We’ve been hard at work printing our 2017 calendar. We think you are going to love it. You want to make sure you reserve your copy today, as this is the last year that we will be printing a calendar! This year’s calendar is the result of collaboration with MCLA Professor Zack Finch’s Creative Writing … Continue reading
2017 Calendar printing well underway
It’s a good sign when three calendar pages are completed by the middle of October! Yes devoted readers, production of the 2017 calendar is underway. This year we are deviating a bit from our past calendar formats. We’ve partnered with students in Professor Zack Finch’s creative writing independent study. They’ve written short aphorisms and poems … Continue reading
Press on the MOVE!
We’ve had a very exciting and busy start to the 2016-2017 academic year. This fall we are printing in our new home in Bowman Hall on MCLA’s campus. Our brand new facility already feels like home, and we welcome the connections we are making with other students and faculty. We’ve had a couple of PRESS on … Continue reading
Wayfinding
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
PRESS on the Move!
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
Plant Cells, Printing and Poetry
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
The Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
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