There is no excuse, don't have crappy business cards. Sign up today for our newest Printshop workshops.
There is no excuse, don't have crappy business cards. Sign up today for our newest Printshop workshops.
Come make your loved ones magical things this month. Subsidiary corporations cannot inbue their printed matter with the same love and care as you. Now we're making it hyper-affordable, too! Come visit us tonight (2/1/10) at 6pm for our Open House!
We've still got spaces left in a Letterpress class that begins tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd at 5pm. This is an excellent opportunity to learn Letterpress printing, and you'll be using a a modified C.I.A. technique to press a secret message! Take advantage today of this rare chance to slip into a letterpress class without waiting. Sign up today.
we've also got a handful of exciting changes we're rolling out this month.
If you're a by-the-block member at the shop, we're dropping the price of a block of time for the month of February. it's going to be 15$ a block, or two for $25. That's 8 hours of printing time for 25$. Full steam ahead!
Refer a friend - If your friend lists you as a referal on their new membership, we'll see that when we process their new account, and credit you with a free block of time. Sign up your friends! Then come print with them!
Also starting this month, every third Thursday (thats 2/18/10), from 5-9, it's open screenprint sesh! That means anyone with some screen-printing knowledge is welcome to come in, coat, expose, and print a screen. All for 5$ - no membership required.
You are expected to bring your own image, paper (or fabric). We've got leftover inks, but if you have a specific color in mind, pick it up before you come! You do not have to be a shop member, but this program is first come, first serve, with up to 6 people printing at a time.
We'll have monitors on hand to help people stay on track and overcome hurdles - but this is not a class. If you've never screenprinted before, sign up for our regular 2 week intro class but if you have an idea of what your doing, and this all sounds good to you, please visit the specific page we've made for this program, so you know you'll be totally prepared.
Quick Recap!
Open House tonight! February 1st @ 6 PM. See the Offset in Action!
Secret Cinnamon 2 Session Letterpress Class Starting Tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd @ 5 pm.
February "We Love You By-the-Block Members" Discount. The special prices are 15$ for 1 Block, 25$ for 2. Thats 25$ for 8 Hours of Print Shop Time!
Refer a Friend. If your friend writes you down on their new membership as a referral, you get a free block of printshop time, or a free month as a monitor! Tell people about the shop. Sign 'em up, and then print as team!
Thursday Night Open Screenprint Sessions! Starting this Thursday, the 4th of February, at 5pm. Bring $5 per small screen and your design(s) on Acetate ready-to-shoot, and we'll get to work coating, shooting, and exposing a screen for print.
We've got so many things doing for the month of February. Come print!
Come join us for our Monthly Open House. Monday, February 1st at 6PM.
Learn about the AS220 Community Print Shop. Take a tour of the facilities, learn a bit about how we operate and what we provide. See the new 2 Color Offset Lithography Press running full steam and making multiples en masse. Sign up for a class. Ask questions, bring work to share and discuss. Meet other printmakers, and more!
The AS220 Community Print Shop invites everyone to come meet Angee Lennard and see her new series of prints this Thursday, January 28th, from 5-7pm. This exhibition will take place at 95 Mathewson Street, Downtown Providence, R.I. @ the Print Shop.
Angee Lennard is visiting from Chicago, where she founded and operates Spudnik Press. Her residency in Providence has been spent exploring notions of progress, technology, perspective and generational divide. With a series of lovingly mezzotinted copper plates printed in subdued hues, her subjects - once the shape of things to come- take on an awkward, intimate, and painfully familiar tone.
Join us this Thursday as we celebrate Angee and her dedicated effort, a sizable collection of new work created at the AS220 Community Printshop. She will also be periodically giving demonstrations of the mezzotinting process she used to create most of her prints. If you met Angee this month, come say farewell! If you haven't met her, this is your chance!
Thursday the 28th of January, 5 - 7pm. Location: 95 Mathewson Street. Downtown Providence. Food and Beverage and Prints and Demos!
