SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH
TIME: 4-7 pm
LOCATION: AS220 Gallery & Performance Space
115 Empire Street

Come celebrate the opening of our 2010 Print Lottery Exhibition. See 200 Prints and Works on Paper, meet printmakers, and revel in a massive, exuberant, salon-style showcase of work from a spectacularly diverse spectrum of artists from near and far.

We're asking you to show your support for the Printshop with the purchase of Lottery Ticket for $100. In thanks, you receive one of 200 prints or works on paper by artists from all over the world. In keeping with AS220's mission of accessibility and equality, and for the purpose of having fun, all artwork in the show is won by a blind lottery system. Keep you fingers crossed and wear your lucky charms, this is a lottery folks. All proceeds directly support the Printshop equipment, staff, supplies and programming. Read more about the Print Lottery. The Lottery takes place Saturday, September 25th, 7-10 pm at the AS220 Gallery & Performance Space.

*You do not need to buy a lottery ticket to attend! All events are free and open to the public! Come for the fun!

This event is part of a month long extravaganza of Printmaking thrown by the AS220 Community Printshop in celebration of their 3rd anniversary. For more details and other events this month visit the Print Lottery website.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH
TIME: 11am-4pm
LOCATION: AS220 Community Print Shop
95 Mathewson Street

This event is free!

Join us in the Printshop for a creative introduction to the principles of printmaking, with a series of small & playful print projects designed for participants both young and old. Come experience the pleasure of pulling prints and the magic of multiple-making. Families especially welcome! Projects designed with young-ones in mind. Parents - fear not, we'll keep you engaged, too.

This event is part of a month long extravaganza of Printmaking thrown by the AS220 Community Printshop in celebration of their 3rd anniversary. For more details and other events this month visit the Print Lottery website.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH
TIME: 6-9pm
LOCATION: AS220 Community Printshop
95 Mathewson Street, Dial #210 at door

We're going to bid farewell to our old shop in style. Dress up, drop in and dine on some delicious food. We'll pull out a ton of prints produced in the last 3 years, reminisce, share stories and take you on a tour of the Printshop's new home in the Mercantile Block Building.

July 2007

August 2010

This event is part of a month long extravaganza of Printmaking thrown by the AS220 Community Printshop in celebration of their 3rd anniversary. For more details and other events this month visit the Print Lottery website.

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The Print Lottery is here! At long last, print lovers and collectors, AS220's Empire Street Gallery is the place to see prints and works on paper by 200 artists from all over the world. We're asking you to show your support for the shop with a $100 donation. In thanks, you receive a ticket redeemable for artwork on display during the 2nd Biennial Print Lottery on September 25th, 2010. In keeping with AS220's mission of accessibility and equality, and for the purpose of having fun, all artwork in the show is won by a blind lottery system.

Our Goal: to put together an exciting survey of contemporary prints / works on paper, cultivate appreciation for the art of multiples with an array of presentations, introduce print processes to the public with free workshops, foster a sense of involvement and ownership in the AS220 Community Print Shop, and raise $25,000 to help support all of our shop's operations. For more information, visit the PRINT LOTTERY website.

This event is part of a month long extravaganza of Printmaking thrown by the AS220 Community Printshop in celebration of their 3rd anniversary. For more details and other events this month

We will be offering a smaller roster of classes in the month of October due to the pending move in the Mercantile Block Building right next door. To sign up, just click on the name of the class below.

Intro to Letterpress: 3 Weeks
Wednesdays, October 6th, 13th and 20th, 5pm-9pm
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

Intro to Silkscreen: 2 weeks
Thursdays, October 7th and 14th : 5-9pm
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.

Check back for November classes soon.

The first session of the Print Shop's August Intro. to Letterpress class is coming up This Thursday. Unusually, we've still got spots for this regularly-sold-out program! Learn how to imbue your words with the intense impression only letterpress can create! Walk away from three sessions with an excellent understanding of the technical and creative possibilities this beautiful piece of machinery will present.

This is the last Letterpress class before our big move, and if you've been thinking about signing up, consider that this class will not be offered again until Late October / November, once we've settled into our new shop next door.

If you've got words or images, cards or announcements, bookmarks, stationary, gifts, poems, or anything else you'd like to make analogue multiples of in a serious (or ebullient, or just hand-crafted) way, Sign up Today! Make an impression on someone with something wonderful at a very human scale.

Click here to head to our sign up page.

An eventful last week of July here at the AS220 Print Shop. This post has three foci. Okay now 4.

