After removing the rust from my 1925 (new to me) 8 x 12 Chandler and Price printing press, I needed to figure out how to animate it. Operating the press only with my hands and arms is not practical or efficient. My options were to buy a foot driven treadle (like old sewing machines had)…
What are beneficial insects anyway? Beneficial insects are insects that pollinate trees and plant-life while they collect nectar from flowers. Insects that are predators of undesirable, destructive insects are also seen as beneficial to human activities. There are many more beneficial insects than what I have included in my book, but you can count on…
Cap off summer with a day of art making and fun at Josephine Sculpture Park’s annual Fall Arts Festival Sunday September 10, 11am–6pm! Joanne Price of Starpointe Studio will guide visitors through a FREE event – the creation of your own BUTTERFLY book! Did you know that the Viceroy is Kentucky’s state butterfly? Viceroy’s are…
It’s time to show off the Beneficial Insects book progress! Bernheim will feature six completed engravings from the Beneficial Insects book project in the Visitor’s Center during their annual Bugfest event. To further celebrate, Joanne Price, in collaboration with Bernheim, will be offering two bug-related art activities including a butterfly book and a paper bee…
Wood Engravers’ Network 3rd Triennial Exhibition, June 30–August 8, 2017, Stockton University Art Gallery (Galloway, NJ) Western New York Book Arts Center’s Members’ Show, July 14–August 18, 2017 (Buffalo, NY) Minnesota Center for Book Arts‘ Parts of a Whole 4. August 25–October 29, 2017 (Minneapolis, MN) Society of Wood Engravers 80th Annual Exhibition. October 18–November…
These past few months have been full of fun adventures and productive studio time. This post focuses on the commissions – the first commissioned by Larkspur Press for “Planting Trees” a poem by Wendell Berry that will be printed as a broadside and sold at Black Swan Books in Lexington, KY. Trees are complicated structures,…
Full disclosure, Dan Price is my husband, so this post isn’t exactly about my art, but it does inspire much for me and I hope it will for you too! CELEBRATE THE NIGHT SKY Dan will set up telescopes on the rooftop garden at the Living Arts & Science Center Saturday, April 29, 7 –…
Stop by the activities area at KY Crafted: The Market this weekend April 22 & 23! We will be making Butterfly Books – the Viceroy, Kentucky’s state butterfly! The butterfly covers are original prints designed, handprinted and cut by Joanne Price. Another pollinator for the Market and a delightful book to record stories or drawings…
This past weekend Starpointe Studio had a full class of folks to learn wood engraving! It was an intense two days, but was very successful – each participant learned about the material, tools, history and process of wood engraving and then created an engraving of their own design. After each person printed their edition, we…
Lucky girl to have so many wonderful allies and supporters – Gray Zeitz of Larkspur Press donated this lovely little (heavy) press to me 🙂 It was a cold day to move a press: a 15 degree Farenheit start at 8:15 am. We started out plucky enough and arrived at the King Library Press in…