new gocco and letterpress articles for Venus
October 1, 2007 at 10:10 am | In art and craft, craft to wear, new writing!, recycled crafty, vintage crafty |My new article on Gocco printing is up on venuszine.com! I got to interview Mark Pawson of Print More Postcards and Cathy Pitters of Bossa Nova Baby and feature some of their amazing Gocco artwork. The piece was originally going to run in the fall issue of Venus, but got bumped to the website since there was so much content this time — but my article on letterpress, featuring the beautiful work of Carye Bye of Red Bat Press and Maria Vettese of Port2Port Press, is in the current print edition.
gocco-printed postcards by Mark Pawson from the Print More Postcards series
dogwood-flower gocco-printed and stitched vintage sweater by Cathy Pitters; photo by Greg Pitters
The Venus DIY section is paper-themed this issue, which I think is such a cool idea. I really love Gocco, so writing about it and spotlighting some of my favorite artists was a lot of fun! I’m also excited that I have a new Gocco project in the upcoming issue of CRAFT: (05) so more on that later…
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The Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) in Portland offers classes in Gocco Printing. There are also three Print Goccos and tons of ink, so once you are a member of the center ($45 - $100 for a year) you can use the Print Goccos plus pay $8 for new screen and bulbs when you want to make a new design.
Workshop schedule online at http://www.iprc.org or stop in to pick up the printed catalog of classes at 917 SW Oak Street #218, Portland, Ore.
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Thanks Susan it was fun to be apart of the letterpress article that did get in print. Cathy is amazing with the gocco on fabric.
Carye
Comment by Carye — October 5, 2007 #