OCTOBER 2020 Newsletter
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As summer comes to a close, we’re happy to get some very special projects out the door and in the hands of artists and patrons, like our Extra Pulp Exchange Portfolio and 2020 Existent Books. We have even more to look forward to this Fall including the SPF’20 live broadcast on Nov 14th (the new covid-friendly version of our annual Small Press Fair), a very special exhibition collaboration with the Society of the Four Arts, our first ever Sidewalk Sale coming at you on Small Business Saturday, Nov 28th, and lots of virtual programming. Check it all out below and stay up to date on our instagram for even more announcements!
LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE SHOW
R E P E A T E R
A M B E R T U T W I L E R
Closing November 2nd
Check out the Virtual Gallery Tour & Gallery Shop
Did you know? We are now offering gallery viewings by appointment, Thursday evening 5-7pm. Reach out via email to schedule a viewing. The lights will be left on in the gallery for 24 hours so that locals can visit the exhibition in person.
Repeater is a solo exhibition by Amber Tutwiler that uses oil paint and mixed media on panel to describe the shifting tensions between knowing and forgetting. In this series, shapes of fabric and gestures of the hand emerge as amnesiac snippets of memory that vacillate between surface planes. Like an echo of a body and a place pulled outward from their origin, fragments of images repeat, scatter, and intersect. The handling of paint and the treatment of surface simulates printed photographs that have been redacted, collaged, and transposed. This trompe l’oeil preserves some element of intimate familiarity - even if the security of the recognizable is fleeting. Just as the folds of fabric rhythmically dance through each frame, the titles of each work, when read from left to right, act as poetic substrates to the body of work as a whole.
Amber Tutwiler is an artist from South Florida whose hybrid practice expands on figurative oil painting to describe our relationship to digital spaces. She attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design for Painting, received her BA in Psychology from Florida Atlantic University, and received her MFA in Visual Art from Florida Atlantic University (2017). In 2018, she had her first solo exhibition, Interface, and collaborated with Ballet Florida in an immersive performance, Welcome, at Fritz Gallery in West Palm Beach, FL. In 2019, Ballet Florida and Tutwiler collaborated again with PULSE, which debuted in March 2019 at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. She has won various awards, including the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in 2019, which resulted in an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Most recently, she was a resident at IS Projects where she experimented with CMYK lithograph prints. She just relocated to Vineyard, Utah, where she is currently a Lecturer at Utah Valley University.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
We’re so grateful to be collaborating with The Society of the Four Arts for a second time on an extraordinary exhibition of books coming this Fall!
ON EXHIBIT
November 14, 2020 – January 17, 2021
January 30, 2020 – February 28, 2021
In God We Trust: Early Bible Printings and Founding Documents from the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection is an extraordinary exhibition of historic American Bibles and religious texts, many of which have rarely been displayed.
The exhibition features 18 books from the Americana Collection of Mr. Rubenstein, a prominent American businessman and philanthropist. Organized by the New-York Historical Society in collaboration with Mr. Rubenstein’s library consultant, In God We Trust presents the stories of these books and the ingenuity and diversity of the early Americans who made them.
The exhibition includes displays about letterpress printing and the art of bookmaking created by IS Projects. The displays include all of the tools and equipment that are used (and would have been used) to create books like the ones displayed in the exhibition. This year we were also very happy to be able to create a short film directed by Johnny Zhang that shows the process of creating a leather bound book to accompany the exhibition.
Learn more about our 2019 collaboration with Society of the Four Arts on Rembrandt: The Sign and The Light.
SPF’20 IS COMING!
Saturday, November 14, 2020, Noon-6pm
SPF Fort Lauderdale is a day for local and regional artists, printers, booksellers, publishers, authors, poets, bookmakers, designers, zinesters and cultural workers to share ideas and showcase new work related to print making, book making and zine creation.
The SPF'20 market will take place October to November online, culminating with a live broadcast Saturday, November 14 from the IS Projects Studio. The online market will highlight a diverse cross-section of local artists, writers, independent publishers and regional small presses, and provide a snapshot of the 2020 print, book and zine scene.
NEW BLOG POSTS
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Wed. Nov. 4th 6-8pm
Virtual Print Club: Simple Bindings
NOW OFFERING SUPPLY KITS!
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Mon. Nov. 9th, 6-7:30pm
Virtual Suminagashi Paper Marbling * Kid-Friendly *
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Mon. Nov. 16th, 8-6:30pm
Virtual Monoprinting with Gelli Plates
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Wed. Nov 18th, 6-8pm
Virtual Print Club: Open Studio
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Mon. Nov 23rd, 6-8:30pm
Virtual Drum Leaf Binding
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Wed. Dec 2nd, 6-8pm
Virtual Image Transfers & Collage
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Mon. Dec 7th, 6-8pm
Virtual Dip Dyeing
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Mon. Dec 12th, 12-2:30pm
Virtual Make Your Own Travel Journal
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