As March involves a detailed, New York Metropolis ushers in Print Week with the thirty fourth version of the Worldwide Superb Print Sellers Affiliation (IFPDA) Truthful on the Park Avenue Armory and the Brooklyn Superb Artwork Print Truthful at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus. To have a good time the facility of the press, Hyperallergic has put collectively the next information of city-based print retailers and publishers for artists of any stage to consult with of their editioned endeavors.
The non-exhaustive checklist beneath brings collectively old-school staples and contemporary faces on the block, every with their very own amenities and companies to assist artists notice their serial potential. Some spots supply membership-based unbiased studio entry and introductory technical programs, whereas others make sure that a grasp printer handles your concepts with care each step of the way in which. From DIY risograph zines for native organizing to masterfully crafted positive artwork prints that increase the boundaries of various methods, New York Metropolis’s wealth of print and publishing areas is sure to fulfill the wants of virtually any venture.
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Elizabeth Basis for the Arts, 323 West thirty ninth Avenue, Garment District, Manhattan | rbpmw-efanyc.org
Chakaia Booker, “Untitled (CB.01.25)” (2025) (picture courtesy Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop)
Grasp printer Robert Blackburn opened this beloved metropolis staple, initially known as the Printmaking Workshop, in 1947, making it the longest-running neighborhood print studio in the USA. In 2005, it grew to become a program of the Elizabeth Basis for the Arts and was renamed to honor its founder. True to his mission, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s 6,000-square-foot studio consists of amenities for all conventional printmaking methods in addition to risograph and photo-based processes; lessons participating the obtainable printmaking methods; contract printing companies; and a flat-rate annual studio membership (storage and provides rented individually) that affords entry to all tools and provides, discounted lessons, and low cost eligibility at sure artwork provide retailers. Printed artists embody Chakaia Booker, Baseera Khan, Dindga McCannon, Kenny Rivero, Maren Hassinger, Xenobia Bailey, Raque Ford, Otto Neals, Renée Cox, and lots of others.
Du-Good Press
19 Patchen Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn | du-goodpress.com
Established by Leslie Diuguid in 2017, Du-Good Press is NYC’s first Black woman-owned positive artwork printshop and publishing home. As a screenprinter, Diuguid has collaborated with Hank Willis Thomas, Tauba Auerbach, Glen Baldridge, Religion Ringgold, Skye Volmar, B. Anele, Dominique Fung, and lots of different artists for editioned prints and zines. Du-Good Press was the inaugural choice for Print Heart New York’s Writer Highlight in 2023.
Shoestring Press
640 Classon Ave, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | shoestringpressny.com
Shoestring Press intern Loui engaged on a Josh MacPhee print (picture courtesy Shoestring Press)
Shoestring Press opened its Crown Heights storefront in 2014, geared up with amenities and instruments for silkscreening, reduction printing, copperplate intaglio, stone and photolithography, cyanotype and Vandyke printing, large-format template printing, and positive artwork digital printing. Along with contract and collaborative print companies, Shoestring Press gives one-on-one instruction in all onsite processes and day by day artist member entry from 8am–10pm. They’re additionally recognized for accessible activism collateral freely obtainable exterior the storefront, starting from posters for Palestine advocacy and different sociopolitical causes to “know your rights” enterprise playing cards in a number of completely different languages.
Shoestring Press has collaborated with Duke Riley, Mike Perry, Saya Woolfalk, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Gary Simmons, Gail Rothschild, Cheryl Mukherji, Shala Miller, Judith Bernstein, Josh MacPhee, Ann Buckwalter, the TUG collective, and Avram Finkelstein, amongst others.
Secret Riso Membership
122 Central Ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn | secretrisoclub.com
A view of Secret Riso Membership’s amenities (picture courtesy Secret Riso Membership)
Collectively led by Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell, the Secret Riso Membership (SRC) opened in 2017 as an artist-run house dedicated to risograph and screenprinting on the intersection of activism, neighborhood constructing, schooling, and humanities and design. Along with introductory and particular workshops for making the perfect use of the riso printers and screenprinting amenities, artists can use SRC’s flash printing companies, ebook consultations, and, with established expertise, additionally lease unbiased studio time. SRC’s main focus is supporting the work of lesser-known artists, nevertheless it has additionally pursued collaborations with the Museum of Fashionable Artwork and different establishments.
