Announcing PRINT TIME — a monthlong exhibition and programming series dedicated to print culture, community publishing, and their surrounding ecosystems. PRINT TIME opens Thursday, July 10 at Icebox Project Space, and features large-scale printworks by Erik Ruin, Jarrah May, Kocot & Hatton, and Olivia Fredricks. Free workshops led by FORTUNE, Rayhan Blankinship, Justin J. Keller, and Robert Baxter on weekends to follow. Offerings listed below!


Opening Night Reception:
Thur, July 10 from 6–9PM

Celebrate the work of participating artists: Erik Ruin, Jarrah May, Kocot & Hatton and Olivia Fredricks. Explore the PRINT TIME workshops space and more details about upcoming programs. 


RISO 101 w/ FORTUNE
Sat, July 12 from 1–4PM 

Learn RISO basics with FORTUNE, including machine parts, use history, scanning techniques, and lite troubleshooting. You'll walk away with a set of collaborative prints, and knowledge with which to approach future RISO encounters confidently and/or curiously.



Zine Forest w/ Rayhan Blankinship
Fri, July 18 from 1–5PM

Enter into the dense, leafy and wild world of zines: In this workshop you'll learn a brief history of zines, then play an exquisite corpse style comics game. Participants will also have the opportunity to create their own 8 page mini zine about a topic of their choosing; for example, a niche interest or a short story. We will go over how to make a 2-color 2-layer print on a classic printer used for zines, the mighty Riso. Participants will leave with their own zine!


IN THE QUIET: A Public Printmaking & Family Archive Workshop w/ Justin J. Keller 
Sat, July 19 from 1–4:30PM 

This workshop is a multimedia alternative printmaking and photo archive workshop centered around reconnecting with our familial lineages (see footnote for alternative printmaking description). Within this space participants will engage in creating monotypes of their family photos and/or photos of Philadelphia throughout different time periods. Along with this, we will be discussing the importance of the archive and how to maintain your own archives!


RISO Maintenance Workshop w/ Robert Baxter 
Sat, July 26 from 1–4PM

In this 3-hour session for press operators we'll go over standard techniques, policies, and tools for maintaining a risograph, along with basic parts replacement, common repairs, and drum safety. These tactical skills will be grounded in philosophies of repair and best practices when running a duplicator.


BIG SUMMER BOOK SALE
Sunday, July 27 from 11AM–5PM

Our fourth BIG SUMMER BOOK SALE is here featuring an eclectic mix of 30 bookstores, print collectives and artist-run projects. From comics to wearable multiples, from self-published zines to discounted art books (care of Ulises!), join in the celebration of printed matter in its many popular, social and liberatory forms.
 



PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

OLIVIA FREDRICKS
JARRAH MAY
ERIK RUIN
KOCOT AND HATTON


​Olivia Fredricks is a printmaker and illustrator. She received an MFA in Printmaking at Tyler School of Art and Architecture and a BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in printmaking at the University of Arkansas School of Art. Her work has been shown in numerous shows around the country, including the Screenprint Biennial, PrintAustin Expo, International Print Center New York, and Art on Paper. She recently completed an apprenticeship at Fabric Workshop and Museu
m in Philadelphia.

Jarrah May is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. A printmaker by training and a photographer by habit, his work focuses on the sensory experience of existing in cities.This body of work examines the ongoing push-and-pull between the built environment and untended nature, seeking to document the minutiae of these exchanges. Incorporating images collected using a flatbed scanner, the work makes its own spontaneous interventions, recontextualizing the city’s materials and asking viewers to encounter this excess of information: crumble and decay, regrowth, and reappropriations of structure. Jarrah holds a BFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art. He works as a bike messenger Year-round.


Erik Ruin is a Michigan-raised, Philadelphia-based printmaker, shadow puppeteer, paper-cut artist, etc., who has been lauded by the New York Times for his "spell-binding cut-paper animations." His work oscillates between the poles of apocalyptic anxieties and utopian yearnings, with an emphasis on empathy, transcendence and obsessive detail. He frequently works collaboratively with musicians, theater performers, other artists and activist campaigns. He is a founding member of the international Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, and co-author of the book Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (w/ Cindy Milstein, PM Press, 2012). Current projects include the Ominous Cloud Ensemble, an ever-evolving, collectively-improvising large ensemble for projections and music. 


We, Marcia Kocot and Tom Hatten, met as students at PAFA. Soon after, we found ourselves visiting PMA and galleries together and critiquing each other’s work. Eventually our mutual trust led to physically “adjusting” each other’s work. Over close to six decades we have been working on projects together. Our concepts drove the choice of medium, often working in unfamiliar territory, adding sound, photography, video, sculpture etc. to our love of painting. In 1973 we made a long term commitment to our Ten-Year Portrait Project and our “collaboration”. Its was our way to learn to paint together. We were rewarded with PMA acquiring five of these diptychs. We are always trying to find new areas for art to be created in, from our smallest work DNA, consisting of one each of our public hairs attached to our letterhead to our largest (proposed) A Life Size Photograph of the Empire State Building.

In the late 1960s and early 70s women were rarely exhibited and collaborative work even less. Galleries informed us that collectors didn’t believe collaboration was real and saw it as just a “temporary fad”. Knowing it wasn’t made by a single artist would “devalue the work” and it could not be taken seriously. People did not believe we would continue working together and succeed.They were wrong. In this environment to publicly promote our work we were known as Tom Hatten, Hatten & Co. and XandTHatten and numerous others. Our proposal (under the name Hatten Co.) to six museums across the country to build The First piece of Art for the Moon, was met with examples such as one from MOMA that was addressed to “Dear Sirs”. Our first exhibition under both names Scale Ratio a work for two sites was at Moore College of Art andJessica Berwind Gallery (Richard Torchia, curator). This installation included the largest painting we have ever created. Painting is our foundation, but our approaches to it are not academic. For example many works over decades have been done in a Hypnopompic state. The bridge between being asleep and being awake. Our work in general is about working in the “betweenspace” (evident in Outside/Inbetween/Inside installation at Larry Becker Contemporary Art). The between space is not only regarding what is built into the physical state of the work, but also the union of collaboration.