Over the past month or so, I have been working with two different groups of teenagers. Group One: MASS MoCA Teenspace I have a teaching artist residency with MASS MoCA’s Teenspace program. A group of incredibly talented and interesting teens from all over the north county have been gathering either at Kidspace or PRESS for … Continue reading
We are still planning to have our DIY Valentine Workshop on Saturday from 2-5 p.m only. Stay tuned here for updates. We’ll keep you posted if we decide to move it to Sunday because of the snow. 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
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
PRESS would like to thank Suzi Banks Baum and Karen Arp-Sandel of Fe-Mail for a fantastic morning of mail art making. Ten of us worked for three hours cutting up great packages of papers–some from Fe-Mail and some from PRESS into glorious postcards to send to that special someone. We had so much fun we … Continue reading
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
Hi everyone. First we’d like to send a special hello to those of you that just recently started following our blog. We’re so glad you found us, and we hope to hear from you soon! The next few weeks are very exciting for PRESS. We have a few upcoming events that we wanted to remind … Continue reading
i’m hayley, with two y’s. i have a bachelor of fine arts degree from MassArt. i design things. i make things. & i take photographs of things i enjoy. you can find me here on tumblr. i’m a member of the Book of the Week Club. Each week at PRESS, a member of the group will … Continue reading
Hi everyone! We here at PRESS wanted you to know that we have a new and improved Flickr page, which can be found here. We have pictures posted from last year’s season as well as this year, so be sure to pay a visit. You may even spot yourself in a few snapshots! We will continue to … Continue reading
I am in North Carolina at the Penland School of Crafts studying with Steve Miller of Red Hydra Press. OMG. The Sandragraph. So simple. So fun. So you make a very low relief collage–a collagraph on three-quarter MDF board. Then you cover that with matte medium and a thin layer of muslin. Follow that with … Continue reading
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