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Devon Kelley-Yurdin, Pandemic Love Story, 2021: four-color risograph print on 80-lb. card stock, 4.25 x 5.5 inches (10.79 x 13.97 cm), edition of 300.
Printed at Pickwick Independent Press, Portland, Maine
It’s Giving Tuesday! I feel fortunate that I am able to give back to my community today. I hope you are too- remember, every little bit helps!
The United Way makes it easy- you can visit their site and donate to multiple orgs. Or go straight to the source (like I did for Pickwick Independent Press)
Here’s who I donated to today… how about you?
Pickwick Independent Press
Print Club of Rochester
540WMain, Inc.
Rochester Mutual Aid Network
Flower City Arts Center
Honor Flight Rochester
Cornell Cooperative Extension-Monroe County
#MoonRabbitPress #Letterpress #Linocut #RochesterNY #IndependantArtist #GivingTuesday #SupportTheArts #GiveWhatYouCan #TheresNoExcuseForBoringWalls
We’re pleased to announce Impactful Impressions - a campaign to support centers for print education. BIG INK is partnering with four of our favorite nonprofits on Giving Tuesday. Specifically, a portion of the proceeds from any large-scale woodblock print purchased on November 30th will directly support centers whose focus is on teaching printmaking and book arts.
Have you been eyeing a piece of art in our online store? If so, then November 30th is the time to act! The sale can benefit any of the following nonprofits during this one-day event. Simply select which one of our partners will receive a portion of the proceeds from your purchase during checkout.
Pickwick Independent Press Pyramid Atlantic Art Center Whiteaker Printmakers Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Sale proceeds will split 50/40/10. The artist who carved the woodblock receives 50%, our partner receives 40%, and BIG INK will use the remaining 10% to process orders.
These non-profits have hosted BIG INK events over the years. We're showing our gratitude for their important mission by launching the "Impactful Impressions" campaign. Join us in helping to make print education a priority this Giving Tuesday!
Featured in this post are works of art priced well under $500. There’s many more pieces to discover in our online store. Visit bigink.org/store or send a message for more info.
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Do you have experience with printmaking? Learn how artist Richard Estes uses this printing process to create hyperrealistic screenprints. Experience "Richard Estes: Cityscapes," on view now.
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Thank you to Pickwick Independent Press for your help with this!
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Richard Estes (United States, born 1932) “Press Machinery,” 1979, from the series “Urban Landscapes No. 2,” screenprint, 27 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches. Private Collection. Image courtesy of Luc Demers. © Richard Estes
Presente! Maine is an organization that empowers Latinx folx to combat racism and poverty through social services and food assistance. They have been incredibly responsive in assisting communities in Maine - especially during these uncertain times. With each purchase of “Fruition”, 100% of the proceeds go to Presente.
“Fruition” is a new mail art exhibition curated by Alana Dao featuring original work by Abi Balingit, SitaBhaumik, Erin Johnson, Sanika Phawde, Jane Wong, and Shellie Zhang. These six artists from all over this continent took action to ruminate upon any and all of the following: seed to sprout, tenderness, labor, land, movement, fruit as culture, fruit as slang, fruit as an offering to the spirits.
There is still time to receive a copy of this limited edition, 24-page print exhibition in your mailbox. Email
[email protected] to request yours. Each copy is $30 with 100% of proceeds going to Presente! Maine (Presente Maine). Click the link below to learn more.
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Cover art by Rachel Kolbasa and Al Tomas with book design by Pilar Nadal of Pickwick Independent Press (Pickwick Independent Press).
SPACE is rebooting our dance programming with a new ongoing series dedicated to conversations about dance and performance among Maine artists, practitioners, presenters, and audiences. Each gathering will be guided by a theme that will then inform the gathering’s conversation and movement break. For this first edition, the topic is “care.” This year has been an urgent reminder to consider care throughout all aspects of our lives: our bodily health, mutual community aid, artist advocacy, and cultural respect in a polarized moment.
