Print Shift: Treefort 2019
This Print Shift Public Art Project was created on site at Treefort in March 2019 by a group of interdisciplinary artists from Boise, Idaho. Our interactive project used letterpress printmaking and the individual responses generated by the Treefort community participants to create broadside posters that captured a diverse, inclusive, and unique range of responses to the festival experience. Through selecting meaningful words to create poetic phrases and hand-printing them on a letterpress, participants were able to share in the transformative power of print. The project offered an opportunity for participants to witness their ideas come to life in the creation of these unique broadside posters. The project embraced the serendipitous, synchronous, and oppositional ideas that emerged from the juxtaposition of a wide range of individual responses. We were interested in investigating the unusual, poetic, or otherwise unexpected responses that come from individuals from all walks of life.
Portland Letterpress Printer’s Fair 2017:
Steamroller printing
The Portland Printers Alliance organized steamroller printing, a marketplace of printed goods and equipment from local/regional shops, raffle prizes including massive prints, live book arts demonstrations, drinks, and much more.
Collaborative Print Demonstrations
