Nappy Gram
Grambling State Uni
Sends postcards out to support students
Everything I do is political, and I want to make it that way and try and change things in my way
Pile of bricks
Forever shop, everyone is welcome to try letterpress printing. More experiences you have in life, the better your life is. A lot of time letterpress printing is restrained to universities or print studios so the shop tries to widen the participation of letterpress. In a neighbourhood, a space (3000sq ft space) was messy when first visited the space, friend said, it just looks like a pile of bricks and name stuck. To experience letterpress and try and make positive change, something I can offer
Social media is great to contact with other say printers in other parts of the county and world but we need physical contact
Poster house museum, great to acknowledge letterpress posters. Hard to find things at times as a lot was ephemera and was thrown out after use and display
Working directly in a studio, good to make and do, bigger variety of work to do. In an academic sense you do some and think about some, makes you a more whole person. Life and experiences, the more experiences the better your life.
You don’t stop teaching when you’re dead, you just stop learning. Always learn from any printer, everyone has a different approach
‘Fuck you I fuck myself’, maybe the poster that caused most controversy. It was censored from an exhibition at a University. One that had highest authority Alabama doing and exhibition, printed on Alabama maps, the text was about immigration and Alabama passing hard immigration laws. Had to remove images of governors from poster for the exhibition.
I like it when people have to confront things they are uncomfortable about.
Limitations of craft make you more creative, requires you to work within limits and limitations can galvanise the imagination. Have we explored its full potential?
Amos likes Russian constructive work- windows on the war book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11470861-windows-on-the-war
Huge posters about propaganda
Involved in all issues, which side are you on? What are you doing to correct these instances? The question is to what degree are you for social justice?
Sometimes wondered why I took on a commission, see myself as a sloppy printer at times. Like to see how I feel and let the process lead. Caught in an idea of perfection, everything the same. In the real world everything is different, imitate the real world instead. Everything is a little off and really we are all a little off. The mark of the maker.
WPA posters, everyone needs to see them and needs the book in their collection. https://www.printcollection.com/collections/wpa-posters
Need to elevate art in communities so it is part of the communities.
How do you decide what to print, so many things to talk about and so many issues in the news? Sometimes its in the moment, I printed a few things about Covid. Sometimes its because something strikes me. I printed a few posters about murdered children in Chicago. Ting about having a press is you can print the things you want to. Sometimes when there is a great disturbance its best to wait til the calm to then make your voice heard. You should have one subject that you devote 60% of your time to, and then another at 20% and others at 1% but the 1 % will make a small change and then these changes will add up. We need to loose the negativity that defines society at the moment. Every little step leads us somewhere.
Posters kind of democratise art for me. Stopped making books for now as they take so long.
Belief in multiples and the value in people having access to work. If the viewer wants the piece I have created we have connected on that level. When you make something you leave a part of you with it. There’s something in the making, people who pick up the work either feel it or see it. It helps to build the world we want to live in, live in. as ate of happiness and we should try and work towards a world that shows that.
My favourite piece of my own work is the piece always choose happy
36pt to me is like 12pt to someone else’s use uses text. Posters need to be able to be read across the room
Printing is my meditation, gives me so much joy
Cooper black, franklin gothic look very good on posters to me and are my favourites
Printing means you do multiples so means you can exhibit in several places. I like my work in libraries so people can see it. To make one person happy for a little bit of time is an important thing. Would like people to feel good about themselves and happy to be ‘me’ when viewing work.
Ella Baker, Jo Anne Robinson are inspirations
Need more art teachers, more workshops and education. Need printers to go out into the communities and demo.
Want to do a big poster talking about the public citizen, not the private citizen as is usually talked about.
Favourite poster is, I am A Man, poster. I Am A Brother UK poster, sometimes seen as the first mass branding poster
I asked.. What have you found is the best way to start conversation and change in local communities? Eg, workshops, exhibitions etc?
To be an example of what you want. Use all the recourses you have available. Activate change and to be the changes. Bring that change and take your change out into the world and activate it.
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