As March involves an in depth, New York Metropolis ushers in Print Week with the thirty fourth version of the Worldwide Nice Print Sellers Affiliation (IFPDA) Honest on the Park Avenue Armory and the Brooklyn Nice Artwork Print Honest at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus. To rejoice the facility of the press, Hyperallergic has put collectively the next information of city-based print retailers and publishers for artists of any degree to discuss with of their editioned endeavors.
The non-exhaustive record beneath brings collectively old-school staples and recent faces on the block, every with their very own services and providers to assist artists notice their serial potential. Some spots provide membership-based unbiased studio entry and introductory technical programs, whereas others be certain that a grasp printer handles your concepts with care each step of the way in which. From DIY risograph zines for native organizing to masterfully crafted effective artwork prints that broaden the boundaries of various strategies, New York Metropolis’s wealth of print and publishing areas is certain to satisfy the wants of just about any undertaking.
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Elizabeth Basis for the Arts, 323 West thirty ninth Avenue, Garment District, Manhattan | rbpmw-efanyc.org
Grasp printer Robert Blackburn opened this beloved metropolis staple, initially known as the Printmaking Workshop, in 1947, making it the longest-running group print studio in the USA. In 2005, it turned a program of the Elizabeth Basis for the Arts and was renamed to honor its founder. True to his mission, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s 6,000-square-foot studio contains services for all conventional printmaking strategies in addition to risograph and photo-based processes; lessons partaking the out there printmaking strategies; contract printing providers; and a flat-rate annual studio membership (storage and provides rented individually) that affords entry to all tools and provides, discounted lessons, and low cost eligibility at sure artwork provide retailers. Revealed artists embody Chakaia Booker, Baseera Khan, Dindga McCannon, Kenny Rivero, Maren Hassinger, Xenobia Bailey, Raque Ford, Otto Neals, Renée Cox, and plenty of others.
Du-Good Press
19 Patchen Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn | du-goodpress.com
Established by Leslie Diuguid in 2017, Du-Good Press is NYC’s first Black woman-owned effective artwork printshop and publishing home. As a screenprinter, Diuguid has collaborated with Hank Willis Thomas, Tauba Auerbach, Glen Baldridge, Religion Ringgold, Skye Volmar, B. Anele, Dominique Fung, and plenty of different artists for editioned prints and zines. Du-Good Press was the inaugural selection for Print Center New York’s Publisher Spotlight in 2023.
Shoestring Press
640 Classon Ave, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | shoestringpressny.com
Shoestring Press opened its Crown Heights storefront in 2014, geared up with services and instruments for silkscreening, aid printing, copperplate intaglio, stone and photolithography, cyanotype and Vandyke printing, large-format template printing, and effective artwork digital printing. Along with contract and collaborative print providers, Shoestring Press gives one-on-one instruction in all onsite processes and each day artist member entry from 8am–10pm. They’re additionally recognized for accessible activism collateral freely out there exterior the storefront, starting from posters for Palestine advocacy and different sociopolitical causes to “know your rights” enterprise playing cards in a number of totally different languages.
Shoestring Press has collaborated with Duke Riley, Mike Perry, Saya Woolfalk, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Gary Simmons, Gail Rothschild, Cheryl Mukherji, Shala Miller, Judith Bernstein, Josh MacPhee, Ann Buckwalter, the TUG collective, and Avram Finkelstein, amongst others.
Secret Riso Membership
122 Central Ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn | secretrisoclub.com
Collectively led by Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell, the Secret Riso Membership (SRC) opened in 2017 as an artist-run house dedicated to risograph and screenprinting on the intersection of activism, group constructing, schooling, and humanities and design. Along with introductory and particular workshops for making the most effective use of the riso printers and screenprinting services, artists can use SRC’s flash printing providers, e-book consultations, and, with established expertise, additionally hire unbiased studio time. SRC’s major focus is supporting the work of lesser-known artists, but it surely has additionally pursued collaborations with the Museum of Fashionable Artwork and different establishments.
Radix Co-op
522 Bergen Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn | radix.coop
Touchdown simply north of Prospect Park from Portland, Oregon, in 2012, Radix Printing & Publishing Co-op has expanded from a one-person entity to a Black-led, worker-owned union printshop providing offset, letterpress, and digital printing providers, in addition to foil stamping, embossing, die-cutting, and paper duplexing. Along with print work and design providers, Radix additionally publishes a wide range of tasks with a precedence for uplifting marginalized and underrepresented views.
Radix has printed with Molly Crabapple and Cole Wilson; revealed works by Elektra KB, Cadwell Turnbull, and Ganzeer; and finished industrial print jobs for Jewish Voice for Peace, Espo’s Artwork World, Senator Julia Salazar, and New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign.
20 Jay Avenue Unit 217, Dumbo, Brooklyn | luckyrisograph.press
Fortunate Risograph is a risograph printing press working with home and worldwide artists to facilitate artwork books, zines, effective artwork prints, and community-oriented tasks. Fortunate Riso gives numerous basic and specialised workshops that push the old-school medium’s boundaries, and artists and printmakers are capable of e-book DIY printing time after verifying their eligibility with the press or taking a risograph orientation onsite.
Harlan & Weaver
83 Canal Avenue Room 501, Chinatown, Manhattan | harlanandweaver.com
Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver opened the namesake printshop in 1984, working completely in intaglio printing strategies together with drypoint, aquatint, engraving, photogravure, and mezzotint. Offering each the services and technical help to appreciate tasks, Harlan & Weaver invitations artists to make the most of the house and finalize their concepts alongside a grasp printer who takes the lead when it’s time to start editioning.
