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
Where is PRESS? PRESS is now on the MOVE! In the past year we moved the Vandercook down the road into the newly renovated Bowman Hall on the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’s campus (MCLA). We replaced the Vandercook’s motor, launched our PRESS on the Move initiative, partnered with students in MCLA Professor Frances Jones-Sneed’s class Women, … Continue reading
Hello PRESS friends, Isaac here! Last week PRESS on the Move was visited by the sixth graders of Lee Elementary, to talk about how art and science are related to one another, as part of the annual event “Berkshire County Goes to College,” at MCLA. The students were split into two groups and each had … Continue reading
I went to visit my sister in Germany, as a close to my amazing Italian adventure, the one where I spent six weeks at the Scuola Internazionale di Graficia. And my sister kindly asked me what I hoped to do while visiting. Without missing a beat, I told her I wanted to visit Johannes Gutenberg’s birthplace, … 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
We have entered the 21st century, (finally!) and you can now order our fantastic calendar online. If you order by 2 pm, today, December 22, it will ship today and hopefully arrive by Christmas. We are humbled by the overwhelming response to this year’s calendar. We have sold over half of our run already! This … Continue reading
I am delighted to have PRESS calendars and postcards at the Northampton Book Fair this weekend. If you live in the Pioneer Valley or the surrounding towns, come on by to pick one up, check out some of the work printed under my own imprint 29 PRESS, and see Liminality artist Valerie Carrigan and her new … Continue reading
Big shout out to all of our friends who came to the PRESS Calendar Preview Party. We loved sharing our new space with you and celebrating the calendar. All kinds of people were there, from this year’s calendar collaborators MCLA Professor Frances Jones-Sneed and PRESS founder Melanie Mowinski to past and present interns, and all kinds … Continue reading
PRESS is delighted to celebrate the release of the 2016 annual Monthly Mantra calendar at a preview party in the new letterpress space on MCLA’s campus, in Room 303 Bowman Hall, on Wednesday December 2 from 5-7 pm. The event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. This year’s calendar is … Continue reading
This year’s calendar printing was interrupted with 23 runs to go by the most inconvenient mechanical failure. When we moved from Main Street to our new location, the motor that moves the carriage back and forth over the print form needed to be removed. All seemed to be well after the Vandercook was back together, … Continue reading