Movement Break: Care will begin with an offering of “show & tell,” where selected dance artists - René Johnson, Michelle Mola, Brian Crabtree, and Adanna Jones – will offer reflections and brief work samples related to how they are interpreting, receiving, or exploring care. The group will then take a movement break, a virtual opportunity to move together, led by Kristen Stake. The event will close with a group Q&A.
RSVP via the link below. This event is FREE and open to all. Graphic by Pickwick Independent Press artist, Al Tomas.
https://space538.org/event/movement-break-care/
Movement Break: Care is presented by SPACE and Mechanics' Hall, with Bates Dance Festival, and The Living Room Dance Collective. Movement Break is made possible by the Onion Foundation with additional support from the Warren Memorial Foundation and Maine Charitable Mechanic Association.
And just like that, we’re halfway through SPACE House Shows vol 2! If you’ve yet to experience our weekly Instagram live series, this week is a great time to tune in. We’re pleased to feature multimedia visual art-performance-songwriting-producing polymath Tim Fite for House Show #13: Tim Fite, this Tuesday, September 1st at 8:00 pm EST.
Called a “cultural gadfly” by the NYTimes, and “ferally original” by the New Yorker, Fite spends the bulk of his time cranking out genre-bending pieces of art and music that defy easy definitions. Fite’s latest record, 2020’s Roar Shack, was inspired by prints made during his 2016 artist residency at SPACE with Pickwick Independent Press.
When asked recently for a self-definition, Fite offered. “It’s all changing right now. If I had to describe what I do, I would say that I am an artist and a human being who wants to cultivate creativity and kindness through everything that I do. Whether it’s drawing a picture or working with young people around New York City or playing a concert online for SPACE Gallery or just making a pot of beans -- I want to do it with kindness.”
Audio featured: “Getting Ready” by Time Fite (Roar Shack, 2020). The final visual is the album’s cover.
HOUSE US DON’T POLICE US!
The Sleep Out action in front of Portland City Hall is still going strong! There are many ways to show up to support this work in person or from home. Follow Maine People's Housing Coalition for more info!
Last week city officials publicly spoke out against the free meal delivery program to houseless community members in Deering Oaks Park run by Preble Street, blaming the availability of free food for increasing numbers of community members congregating in the public spaces. These statements are violent. Attempting to roadblock or criminalize food for hungry people in our community is violence, especially in a city that has refused to center marginalized communities during a pandemic.
Have Portland City officials considered that their decision not to enact a moratorium on evictions or to provide longer terms safety nets has led to increased houselessness? Have they not considered that Jon Jenning’s persistent gutting of essential resources would lead us to these circumstances? The road to this moment was paved by gentrification, austerity, and the criminalization of care in this city.
SHAME on the city of Portland, on Mayor Kate Snyder, and anyone seeking to criminalize access to food WHILE reopening the city for tourists to dine freely on our public sidewalks. Your classism and racism are showing. Your priorities are skewed. We will not allow you to starve our community while you feast in the comfort of your own homes.
At Portland Outright, we cherish the way food connects us to each other and fuels our movements. Our organizing is centered around the abundance we create for each other, including weekly family dinner at Member Meetings and the food at all our in-person activities. We know that having houseless folks gathering in public spaces, rather than pushed beyond the city limits and out of sight, ensures advocates and community programs can reach them. We know that sharing food facilitates other conversations, care, and organizing. We’d be happy to explain this concept and practice at any upcoming City Council meeting. Contact info is in our bio.
This print was designed by Portland Outright members in 2018, printed with the support and guidance of Pickwick Independent Press and Rachel Kobasa.
SPACE's 538 Congress St. poster case now features the work of Printers Without Margins (PWOM). PWOM is Pickwick Independent Press’ social justice arm, fostering collaborations with individuals and organizations working for social, racial, economic, & gender justice, to produce printed matter for their work.
Printmaking has long been a tool for political speech and protest; PWOM carries on this tradition by partnering with many Maine social and racial justice organizations like the Maine Women’s Lobby, Portland Outright, and Southern Maine Workers’ Center. This work is for sale through Pickwick’s website, where viewers can also get in touch about commissioning projects with Printers Without Margins.
https://www.pickwickindependentpress.com/pwom
https://space538.org/exhibition/printers-without-margins/