Radix Co-op
522 Bergen Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn | radix.coop
On the wall on the Radix Co-op headquarters (picture courtesy Lantz Arroyo/Radix Co-op)
Touchdown simply north of Prospect Park from Portland, Oregon, in 2012, Radix Printing & Publishing Co-op has expanded from a one-person entity to a Black-led, worker-owned union printshop providing offset, letterpress, and digital printing companies, in addition to foil stamping, embossing, die-cutting, and paper duplexing. Along with print work and design companies, Radix additionally publishes a wide range of initiatives with a precedence for uplifting marginalized and underrepresented views.
Radix has printed with Molly Crabapple and Cole Wilson; printed works by Elektra KB, Cadwell Turnbull, and Ganzeer; and accomplished business print jobs for Jewish Voice for Peace, Espo’s Artwork World, Senator Julia Salazar, and New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign.
20 Jay Avenue Unit 217, Dumbo, Brooklyn | luckyrisograph.press
Fortunate Risograph is a risograph printing press working with home and worldwide artists to facilitate artwork books, zines, positive artwork prints, and community-oriented initiatives. Fortunate Riso gives numerous common and specialised workshops that push the old-school medium’s boundaries, and artists and printmakers are in a position to ebook DIY printing time after verifying their eligibility with the press or taking a risograph orientation onsite.
Harlan & Weaver
83 Canal Avenue Room 501, Chinatown, Manhattan | harlanandweaver.com
Harlan & Weaver Director Jane Kim and Co-founder Felix Harlan put together a big intaglio plate for the press. (picture courtesy Harlan & Weaver)
Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver opened the namesake printshop in 1984, working solely in intaglio printing methods together with drypoint, aquatint, engraving, photogravure, and mezzotint. Offering each the amenities and technical help to comprehend initiatives, Harlan & Weaver invitations artists to make the most of the house and finalize their concepts alongside a grasp printer who takes the lead when it’s time to start editioning.
Harlan & Weaver has printed works by Richard Artschwager, William Bailey, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Cottingham, Steve DiBenedetto, Nicole Eisenman, Joanne Greenbaum, Joey Kötting, Chris Martin, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Mark Strand, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, and Stanley Whitney.
Decrease East Aspect Printshop
306 W thirty seventh Avenue sixth Flooring, Garment District, Manhattan | printshop.org
Mark Dion signing “Whippet Timeline” (2025), an version of 30 prints facilitated by the Decrease East Aspect Print Store. (picture by Aurélien Couput)
The Decrease East Aspect Printshop (LESP), a nonprofit studio opened by Eleanor Magid in 1968 as an open-access modern artwork and neighborhood heart, is celebrating its twentieth 12 months within the large Midtown Manhattan location it shifted to in 2005. LESP offers amenities for all reduction, intaglio, and screenprinting methods, obtainable 24/7 to month-to-month and weekly studio renters and keyholder residents alike. Technical help, digital and conventional printing companies, introductory lessons, and customized workshops are additionally provided along with onsite exhibitions, artist lectures, and extra.
LESP has printed and printed work by Derrick Adams, Arturo Herrera, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Enoc Perez, Saya Woolfalk, Hank Willis Thomas, and most just lately, Mark Dion and Kate Shepherd.
Bushwick Print Lab
100 Grattan Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn | bushwickprintlab.org
Illustrator Kati Lacker completes a break up fountain display screen print onsite on the Bushwick Print Lab (picture courtesy Bushwick Print Lab)
The Bushwick Print Lab (BPL) opened in 2009, providing each small- and large-format screenprinting amenities for DIY renters and contracted companies for positive arts printing, attire and accent printing, and strange substrate printing. Newbie and intermediate workshops are supposed for these seeking to get to get familiarized with the silkscreen tools and methods as they start their print journeys, and onsite help from Grasp Printer Ray Cross and different BPL group members is offered to those that ebook DIY rental time onsite.
BPL has labored with John Giorno, Lori Anderson, Sara Cwynar, Christopher Wool, Tony Sjoman (Ruben 415), Molly Crabapple, Nelson Saiers, Sir Joan Cornelia, Swoon, and a number of cultural establishments throughout New York Metropolis.
