Alexis Dwyer

My work is a response to my experiences in the outdoors. I am struck by the connectedness of all living things on this planet. I work to understand and interpret the energy and life found within an ecosystem with the use of color, shape and pattern. I hope to give the viewer a deeper sense of the wonder that can be felt in nature. I feel that the process of printmaking reflects the processes of the natural world. Rain and wind weathering the earth is reflected in the process of carving or etching away a plate. While the ability to add and change the layering of plates is similar to the ebb of life and energy within an environment.

Rick von Holdt

I have been letterpress printing using my own private press for the past 39 years. I have been steadily collecting antique and vintage letterpress type, engravings and presses during this time. I now have one of the largest collections of handset type in private hands in the United States. To print my pieces, I set, ink and impress each color by hand. Everything is printed directly from the original type and engravings in my collection.