In 2 short days 2010 will be no more. I for one, have had a fantastic 2010! Meeting you all and working with has been so rad. Tears. But let's not get emotional.

Tommorow & Friday the studio is closed!

The closing of the year means many many things.

For instance:

-You need to get used to writing 2011. I still write 2009 sometimes. Boo.

-Most of the food in your fridge will expire. Double Boo.

-New calendars and 2010 calendars on sale...uh

ok. Tons.

NEXT WEEK! MONDAY JANUARY 3!

New classes start. Come on Monday for our weekly Community Meeting to meet the new people and learn what is new for the year.

         DRAWING 5-7PM

         BASIC BEATS 4-5PM

         BEATMAKING 5-7PM

         IC3 4-7PM

         PHOTO MEETING 5-7PM

         GRAPHIC DESIGN 4-7

If you signed up for any of those classes SHOW UP or you might lose your spot.

I hope everyone has a safe and fantastic New Years eve! SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR!

-gaby

Sign up today for our Tshirt and textile printing crash course. The four hour workshop is $35.00, see below for more details about how to reserve your spot. Learn the very basics of screen-printing 1-color images on t-shirts or textiles, using the photo-emulsion process and our shiny NEW vacuum exposure unit. You will also discover the best methods for keeping fabric flat, using the proper ink for textiles, as well as how to properly set the ink into the shirt using the hot press or other at household methods. By the end of the class, students will have produced several wearable, 1-color prints on fabric or shirts.

We are offering tshirt and textile printing workshops the following dates, just click the links below to sign up at the AS220 Shop.
Sunday, January 9th, 10am-2pm

Sunday, January 30th, 10am-2pm

Saturday, February 26th, 10am-2pm

Saturday, February 12th, 10am-2pm

January Open House
Tuesday January 4th, 6pm (First TUESDAY of each month)
FREE! Our monthly Open House is an opportunity for people to shake hands with the AS220 Community Printshop. It is great for people hoping to sign up for a class, see the facilities, ask questions about membership.

Monitor Training Sessions
If you are interested in becoming a monitor at the Printshop, you must attended one of our training session. Please come to an Open House before to ask questions, sign a membership contract and meet other Printmakers. Sign up in advance online for the trainings at the AS220 Online Shop.
January 11th, 6-10pm Sign up at the AS220 Shop
January 28th 10am-2pm Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Our sincere thanks for 2010 & all of the support you have lent us. We will be open on a fairly limited basis as we shimmy into 2011 - but all of us are joyfully anticipating seeing all of you next year!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Purple Nurps, Fowl Play, Them Neon Kills and Science/Fiction

Thursday, December 23, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Moga, Cactus Attack, Pumphouse, and Ana Mallozzi

Friday, December 24, 2010 - Thursday, December 30, 2010
CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS We will reopen on New Years Eve!

Friday, December 31, 2010 / 6-10pm / 'Bright Night' Pass required
New Years! with: Bright Night! (AS220 show to follow)
Bright Night Events at AS220:
6pm Phil Goldman - kid-safe storytelling for grownups
7pm Rory Raven
7:30pm Matt the Knife- Sideshow Artiste
8pm Rory Raven - Mentalist
8:30pm Matt the Knife - Sideshow Artiste
9pm Bright Night Poetry Slam

Friday, December 31, 2010 / 10:30pm / $5
New Years Party! California Smile, A Troop Of Echoes, and Cellar Doves

Events For Thursday, December 16th - Thursday, December 23rd

Thursday, December 16, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Scarlet, Jet Black Sunrise, Mike & The Wojniaks, and Jon Stimets

Friday, December 17, 2010 / 9pm / $7
St Jude, Villainer, Mouth Of Flowers, and David Carradine

Saturday, December 18, 2010 / 3pm / Free
The Sentimental Favorites Holiday Matinee with : The Double Decker Dance Band and more TBA

Saturday, December 18, 2010 / 4-7pm / Free
Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, December 18, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Broadcaster, Coma Coma, Bad Art, and Walri

