Listen up geeks: you do not want to miss what's goin' down in the labs this Spring. We have new classes and old classics seeking open minds and able hands to help us hack and hot wire our way out of winter. Behold-It's Springtime in the FabLab!

MARCH
13: Intro to the Laser Cutter 10am-1pm $65
18&25: Electronics for Artists 7-10pm $100(includes parts)
20&27: Lasercut a Pinhole Camera 1-4pm $55

APRIL
3: Intro to the Laser Cutter 10am-1pm $65
22: Programming Workshop 7-10pm FREE

MAY
1: Intro to the Laser Cutter 10am-1pm $65
5,9&12: Laser Cut Japanese Woodblock Printing $125
6,13,20&27: Introductory Arduino 7-9pm $200 (includes parts)

Sounds like fun, don't it! Visit our online store for detailed class descriptions and to reserve your spot!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions for super slick hacker savy classes?
e-mail krystal@as220.org

opening reception (free admission)

Sunday, March 7, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

a town without pigeons new photographs by Joshua Deaner

New Paintings by Jeannine Hunter Lazzaro

Open Window

Mirrors New Work by Richard Garrett

AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)

Oblique Vantage Recent Work by Joshua Enck

artist talk with Joshua Enck, Thursday, March 18th, 6pm/ free @ the Project Space

left to right: J. Enck/R. Garrett/J. Hunter Lazzaro/J. Deaner

Calling all d.i.y. brides! We've got a brand new class offering. Sign up today for the Letter-pressed Wedding Invitation class starting soon. You will learn all about letterpress production and walk away from this multi-session workshop with your wedding invites in hand.

Interested in Signing Up? Click Here.

We've got a promo video to be proud of. Keith Heyward Has finished editing a piece to help promote the shop, our Open Houses, classes, and more. We hope you enjoy it, share it via Facebook, and help spread word about the good work happening here in Providence's very own AS220 Community Print Shop. Thanks.

That's right friends of the photographic arts. Spring is right around the corner, and what better time to boost your photo knowledge and prepare for all the picturesque glory the springtime has in store. Want to capture the beauty of the outdoors in a new-old-fashioned way? Sign up for an one of our Antique Printing Workshops. Inspired by the panoramic glory of a post-daylight savings sunset? Perhaps the next Large Format class is for you. Or, maybe you're making some vacation plans and need a refresher course on your digital camera to make sure you get those perfect travel pics. We've got you covered there too, with monthly Digital Camera Workshops. And we still have our solid line-up of intro-level 35mm and Darkroom courses running all through the spring, so make sure you snag your spot before it's too late! Take a gander at the list below, then sign up here!

MARCH
6th 3pm-6pm: Digital Camera Workshop
16th & 23rd 7pm-10pm: Intro to the 35mm Camera
20th & 27th 1pm-4pm: Lasercut a Pinhole Camera
31st 7pm-10pm: Antique Printing Class-Cyanotype

APRIL
3rd 3pm-6pm: Digital Camera Workshop
8th, 15th & 23rd 7pm-10pm: Intro to the Black and White Darkroom
17th & 24th 10am-2pm, 21st 7pm-10pm: Large Format Photography
28th 7pm-10pm: Antique Printing Class-Van Dyke Brown

MAY
1st 3pm-6pm: Digital Camera Workshop
4th, 11th, 18th & 25th 7pm-10pm: Intermediate Black and White Printing
12th 7pm-10pm: Antique Printing Class: Gum Bichromate

Questions, Comments, Class Ideas? Contact krystal@as220.org
See you in the Darkroom!

Our newest workshops are now posted on the AS220 Online Shop, sign up today! You can also download the whole list of springclasses here.

Keith Waldrop, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for poetry, will read from his work on Friday, February 19 at 5:30 p.m. at AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence. The reading coincides with a show of Waldrop's artwork in the AS220 Project Space gallery.

Waldrop, who is Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has for nearly four decades been creating a lyrical body of visual art that mirrors his extraordinary oeuvre of poetry, fiction, and translation.

He received the National Book Award for "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy", which presents three related poem sequences - "Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruvius," described by the National Book Award committee as "a virtuosic poetic triptych." The committee goes on to say that "these powerful poems, at once metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop's romantic tendencies with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and revealing him as a transcendental author for the new millennium."

Keith Waldrop, with his wife, noted poet and translator Rosemarie Waldrop have been active in the the avant-garde and experimental literary art scene for over forty years, publishing noteworthy authors on their small independent press, Burning Deck.

Some of Waldrop's other recent books are The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems, The House Seen from Nowhere, and a translation of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.

