What's Next Exchange Portfolio Exhibition
About the exhibition:
Be it the result of rich imagination, a connection to inspiration, or simply the kind of intuition that comes from being in community, artists are often the first to sense and convey the zeitgeist ahead. What if an exhibition could also be a survey of what the collective is tuned into, and the joy of entering the coming moment in good company? In the exhibition “WHAT’S NEXT: 15 Years of Print,” proudly presented by Da Vinci Art Alliance, printmakers from across Philadelphia will celebrate the parts of printmaking that artists can best unlock together: experimentation, fellowship and collective-making.
In honor of BYO Printmaking’s 15-year anniversary, each artist on view has produced an edition of prints in their medium of choice, free from a collective theme, at a common paper size. Portfolio exchanges have a long history in printmaking. Artists each receive a portfolio containing the prints from their colleagues in exchange for their contribution. The practice allows artists to collect one another’s work while celebrating the collaboration inherent to this intricate, process-based artform. This project serves as a springboard for members to imagine the future of the collaborative, and an opportunity for viewers to be let in on this proud printmaking tradition. Prints will be for sale throughout the course of the exhibition and proceeds from those sales will help fund the future of BYO.
BYO Printmaking Collaborative has built an artist collective and workspace that has supported the careers of more than 50 artists by providing reliable workshop space to practice, experiment, and collaborate. The studio has served as a vehicle for artists to launch careers, refine methods, and learn from each other. Founded in 2010 in response to the problem of how to keep making prints after art school, the organization creates low-cost opportunities for printmakers working in relief, intaglio and screenprinting alike—all of which are on view in conversational juxtaposition. An artist alone can make a statement—but artists together make up a movement. Come find out what we are moving toward.
WHAT’S NEXT will be on view in Gallery 2 from May 1 - May 25, 2025 with an opening reception on Sunday, April 4th from 4-7pm.
Closing Reception & Artist Talk: What's Next
Join us at Da Vinci Art Alliance for a closing reception and Artist Talk in celebration of the 2025 member exchange portfolio. Our first exchange portfolio in over ten years, this suite of prints gives a glimpse into the practices of our Studio Artist members. During the artist talk, hear from artists discussing their practice and from the co-founders talk about collaborating with others to plan these kinds of special projects.
This project was curated by Bill Brookover, a member of both BYO Print and Da Vinci Art Alliance.
Second Sundays Drop-in Studio Hours
Pilot Program: SECOND SUNDAYS Open Studios
Announcing the inaugural Drop-In Hours beginning this Sunday, April 13th. The printshop will be open to the public from 12 - 5 pm to visit us for a tour, to inquire about our Open Call, or to do some independent printing. As with any pilot program, we’re testing things out, so bear with us as we sort out rates, policies, and guidelines for printing with us during the Drop-In Hours. The etching presses, intaglio lab, and work tables for screenprinting will be available to use on a first come, first served basis. Screen processing is available with pre-arrangement. Request screen processing here.
General guidelines:
BYO materials, including your matrix, inks, paper and newsprint. Printmakers working during the drop-in hours should be able to work independently after a brief introduction to the studio, where things are, etc. Monitors are not prepared to provide process instruction. (Get in touch ahead of time if you want to schedule one-on-one tutoring by appointment for an additional cost.)
The rate for printing is $12/hour, and is payable via cash, check, PayPal or Venmo before you leave. All printers will be required to sign a Liability Release before beginning work.
printPHILLY!
The Philadelphia Print Consortium is pleased to present the third annual printPHILLY! Print fair. Showcasing over 40 vendors, this one-day fair is FREE and open to the public.
OPEN CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS
Join the Artist Studio Program!
The application will be open through April 30, 2025
The initial term of the Studio Artist Program will be June 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026, with option to extend.
Studio Artist Membership is $125/month and requires a commitment of one year minimum
Membership at BYO Printmaking Collaborative grants you:
24/7 access to the printshop
shared use of equipment and shared calendar to reserve time
ample on-site personal storage
the pleasure of working among a community of like-minded artists.
Collaborative opportunities include group exhibitions, trade prints, workshop hosting, etc
APPLY HERE
15th Anniversary Party!
On the occasion of our 15th anniversary, we are pleased to welcome you to our new printshop! Join us for a celebration of fifteen years of printmaking at BYO Print during First Friday celebrations at Paradigm Arts Building! It’s Paradigm Gallery’s 15th birthday too!
Make your way to the Penthouse (5th) floor to tour the printshop, hear from our founders, and collect swag!