Meet the newest member of the printshop family here at the AS220 Community Print Shop, AB Dick 9850. With the emergence and rapid rise of the blog, traditional print media is struggling. Commercial print shops are on the ropes, and newspapers / magazines everywhere are shutting down shop. The creative community should view this as an opportunity - we find ourselves in that magic moment where a traditionally commercial process enters the hands of the individual and is re-purposed for the creation of exciting, exploratory, and previously unimaginable work.
Currently we are in the process of getting the press set up and running. Just like all the other equipment in shop, we will soon offering classes. Once safely trained to operate the press, a membership will allow you easy access to the shop to produce your own work. In addition to the new press we also have a Baumfolder 714 folding machine, perforator and saddle stitch / stapling machine. Now is the time to start laying out that sweet 'zine you've been dreaming of.
We are pleased to announce our latest Edition Project with artist Pippi Zornoza. Her printmaking work has been exhibited in the United States as well as Japan, Argentina, Columbia and Sweden, and was published in the art-poster anthology, The Art of Modern Rock. Zornoza is an artist, musician and co-founder of the Dirt Palace in Providence Rhode Island. She is a renaissance woman in this renaissance city. Her work encompasses musical performance, printmaking, embroidery, lace making, carving, knitting, sewing and drawing, often all at once.
This print typifies Zornoza's characteristic use of intricate line-work, elaborate ornament, and combined imagery based in ornate textile patterns, varied mythology, and the natural world. Unlike her past work, however, this print incorporates her distinctive style within a bold geometric motif. A heavy circular mandala divides the piece into six triangular frames, housing the alternating designs within like small vignettes. Five shades of ochre and red lend warmth and subtlety to this incredibly complex design. The print is available through our online shop.
We've got some excellent class offerings that are sure to fill up quickly.
On deck first is our January Drypoint Class. Learn to make direct marks into a copper plate using sharp tools. Then, using an etching press, you will amplify and multiply your marks, transferring them into paper in the process.
Then, early February, We're running our first ever Secret Valentines Letterpress Class. Using a technique used by the CIA and modified for Letterpress, we're going to be printing hidden messages. Be the envy of your homeroom (or workplace), as everyone will want you as their valentine! Or just treat a special someone to a super-sweet hand-printed treat.
To sign up for either class, visit our Online Store
December AS220 Artist in Residence James Mercer is unveiling a new installation in the AS220 Empire St. 3rd Floor A.I.R. Studio. Glimpse everything. Come by this Wednesday, December 30th, from 7 - 9 PM.
James is a world-builder, weaving lonely narratives with estranged teens and lovingly-rendered, mass-manufactured anonymous objects. My mother might say, "he has a knack for color." James generates material endlessly, making videos, music, drawings and installations. AS220 and the Community Print Shop are proud to present the remnants of his residency. New Years Eve Eve.
Participants will get a great introduction to screen-printing, from start to finish, learning the skills needed to produce your own holiday gift-wrap in the process. Friends and family members will love having hand-made work wrap their gifts, and participants will have a story to tell about the new skills they've learned. Participants are strongly encouraged to show up with a sketch of your design for printing onto acetate - or a printout onto an 8.5" x 11" transparency. also, bring in an assortment of cheap fun paper to print onto. Rolls of newsprint. left-over scraps, large colored construction paper - all of these are going to be good for your own gift wrap. If you have any questions please email jay@as220.org
The Printshop was recently invited by PPL Special Collections Librarian Rick Ring to visit and view a new acquisition. "From the subscriptions and donations raised for my Occasional Nuggets series, the covers of which are printed on a Vandercook proof press, I was able to purchase The Vandercook Book, produced this year by the Center for the Book Arts in NYC.
To celebrate the acquisition and to inspire my partners over at AS220 to do something similar, I invited the keymembers of the Printshop to the Library for a glass of champagne, to toast printing and the book arts, and to get them out of the shop for a few minutes and give them some love! I must admit, it was a great time."
