January Residencies in Printmaking and Letterpress for Artists & Writers

Penland School of Crafts has January residency opportunities in print and letterpress. These residencies are designed for eight artists or writers in each studio who would like to work with a lead printmaker or letterpress printer for two weeks in January, 2012. The first session is January 2-15; second session is January 17-30.

Penland’s Paul Hayden Duensing Letterpress and Printmaking Studio is a fully-equipped letterpress and printmaking facility.

This residency will provide artists and writers with little or no printing experience a chance to work in Penland’s beautiful studios with experienced printers, to create editions of broadsides, prints, or small publications. Penland will reserve at least one space in each studio for a writer.

Through the program, Penland hopes to foster new connections and cross-pollination between different media, disciplines, and processes, to provide professional opportunities for individual or collaborating artists, and to promote awareness in the fields of letterpress and printmaking. The residencies are partially funded by the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

Artists/writers pay $400 per two weeks and supply their own materials, food, and cover their travel expenses--housing is provided by Penland School. Food is not available on campus since the dining hall will be closed for the season, but housing with a kitchen is available.

The lead printer in the print studio for January, 2012 is Erika Adams, who received a BA in Art and Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a MFA from the University of New Mexico, and studied at the Tamarind Institute where she became a Master Printer. She has exhibited recently at Musket Studios (MA); Zygote Gallery (OH); International Print Center (NY); Honik University (Korea); The Kitchenette (AZ); and at Berea College (KY). Erika has been an artist in residence at the Hall Farm Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Franz Masereel Center in Belgium. She taught at Penland in 2010.

Erika's website

The lead printer in the letterpress studio for January, 2012 is Margot Ecke, who received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA. from Cornell University. She earned her Professional Printing Certificate from the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico and completed her training by earning her Certificate in Bookbinding at the North Bennett Street School in Boston. Margot has been a resident at the Carolina Rediviva Library in Uppsala, Sweden, where she studied medieval bookbinding structures, and was the Victor Hammer Fellow in the Book Arts at Wells College in Aurora, New York. She has taught workshops at the Women’s Studio Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic, The Wells Summer Institute, the Ink Shop, and at the North Bennett Street School. Her artists’ books are shown internationally and her work is in the collections of the Getty, the New York Public Library, and the RISD Artists’ Book Collection, among others. She is represented by Booklyn, a gallery and artists’ book dealer in Brooklyn, NY.

Part of the selection process will be matching printer expertise with the needs shown in artists’ proposals.
Applications must be received by September 15. Selected artists will be notified by October 15.

Application form in PDF format.

A complete description of the lettepress studio

A complete description of the printmaking studio

For more information contact Dana Moore at 828 765-5753.

danamoore@penland.org