O'STUDIOS' OPEN PRESS SERVICES

Open Studios and Hospitality Open Press helps organize working printmaking studio visits. It benefits the community when artists have been willing, sometimes, to open the doors of their studios to other artists and curious visitors. This is true of printmaking artists, who even allow others to use their printing presses. The Open Press movement is alive in almost every major city and is found in small towns and villages, too. Bill Ritchie learned how to do it in college and, later, on his first trip around the world. (See The Travel Tapes).

Once there was Triangle Studios in Seattle, an artists' co-op studio that welcomed many travelers in Open Studios. Also, periodic open house is held at Sunny Arms Artist's Cooperative (living space and studio of Karen Guzak and others) and Artists' Studio Tours benefit for the Seattle Art Museum. For awhile, Daniel Smith, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of printmaking supplies, held an open press one night each week.

Artists world wide are opening their studios to guests via the World Wide Web. See Richard Minsky in New York and Open Studio.

Past Events

George Woodall Open Press

Seattle painter moved his painting studio out, clearing the way for a new year of learning printmaking to take his monoprints to a new level. He let three other artists work, too, in a spirit of exchanging old and new ideas.

Printmaking Today and Tomorrow:

Snapping your prints to the Web and Beyond.

Bill Ritchie demonstrated printing intaglio and then sent the newly-printed impression straight to the World Wide Web on the Internet--in 90 minutes!

Virtual Open Press Via Video and On-line

Bill Ritchie shares his printmaking videotapes to help people learn the basics of printmaking, starting with his archive of videos from his teaching done while at the UW art school.

For information about Open Press and how you may get involved, contact Bill H. Ritchie, Jr. You an also find out more about opening your arts studios in the Open Studios & Hospitality way by reading the O'Studios 'Zine articles and also order Perfect Press Products, Videos, Books and Manuscripts Reinventing Arts' Studios.