Flatbed had the pleasure of working with Bruce Lee Webb in 2017 to create a series of etchings called the “Road Hog Series” and a smaller etching titled “Cowboy” The “Road Hog” prints were printed in three different editions with color variations.

“The Six” was Lance Letscher’s third print to be published at Flatbed in 2020. The print which measures 45” x 31” is a dazzling image that combines drypoint linear constructs with color fields.

Flatbed is very pleased to announce the release of the two newest editions in Annalise Gratovich’s ongoing series of eight, Carrying Things From Home. The two new images titled, The Mother and The Undertaker are the fifth and sixth life-size woodcuts by the first generation Texas artist, representing life and hope, death and loss.

During the Covid year of 2020, Flatbed stayed busy working one-on-one with artist Lance Letscher creating a new body of works using intaglio and relief techniques.

Join us for the Facebook live recording of Katherine being interviewed by Carrie Tiemann.

Matthew Forrest is an artist, educator, and printmaker based in Gray GA. Forrest has over 12 years of fine art publishing, and community outreach experience which he uses within his classes to connect community needs to in-class projects. He is driven to make printmaking more accessible for students with disabilities and has worked with a number of groups to advance art outreach within middle Georgia and beyond.

Flatbed is pleased to announce the launch of its co-publication: Norma Trist, a Livre d’Artiste, with Houston-based artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin. The artists have used the source text from the 1895 novel by John Wesley Carhart, a groundbreaking work that contains stunningly progressive defenses of same-sex desire, that was the foundation of their 2016 installation: "50 States: Texas".

In the spirit of a Holiday in the Time of Covid, Flatbed is offering a special price for some of our favorite prints. We’ve selected two prints from eighteen artists and are giving a deep discount during the four days running from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.! Read more about this and see images of the selected prints.

Photo by Casey Woods

Lance Letsche’s past printmaking experience and love of the intaglio process and mark making on copper has inspired a body of intaglio works created as co-publications with Flatbed Press.

Flatbed is delighted to invite you to join us and 63 other international exhibitors on October 14th at 12 Noon EST for the online edition of the E/AB Fair. Flatbed will be featuring the 2020 publications and select Artist Books by artists John Alexander, Alice Leora Briggs, Michael Ray Charles, Suzi Davidoff, David Everett, Sue Heatley, Melissa Miller, Ben Muñoz, Lance Letscher, and Jay Sullivan. Look for daily social media posts of the featured prints and emails featuring each of our artists.

You are cordially invited to come to a small group reception for Richard Armendariz at the Flatbed Gallery on October 3 and tune in at 6 for the “Conversation between Friends” Zoom with Richard and Gilbert Cardenas! Read more for information.

Flatbed Press announces the publication of the new deluxe artist portfolio with Michael Ray Charles titled Every World Is A Head, Every Head Is A World. This monumental project was co-published with the support of The Black Studies Department of the University of Texas and has been in process since the fall of 2017.

Flatbed is pleased to announce the publication two woodcut prints from Ben Munoz's series "La Familia. On the left is "Epilogue," and on the right is "Heed." Image courtesy the artist.

Flatbed is so pleased to announce our newest publication, "Recovery", a three-panel lithograph with Melissa Miller. Inspired by the flotsom-jetsom of Houston's frequent hurricanes, Miller draws on the metaphorical mirror of human disaster and recovery found in nature. Working with a panoramic format, Miller intends that "Recovery" be read in time as well as a whole.

New gallery hours have been put in place at Flatbed just in time for Ben Muñoz’s “Over My Head” exhibition. Now open from Wednesday through Friday from 10 am until 5 pm, Flatbed continues our commitment to provide a safe environment to see and purchase art. Four or fewer patrons may enter at one time and masks are required. Flatbed will also accept appointments for after hours. Call 5120477-9328 to set up an appointment or arrive during gallery hours.

FLATBED CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING is closed temporarily to comply with CDC and the City of Austin’s mandate for “Shelter in Place.”

On February 8, from 1 until 5 pm, Flatbed welcomes the community to come and enjoy refreshments and see their newly minted “Community Press.” Katherine Brimberry will give a talk titled “The Importance of Community in Printmaking” at 2 pm..

Due to the current Covid-19 crisis, Flatbed’s Open 3oth Celebration has been postponed until further notice. Take care and stay tuned. We’ll be back.

In conjunction with our Texas Sized Holiday Saloon Salon exhibition which opens next Saturday, December 7 at 6pm we are in the giving spirit this season and wish to close this year in hopes to pay it forward in 2020 by growing our opportunities in our Flatbed School!  We want to extend this opportunity to all of you to begin your print collection through our first annual Holiday Raffle