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Book Signing & Reading with Deborah Cole

SHE (Believed She Could So She Did)

Sunday March 6th 3pm-5pm

In honor of International Women’s Month and to just celebrate WOMEN, Flatbed is so pleased to have photographer and author Deborah Cole here for a signing and reading of her book SHE (Believed She Could So She Did). Please join us on Sunday, March 6th 3pm-5pm to celebrate the powerful women in your life!

Flatbed is excited to announce the publication of six new prints with Mexican-born artist Miguel A. Aragón. Aragón, who lives and works in New York City (USA) and Berlin (Germany) has exhibited internationally at venues including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany and the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Canada. His awards and residences include NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH; and Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ADRIAN ARMSTRONG! The New York Pubic Libarary Collection of Prints and Photographs has acquired “Portrait” EV 15/16 to their collection!

Flatbed is thrilled to announce the distribution of our 2021 subscription print which is Lance Letscher’s “Therapy Bird.,” a 30 x 22-inch hand-colored soft-ground etching!

We are proud to announce our fifth publication with Melissa Miller! The color linocut published this year is titled Walrus. It is the first of a series of linocuts Miller intends to create. Walrus features not only a Walrus but other animals of the Arctic.

Flatbed is so very pleased to offer our first resident artist for the Jerry Manson Residency to Adrian Armstrong. The Manson residency is a three-month residency offered once a year to a local artist who uses printmaking techniques in their primary practice.

Announcing the publication of “INTAGLIO”, the catalog of images by Lance Letscher for the upcoming exhibition “Intaglio”. The 29 color pages catalog the new beautiful color etchings created by Letscher at Flatbed Press from 2020 - 2021. Read more about the catalog and come for the exhibition.

BEHIND THE SCENES AT FLATBED - Ben Muñoz is an award-winning Texas-based artist. Muñoz's work is often reflective of his heritage, upbringing, and current surroundings. Muñoz’s work which is deeply rooted in his family and family heritage juxtaposes images from popular culture with the mysterious and the well-known.

Ben Muñoz carved three woodblocks in July of 2021 for the Las Hermanas Suite. Each of the woodblocks refers to one of Muñoz’s three daughters and are titled with their names: Florence, Jane, and Daphne.

Flatbed is extremely proud to have Celia Álvarez Muñoz as one of our artists. Celia describes herself as an Artivist; as an artist and an activist and her practice includes the creation of artist’s books, photography, installation, and public art.

Flatbed is extremly proud to have Alice Leora Briggs as one of our artists. She was honored to be a Guggenheim recipient in 2020. Quoting from their site: “Her investigations into human frailties have generated thousands of drawings, woodcuts, letterpress books, broadsides, and site-specific architectural installations. These works have been featured in over forty solo exhibitions and are included in over thirty-five public collections, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.”

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.

latbed is so pleased to have worked with Judy Youngblood on her series of etchings titled “Stormy Weather” in 2016. Judy Youngblood is an active artist whose work spans paintings, fine prints, and mixed media.

“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".