Printshop Crisis: We need your help!


Dear Volunteers, Friends, Neighbors and Supporters,
 
We have always appreciated every bit of your time, from attending Open Shop to volunteering for gallery shows and events.  It is because of your help that we have been able to provide printmaking supplies at cheap prices, teach the community how to screen print for free, and display wonderful  prints from artists around the city. 
 
Now, more than ever, the New Orleans Community Printshop needs your help! 
 
We have just been informed that our lease is running out prematurely due to new ownership of our building.  We need to be out of our location by July 1st, 2012. – That’s only a few months away.  We want to stay open and continue to serve the community, but we have limited time, and have to act fast!
 
Here’s how you can help:
 
Donate.
 
Any donation of money will help.  In the new space we find, we will have to spend money to build out the new space while maintaining our current Open Shop before the lease runs out.  Our expenses will include skilled labor (such as plumbing and contracting), building materials, insurance for the new space and more, so whether you can give $5 or $5,000 any aid you  give us will help! 

We will have a paypal donation button on our wordpress account page shortly to make it easy, but if you have cash or check you can contact us or visit the shop’s current location at 831 Elysian Fields to donate to our cause!

We will also likely be doing a kickstarter soon.  Once that begins, those of you who have donated to the New Orleans Community Printshop will receive the same incentives and prizes that we will post on the kickstarter website. We will post more on our wordpress site, blog, or through email about this soon. 
 
 
Advise.

Do you know of a new space? Have you seen a “For Rent” sign on a promising commercial building?

Here is the sort of space we are looking for: 
 
     1) A lease for two years or longer: landlord must be OK with this being a print shop, used as a public space for all ages, and with us having 24 hour access to the building.  

     2) Ability to create necessary structures (walls, if needed, for example) and with floors that are not important, so that spilled ink will not cause issues. 

     3) A commercially zoned building 1500 square feet or larger, In the ball park of $1600 (or negotiable).


In short, a large space that could be used as a print shop much like what we have right now, but in a more permanent location. 
 
 
Refer
 
Do you know a reliable lawyer (to advise on future lease situations),  contractor, plumber, person with a truck for moving purposes, or anyone else who would help us at reasonable rates?  
 
Are you one of these people?  When we build out our new space, we’ll need all the advisement and help we can get!
 
 
Volunteer
 
Of course, we will need help moving, and building out new space.  If you feel you’ll have time in the next few months to get involved, please respond to let us know that you’d be willing to help!  As with all volunteering, a single free use of ink and screen voucher is provided to those who lend a hand!
 
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In short, we can’t let all of our (and your) past work slip through our fingers.  We are committed to having a community print shop again for the community to work, learn and create.  If you have any resources to help (or know someone who does), send us a line, let us know, get involved! 
 
 
Thank you all for reading this, and please, spread the word!



-The New Orleans Community Printshop

 

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Check Out Open Shop!!

Check Out Open Shop!!

Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-10 pm and Sundays 1-5 pm

831 elysian Fields

We now have T-shirts, fabric ink, and tons of paper so come silk screen

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POST NO BILLS Opens tonight!

The The New Orleans Community Printshop is excited invite you to our upcoming exhibition celebrating the vast array of printmaking in New Orleans and the democratic nature of printing:New Orleans…

POST NO BILLS
a collection of hand printed posters and ephemera

to hang March 16th- April 16th
in conjunction with the exciting Southern Graphics Conference coming to town!
Opening Reception Friday March 16th 7-10 pm,
with a live dj and food truck,
(and after-party featuring live fake-tattoo printing).
831 Elysian Fields
The Gallery will be displaying printed work on paper ‘poster-wall’ style: covering every inch of wall from floor to ceiling of all four walls in our gallery…..and maybe even the ceiling….we want to celebrate our work and stun the visiting printmaking world with the versatility and passion of our printmaking community – beginners and professionals.

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The New Orleans Community Printshop members have a lot of art around the city! Check it out!

We are a very large group of artists, and we are prolific! Come see what we can do, its all over the city!

As a group we have 2 shows…

POST NO BILLS is open to any new orleans artist who works in the print medium, silkscreen, woodcut, litho and etching! We are still taking submissions, so stop by!!! The Show opens this friday!

BIRDIES a key member show. Come see Heather’s beautiful hanging job and all our hard work! 2nd Opening Friday!

participating members of the shop have scattered shows in the…

CAC a collection of members have work up in the Landscape, Cityscape, Seascape show

GOOD CHILDREN’S GALLERY, 2nd opening on Friday

BON CASTOR a consignment store on Burgundy and Louisa

 

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Call to artists! Print show March 16th

Hello all Printers!


The New Orleans Community Printshop is excited invite you to participate in our upcoming exhibition celebrating the vast array of printmaking in New Orleans, and the democratic nature of printing:
POST NO BILLS
a collection of hand printed posters, prints and ephemera

to hang March 16th- April 16th
in conjunction with the exciting Southern Graphics Conference coming to town!
Opening Reception Friday March 16th 7-10 pm,
with a live dj, food truck and beverages,
(and after-party featuring live fake-tattoo printing)
The Gallery will be displaying printed work on paper ‘poster-wall’ style: covering every inch of wall from floor to ceiling of all four walls in our gallery…..and maybe even the ceiling….we want to celebrate our work and stun the visiting printmaking world with the versatility and passion of our printmaking community – beginners and professionals.
Is this a juried show?
nope! come one, come all, and bring your friends and their prints….

When to Submit:
Please drop off prints during one of these three days: Thursday March 9th 6-10 pm, Sunday March 11th 1-5 pm or Tuesday March 13th (6-10 pm) (very last chance!)
YOU MUST PUT YOUR NAME AND PHONE NUMBER ON THE BACK OF THE WORK, IN PENCIL, TO HELP FACILITATE ITS RETURN.

What to submit:
we are looking for prints from any artists working in Louisiana – the only parameters are: it must be a print, and it must have been made in Louisiana. It can be an etching, a woodcut, a monoprint, a letterpressed print, a poster, a fine art piece, an invitation……

How will it hang? work will be hung with a system of acetate and pins that do not put pinholes in the work, or that sticky stuff that leaves a greasy stain.

what is ‘ephemera’?

ever printed on a skateboard? a wooden box? a shoe? we want to display the versatility of print-media, so bring it down and we will either hang it or display it on a shelf/pedestal.

Can i submit more than one piece?
yes! but due to potential limitations of space, please limit yourself to 3 pieces, and we cannot guarantee all three will hang. note: SMALL PIECES (less than 8.5 x 11) are always needed when hanging a poster wall (it’s like playing tetris, very slowly) so bring as many of those as you’ve got!

I have this neat print my friend made, can i put that in?

as long as you have the artist’s permission to sign our exhibition form and it was printed in Louisiana, sure!

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power washer is fixed!!!

Open shop will be open today – Sunday, as well as subsequent open shop days. See  you all there!

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NO Thursday Open shop

Sorry folks, our powerwasher just stopped working – so until further notice, we will have to cancel Open Shop.  We are currently unable to blast out screens, or coat new ones.   We apologize for the inconvenience, but we do hope to have it fixed in a day or two. We will keep you updated!

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