Saturday, December 18, 2010 / 11am-2pm / Free
Farmers Market

Sunday, December 19, 2010 / 9pm / $4
Free Speech Sunday at AS220 featuring: Singer/Songwriter & Poet Open Mic

Monday, December 20, 2010 / 8:30pm / $6
Winter Solstice Metal Show : Haxen, Bog Of The Infidel, Brain Shivers, Grave Side Service, and Tongue Dynasty

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 / 6-8:30 pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Castle, The Fierce Urgency of Now, Timothy Alexander, and Joshua Garcia

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Purple Nurps, Fowl Play, Them Neon Kills and Science/Fiction

Thursday, December 23, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Moga, Cactus Attack, Pumphouse, and Ana Mallozzi

AS220 is pleased to announce that for the month of January, we will be screening A Fire In My Belly, a film by David Wojnarowicz. This work was just withdrawn from the Smithsonian from the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition entitled, Hide and Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. In response to the removal of the film, art galleries and artist spaces across the United States have joined together to make sure this video has an audience. AS220 is honored to be among the galleries showcasing the piece.

a film still of A Fire In My Belly's controversial imagery

Click "Read More" for the official statement of P.P.O.W and The Estate of David Wojnarowicz about the Smithsonian's disappointing decision to withdraw the artist's work from the exhibit.

Just in time for new year, the AS220 Printshop is pleased to share our workshops for January and February. We are now located in the Mercantile Block building at 131 Washington Street, which spans the whole block from Washington Street to Martha Street. Our entrance is on Martha Street, please walk around the building- ring the bell to the right of the doors.

If you are interested in joining the Printshop or just want to see the new space, come to the Open House Tuesday January 4th, 6-7pm.

For a Grand Opening Party and dedication of the Rhode Island School of Design donated Etching Press, mark your calendar for Thursday January 13th 6-8pm. There will be black tie printing demonstrations, Trinity Brews, Sugarush Cupcakes, and opportunities abound to meet and greet printmakers from the tri-state area.

Until the open house on January 4th, the shop is open to current Printshop members when monitors are signed up. Thank you Providence for your patience, it will be well worth the wait.

And now the workshops...

January Open House
Tuesday January 4th, 6pm (First TUESDAY of each month)
FREE! Our monthly Open House is an opportunity for people to shake hands with the AS220 Community Printshop. It is great for people hoping to sign up for a class, see the facilities, ask questions about membership. Come find the best process to fit your working habits. Also, every Open House is a fantastic forum for meeting other printmakers and creative people interested in the art of multiples.

Monitor Training Sessions
If you are interested in becoming a monitor at the Printshop, you must attended one of our training session. Please come to an Open House before to ask questions, sign a membership contract and meet other Printmakers. Sign up in advance online for the trainings at the AS220 Online Shop.
January 11th, 6-10pm Sign up at the AS220 Shop
January 28th 10am-2pm Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Woodblock & Relief with Walter Feldman
$115.00 Saturday January 15th, 22nd, 29th 11am-2pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Intro to Letterpress, Moveable Type: 3 Weeks
$115.00 Wednesday, January 12th, 19th and 26th, 6pm-10pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Intro to Letterpress: 3 Weeks
$115.00 Saturday, January 7th, 22nd and 29th, 2pm-6pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Intro to Offset: 3 weeks / 6 Sessions
$200.00 Tuesdays and Thursdays, January 25th, 27th, February 1st, 3rd, 8th and 10th: 6pm-10pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Intro to Silkscreen: 2 weeks
$65.00 Sunday, January 16th and 23nd, 10am-2pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

T-Shirt Silkscreen
$35.00 Sunday, January 9th, 10am-2pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

T-Shirt Silkscreen
$35.00 Sunday, January 30th, 10am-2pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

February Open House
Tuesday February 1st, 6pm (First TUESDAY of each month)
FREE! Our monthly Open House is an opportunity for people to shake hands with the AS220 Community Printshop. It is great for people hoping to sign up for a class, see the facilities, ask questions about membership. Come find the best process to fit your working habits. Also, every Open House is a fantastic forum for meeting other printmakers and creative people interested in the art of multiples.

