PRESS this past week to print the cover of her latest Book Bomb Horizontalidad. The colophon … Continue reading
Open Studios and A Productive PRESS
During the North Adams Open Studios weekend many prints were pumped out on the Vandercook as if it was running on high octane fuel, or maybe even the printmakers themselves? Melanie started work on a new larger broadside as well as continued her work on some smaller prints, Pam created her “Sanction Truth” print which … Continue reading
Kyle Durrie’s Type Truck Today, Open Studios Weekend Tomorrow
Kyle Durrie’s Type Truck arrived at 105 Main St. today and prints were made! Melanie had one of her classes come down to the arrival, listened to Kyle tell her story with the truck, and then Kyle had everyone collaborate on a print right in the truck! Check out some photos of Kyle’s Type truck … Continue reading
While The Proprietress Is Away, Staff Will Play
As Melanie has been in Italy this past week, there has been no one to run the printing demos. Or is there? On this past Monday, Pam and Jason embarked on their first print project without the supervision of Melanie so that the print demonstrations could still be happening. The product was this new limited … Continue reading
Heirens, the serial killer
So William Heirens, a man convicted of some brutal murders in the fifties, is the subject of a new plate that we are borrowing at PRESS. The plate and another one tout the evils of alcohol, somewhat gruesomely, but also quite beautifully. They were made by the American Business Men’s Research Foundation sometime in the … Continue reading
Printing the 18×24 woodcut by Emily Cohane-Mann
What a fabulous day at PRESS! Jason and I scurried back and forth between hanging work and finishing work, all the while anticipating the arrival of Emily Cohane-Mann with her 200 sheets of Rives Lightweight. Today was the day to print her large wood cuts. These were the largest images that have ever been printed … Continue reading
“Magic Words”, Magic Prints, and PRESS.
It seems that the amount of work getting done on the press has increased exponentially as we near the end of the summer. And as every new print sits with fresh ink on the red table still in the grabbers, more and more inspiration flies like newly released electricity within the space. New ideas have … Continue reading
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