Look out for announcements of additional programming, exhibitions, and events throughout 2025 commemorating our 15th year as a collective of printmakers.
COMMONWEAL: Print making Communities
COMMONWEAL presents:
Print Making Communities
A celebration of the diverse visions and unique voices within our local printmaking collectives and studios.
We hope you can join us on Thursday, March 6th, from 6p - 8p, to celebrate the unique visions and diverse voices that contribute to our printmaking communities. Lite snacks and drinks will be shared. March is National Small Press Month, which typically highlights small literary publishers—who we honor and adore!—but as a gallery focusing on the visual arts, COMMONWEAL is reframing the idea behind these festivities to highlight some of the most dynamic local printmaking collectives and studios that make Philadelphia such an important center for print as an artform.
These small presses not only give professionals cooperative access to tools that are cumbersome to own and expensive to operate and maintain, but also open up printmaking to their fellow community members in order to educate about the technical processes of printmaking and celebrate its ability to express dynamic imagery and explore complex ideas. The gallery is excited to host members and collaborators of BYO Printmaking Collaborative, C.R. Ettinger Studio, Pressure Club Printshop, Second State Press, and Soapbox Community Print Shop, whose prints will be exhibited and available for purchase in COMMONWEAL's design gallery from Thursday, March 6th through Saturday, March 29th.
Opening Reception: Thursday March 6, 2025: 6-8pm
Exhibition: March 6-29, 2025
Visiting Artist: Max Hautala
BYO Printmaking Collaborative welcomes Visiting Artist: Max Hautala!
Visit BYO Print for a sneak peek of the printshop before our grand opening to see the work of our Visiting Artist, Max Hautala!
Max Hautala is a Washington-based woodcut artist with an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His work has been exhibited internationally, from New York City to Seoul, South Korea, and is in collections such as the Franconia Sculpture Park and the Chazen Museum of Art. He taught Illustration and Printmaking at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and led woodcut workshops in Tokyo, Japan. His art reflects personal experiences, exploring both the seen and the felt.
Max Hautala’s (@NoMaxPrint) recent series of multiple-block woodcuts explores identity and symbolism, themes rooted in alternative and sticker culture, while hand-printing their designs. This connects to printmaking’s origins in mass media, fostering personal expression and linking to today’s social sharing culture.
Hautala will be editioning a series of woodcut prints and working on a drypoint etching during his time at BYO Print.
Last Call at Sharktown Studios - MOVING SALE
It’s the final days at our longtime studio at 155 Cecil B Moore Ave. Our last moving sale is concurrent with POST, CFEVA’s Phila Open Studio Tours. Visit other artists in our building who are opening their studios to the public.
October 26th and 27th, from noon - 6pm.
Printmaking supplies, equipment, furniture, miscellany will be available for cheap or free. CASH and CARRY. Cash, Venmo, and PayPal accepted.
PCNY x BYO Print: Mini Monprints
Join New Voices artist Kate VanVliet for this make-n-take style workshop with BYO Print. Using Open Press Project’s miniature 3D printed etching presses, participants can drop in and make prints from small found materials, inspired by the artist’s foraging practice. VanVliet is co-director of BYO Print, an artist-run community printshop in Philadelphia co-founded as an artist collective in 2010.
No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. Materials will be provided. Drop in anytime from 2–5pm.
All programs are free and open to the public. RSVP is encouraged, walk-ins are welcome according to capacity.
Big Summer Book Sale
Big Summer Book Sale
Sunday, July 14, 2024
11AM–5PM
Icebox Project Space (1400 N. American St)
Hosted by Ulises, Icebox Project Space, & FORTUNE
VENDORS:
2C books / Marginal Utility, All Caps Studio, american grammar, Anchovy Studio, BlackStar Projects, BULK Space, BYO Printmaking Collaborative, Common Notions Press & Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore, CYBORG MEMOIRS, First Last, Ginger Arts Center, by Students for the Preservation of Chinatown, H&H Books, Iffy Books, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Leks Kamihira, Lot 49 Books, Many Folds Press, No Arena in Chinatown Solidarity Group, on behalf of Save Chinatown Coalition, Partners and Son, Pet Riso Studio, Reunion Poetry Festival, Second State Press, The Soapbox, Solita, Ulises, Vox Populi, Who Press'd Press, Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project
WE’RE BACK! Our third BIG SUMMER BOOK SALE will feature an eclectic mix of bookstores, print collectives, artist-run projects — from comics to wearable multiples, from self-published zines to discounted art books (care of Ulises!) — as we celebrate printed matter among friends and family, in its many popular, social, and liberatory forms.
