About Us
Cherry Press:
Cherry Press is a printmaking and arts workshop, formerly located in Rutland, Massachusetts. We are moving to 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 non-toxic salt etching in the future.
Services:
Collaborative Printing
Courses and Workshops
Studio Access
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). 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:
Cherry Press was founded by artist and teacher Corinne Rhodes. Rhodes studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, the University of New Mexico and Tamarind Institute of Lithography. She teaches non-toxic Century Plate lithography, traditional lithography, screen printing, woodcut/relief printing and other printmaking techniques at Cherry Press, Bennington College and EFA-Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and RISD. Rhodes has taught Century Plate demonstrations and workshops at Brandeis University, Rhode Island College, RISD, Zea Mays Printmaking and elsewhere.
Rhodes 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. She has painted murals in the US and México.
Rhodes is a recipient of grants from ArtsWorcester’s Material Needs, Bennington College, Brigit Skiold Memorial Trust, the British Arts Council, Dublin City Council and the Lower East Side Printshop’s Key Holder Residency Program. She published Cherry Press: Century Plate Lithography Part 1 in July 2019 and is servied as a juror for Massachusetts Cultural Council's Drawing & Printmaking Fellowship Panel in the fall of 2019.
Photo: Valgerdur Hauksdottir