Harlan & Weaver has revealed works by Richard Artschwager, William Bailey, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Cottingham, Steve DiBenedetto, Nicole Eisenman, Joanne Greenbaum, Joey Kötting, Chris Martin, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Mark Strand, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, and Stanley Whitney.
Decrease East Facet Printshop
306 W thirty seventh Avenue sixth Ground, Garment District, Manhattan | printshop.org
The Decrease East Facet Printshop (LESP), a nonprofit studio opened by Eleanor Magid in 1968 as an open-access modern artwork and group heart, is celebrating its twentieth 12 months within the huge Midtown Manhattan location it shifted to in 2005. LESP offers services for all aid, intaglio, and screenprinting strategies, out there 24/7 to month-to-month and weekly studio renters and keyholder residents alike. Technical help, digital and conventional printing providers, introductory lessons, and customized workshops are additionally supplied along with onsite exhibitions, artist lectures, and extra.
LESP has printed and revealed work by Derrick Adams, Arturo Herrera, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Enoc Perez, Saya Woolfalk, Hank Willis Thomas, and most just lately, Mark Dion and Kate Shepherd.
Bushwick Print Lab
100 Grattan Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn | bushwickprintlab.org
The Bushwick Print Lab (BPL) opened in 2009, providing each small- and large-format screenprinting services for DIY renters and contracted providers for effective arts printing, attire and accent printing, and weird substrate printing. Newbie and intermediate workshops are supposed for these seeking to get to get familiarized with the silkscreen tools and strategies as they start their print journeys, and onsite help from Grasp Printer Ray Cross and different BPL group members is accessible to those that e-book DIY rental time onsite.
BPL has labored with John Giorno, Lori Anderson, Sara Cwynar, Christopher Wool, Tony Sjoman (Ruben 415), Molly Crabapple, Nelson Saiers, Sir Joan Cornelia, Swoon, and a number of cultural establishments throughout New York Metropolis.
Gowanus Print Lab
33 thirty fifth Avenue Suite B528, Business Metropolis, Brooklyn | gowanusprintlab.com
Gowanus Print Lab, an artist-run studio that opened in 2010 and has since moved into Business Metropolis, gives acetate printing, silkscreen coating, burning and reclaiming, and contract printing providers on nearly any floor. The house additionally hosts introductory lessons and personal workshops.
10 Grand Press
1024 Dean Avenue #3, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | 10grandpress.com
Grasp Printer Marina Ancona based her unbiased effective artwork printshop 10 Grand Press in 1999, inviting rising and established artists to collaborate along with her as a way to each experiment with and notice their editioned concepts throughout monotypes, intaglio, aid printing, paper lithography, letterpress, photo voltaic plates, and stenciling. Drop-off printmaking will be facilitated at an hourly fee, and workshops are seasonally out there for adults and kids as properly. 10 Grand Press has a second location in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which opened in 2005.
By way of 10 Grand Press, Ancona has revealed work by Jennie C. Jones, Nicole Eisenman, Concord Hammond, Leidy Churchman, Ulrike Müller, Gregg Bordowitz and Sanya Kantarovsky, amongst others.
Kayrock Screenprinting
1205 Manhattan Avenue #141, Greenpoint, Brooklyn | shop.kayrock.org
Kayrock Screenprinting has labored immediately with artists, galleries, museums, and different cultural establishments to print and publish effective artwork editions because it opened in 1998. Along with hands-on collaboration, Kayrock gives display burning, massive format scanning, contract printing providers on both paper or attire and equipment, and bookings for reside occasions. Kayrock has revealed work by Chie Fueki, Peter Burr, Erika Shiba, Claudia Peña, Matt Bollinger, and Kristin Texeira, amongst others.
The Arm Letterpress
281 N seventh Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn | thearm.org
The Arm opened in 2005, providing letterpress and aid poster and version printing in for-hire service as properly in collaboration with artists. Different providers embody risograph prints and silksreen printing for posters, clothes, and equipment. Whereas self-service printing isn’t an choice on the Arm, group-based poster printing workshops can be found. The house produces artwork editions with Yto Barrada and Richard McGuire, and has printed poster editions with NASA and Main League Baseball.
Powerhouse Arts
322 third Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn | powerhousearts.org
Powerhouse Arts has three print services onsite. The capital-P Printshop, headed by grasp printer Luther Davis, opened in 2016 as a contract, large-format silkscreen studio finishing work by hand printing and utilizing semiautomatic presses at scales of as much as 50″ x 100″. Utilizing anyplace between one and 100 colours for any given undertaking, the Powerhouse Arts Printshop produces editions and unique work with over 100 artists a 12 months, together with however not restricted to Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon, Amy Sherald, Mickalene Thomas, Mark Bradford and Jenny Holzer.
Powerhouse Arts’s Digital Print Lab opened in late 2023, facilitating effective arts printing contract providers on huge scales. Debuting onsite later this spring is the Manhattan Graphics Middle’s Neighborhood Print Studio, which is about to enhance the Printshop’s fabrication providers and in addition function as a instructing and studying lab for intaglio, aid, silkscreen, and lithography processes via new services and skilled printers.
Kris Graves Tasks
4301 twenty first Avenue Suite 231, Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens | krisgravesprojects.com
As a writer, Kris Graves Tasks (+KGP) collaborates with artists to create restricted version publications and archival prints, specializing in modern images and works on paper that handle problems with race, identification, fairness, gender, sexuality, and sophistication. In 2011, +KGP expanded into publishing with the aim of elevated accessibility for effective artwork, having since revealed artwork books and photograph books by Kris Graves himself, Tracy Dong, Oji Haynes, Jon Henry, Nydia Blas, and Wendy Crimson Star, amongst others.