His reading, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by AS220 and by the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown.

Reception to follow at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St.

Remember to bring your own artwork on acetate. Also any specific ink / paper / fabric. We'll provide the screens, emulsion, printing bases, exposure unit, and monitors for guidance. This is a great way to get re-familiar with the screen printing process. Only $5.00 per screen!

And a bit of random fun. While digging through the photographic history of the shop, we stumbled into some pictures of our friend Anna Lynett helping to build out the shop. Anna was recently a contestant on Project Runway's 7th Season, and did some excellent (and print inspired) work on the show. We're proud of her!

Forgot about Valentine's Day...again? Supposed to have something super sweet and extra fun planned? Well we've got you covered oh lovelorn friends of AS220. You've got approximately 2 hours to get down to 115 Empire Street to absolve all your Valentine's Day woes at our fabulous Portrait Studio! Show up with your sweetie and smile for the camera, then make a second date in the darkroom to learn how to develop your very own, extra special, sublimely sweet 8x10 portrait! Just $20 for two totally awesome dates....It might even make up for last year. Or, if you put in your time already, for $30 we'll ship your print right to your door. The choice is yours, but make sure you get here between 1pm and 4pm, while the Valentine's Magic is in full effect. Hope to see you there!!

Don't delay, we have one spot left in Intro to Silkscreen and one in Intro to Letterpress. Sign up online in the AS220 Shop!

Letterpress $85.00 Saturday, February 13th, 20th and 27th, 1pm-5pm This course provides a quick, basic introduction to letterpress. Participants learn to ink the press, adjust pressure, adjust roller height, register and feed a sheet of paper, make an impression and then clean the press. Creating and using plastic plates in combination with metal movable type to create your own vision in letterpressed embossment. Participants must attend ALL THREE letterpress classes in order to be certified to use the letterpress during print time. No materials needed for the first class.

Intro to Silkscreen: 2 weeks $65.00 Monday, February 15th and 22nd, 5pm-9pm This course provides a two week introduction to silkscreen. Participants will learn the basics of the photo-emulsion process, a variety of making ways to make positives, in addition to ink mixing, how to troubleshoot the process, registration and printing methods. Please bring all supplies listed below to the first class. If preferred, bring some drawings, or computer generated designs to the first class.

opening reception

Sunday, February 7, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Collages & Assemblages by Tim McCarthy and McAuley House Art Show

Open Window

New Work by Leah Winship

AS220 Project Space

The Artwork of Keith Waldrop & a selection of books from Providence's BURNING DECK PRESS

The AS220 Project Space presents award winning poet & collagist Keith Waldrop. Mr. Waldrop is the 2009 National Book Award winner for Poetry for his latest book Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy. Mr. Waldrop is also an accomplished visual artist , his "visual works are enveloped in quiet tensions and ghosted impressions. They construct densities of atmosphere and architecture, drift and dream. Rich in textual and visual play, romantic and contradictory in their shapings, his collages use traces of memory to gesture toward the absent and the invisible.. ."

Mr. Waldrop will read from his work on Friday, February 19 at 5:30 p.m. at AS 220, 115 Empire Street, Providence. The event is free and open to the public, is sponsored by AS220 and by the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown.

The AS220 Main Gallery features the collages and assemblages of Tim McCarthy and works by visitors to McAuley House. A singer & songwriter, Mr. McCarthy's collages are inspired by his musical heroes and passion of the radical artists of the '60s. McAuley House is an independent non-profitthat provides the basic need of food, clothing, shelter, health services and emotional support to the most vulnerable. The art group has been meeting every Tuesday for three years, and each artist has a vibrant artistic expression. In the Open Window, Leah Winship exhibits her wispy and humorerous portraits of family and friends.

There is no excuse, don't have crappy business cards. Sign up today for our newest Printshop workshops.

Valentines Day Portrait Studio!

Feb.14 marks the return of the Valentines Day Portrait Studio! Always wanted a reason to drag your significant other out for a quality portrait, but dread the standard Sears backdrops and same-old-same-old mannequin poses? Of course you do! So make your way to AS220 this Valentines Day for the perfect mix of classy photos and cutesy props. Shots are $20 each, and you can come back to the darkroom and develop them with loving guidance from our hopelessly devoted volunteer members. Or, if you want that hand made quality and care delivered straight to your door (minus the cupid costume and the singing telegram), it's a mere $30 a shot. That's 1-4pm folks, in the performance space at 115 Empire Street.

