HEY remember that one time the other day i posted a 4000 pixel wide image on the main page of the PDD because I momentarily forgot (or arguably never knew) how to use a computer??? Yeah that was AWESOME!! I hope I do it NINE MORE TIMES!!! Anyway here’s a charming reminder, with the official press release, about the Sustainability Show which opens this SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 4-7pm, AS220 Main Gallery, 115 Empire St. Providence, RI. It’s also FREE, and there will be food pot-luck-style, so BYOwhatevs.
Press release following the jump.

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Sustainability Print Show!
The opening is this SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd 2008 from 4-7pm at The AS220 Main Gallery space, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903. It’s also FREE!
Print Show by Just Seeds Visual Arts Cooperative & Thirty+ RI Artists, including (but not limited to! and possibly inaccurate in some instances!):
Mary Tremonte, Josh MacPhee, Bec Young, Pete Yahnke, Meredith Stern, Dylan Miner, Colin Matthes, Erik Ruin, Beatrice McGeoch, Raphael Lyons, Cybele Collins, Michaela Colette Zacchilli, Mike Taylor, Monica Majewski, Scott Noise, Delia Kovac, Tim Patterson, Jenine Bressner, Jola Bielat, Meg Turner, Xander Marro, Caroline Paquita, Jen Daltry, Amber Schulz, Andrew Oesch, Sarah Ryan, Jean Cozzens, Will Schaff, Lu Heintz, Erin Rosenthal, Shawn Gilheeney, Ben Fino-Radin, Anna Shapiro, Jomas Daconceicao.
Come thru! Bring snacks or whatevs, I think its gonna be potluck styleeesssss!!!!!! Suckah!

It’s Saturday, September 27th! Print Lottery is tonight, 7-10pm @ 115 Empire St. (AS220). I keep promising cake, and that keeps being a lie. But FOR REAL this time, there’s gonna be like, 200 cupcakes and a bunch of wicked awesome vegan cookies, I SWEAR TO YOU. Not to mention, 200+ prints, 200+ artists, 200+ WINNERS!!!!! If you haven’t already bought your ticket, you MAY be shit out of luck but there also MAY be a couple tickets sold at the door so GET THERE EARLY and bring $75!!! Or just show up for the hell of it, it’s going to be a total shit show!
If you can’t buy a ticket, THAT’S COOL, drink Narragansett at the bar tonight and all profits go to the printshop!
See you there!

This Saturday is pretty packed with stuff to do, and I understand how easy it is to get distracted/side-tracked/drunk. But stay focused, friend! Because the AS220’s FIRST Biennial Print Lottery Show comes to a dramatic close Saturday, September 27th, 7pm @ 115 Empire Street. It’s kind of early in your sinful evening, so you’ll still have a chance to get married or whatever at Woolly Fair and since you’re not going to bother going to the RISD Museum Chace Center grand opening anyway, that won’t be a conflict.

So! Come to the Print Lottery closing, buy a ticket for $75 if you can, and take home an awesome surprise print as a gift! From 7-10pm prints will be handed out like candy, CAKE WILL BE SERVED (for real this time) we’ll have free booze too (i THINK), but anyway there will definitely be something to put in your mouth, and from 10pm-1am some BANDS will play. How jealous are you?
Buy your ticket online right this second in realtime!!

OH MAN this month is BUMPING, if you missed the free open workshop last saturday you totally missed out, and it’s probably my fault for forgetting to post it…

BUT ANYWAY, THIS Saturday, September 20th @ 6:30 there will be two amazing guest lectures starring Gretchen Wagner, curatorial assistant for the museum of modern art (MOMA!)’s department of prints & illustrated books and printmaker/educator (associate professor in the printmaking dept. at RISD) Mr. Andrew Raftery!

This is part of the AS220 community printshop’s one-year anniversary celebration!! The event is totally free and EVERYBODY IS WELCOME!!!

It’ll take place at AS220’s performance space (115 Empire St. Providence, RI 02903) @ 6:30 on september 20th, 2008 (to be intentionally redundant)!  For a slightly more detailed & coherent official press-release sort of situation, see the printshop website.

