Introduction to Drive-By Press
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, 25 Oct 2011 from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm |
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| Location: | 181-1 College of Design |
| Cost: | free |
| URL: | http://www.design.iastate.edu/news.php?A...ICLEID=473 |
| Contact: | April Katz |
| Phone: | 515-294-3363 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Arts, performances Lectures |
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In 2006, Nanney and Velasquez created Drive-By Press as their thesis project when they were graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. They rigged an 800-pound etching press in the back of a pickup truck and took it on the road with a collection of 200 works on paper, with the goal of "making printmaking accessible to the masses."
Since then, Drive-By Press has amassed the largest-known collection of contemporary prints by U.S. resident artists. And Nanney, Velasquez, and other artists who have joined the operation have traveled to more than 150 academic institutions and communities throughout the country to share contemporary printmaking trends and techniques through lectures, demonstrations and salon-style print exhibitions. They also use their "mobile printmaking studio" to print relief blocks on shirts and posters for purchase.
Nanney and Velasquez will be at ISU Oct. 25-27.