Visit STARPOINTE STUDIO at Huber Winery’s Stella di Luce Art Show: A Celebration of Art & Wine! I’ll have all my greeting cards, prints (both framed and unframed), business card holders, miniature blank books, and more! EXHIBITIONS See the Beneficial Insects on exhibit in Pressing Entomology, Plantory, Lexington KY. March 16 – May 4. Opening…
I often participate in printmaking’s great tradition of print exchanges. This image is for one such exchange organized by the Wood Engravers’ Network and Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, called Seize the Carp! This long-term collaboration is in the spirit of carpe diem – seize the day – for wood engravers. This block will…
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…
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,…
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…
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…