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…
I’m delighted to announce the release of an artist’s book, Stone Voices, by Bernice Ficek-Swenson. Stone Voices was started in March 2016 when Ficek-Swenson came to Starpointe Studio to develop a mock up for an artist book based on an installation of photographs of the same name from 2015.The idea for project hatched from a…
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,…