DWNTWN Art Days – Turn-Based Press

We will be hosting a drypoint station at the PAMM Free Second Saturday Printapalooza Program during DWNTWN Art Days, Saturday, September 10, from 1 – 4 PM.

Come learn some drypoint basics with printmakers Kathleen Hudspeth and Thom Wheeler Castillo; participants will use etching tools to draw into prepared, upcycled paperboard matrices, after which the printmakers will ink then print the plate for you using a common kitchen gadget—a pasta maker!

Drypoint prints will be printed with real etching ink on German etching paper.

Though Robert Rauschenberg is more known for his interest in lithography and screenprinting, some of his work was inspired by the fabric traditionally used to wipe intaglio plates—a starched cheesecloth known as tarlatan. Rauschenberg created a series of lithographs on fabric, called Hoarfrosts, which stemmed from this inspiration.

One the founding pieces of PAMM’s collection, Rauschenberg’s Untitled, from 1986 uses copper as a substrate, subverting the typical use of copper as a matrix (plate) for intaglio processes (which includes drypoint). Supporting that subversion is the fact that the media used to create the work contain many materials typically used in various printmaking techniques, such as corrosives and ink. Additionally, the imagery supports this investigation of printmaking in that it contains a reproduction of a woodcut and screenprinted photographic imagery.

About PAMM’s Printapalooza:

PAMM Free Second Saturdays: Printapalooza program.
Roll-up your sleeves and get inspired by the mixed-media artwork of Robert Rauschenberg. Get to know your local printmakers by exploring the different pop-up stations and print your favorite pattern using different printmaking techniques.
Partnering organizations and artists include:

Exile Books; Printmaker Amanda Keeley

Extra Virgin Press; Printmaker Tom Virgin

Little Haiti Cultural Center; Printmaker Akete Chevers

Turn-Based Press; Printmakers Kathleen Hudspeth and Thom Wheeler Castillo

Paper Pavement, by Nick Gilmore, will be on view at Turn-Based Press through December, 2015.

A satellite presentation of Paper Pavement is installed at the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, and will be on view there through November.

Listen to a WLRN audio segment with Nick Gilmore and Turn-Based Press Founder and Co-Director Kathleen Hudspeth here.

Paper Pavement was created with the direct support of grants from the Miami Downtown Development Authority, and made during DWNTWN Art Days, 2015. Turn-Based press also receives ongoing institutional support from the Miami Worldcenter.

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During DWNTWN Art Days, 2015, artist Nick Gilmore will print the streets of downtown Miami as blind-embosses which will be exhibited as Paper Pavement at Turn-Based Press. The artist will be live-printing the work during mid-day Friday, September 11, and the exhibition will open Friday evening at 7 PM.

Paper Pavement tells a story of history and the future, the passage of time, the urban underfoot.

A steamroller navigates within the boundaries of a major commercial development zone, printing paper impressions of the streets along its path. Crumbling asphalt, utility covers, traffic signals, cement patchwork all characterize the area and its history in a way mostly ignored; easily disregarded. The impressions will tell the narrative of the place as it exists that very moment. A rutted road or cracked sidewalk takes on a different presence when transferred into a form embossed into paper. This Paper Pavement is displayed as a record and reflection of a city on the cusp of transformation.

Nick Gilmore is a sculptor, and an adjunct professor of printmaking at FIU.

A satellite presentation of Paper Pavement will be on view at the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, also opening Friday, September 11, 2015. MCAD serves as the welcome center for DWNTWN Miami, and will be the Miami Downtown Development Authority‘s headquarters during DWNTWN Art Days this year.

Large Format Relief Printing Workshop at Turn-Based Press with IS Projects

The workshop, held in collaboration with Ingrid Schindall of IS Projects and with the printing assistance of Nick Gilmore, will focus on the creation of mid-scale relief blocks that will be printed by steamroller during DWNTWN Art Days, September 2015.