ALSO DON’T FORGET to buy your ticket for the print lottery before they run out!!!!!! tickets are $75, all proceeds benefit the printshop, and EVERY TICKET is guaranteed a print! You can buy tickets online here or at the bar at 115 empire st. from 5pm-1am! and to see all the prints you COULD win, stop by 115 empire st. and check out the show that’s up in the performance space from now til sept 27th!!!!!!

hope to see you!! <3<3

so, ok. Print month at AS220; it’s actually more like printmake month, printmaking month, printshop month, printlotto month, raisefundsforyourlocalnonprofitcommunityprintshopmonth. anyway, we’ve got a lot going on. there are some SERIOUSLY brutal events this month, all of which are pretty much free, so keep your eyes peeled. here is some info below, and i’ll be sure to keep you informed.

of course, there’s always the monthly classes! you can check those out at the as220 shop: as220.org/shop

Monday, September 1st
Extra Special Open House & Shop Orientation

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HEY SO there’s a poster/print show this FRIDAY @ 5 Traverse Gallery on the corner of wickenden st. and traverse st (a.k.a next to kabloom, across from the utrecht parking lot– have a latte at coffee xxx-change, eat some cous cous). it’s an OPEN SHOW which means ANYONE can show up and put their prints/posters/flyers/p-copies/l-press/litho-graph-y/s-skreens/etchings/openbitez/soft embosses/pulp prints/etc etc etc up on the wall. maybe some dudes will buy some stuff!
as jay z (local jay z, not beyonce’s jay-z) would say: “IT IS WHAT U MAKE IT”. some come through and MAKE IT GOOD!!!!! more »

Every month the printshop has classes, but most months I forget to post them on the Dose, which is entirely foolish.
FORTUNATELY, this month (the good month of June), i remembered! but enough about me. let’s talk about YOU (and your post-accredited pseudo-underground alternative learning experience). more »

Michaela Zacchilli is an amazing graphic artist and sender of insane missives like the one below. If I were you I’d be scared not to go to this, she’d probably show up at your house and start drawing on your face. 

hello hello hello, dear friends!
plz join us @ narwhal arms (mathewson/washington–above blake’s) this SATURDAY may 3rd 11am-3pm for DIRTY/CHEAP PRINT-BRUNCH (a tiny
fundraising event for as220 community printshop!), which involves FREE
brunchy-type food items (like, HELLO, vegan LENTIL SOUP not brunchy
more lunchy but whatevs, free COFFEE i’m gonna drink it all so watch
out BAGELS which are hard to come by i hear and really brutal PANCAKES
personally flipped by yours truly that may or may not be gluten free
just to keep it alt-lyfe u know; anyway) and besides all the free
food, bring your dolla$$$$ ‘cuz we going to have a wicked cheap print
sale (some nice prints&posters from $3-$15!!!!!!!!!!!) AND a RAFFLE
(raffle is the new keg party) for a print and a fish pillow (which
bleeds authentic fire). it’s going to be really special (friends).
p.s. ALL $$ from prints sold goes to p-shop (aka as220 community
printshop).

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Well! Classes for February filled up so fast I didn’t really have time to post the schedule, but March is well on it’s way and there’s still room in most of the classes!! I’m only going to post the classes that have space left, but you can see what you’re missing out on in the calendar. Also, there is now a $10 general shop materials fee included in the cost of the classes. Regardless of the fee, some outside supplies may be required. Our official site is here. Myspace here.

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join us TODAY january 26th, from 5pm-9pm at the AS220 Community Print Shop for our POST HOLIDAY CRAFT PARTY PARTY REDUX (a wholesome crafty get-together).

Make some post-holiday presents and cards or tigers or whatever using pom-poms and glitter and pipe cleaner ’cause you haven’t since shortly after you were a fetus!!! “F” ART LETS GET CRAFTY!!!!!!!!!!! BYOB and BYOS (bring your own supplies!). We will provide AWESOME food and drink! AND we have an IPOD!!! Also, it ENDS AT NINE so you can enjoy your regularly scheduled presumably less-than wholesome Saturday night!

FYI, AS220 Community Print Shop is located at 95 Mathewson St. #210 in sunny downtown Providence, Rhode Island! Buzz #210 and come up to the 2nd fl, first star on your right and straight on til morning! For more info on the print shop, call Morgan (401.831.9327 x 112), email Morgan (morgan@as220.org), visit the myspace or the official website, or stop by for a quick peek!