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
Last week I presented From Pop-Up to Permanent at the Southern Graphics Council International (SCGI) Conference in Milwaukee. The Southern Graphics Council conferences whether national or international are meccas for printmakers to meet, learn, connect and get inspired. My talk focused on seven steps that have helped PRESS take it’s original pop-up status to something … 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
Where will you be tonight, this night of Valentine? See where PRESS will be: Spice Dragon in Pittsfield for One Billion Rising. We made this for the event. If you go tonight, you can take your FREE copy home with you. Music spinning until 9 pm. See you on the dance floor. 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
PRESS will be operating on a limited schedule during the Spring 2013 Semester. Instead, you will find me out in the world, sometimes with my partner in crime Douglas giving out MANIFEST cards. It my/our way of trying to help spark the change I/we want to be and see in the world. It’s also about … 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
Wow, thank you North Adams, MCLA, Michael Chapman–who gave us the desk that Julia McDonald used in her installation, Greg Scheckler, Laura Christensen and all the family and friends of MCLA’s soon to be newest art major graduates for coming out and supporting a great night of art. Adriana Alexatos, Kim Lavigne, Sarah Howard and … Continue reading
Captured Life, opening at PRESS tonight! The four graduating MCLA art majors featured in this show have been hard at work the past week installing, preparing and getting their work, PRESS and themselves ready for the big night. Everything is ready. Work is hung. Vinyl is up. Labels are mounted. Nerves are … Continue reading
MCLA art majors Adriana Alexatos, Sarah Howard, Kim Lavigne and Julia McDonald, graduating this December 2012 will be featured at the next PRESS exhibition, CAPTURED LIFE, opening this Thursday. They are hard at work prepping the gallery, installing and getting ready for their big show. We can’t wait for it all to be up and … Continue reading
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