Meets for 3 sessions:

Saturday, August 29
10 AM – 1 PM—Intro to Carving @ Turn-Based Press
Saturday, September 5
10 AM – 1 PM—Proofing @ Turn-Based Press
Saturday, September 12
11 AM – 2 PM—Invitational Steamroller Relief Printing Session @ Turn-Based Press during DWNTWN Art Days 2015

The Large Format Relief Printing Workshop with IS Projects at Turn-Based Press will teach participants the fundamentals of how to cut, proof and print a relief block in the first two sessions. The final session will be a steamroller-printing event which will occur during the annual, 3-day long celebration of art in downtown Miami: DWNTWN Art Days. This printing session will also be open to members of the community who wish to print their own large-scale blocks who pre-register with Turn-Based Press (contact KH@turnbasedpress.com).

In the first session, each student will learn how to “think print” when creating their own image to carve into the block as well as receive tips and tricks to carving large format relief images.

In the second session, students will learn how to ink up and print their blocks on an etching press and we will go over hand printing techniques for printing without a press at home.

The final result is a large-scale, steamroller-printed artwork composed of a matrix of the blocks produced as part of the workshop. Each student will leave the class with their block, proofs from the etching press, and a large-scale steamroller printed piece containing their image and the images of their classmates.

Workshop Cost: $140
Includes Materials; deposit required for the loan of some tools for take-home use.

Registration sign-up at this link.

This year’s DWNTWN Art Days event will run from September 19 – 21st. Turn-Based Press will be hosting two events, a workshop and a related exhibition.

The workshop, Comic Art Workshop: Draw and Print! will be a five hour long story-building and screenprinting adventure lead by Tom Hart, the Founder and Executive Director of the Sequential Artists Workshop, a free-standing school for comic art in Gainesville, FL, and Kathleen Hudspeth, Founder and Co-Director of Turn-Based Press. The workshop will be held at Turn-Based Press, Saturday, September 20, from 10 AM to 3 PM.

For more information about the Comic Art Workshop, visit our Workshops page; space is limited to 14 participants, and the fee is $50.

The exhibition, Tell It To My Face, will feature works from SAW as well as works by local artists, and will be an exhibition of works on paper, prints and artists’ books focusing on narrative content and storytelling. Tell It To My Face opens Saturday, September 20, with a reception from 7 – 11 PM. It will also be on view for DWNTWN Art Days on Sunday, September 21, from 11 AM – 2 PM.

More information about DWNTWN Art Days events can be found here.

Turn-Based Press Co-Director Thom Wheeler Castillo lead several tours during DWNTWN Art Days. Tour number four was titled Walking Tour no.4: An Object, A Craft, and Ideas (PRINT), and included both a watercolor monotype participatory demonstration as well as a jaunt to visit the New World School of the Arts Faculty Show exhibition.

I presented the monotype demonstration and spoke at the NWSA faculty show about my stone lithograph which uses watercolor monotype as a second run, as well as about work by Carol Todaro. We both also currently have pieces on view in Impressions: a Selection of Academic Printmaking and Artists’ Books in the Turn-Based Press exhibition area.

Our second DWNTWN Art Days 2013 event was fun–and a little inky. TBP printed a 5-color split fountain screenprint for the TM Sisters as a live printing demo after an introductory talk.

The first night of DWNTWN Art Days, for which Turn-Based Press opened the show Impressions: a Selection of Academic Printmaking and Artists’ Books from South Florida, had a great turn-out! Below are a few images from the evening. The show will have another reception on October 4 as part of the Downtown First Friday art walk.

Participating artists are: Edgaryn Abreu, Katie Lynn Acosta, Elina Diaz, Marco Di Giovanni, Danny Euceda, Cynthia Fleischmann, Lorna Ruth Galloway, Jose Garcia, Griselle Gaudnils, Javier Guarezma, Victor Giraldo, Saba Ghani Zahedi, George Herrera, Kathleen Hudspeth
Michelle Izquierdo, Milydis Llanos, Eddie Lopez, Cynthia Milans, Larry Newberry, Lizzie Newberry, Sarah Newberry, Brian Perez, Beatriz Rodriguez, Susan Sargsian, Lani Marie Shapton, Carol Todaro, and George Wayne.

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