Gowanus Print Lab
33 thirty fifth Avenue Suite B528, Trade Metropolis, Brooklyn | gowanusprintlab.com
Gowanus Print Lab, an artist-run studio that opened in 2010 and has since moved into Trade Metropolis, gives acetate printing, silkscreen coating, burning and reclaiming, and contract printing companies on nearly any floor. The house additionally hosts introductory lessons and personal workshops.
10 Grand Press
1024 Dean Avenue #3, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | 10grandpress.com
A collaged view of 10 Grand Press’s amenities (picture courtesy Marina Ancona/10 Grand Press)
Grasp Printer Marina Ancona based her unbiased positive artwork printshop 10 Grand Press in 1999, inviting rising and established artists to collaborate together with her with a purpose to each experiment with and notice their editioned concepts throughout monotypes, intaglio, reduction printing, paper lithography, letterpress, photo voltaic plates, and stenciling. Drop-off printmaking might be facilitated at an hourly fee, and workshops are seasonally obtainable for adults and kids as nicely. 10 Grand Press has a second location in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which opened in 2005.
By 10 Grand Press, Ancona has printed work by Jennie C. Jones, Nicole Eisenman, Concord Hammond, Leidy Churchman, Ulrike Müller, Gregg Bordowitz and Sanya Kantarovsky, amongst others.
Kayrock Screenprinting
1205 Manhattan Avenue #141, Greenpoint, Brooklyn | store.kayrock.org
Kayrock Screenprinting has labored straight with artists, galleries, museums, and different cultural establishments to print and publish positive artwork editions because it opened in 1998. Along with hands-on collaboration, Kayrock gives display screen burning, massive format scanning, contract printing companies on both paper or attire and equipment, and bookings for dwell occasions. Kayrock has printed work by Chie Fueki, Peter Burr, Erika Shiba, Claudia Peña, Matt Bollinger, and Kristin Texeira, amongst others.
The Arm Letterpress
281 N seventh Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn | thearm.org
A view of the Arm Letterpress amenities in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (picture courtesy Daniel Gardiner Morris)
The Arm opened in 2005, providing letterpress and reduction poster and version printing in for-hire service as nicely in collaboration with artists. Different companies embody risograph prints and silksreen printing for posters, clothes, and equipment. Whereas self-service printing isn’t an possibility on the Arm, group-based poster printing workshops can be found. The house produces artwork editions with Yto Barrada and Richard McGuire, and has printed poster editions with NASA and Main League Baseball.
Powerhouse Arts
322 third Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn | powerhousearts.org
Grasp printer Zaire Anderson testing colours for a print for Mickalene Thomas (picture courtesy Powerhouse Arts Printshop)
Powerhouse Arts has three print amenities onsite. The capital-P Printshop, headed by grasp printer Luther Davis, opened in 2016 as a contract, large-format silkscreen studio finishing work by hand printing and utilizing semiautomatic presses at scales of as much as 50″ x 100″. Utilizing anyplace between one and 100 colours for any given venture, the Powerhouse Arts Printshop produces editions and unique work with over 100 artists a 12 months, together with however not restricted to Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon, Amy Sherald, Mickalene Thomas, Mark Bradford and Jenny Holzer.
Powerhouse Arts’s Digital Print Lab opened in late 2023, facilitating positive arts printing contract companies on monumental scales. Debuting onsite later this spring is the Manhattan Graphics Heart’s Group Print Studio, which is about to enrich the Printshop’s fabrication companies and in addition function as a instructing and studying lab for intaglio, reduction, silkscreen, and lithography processes by way of new amenities and skilled printers.
Kris Graves Initiatives
4301 twenty first Avenue Suite 231, Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens | krisgravesprojects.com
As a writer, Kris Graves Initiatives (+KGP) collaborates with artists to create restricted version publications and archival prints, specializing in modern pictures and works on paper that handle problems with race, id, fairness, gender, sexuality, and sophistication. In 2011, +KGP expanded into publishing with the aim of elevated accessibility for positive artwork, having since printed artwork books and picture books by Kris Graves himself, Tracy Dong, Oji Haynes, Jon Henry, Nydia Blas, and Wendy Crimson Star, amongst others.
