Two Rivers Printmaking Studio is a studio in White River Junction, VT that supports working artists in their exploration of both traditional and experimental printmaking. Through workshops, lectures and exhibits, they encourage interest in the art and history of the fine arts print — for the general public as well as for artists.

Anna Fewster is a letterpress printer and book artist based in Brighton, UK she hand prints made-to-order letterpress books and booklets, posters and broadsides, etc. using old metal type, fine cotton papers, antique copper printing blocks and linoleum and wood cut blocks.

East London Printmakers is a group of contemporary artist-printmakers based in Hackney, East London. ELP manage a spacious and modern printmaking studio with open access, organise exhibitions for members and run workshops and educational programmes for members and the general public.

Forth Estate is a studio in Brooklyn NY that produces editioned works by emerging artists using both traditional and technologically innovative approaches to printmaking. Forth Estate prints are in the collections of the New York Public Library, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Newark Public Library, and the Jundt Art Museum.

Bite Studio was established in 2005 to provide a cooperative printmaking environment to Portland, OR artists dedicated to the art of printmaking. The studio has facilities for etching and screenprinting, monotype and block printing and offers residency programs and community printmaking group shows.

Electric Works is a studio in San Francisco, CA that produces digital prints for artists and collaborates with artists in a variety of mediums to produce editions (monoprint, dry point, polymer plate prints, woodcut & linocut).

Serigraphie Cinqunquatre of Montreal is an artist/design/printmaking studio that works within the mediums of screenprinting, lithography and etching, combined with painting and drawing.

Studio On Fire is a design and letterpress workspace in Minneapolis, MN that collaborates with creative firms, printers, and individuals/artists. You can purchase their letterpress goods here and see more great work on their blog Beast Pieces.

Meet Your Printmaker
at Washington Printmakers Gallery

June 29, 2009 – July 26, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, July 3 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm

For over a year Meet Your Printmaker has been compiling a directory of independent print/printmaking studios around the world through its blog. Meet Your Printmaker shifts the emphasis away from the artist/printmaker and presents the printers/printmakers as a unique workforce … the groups and individuals who uphold and evolve new and traditional printing/printmaking techniques, whether in the form of commercial work, artist editions or retail products and who share their skills and educate their respective communities.

The work in this exhibition presents a selection of printed matter from 40 print/printmaking studios around the world.

Participating studios in no particular order (apologies if we left your studio name out): DWRI Letterpress, Dirty Hands Serigraphie, Bleu Acier, The Little Friends of Printmaking, Sycamore Street Press, Dieu Donné, Deep Wood Press, Standard Deluxe, Patent Pending, Outlaw Print Co., Erika Ebert Press, Cannonball Press, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Common Press, Stumptown Printers, Slugfest Printmaking Workshop, Extrapool, Squid Ink Kollective, Tugboat Printshop, Lunalux, Purgatory Pie Press, The Firecracker Press, Thomas-Printers, Aesthetic Apparatus, The Lower East Side Printshop, Iskra Print Collective, Halo Halo Screen Printing, AS220 Community Printshop, Proyecto´ace, Elshopo, Low Rider Tee Shirt, Starshaped Press, Pinball Publishing, Uhrgalo, Sonnenzimmer, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Polluted Eyeball, Spudnik Press, Nevada Hill, Dirty Pictures.

Washington Printmakers Gallery
1732 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington DC 20009
www.washingtonprintmakers.com

Established in 1967 as the first open access studio in Edinburgh, Scotland UK, Edinburgh Printmakers (EP) is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary printmaking practice.

It achieves this by providing, maintaining and staffing an entrance free gallery and inexpensive, open access print studio, where artists and members of the public can use equipment and source technical expertise in order to develop their hands on printmaking skills.