Atelier Meridian is a working print studio and artist community in Portland’s Lower Albina neighborhood. It is a spacious art studio with 24 hour access to the presses for members and goodwill to artists and the curious who drop in for the occasional workshop, monotype session, or cup of tea.
Behind the big garage door live a big Takach etching press; an electric Dickson press; an Ettan etching press; a Chandler and Price platen letterpress; and shelves of all those other pins, brayers, rosin boxes, rollers, and smushers helpful for pulling woodcuts, collographs, etchings (there’s acid), solarplates, screenprints, letterpress and monotypes.
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Anchored among the worktables and inks is master printer and co-founder Jane Pagliarulo. Good to have on hand either in the backcountry or at the wheel, Pagliarulo brings years of experience in monotype, etching, and lithography from the plateaus of Santa Fe and the valleys of the Cascades. If you would like to stop by to tour the studio, call Jane at 503-729-9013. The print shop is located at 665 North Tillamook Street, half a block East of Interstate Avenue. Find us on |
and FREE FRIDAYS: If you take a workshop from Atelier Meridian then you get to come in and print unassisted, free every Friday for the next two months. Includes brown & black ink, solvents & newsprint. Click here to find out about upcoming workshops.
Even if you're not an artist, perhaps you know one. Give the gift of printmaking! Atelier Meridian has gift certificates available in any denomination. Choose a dollar figure or fill in the blank with a month of membership, an 8-punch pass, or choose a workshop. It's easy! You can pay by Paypal and we can e-mail you a pdf gift certificate.
| FRIDAY, March 9th - Bryn Harding tells us what tall, creative young people know about soft ground copper plate etching. |
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Join us for a free monthly social gathering at Atelier Meridian - Ink & Drink.
A good print studio runs on comraderie as much as its fine presses. One Friday a month everyone is invited – members and gawkers alike – to come in and have those conversations you'd meant to have during the week but found your head too deep in the acid to engage. There will be drinks and snacks and Someone Special coming in to show and tell something you’d been wondering about anyway.
Ink & Drink - despite its moniker - is kid-friendly! Kids are invited to come and make art with wreckless abandon in our spacious, cement-floored studio.
In conjunction with Westminster Cloisters’ 4th biennial fine arts show and the Oregon Haiku Society, we encourage artists and non-artists alike to participate in a collaborative Woodcut Printing Workshop every Monday night in January, 6-9 pm at Atelier Meridian. (It’s not necessary to make all of the sessions.) A portion of the proceeds from sales of the art will be donated to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for victims of the Japanese tsunami.
We have organized several special woodcut projects: Prayer Flags combining wood block prints and Haiku, in a collaboration with the Oregon Haiku Society, and Paper Lanterns made from your print.
At the end of the month we will collaborate to also print your block on cloth prayer flags and colorful Japanese rice paper to make the lanterns which will be adorned with haiku by way of silk screen. We hope to hang the flags in front of Westminster Presbyterian Church in late February, preceding their biennial art show. We welcome your participation! for more information, http://www.ateliermeridian.com/westpresprints/
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We are running a winter special for new members - Bring a Trio of printmakers and all 3 will get half price membership for winter! For details, click here. TRIO* |
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