Jim Pollock: Thirty Year Retrospective
Man oh man, I wish I had time to head to Chicago later this month. I would definitely get in line for rock-poster artist Jim Pollock’s Thirty Year Retrospective at Galerie F on June 24 and 25. Pollock’s linocuts have always been favorites for their crude beauty, simple colors, and occasional imperfections. His work is […]
Haight Street Art Center at Bottlerock
It looks like a good time has been had by all at Bottlerock this year, especially if you visited the Haight Street Art Center’s remote printing studio. On Friday, those at the music festival to hear Stevie Wonder could leave with a print by Chris Shaw. On Saturday, fans of Florence + the Machine could […]
John Moehring, Seattle’s Trippiest Rock-Poster Artist of the 1960s
The first time I met John Moehring was in a bar in Seattle—he nursed a Perrier, I did the same with a beer. The occasion was the release of Scott McDougall’s Split Fountain Hieroglyphics, whose focus is the psychedelic concert posters produced in Seattle from 1966 to 1969, and whose pages are crammed with Moehring’s […]
How Ink Is Made
Thanks, Pearl Jam, for the Spring Posters
It is just us, or have the posters for spring 2016 tour been even better than usual?
How the Smithsonian Flattens Paper
The other night at Moonalice’s 420 event, a TRPS member suggested we do more programming about paper-conservation techniques. Coincidentally, I just came across this video produced by the National Postal Museum at the Smithsonian. It’s actually one of several videos and pages at the National Postal Museum devoted to Preservation. Let us know if you […]
