Portland has some printmaking mojo. Maybe it's because of the relationship between trees and paper. It's probably because of Gordon Gilkey. In the army in WW II, his interest in art lead him to being responsible for researching art displaced by the war and returning it to its proper owners. So he met a lot of art people in Europe and built an economical print collection by trading prints with artists. Later he taught printmaking at PNCA and then created the Art Museum Print Center where anyone can take a look at super valuable prints from their archives - Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, Daumier, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Miró, Cézanne, and Picasso. He met some artists in the day when maybe you could trade a print for a bottle of Absinthe.
Printmaking presses are heavy. Yes it would be nice to have one in the basement, but how do you get something that weighs a ton down the stairs? Thus Flight 64, a printmaking coop sharing a studio and presses. http://www.flight64.org/ Tonight hear music by Blitzen Trapper, The Shaky Hands, Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond and DJBJ. Two buck raffle tickets give you a chance to add prints to your collection from famous people and the members of Flight 64. Artist reception 5-8. Raffle drawn at 8. Bands 9. Holocene http://www.holocene.org/calendar/ $5
