Come celebrate with us!
 We are approaching our 1 year anniversary as Rhode Island’s only public Community Printshop. To commemorate this milestone, we are introducing our first biennial Print Lottery! The goal of this fundraising event is to expand AS220 Community Printshop’s materials, equipment and staff, to highlight the enormous amount of artists working in many different forms of printmaking, and to raise awareness of the medium’s importance to contemporary art.
The Print Lottery will showcase prints or works on paper made by 200 artists from all over the world! In keeping with AS220’s mission of accessibility and equality, and for the purpose of having fun, the prints in the show will be sold by a blind lottery system, with all lottery tickets selling for $75. Our Goal is to exhibit 200 prints and works on paper @ $75 each and host an exciting and informative month of events.
If you are unfamiliar with the shop, read all about us and what we do; the long and short of it being that we strive to provide printmaking classes and facilities as affordably we can, making our shop one of the cheapest and most accessible in the country.
Your donations will directly support the Printshop and in thanks you will receive a works on paper that utilize any printmaking technique including: drawing, monoprint, screenprint, etching, lithograph, woodblock, stencil, letterpress, etc. To learn more about these techniques and others attend one of the many events we’re planning to share the glory of printmaking.
So in conclusion we’d like to ask you to join us during the month of September as we celebrate not only the work we’ve achieved this past year, but the fine art of printmaking that we all hold dear. Like many enterprises, our first year was filled with challenges and triumphs, hurdles and problem solving and a whole lot of wet ink. We’re proud of where we are today and are looking forward to many more years of inspiration and growth. If you haven’t yet experienced the magic of the AS220 Printshop we’d like to be the first to invite you to join the fun. As a comrade, client or contemporary of the AS220 Community Printshop - your involvement has helped develop a vibrant creative community and provided further proof that Rhode Island is more than just a place to live, its a place where idealism and the arts have a chance.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the Printshop Manager, Morgan Calderini at 401.831.9327 or email at morgan@as220.org.
Thanks to our sponsors!
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Upcoming
PrintLottery Events!
All events are free and open to the public!
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Monday, September 1st
Extra Special Open House & Shop Orientation
6pm
Location: Printshop
(95 Mathewson St. #210)
Come explore the printshop and learn more about how to get involved!
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Sunday, September 7th Opening reception for Print Lottery
4-7pm
Location: 115 Empire Street, Gallery/Performance Space
We opened the AS220 Community Printshop one year ago today! Come celebrate our anniversary and the art of printmaking. See the work of 200 artists, you can buy your lottery ticket in advance here too.
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Thursday, September 11th
Typography Lovers Unite!
6pm
Location: Providence Public Library, Barnard Room, Second Floor.
Join AS220's Design Providence Art Director Arley-Rose Torsone and PPL's Special Collection Librarian Rick Ring as they present the typographic treasures from the Special Collections at the Providence Public Library! Prepare for some serious geeking out over typography.
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Saturday, September 13th
Drop-in Workshop
1-5pm
Location: Printshop
(95 Mathewson St. #210)
Stop by the shop on a Saturday afternoon for a mini printmaking project. Bring the kids, bring grandma, and bring your friends. All supplies provided, stay as long as you want or just drop by.
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Saturday, September 20th Lecture
6:30pm
Location: 115 Empire Street, Gallery/Performance Space
Join Andrew Raftery, engraver, printmaker and scholar, and Gretchen Wagner, Assistant Curator of prints and illustrated books from the Museum of Modern Art for a night of "printucation!"
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Saturday, September 27th
Print Lottery!!!!
7-10pm
Location: 115 Empire Street, Gallery/Performance Space
Every ticket is $75 and all proceeds directly support the Printshop equipment, staff, supplies and programming. In thanks you will receive a print from the show, chosen blindly through the lottery. Come for the fun, and two very special secret announcements. Don't forget - you don't need to buy a lottery ticket to attend the event! Come support your Community Printshop by attending!
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