Monitor Training Sessions
If you are interested in becoming a monitor at the Printshop, you must attended one of our training session. Please come to an Open House before to ask questions, sign a membership contract and meet other Printmakers. Sign up in advance online for the trainings at the AS220 Online Shop.
February 8th, 6-10pm Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Intro to Letterpress: 3 Weeks
$115.00 Wednesdays, February 2nd, 9th and 16th, 6-10pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Intro to Silkscreen: 2 weeks
$65.00 Thursdays, February 3rd and 10th, 6-10pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Print Camp! Vacation Week
$250.00 Print Camp February 22nd to 25th, Tuesday through Friday 10 am - 5 pm Ages 10-14
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Special Valentine's Letterpress Workshop
$75.00 Saturdays, February 5th and 12th
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

T-Shirt Silkscreen
$35.00 Saturday, February 26th, 10am-2pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

T-Shirt Silkscreen
$35.00 Saturday, February 12th, 10am-2pm
Sign up at the AS220 Shop

Classes for March, April and May will be posted in the beginning of February, check back soon!

Saturdays at the studio are always super fun and a great chance to hag out and learn some new things. This Saturday was no exception. We had the Farmers Market with Gaby and a great cooking class with Scott and Megan.

Upstairs at the Studio about 7-8 of us got together and we made some delicious Stir Fry with chicken. We threw the rule book out the window and Megan & Indira taught us some great ways to cook our meal. Chef master, Megan. What a smart girl.

After cooking class we had figure drawing with scott, which was epic cause the poses we did were ones you could classify as "once-in-a-lifetime" so yeah it was cool.

Downstairs Gaby was running AS220 Youths table at the Farmers Market we had a pretty nice turnout and we sold a little bit of merch.

heck us out this weekend for some last minute xmas gifts! We just got in some beautiful xmas cards!

Ramon Bernard

Thursday December 16th Brian O'Malley will talk about his current exhibiton, "the world according to black and white" at the AS220 Project Space, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. The exhibition consists of paper drawings, onsite drawings with ink and tape, video and sound. Brian transforms the space making an environment of movement and distortion that creates alternate universe of memory and associations.

Before Brian's talk or after visit the AS220 Reading Room at the Project Space and buy some sweet holiday swag & support AS220 Cottage Industries. We have lovely framed photos from the Glass Negative Project, "Timeless Planners" & notebooks from the PrintShop, sweet blank cards, and from Arley-Rose Torsone a much needed holiday reminder.

We also have magical artist books by Sarah Clover, Joshua Deaner and Holly Ewald, & the wonderful Nancy Spero book " Torture of Woman" from Siglio Press, & "Ira Rakatansky: As Modern As Tomorrow" edited by local designer John Caserta, & "The Longest Urinal in the World" by local letterpress hero Dan Wood & lots more including prints from local artists in our FlatFile & lots more small press titles & wonders.

Be Merry & visit the AS220 Project Space.

Cheers!

This Thursday from 4-6pm we have our OPEN HOUSE!

Bring your real life friends, imaginary friends, family, and anyone else who might be interested in signing up for our WINTER CLASSES!

Winter is looking like its going to be a good term for us! Classes in: Photo, Painting, Drawing, Electronics, Graphic Design, Dance, Beat Making, Writing and so much more!

Think you might be interested? Are you 14-21? Then come down to AS220 Youth located in downtown Providence at 115 Empire Street 02903. Were on the second floor!

There will be:

FOOD! FUN! FAKE DIAMONDS! (but not really) FISH! (i dont like fish) FRUIT! (maybe) FROSTED FLAKES (probably not) FLAILING (me running around) FINDING WALDO (hide and seek with gaby) FEET (unless you dont have any)

Any more F words? Appropriate ones?

-Gaby

(Come early! Spaces and pizza run out fast here :)