About Us
Cherry Press Printmaking:
Cherry Press is a printmaking workshop, formerly located in Rutland, Massachusetts. We are currently renovating our new space at the beautiful ArtSpace building at 12 South Main Street, Wilmington, nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont and will announce all the details once our doors are open!
We provide an attractive, peaceful setting for artists new to and experienced in printmaking to develop their work in. We offer classes, studio use, residencies, collaborative and contract printing opportunities and offsite printmaking workshops. Our focus is to research and promote new, safer and less toxic printmaking techniques. We have facilities for screen printing, lithography, positive-working photographic processes (screen printing, photo-litho, polymer plates) woodcut/relief, engraving, embossing, collagraph and monotype printmaking. We will be set up for letterpress and non-toxic salt etching in the future.
Services:
Classes and Workshops
Screenprinting Events
Printmaking Events
Studio Access
Collaborative Printing, Pruinted Editions & Printing Services
Equipment:
We have a 33.5 x 60" Takach Litho Press, a 26 x 48" Wright Combination Press, a 10 x 16" portable press, a library of 35 cream and grey lithographic lime stones ranging from 10.5 x 11.5" to 21.5 x 30", a 30 x 40" plate backer, screens and squegees, inks, drying racks, a hydraulic lift cart, leather and composition rollers, a graining sink, levigators, a hot plate and "Hot Box" plate topper, a darkroom, portable exposure unit for positive-working photo processes, paper table with tear bar and traditional and bio-based, bio-degradable chemicals and solvents for processing, including Posi-Coat (bio-degradable, non-toxic, high-definition positive-working photo emulsion for lithographic plates and a photo resist for etching plates), screens and screen-printing equipment. Paper, plates and other printmaking-related supplies (litho crayons, plates, etc.) are on hand for sale.
Century Plate Graining Service:
Choose your stone or your Century Plate size and have it ready to draw on, without getting gritty! Prices vary depending on plate size.
Bio:
Corinne Rhodes has been teaching printmaking for over twenty-five years. Corinne has run Cherry Press printmaking workshop (formerly in Rutland, Massachusetts) since 2014. Corinne studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, the University of New Mexico and Tamarind Institute of Lithography.
Corinne specializes in the research, development and use of non-toxic printmaking techniques and materials.
Corinne has taught screenprinting, woodcut and other print media at Bennington College, in Bennington, Vermont, since 2018.
Corinne has also taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Brandeis University and numerous art centers, studio schools and printmaking workshops, including Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in New York City. Corinne’s local business clients include: Prospect Mountain Association, Clark Art Institute and the Shelburne Museum.
Corinne exhibits her artwork nationally, including at Exit Art, Evanston Art Center, Fitchburg Museum of Art, New Mexico State University, University of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin and Wheaton College. She has exhibited internationally in Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, including curatorial work at Instituto México Norte Americano de Relaciones Culturales and two juried exhibitions at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León, in Monterrey, México. Corinne has painted murals in the US, UK and México.
Corinne is a recipient of grants from ArtsWorcester’s Material Needs, Bennington College, Brigit Skiold Memorial Trust, the British Arts Council, Dublin City Council's Public Art Program, Lower East Side Printshop’s Key Holder Residency Program and Wilmington Works’ Make it on Main Street Business Funding Award.
Corinne published Cherry Press: Century Plate Lithography Part 1 in July 2019, and served as a juror for Massachusetts Cultural Council's Drawing & Printmaking Fellowship Panel in the fall of 2019.
Contact: corinne@cherrypress.org
Social Media: @cherrypressprintworkshop on Instagram
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Top Photo: Valgerdur Hauksdottir