1. August Classes are filling. Click here to sign up for a class today! acquire some printmaking skills and create printed matter that matters. We offer great classes across diverse print disciplines, and the class sizes are small - which means participants get plenty of hands on experience and personal instruction! We're proud of our classes, presses, and teachers - just read this snippet from our last batch of class evaluations:

   "Overall Experience was spectacular. Instructor extremely knowledgeable and patient. Was able to cover a lot of info in a small amount of time. The only improvement would be more time... maybe by adding a fourth day."
   -From June Letterpress Class

Our classes cover a lot of ground! Register to make something analogue and beautiful!

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2. The Print Lottery is coming up and tickets are now available online. Excellent work continues to roll in. Every ticket purchased helps to support the shop and wins some incredible work, too!

We've recently received some incredible prints by Stefan Gunn, Keyholder Henry Brown, Lois Harada, and more. The Sneak Peek Below is a small glimpse of a dense and incredibly articulate c-print by Piotr Kaczmarek.

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1. Tamara Waite-Santibanez is the July A.I.R. for a few more days. The Print Shop is psyched to have her around and printing. Pictures below feature work she's printed here at the AS220 Print Shop.

1. Look at the Youth Studio Screen Printers in Action!

Today a package arrived at the Print Shop full of work from the wonderous 1026 in Philadelphia!

AS220 House Manager, Large-scale Linocut Phenom and Just Seeds Member Meredith Stern dropped off a work of her own, sneak peak below:

We're really impressed thus far with the quality submissions we've received for our 2nd Biennial Print Lottery. Come September, supporters of the Print Shop will have the opportunity to take home some fantastic prints and works on paper.

Click here to learn more about the 2nd Biennial AS220 Print Lottery, purchase a ticket, or see our roster of print-related events! Print Matters!

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On to the next one. August P-Shop classes are coming up! These are our last classes before the Mercantile-Block move, so if you were hoping to pick up a skill or two this summer, sign up today! Click here to visit our online store, where you can see and sign up for our complete roster of classes

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Click below to see the complete panorama from our most recent Third Thursday Screenprinting Session - where screen-printers with a bit of experience can come coat, shoot, and print a screen for only 5$ We have monitors around to help trouble-shoot and ensure success! The Third Thursday sessions are not a substitute for a class, but great for folks who've done this before!

Firstly, This isn't Jurassic Park and you don't need to say The Magic Word. If you'd like to sign up for a Printmaking Class in August, just click on the following link:

AS220 Community Print Shop August Classes.

Next, Visiting Artist-in-Residence Sanford Kogan will be showing new light-tapestries from 6 - 9PM this Friday, the 9th of July, at AS220's Empire Street Building / 3rd Floor AIR space. Sanford has arranged handwritten French legal documents from the 18th and 19th Century, combining these character-rich pages with light to emanate warmth.

Come see Sanford's new works from 6-9PM on Friday, July 9th at AS220's 3rd Floor AIR Space on Empire Street / Downtown Providence, RI.

Also, Because we'll be focused on the 2010 Print Lottery coming up in September. this is the last best chance for people to pop into a class before our move into the Mercantile Block and our brand new (much bigger) Print Shop. We're not going to be offering classes in September (to focus on the Lottery) or October (to focus on the buildout and setup of our new space (and Halloween)) So if you've been putting off the acquisition of some new skills, put-off no more.

Speaking of the Print Lottery, We've started to receive our first prints / works on paper, Including some work from Peter Lutz (The First Donation) and Lilli Carré. Donated work will soon be appearing on our Flickr Account, so that you can easily see what your support might take home in exchange.

Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Penland's focus on excellence, its long history, and its inspiring, retreat setting have made it a model of experiential education. The school offers workshops in books and paper, clay, drawing and painting, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and letterpress, textiles, wood, and other media. Penland sponsors artist residencies, a gallery and visitors center, and community education programs.

Printshop Manager, Morgan Calderini and glass artist, Nicole Chesney will be teaching a Printmaking workshop July 25th through August 10th at Penland. Vitreography is a printmaking technique using thick sheet glass as a matrix. Daily demonstrations in the print studio and the glass studio's cold-working shop will introduce students to a myriad of options for applying vitreography to their own work. Demonstrations will include chine collé, multiple-plate registration, working reductively, monoprinting, editioning, carving, engraving, and sandblasting. From painterly to graphic, vitreography offers endless approaches to artists of all disciplines and levels of experience.

Visit Penland's site to sign up!