Miss the companionship of studio mates?

Bring some art to work on while chatting with other artists!  Like a Knitting Party but with art.

Sculpt, sketch, paint, plan, update your website, whatever. Meet new people, bring a friend, get stuff done.

Art supplies provided by you, we provide tables and chairs, art books, and a water supply.

Complete info HERE.

Every been curious about the letterpress printmaking process? Well come to Little Kings tomorrow evening to see the Moveable Type letterpress in a truck. Artist Kyle Durry is a letterpress printer from Portland Oregon who tours around with her press in a truck, letting visitors peek inside and learn about the process. FASCINATING! I can’t wait.

Letterpress is the way books and posters used to be printed–type was set individually with spacers added in to print the whole text in reverse on the paper. (The origin of Upper Case and Lower Case comes from this type-setting process in which the lower case letter of a certain font would be found in the LOWER CASE of the type-setting desk, and Upper Case in the UPPER CASE. Ha!) You sometimes see old type for sale on etsy or in antique shops–they look like hard rubber stamps.

Letterpress has experienced a renaissance in the past few years among contemporary printmakers, bookartists, and artisan paper goods presses, especially with new plates that allow you to transfer your own drawn image onto a relief plate that can be added into the letterpress.