December 15 | 6-8pm | @Art’s Cafe
“Artist Night” provides something for the artist in everyone. The first and third Thursdays of the month, Art’s Cafe will be open for art-making of all types. Guest speakers, specialty studios, impromptu sketch sessions and more. Bring your unfinished art projects and get the inspiration you need. For a modest lab fee students can enjoy the supplies and tools available in the workshop to create artwork at Specialty Studios.
Guest Speaker: Chris Fritton
Chris Fritton aka “The Itinerant Printer” is a poet, printer, and fine artist with over two decades of experience writing, printing, and making his own books, in addition to collaborative efforts with other authors and artists. He is the former Studio Director of the Western New York Book Arts Center in Buffalo, NY, and has been a panelist to judge the New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship in Drawing, Printmaking, and Book Arts (2014). He co-founded the highly-acclaimed Buffalo Small Press Book Fair with Kevin Thurston in 2007, and organized the fair solo from 2009-2016. Currently, Fritton is working on a long-term project called The Itinerant Printer, where he’s visited almost 200 letterpress print shops throughout North America in six years, covering over 75,000 miles and making over 30,000 prints on the road. He recently culminated the journey in an over-sized coffee table book featuring all the places, prints, and people from along the way.
Printmaking Studio: Bring your carvings to make prints or use set stations for mono-printing. Ink, paper and use of supplies included in the lab fee.
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