But maybe all that hearts and flowers stuff isn't for you. If you prefer straight up science and the stark solidarity of the darkroom, maybe you'd prefer to sign up for a class instead. Master the 35mm camera or head straight to print in one of our ever popular Intro classes. Time is running out on these ones kids, so sign up now at www.as220.org/shop. Intro to the 35mm camera starts NEXT WEEK!! Go on, sign up already! I promise, those pesky heart shaped arrows cannot penetrate the walls of the Paul Krot Community Darkroom, so if you're looking for a place to hide, take comfort in the warm red glow of photo safe-lights. Truly something for everyone, so grab your camera and show that Cupid character who's got the goods this Valentine's Day! See you in the Darkroom...

an exhibition of AS220 artists & friends at the Knight Campus Art Gallery, CCRI, Warwick, R.I

OPENING TONIGHT

Thursday, February 4, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

February 4th - March 4th, 2010



AS220 artists and friends exhibition "Do It! Show It! Sing It! Work It!" at the Community College of Rhode Island's Knight Campus Art Gallery from Feb. 4 to March 4. AS220 is a nonprofit community arts space in downtown Providence whose mission is to provide an unjuried and uncensored forum for the arts The exhibition is a celebration of all the creative energy of all those who help to make AS220 a vital community art space.

Artists featured in the exhibition include Mia Acosta, Ariele Affigne, Alexis Avedisian, Dawn Beagan, Moira Brady, Stephen Brownell, Nicole Chesney, Paul Clancy + Alyn Carlson, Jonathan Clark, Susan Clausen, Umberto Crenca, Susan Dansereau, Carmel Dundon, Lyn Goeringer, Edgardo Gonzales, Krystal Grow + J.F. Carli, Hope Hardesty, Togar Howard, Scot Lapham, Viera Levitt, Povilas Mecy, Joanna Miller, CW Roelle, Miguel Rosario, Ashley Vick, Anthony Villavincencio, Meredith Stern, Leigh Waldron-Taylor, Laura E. Travis, Neal T. Walsh and Uriah Zoegar.

For more information about AS220 and this exhibition, contact Neal T. Walsh at (401) 831-9327 or neal@as220.org. Visit the organization online at

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!

1. Open House tonight! February 1st @ 6 PM. See the Offset in Action!

2. Secret Cinnamon 2 Session Letterpress Class Starting Tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd @ 5 pm.

3. 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!

4. 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!

5. 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!

The third annual event had close to 40 alumni in attendance, including one college graduate! It was wonderful to see many CV alums and hear about all the amazing things they're doing in college. During the conference, alumni learned about various job and internship opportunities and the graduate school application process. In addition, the CV Alumni community launched the first ever CV Alumni Fundraising Project with a goal to raise $500 in 2010 to give back to CV, and already raised $63 toward the goal at the Alumni Conference! Also, during the conference, CV alumni discussed and brainstormed ideas for an alumni advisory board.

If you are a CV alumni interested in joining the CV Alumni Board, please email adrienne@collegevisions.org.

Tyrene and Amanda brainstorm ideas for a CV alumni board.

Lots of discussions and brainstorming in the small groups.

That's right folks, lasercutting is back with a vengance in the AS220 Labs. We're slicing and dicing our way through the dark days of winter, and this is your chance to get in on the fun! Didn't get a spot in this Saturday's sold-out class? Not to fear friends of the lasercutter, there's another class this Monday with 3 spots open!! Can't make it then? Then sign up for Broken Hearts Lasercutting on Saturday Feb.13th or almost-but-not-quite Leap Year Lasercutter on Feb. 27th and get your piece of laser glory. Come on, you know you wanna! Visit the online store to sign up!

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!

Award winning animator Steven Subotnick will be screening a selection of his work tonight at the AS220 Perfomance Space. Doors open at 5:30pm & films start at 6pm. Free!

Steven's animated films are associative explorations of themes found in history, folklore, and his own unconscious; he treats each film as a poetic essay on a particular subject. His animations are alchemical - thought, motion, sound, art, narrative, and abstraction all combine to create a new substance. As a visual artist, he believes in the expressive power of materials - that technique and content are inseparable - that ideas only become real when they are tangible. His method is similar to documentary filmmaking in that he spends time intuitively creating images and animated scenes before he imposes a filmic structure. The film's final narrative grows organically out of the accumulated material through the process of editing and designing sound.

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!

