Washboard Press

08/16/2025

01/28/2025

Last year I joined the Polka! Press Print Cooperative, partly to have access to a bigger and better press than I will ever be able to fit in my basement home studio, but also to join a community of other artists and printmakers to learn from and collaborate with, and even in a year that was full of other exciting developments in my practice, it has been an important part of my growth as an artist in the last year.

We learned in November that we would be losing our lease at the end of April. After the initial panic, we are excited to have found a great new location and will be moving out of our current basement location and in to a great, street-level location in the Atwood neighborhood of Madison. We have great hopes that this space will let us become a resource for the wider community to explore printmaking.

To help support our move and to establish a fully wheelchair accessible and safe space for all ages and abilities in the Madison area to explore printmaking, and expand community access to open studios and programming, we are raising funds to help us better outfit our new space to be a more fully functioning printmaking studio with the tools, equipment, and resources to support our members and offer programming to the wider community.

As the artist in residence at Pinney last year, I learned that there is a great unmet demand for this kind of arts programming in Madison, and we have big dreams for what more we can do in the years to come. Will you contribute to help us make these dreams into reality?

Polka! Press's mission is to promote a vibrant local printmaking culture b… Polka Press needs your support for Help Polka! Press Expand Printmaking in Madison

12/21/2024

Thanks to Madison Public Library, the The Bubbler, Friends of the Pinney Library, and everyone who came out to Pinney for an Open Studio or a workshop! I am so grateful for the time and support and the work we were able to do together, and I look forward to finding new ways to continue to bring letterpress into the community. Stay tuned for more coming in 2025!

12/10/2024

The very last Open Studio of my Residency at Pinney is this Tuesday, Dec. 10 from 4:30-6:30pm, come bring your own small letterpress project, or help me print signs, labels, and type specimens for the two library-owned letterpress kits that I have helped put together over the past seven months. Been thinking about checking it out? Got one more word to add to our collection? Just want to get inky one more time? This is the time! See you Tuesday!

12/06/2024

Hope to see you Saturday! 4282 Twin Valley Rd in Middleton.

10/20/2024

10/03/2024

Starting a new thing over at Pinney, send me your words! A word for right now, this time we are all living through. Could be how you are feeling, or a word you need to be reminded of, or a word that somehow describes something that’s happening, or a mood, vibe or feeling. We’ll take words that people submit & they’ll get printed & become part of a new installation at Pinney, and we’ll share updates & progress on socials as well.

07/03/2024

An update from the Pinney Residency, and also information on how to register for my first registration-based workshop where we’ll explore ornamental design with metal type. Workshop is 7/20 from 1-3 at Pinney, and registration opens this Saturday! More information at https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/events/letterpress-design-metal-ornaments-bookmarks-1272386

06/03/2024

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05/28/2024

Open Studio today, 4:30-6:30, we’re going to play with transparency and layering, and make a chain of print layers (what’s that mean? Come find out!)