WELCOME TO BIRMINGHAM'S PRINTMAKING CO-OP!

Nosotros offering Etching, Intaglio, Lithography, Relief & Digital facilities. We are committed to non-toxic printmaking in a community workspace with membership and monthly workshops available.

2022 Inaugural Alabama Printmaking Briefing

Paperworkers Local is excited to partner with the Alabama Visual Arts Network and Samford Academy Fine art Gallery to present the countdown Alabama Printmaking Briefing in Birmingham in July. The conference will take place July 14-July 17, 2022 and will include an exhibition of visiting printmakers, Liz Chalfin and Noah Breuer, at the Samford University Art Gallery. Following the opening dark on Thursday, July 14th from v-8pm , each guest artist volition give artists talks at Samford Art Gallery. Liz Chalfin will give her talk on Fri, July 15th at 6pm. Noah Breuer volition present his artist talk on Sat, July 16th at 6pm. Both artists volition teach workshops at Paperworkers Local on Saturday, July xvi and Sunday, July 17. Registration is below.

Liz Chalfin

Liz Chalfin is founding director of Zea Mays Printmaking, a professional printmaking studio, located in western Massachusetts. Since its founding in 2000, ZMP'southward mission has been to provide a space and community to learn, create and promote prints fabricated with the safest processes available. Zea Mays Printmaking collaborates with artists, studios and schools effectually the globe to share innovations in non-toxic and sustainable printmaking.

Liz volition atomic number 82 a Coffee Lift Workshop. This is an etching technique that allows the artist to create beautiful brushwork that is etched into copper. It'southward similar to Saccharide Elevator, merely offers a wider range of marker making possibilities.

Saturday, July 16, 10am-4pm

Noah Breuer

Noah Breuer is an American artist originally from Berkeley, California. His creative work examines themes of family, identity, labor and diaspora. Breuer holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Columbia University and a graduate enquiry certificate in traditional woodblock printmaking and paper-making from Kyoto Seika Academy in Japan.

Noah volition lead a Woodblock Flag Printing Workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to impress their designs on a variety of fabrics and papers and apply colour and symbolism to make a personal or political statement through their artwork.

Sunday, July 17, 10am-4pm

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2717 Seventh Ave South, Suite 203

Birmingham, AL 35233

Hours
We are open to the public
Saturdays 11am–4pm, and past appointment

paperworkerslocal@gmail.com

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PaperWorkers Local is a not-profit artists' co-operative established the summer of 2013 in Birmingham, Alabama. Nosotros are a group of artists actively working to promote the understanding and appreciation of art also as to create opportunities for artists in and nearly Birmingham, and across. We do that by building community among Birmingham's printmakers, providing professional person-quality studio and exhibition space and by providing workshops at all levels. Since 2013 nosotros have operated a co-operative work space where nosotros also offer workshops and host public fine art exhibitions and artist's talks.

MISSION

The mission of PaperWorkers Local is to enable and nurture the making, exhibition, and appreciation of original fine art prints and other works of art on paper.

PaperWorkers Local is a resource dedicated to enriching the Birmingham Arts Community through exhibitions, workshops, and classes. We likewise provide affordable studio space, admission to process-oriented equipment, and professional person development opportunities for artist members.

VISION

We believe that:

  • Art-making must be sustained equally an integral aspect of a thriving community.

  • The practice of printmaking, and art-making by and large, tin create a community that cultivates collaboration, innovation and the commutation of ideas.

  • All artists in our region demand access to an affordable, inclusive, professional printmaking facilities.

  • Education and advocacy through art-making can foster new relationships and partnerships between artists and the customs that can amend the quality of life for everyone.

HISTORY

A group of artists of mixed background and education founded PaperWorkers Local in the summer of 2013. Every bit artists who take called to make their homes and base their careers in Birmingham, these artists share a potent desire to take a meaningful local presence. To that cease they take congenital their co-operative around Birmingham'south first and simply publicly accessible printmaking facility.

PaperWorkers Local was established every bit an open, collaborative workspace in society to requite artist printmakers affordable access to professional quality facilities and equipment. The founding artists worked to purchase and recondition presses, tools, and boosted equipment in lodge to provide a functioning studio. This is a space where the public can experience works of fine art and interact with artists in the same studio space where those works take been made. The very wide variety of artmaking processes makes the studio accessible to all sorts of people equally well as very conducive to collaborations and benign dialogues among artists, viewers and patrons.

Since its founding PaperWorkers Local has offered dozens of workshops didactics hundreds of students a variety of printmaking and related art-making techniques. The co-operative organizes near eight art exhibitions every year, both on-site and at other locations, featuring the work of local and nationally recognized artists at all stages of their careers.