Recess Press Collective

Joe talks Recess

Greetings all!

The past months have been real exciting at the studio– last week Recess hosted an open-call art show, complete with live music by the Warpossums and home-made Bon-mi sandwiches by Will Hawkinson. The turnout was fantastic, and we saw just how talented the friends and family of Recess are! Large-scale lithographs, paintings, monotyps, woodcuts, and video-art were all featured at the show.

In addition, prints from our international print exchange with Brazil were on display- over 25 prints in all. The printmakers involved were a combination of members of Recess Press, Atelier Piratininga (São Paulo, BR), and the Solar do Barão (Curitiba, BR). Each printmaker involved was asked to show part of their process, you can view the slideshows for each artist here:

http://recesspresscollective.com/local-idiosyncrasy-print-exchange/

As many of you know, we have successfully reached our funding goal as of March, we are encouraged and excited by all of the support everyone has shown so far!

We received an interesting challenge from one of our patrons a few weeks ago:

“Congratulations! And with 41 days yet to go, continue to fund-raise. If you raise $5,500, we will add $500 to our initial pledge, bringing your new total to $6,000. The $4,000 was a minimum goal, but with more funding you be able to invest in additional equipment that will help with your long term success.”

So, what do you think? Can we make it to $5,500 in the next 10 days? By spreading word about our kickstarter through social networks and blogs I think we have a pretty good chance!

If you know someone who might be interested in our project, please help us to connect with them, and hopefully we can reach this new goal! Our studio will be even stronger with this additional funding.

Huge thankyous to everyone that have helped us so far, come to our wacky events, and encouraged Recess so far! We love you guys!

-Cole

Recess Press

+ART SHOW+
Come one come all for our Art Show Open Call Party this Friday!
All of your help and enthusiasm during the process of putting together the studio has been a great experience and we’d love for you to be a part of this event– come for good company, good music, delicious food, and of course, sweet artwork!

OPEN CALL for art work
If you would like to submit a 2D piece for this salon-style art show, drop it off at Recess on April 17, 18 or 19 after 5:30pm and it will go right up on the wall for Friday’s party! We are also open to drop offs on our home porches. No size or theme requirements. Work does not need to be framed. Please email us at recesspress@gmail.com to confirm which day you will be dropping your work off or if you have any questions–

THE LINEUP

+MUSIC+
WARPOSSUMS
DJ TBA

+PROJECTOR SHOW+
Cole HW

+STREET FOOD+
by Will Hawkinson, Deliciousness!

BYOB // We hope to see you there!

Love,
Recess Press

Recess Press has been working with our good friend and awesome art teacher Chloe Cothermann to do a residency teaching printmaking at Prairie Seeds Academy where Chloe teaches middle and high schoolers.  We hope to get some funding for the residency through FEAST Minneapolis.  Check us out on their website:

http://www.feastmpls.org/index.php?/proposals/recess-press/

…and if you’re in the twin cities, come FEAST with the local arts community and vote for our project!

<3 RECESS

Hello!

Recess Press has had a busy winter working on our print exchange, building drying racks and a washout, and filming the video for our kickstarter.  We are so very close to being able to offer studio access!  We launched a kickstarter yesterday in order to purchase the final items needed for a rockin’ studio, including flat files and a pressure washer……Please check it out and help us on our way to providing you and yours an affordable space to print.

In return, we’ll reward your kind donation with some pretty sweet print subscriptions made just for you (really affordable original artwork!).

We can’t wait to get more people making awesome work at RECESS PRESS!

Here is the link to our kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1715590635/recess-press-printmaking-studio-0?ref=live

Or you can go to www.kickstarter.com and search for RECESS PRESS

We are so grateful for your support

Recess Press is a motivated band of six young printmakers living and working in Minneapolis. We are accomplished alumni of the University of Minnesota Art Department working in lithography, screen printing, etching, and woodblock techniques. Since graduating and having attempted to make prints in basements and garages and with automobiles, we are aware of emerging printmakers’ need for affordable space and equipment. As a collective, we are joining our funds and experience to provide access to a democratic print shop as well as education for Minneapolis’ growing printmaking community.

Questions or comments – please e-mail us at recesspress@gmail.com

Recess Press is a motivated band of six young printmakers living and working in Minneapolis. We are accomplished alumni of the University of Minnesota Art Department working in lithography, screen printing, etching, and woodblock techniques. Since graduating and having attempted to make prints in basements and garages and with automobiles, we are aware of emerging printmakers’ need for affordable space and equipment. As a collective, we are joining our funds and experience to provide access to a democratic print shop as well as education for Minneapolis’ growing printmaking community.

This summer Recess had its first studio events, on-site printing parties, and art fairs- there will be much more to come this fall season.