Come visit 25 Philly-based vendors plus a few out-of-town guests, as they share their print wares, in one place! Sunday, July 14th from 11AM–5PM, at Icebox Project Space. Hosted by Ulises, Icebox Project Space, and FORTUNE. Cash bar, free hot dogs rolling (while supplies last), and a raffle every hour on the hour.
Poster designed by Nick Massarelli
ACCESSIBILITY INFO:
Icebox Project Space, located within the Crane Arts Building, is wheelchair accessible. There is limited accessible parking at the front of the building, and a ramp leading into the main entrance. The main building door is not automated. Once inside the building, there are no steps leading into Icebox Project Space.
Two all-gender bathrooms with multiple stalls are available for use — one with urinals, one without, and both with 1–2 wheelchair-accessible stall(s). Armless folding chairs will be available for sitting.
There is an HVAC system that incorporates HEPA filtration, and additional air purifiers will be staggered throughout the main event space.
Alcohol will be served at the event, and food will include vegan and gluten-free options. Masking is encouraged while not eating or drinking.
The Earth Has A Fever
Panel Discussion - What U Can Do: Sunday, July 14 from 2-4pm
A GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY BILL BROOKOVER
Featuring a wide array of printmaking techniques, the works in this immersive exhibition aim to change the conversation around the climate crisis by approaching it first from a place of emotion. Art may not be capable of revolutionary change in the world, but art consists of ideas embedded in objects. Those ideas can create new ways of understanding and connecting with the world around us.
Artists:
Rhonda Babb, Tanya Brassie, Art Brener, Bill Brookover, John Formicola, Linda Dubin Garfield, Andrea Krupp, Patricia Shaw Lima, Jenn Manzella, Tony Rosati, Patty Smith, Elizabeth Stricker, Margo Tassi, Kate VanVliet, DVAA
Print Day in May
Please join both SecondStatePress and BYOPrint in celebrating Print Day in May. Print Day in May celebrates the art and community in printmaking .
We are joined by BYOPrint demoing ‘Fold-Your-Own One Page Zines’ designed by BYO Members and a DIY zine station. BYO will also be selling Philly Scenes Silkscreens on Tyvek that will help fund their move from their current Cecil B Moore Building into a building shared by paradigmgs in Old City!
Second State Press will be demoing live T-shirt Printing featuring a print day design and another TBD design on white (donated) shirts or bring your own items to print on. We will also be holding a surplus sale of silkscreens, plastisol ink, and other art supply items to support our programming at Crane Arts.
Live on American St, Saturday May 4th 12-4pm !!!
Everyday Futures Festival Block Party
Organized by Da Vinci Art Alliance, and held on the 700 block of Catherine street in front of Da Vinci and Fleisher. This is free to attend and there will be lots of activities for families as well as music, games and foods.
We’ll be folding up one-page zines for anyone who visits our table, featuring contributions from 8 artist members of the studio. We’ll also have a DIY area with coloring materials and stamps to make your own one-page zine. All free!
PrintPHILLY
Hosted by the Philadelphia Print Consortium at University of the Arts
We’ll be selling prints, portfolios, and coupons for printing time for that final push of fundraising before we start our big move. Chat with us about what’s on the horizon and how you too can work at BYO Printmaking Collaborative.
Free Library Embossing Workshops
February 3, 2-5 pm
Free Library of Philadelphia - Haverford
5543 Haverford Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19139
February 17, 2-5 pm
Free Library of Philadelphia - Greater Olney Branch
5501 N Fifth St, Philadelphia, PA 19120
We are pleased to announce 3 upcoming free workshops presented in support of The Art and Influence of John Dowell, an exhibition at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
BYO Print is leading blind emboss printing workshops, in which woodcuts, letterpress blocks, and other relief are printed without ink onto dampened paper to create a puffed up print, encouraging the viewer to use touch rather than sight to experience the work. This is inspired by a series of facsimile prints at the John Dowell exhibition, which are printed with an ink that puffs up so blind and visually impaired persons can view the work.
At the opening, John stressed that his work should be easily accessible to the public here in Philadelphia - his home. This premise guided his decision to donate work to the Library. It’s an exquisite show of his own prints and prints made as master printer in collaboration with other artists. The show is truly breathtaking - go see it this winter in the Prints and Pictures and Rare Books departments.