Fort Worden State Park

Holiday Open House at Copper Canyon Press and Corvidae Press

Copper Canyon Press is hosting a Holiday Open House on Friday, December 12, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. During the Open House, all books, signed books, limited editions, letterpress broadsides, and CDs will be sold at special holiday prices; poetry buttons will be free and treats will be provided.

Award-winning poet Emily Warn will read from her new book, Shadow Architect, at 5:30. Chinese translator Red Pine will likely make an appearance (not to read, but to eat, drink, and talk shop).

Copper Canyon is a non-profit publisher dedicated to poetry. Located in Port Townsend, Washington, since 1975, the press has received national awards and attention for its work, including the Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, and features in The New York Times, NPR’s Fresh Air, and PBS’s Lehrer NewsHour.

Copper Canyon Press is easy to find:  Enter Fort Worden at Cherry Street and continue straight through the intersection, past Building 204, to the end of the road. Copper Canyon is Building 313, located right across from the gymnasium. Look for the holiday lights.

Across the street from Copper Canyon is Corvidae Press. They will also be hosting a Holiday Open House and print sale at the same time. Members of the printmaking collective will be offering their artwork for sale, and visitors can learn about the art of printmaking.

Printmaker Elizabeth Dove at Fort Worden June 20-21

Printmaker Elizabeth Dove will speak June 20th at Building 204 at 7 pm as a guest of Corvidae Press, the Port Townsend printmaking guild. The talk is free and open to the public. The next day, June 21st, Dove will give an in-studio demo-workshop at the Press in Building 205, beginning at 8:30 am. The cost of the demo-workshop is $45 per person.

Ms. Dove is a printmaker and photographer currently residing in Missoula, Montana. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, University of Montana. Professor Dove is responsible for undergraduate and graduate students, teaching all printmaking disciplines, photography, and special courses integrating printmaking, photography and digital media.

She has conducted extensive research into non–toxic printmaking processes, taught dozens of workshops at colleges and universities, received funding to study the integration of digital technology and traditional printmaking practices, and has published her research in the books The Contemporary Printmaker and Non–toxic Intaglio Printmaking, and the British journal “Printmaking Today". Elizabeth received her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, and her MFA from Vermont College.

Ms. Dove’s own work is based on traditional printmaking practices (concerns with repetition, imprinting, and the matrix) but has expanded in media to include earthworks, site specific sculpture and installation. Her main interests are investigating the passage of time, subjective scientific methods, and how one's body can register and can communicate history and memories.

Corvidae Press, in residence with Centrum, is a guild of some 35 members working on various printmaking techniques in their newly renovated studio in Building 205, Fort Worden. Contact: Bill Curtsinger 360-774-0750

http://www.corvidaepress.com/CorvidaePressNews.html

Corvidae Press

Centrum is pleased to announce the successful creation of a new printmaking guild at Fort Worden. Corvidae Press has taken responsibility for the print studio in Building 205. Members have worked diligently to rehab the studio, and have added another press to the studio space. We'll post news and information from Corvidae here, and we look forward to great art coming out of the Press.