Because we know you've all been waiting, and because of the overwhelming demand in the fall, we are pleased to announce the return of intro courses in the AS220 darkroom! As the last days of winter fade away, make the darkness last a little longer in our fully equip darkroom learning the ins and outs of 35mm film developing and traditional photo printing. Our Intro to the 35mm Camera and Intro to the Black and White Darkroom classes offer a solid foundation in the art of black and white photography and could also serve as a refresher course for those of you who may have let your 35mm gather dust while you persue the glitz and glamour of digital photography. So, get back to your roots, or plant some new ones as the winter thaw starts to wear off. We'll be posting new classes for the Spring soon, but spots are open in the intro classes now! Intro to 35mm Camera runs from 7pm-10pm on Feb. 10 & 17 and costs only $50!! Intro to the Black and White Darkroom runs from 7-10pm on Feb. 24, Mar.3 & 10 and is only $75. Reserve your spot here or contact krystal@as220.org for more info. See you in the Darkroom!!

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.

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.

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

Check out these tracks from the newest album from Broad Street Studio, featuring 19 different hip hop, reggaeton, R&B, and pop hits. It has 27 of Providence's hottest young artists and producers. These song were created in our beat making and mc writing workshops at Broad Street Studio and in Rhode Island's juvenile detention facility. The tracks were recorded in the Delgado Recording Studio and they are straight banging! Check out a sample track from the album and while your at it venture over to our online store and pick up a copy.

Una Loca (E.Nasty and Plan B).mp3

opening reception

Sunday, January 3, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Paintings & Drawings by Bill Killen

Wood Block Prints by Laura Shirreff

Open Window

New Drawings by Paul Holden

Youth Gallery

High Tech Design: New work BSS Youth & AS220 Labs

AS220 Project Space

TRASH: Groups Show with Lee Fearnside, Holly Hey, Scott Lapham, Caroline Kern, and Jo Dery

JELLYFISH: animations & paintings by Steven Subotnick

The AS220 starts the new year off with amazing animations, classical painting with a wry edge, innovative wood block prints, & lots of wonderful Trash.
The Youth Gallery continues with high tech meets art explorations of the Broad Street Studio featuring amazing work by Simcha Davis, Kafumba Bility, Benito Rios, and many more talented youth. The Main Gallery feature Bill Killen's silve point drawings and oil paintings, rendered in the "Flemish Painting Style" takes classical imagery that is subverted by improbable and often sarcastic use of the "female form". Laura Shirreff literally uses her body to create prints that explore materiality & presence in a luminous and intimate manner. In the Open Window, Paul Hogan exhibits drawings that render real and imagined places in pen and ink. Paul work invokes the fine line of the real and the dreamed in precise linear form. In the Project Space is Trash, a group exhibit curated by Lee Fearnside featuring her photography of waste treatment plants work , two delightful animations Jo Dery, a video critique of disposable patriotic culture by Holly Hey, sculptural works from Scott Lapham's Perfectly Preserved Shorline series & Caroline Paquita's recylced, re-used works. In the Side Room Steve Subotnicks exhibits drawings and prints from th emaking of his animation The Jelly Fishers. Amazing look glimpse into the process of animation.

Nothing says shameless overindulgence like John Waters in a Santa hat, eh? Shake off the post-holiday fatigue with a night of photo geekery, tasty snackery and tasteless film viewery this Monday at the AS220 Darkroom Open House Movie Nite Holiday Party Extravaganza! At 7:00 pm, we will sit back and prepare to be thoroughly and simultaneously creeped out and overjoyed by the work of Mr. Waters in "Pecker," the oddly heartwarming tale of an eager young photographer who gains fame and notoriety through his snapshots of everyday Baltimore, which would naturally include strippers, shoplifting and a ventriloquist Virgin Mary, oh my!
This has been quite a year for the darkroom, and we want to share the spirit of the season with you, dear photo friends, in the best way we know how...through tacky yet heartwarming films about fledgling photographers...and free treats! Join us at 7 p.m. in the Youth Resource Center, right outside the darkroom for what's destined to be a night of photo-tom-foolery AS220 style!

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.

This past fall, Mark MacDougall took an Intro to Screen Printing class at AS220. Mark's indie music label, 75orLess, is involved in the Providence experimental and independent music scene, and the label has grown to the point where Mark needs more space, equipment and training to design and print elaborate CD jackets.

"The classes had a small amount of students, so each person was afforded plenty of individual time for hands on experience, as well as practical advice for both printing on paper and clothing," Mark says. "Overall, a 100-percent positive experience."

AS220 is currently in the middle of its 25th Anniversary Annual Fund Drive!

Donations can be earmarked specifically to support the AS220 Community Printshop, a vibrant, affordable space dedicated to the practice of printmaking, offering open studio hours, a menu of memberships and an assortment of monthly classes.

Please help us! Any size donation will help us meet our annual budget.

Donate today at www.as220.org.

Thank you!