Category: Get Involved

Valentine Pop-Up Shop!

Saturday, Feb 11:  12-3 pm

VALENTINE POP-UP SHOP!
Come out to and see the lovely ladies of Polka! Press print up the Valentine of your heart’s desire!
For a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, we’ll be printing up our Valentine’s! See how they’re made–swing by, say hello and get one hot off the press!
We’re sure to be swimming in a sea of hearts by the afternoon’s end.
Hope to see you there!

Polka! Press, 2717 Atwood Ave

Recall Walker T-Shirt Printing!

Bring your own blank T-shirt(s) and have them screenprinted (or print them yourself!) with an artistic Recall Walker woodcut design.

Light to medium-colored shirts work best, flat fabric, no pockets.

Friday Nov 25
1-3 PM
Polka Press, 2717 Atwood Ave
By Donation

Contact: Ted at kinbote@charter.net or 241-0259

Polka Press promotes a vital local printmaking culture through affordable
education and collaboration of participants of all skill levels.

http://polka-press.com

Gallery Night: October 14

Join Polka! Press celebrate our inaugural Gallery Night on October 14, 2011 from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.!

We will have prints on display, which will also be available for sale, as well as food, home-baked goodies and beer.

Participating artists include: Heather Buechler, Barry Carlsen, Erica Hess, Christina King, Emily Maryniak, Ted McManus, Max White and Sara Wrzesinski

We are really excited to be participating and look forward to seeing you all there!

Moveable Type Truck coming to Polka Press!

Moveable Type Truck & Polka-Press Open House/Open Print

Where: Polka-Press 2717 Atwood Ave.

When: 5-8PM

Format: Hands-on, Demo, Awesomeness

Cost: Free (Donations suggested/welcome to support Moveable Type)

All the way from Power and Light Press of Portland, OR comes the Moveable Type Truck! They’re a mobile letterpress truck that will be chucking out prints along with our little Showcard from 5-8pm on Wednesday Sept. 7, 2011. Come try your hand at letterpress printing, buy prints, drink beer and just hang out with your awesome friends at Polka! Press! No experience necessary!

To find out more about the Type Truck, visit http://www.type-truck.com

Screen Print Recall Posters w/Ted!

Screenprint Posters to Recall Scott Walker!
Sat Sept 3, 1-4 PM
Polka Press, 2717 Atwood Ave

Sign up for 1 hour (1-color poster) or 2 hours (2-color poster)
Contact Ted at kinbote@charter.net or 241-0259

Screenprint colorful political posters with old-fashioned ink on paper!
No experience necessary!

Print all the posters you can in an hour! You’ll be set up with a
already-prepared screen and a squeegee. Choose your color of paper and ink,
and you’re ready to print. Optionally bring a friend to help hang your
prints to dry, and you can take turns with the squeegee. When done, take
your stack of posters home and hang them up around your neighborhood!

This week’s poster design comes in a 1-color version (1 hour, $15) and a
2-color version (2 hours, $25). Images here:

http://webpages.charter.net/kinbote/misc/Poster1a-DontLet.jpg

http://webpages.charter.net/kinbote/misc/Poster1b-DontLet.jpg

We are now known as POLKA PRESS!

The votes are in and MPC is now Polka Press!
It won 10 to 6 over Heavy Little Press.

Polka Press, still carries all the ideals of MPC and it’s mission remains the same: to promote a vital and local printmaking culture through affordable education and collaboration of participants of all skill levels. 
To help communicate this we will be adding a sort of tagline after Polka Press, e.g. Polka Press: A Printmaking Community. or Polka Press: Gemütlicheit & Printmaking. That sort of thing!

In the meantime you can expect to see a transition to the new name over the next couple of days (blogs, emails, facebook etc.).
Do not be alarmed! We’re still the same friendly faces of the former MPC.

Thank you so much for your time and cooperation during this change!

-Polka Press