As March involves a detailed, New York Metropolis ushers in Print Week with the thirty fourth version of the Worldwide Tremendous Print Sellers Affiliation (IFPDA) Honest on the Park Avenue Armory and the Brooklyn Tremendous Artwork Print Honest at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus. To rejoice the ability of the press, Hyperallergic has put collectively the next information of city-based print retailers and publishers for artists of any degree to consult with of their editioned endeavors.
The non-exhaustive checklist beneath brings collectively old-school staples and contemporary faces on the block, every with their very own services and providers to assist artists notice their serial potential. Some spots provide membership-based unbiased studio entry and introductory technical programs, whereas others make sure that a grasp printer handles your concepts with care each step of the way in which. From DIY risograph zines for native organizing to masterfully crafted wonderful artwork prints that broaden the boundaries of various strategies, New York Metropolis’s wealth of print and publishing areas is sure to satisfy the wants of just about any undertaking.
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Elizabeth Basis for the Arts, 323 West thirty ninth Avenue, Garment District, Manhattan | rbpmw-efanyc.org
Chakaia Booker, “Untitled (CB.01.25)” (2025) (picture courtesy Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop)
Grasp printer Robert Blackburn opened this beloved metropolis staple, initially known as the Printmaking Workshop, in 1947, making it the longest-running neighborhood print studio in america. In 2005, it turned a program of the Elizabeth Basis for the Arts and was renamed to honor its founder. True to his mission, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s 6,000-square-foot studio contains services for all conventional printmaking strategies in addition to risograph and photo-based processes; courses participating the obtainable printmaking strategies; contract printing providers; and a flat-rate annual studio membership (storage and provides rented individually) that affords entry to all tools and provides, discounted courses, and low cost eligibility at sure artwork provide retailers. Revealed artists embrace Chakaia Booker, Baseera Khan, Dindga McCannon, Kenny Rivero, Maren Hassinger, Xenobia Bailey, Raque Ford, Otto Neals, Renée Cox, and plenty of others.
Du-Good Press
19 Patchen Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn | du-goodpress.com
Established by Leslie Diuguid in 2017, Du-Good Press is NYC’s first Black woman-owned wonderful artwork printshop and publishing home. As a screenprinter, Diuguid has collaborated with Hank Willis Thomas, Tauba Auerbach, Glen Baldridge, Religion Ringgold, Skye Volmar, B. Anele, Dominique Fung, and plenty of different artists for editioned prints and zines. Du-Good Press was the inaugural choice for Print Heart New York’s Writer Highlight in 2023.
Shoestring Press
640 Classon Ave, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | shoestringpressny.com
Shoestring Press intern Loui engaged on a Josh MacPhee print (photograph courtesy Shoestring Press)
Shoestring Press opened its Crown Heights storefront in 2014, geared up with services and instruments for silkscreening, reduction printing, copperplate intaglio, stone and photolithography, cyanotype and Vandyke printing, large-format template printing, and wonderful artwork digital printing. Along with contract and collaborative print providers, Shoestring Press provides one-on-one instruction in all onsite processes and day by day artist member entry from 8am–10pm. They’re additionally recognized for accessible activism collateral freely obtainable exterior the storefront, starting from posters for Palestine advocacy and different sociopolitical causes to “know your rights” enterprise playing cards in a number of completely different languages.
Shoestring Press has collaborated with Duke Riley, Mike Perry, Saya Woolfalk, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Gary Simmons, Gail Rothschild, Cheryl Mukherji, Shala Miller, Judith Bernstein, Josh MacPhee, Ann Buckwalter, the TUG collective, and Avram Finkelstein, amongst others.
Secret Riso Membership
122 Central Ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn | secretrisoclub.com
A view of Secret Riso Membership’s services (picture courtesy Secret Riso Membership)
Collectively led by Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell, the Secret Riso Membership (SRC) opened in 2017 as an artist-run house dedicated to risograph and screenprinting on the intersection of activism, neighborhood constructing, training, and humanities and design. Along with introductory and particular workshops for making the most effective use of the riso printers and screenprinting services, artists can use SRC’s flash printing providers, ebook consultations, and, with established expertise, additionally hire unbiased studio time. SRC’s major focus is supporting the work of lesser-known artists, nevertheless it has additionally pursued collaborations with the Museum of Fashionable Artwork and different establishments.
Radix Co-op
522 Bergen Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn | radix.coop
On the wall on the Radix Co-op headquarters (picture courtesy Lantz Arroyo/Radix Co-op)
Touchdown simply north of Prospect Park from Portland, Oregon, in 2012, Radix Printing & Publishing Co-op has expanded from a one-person entity to a Black-led, worker-owned union printshop providing offset, letterpress, and digital printing providers, in addition to foil stamping, embossing, die-cutting, and paper duplexing. Along with print work and design providers, Radix additionally publishes a wide range of initiatives with a precedence for uplifting marginalized and underrepresented views.
Radix has printed with Molly Crabapple and Cole Wilson; printed works by Elektra KB, Cadwell Turnbull, and Ganzeer; and accomplished industrial print jobs for Jewish Voice for Peace, Espo’s Artwork World, Senator Julia Salazar, and New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign.
20 Jay Avenue Unit 217, Dumbo, Brooklyn | luckyrisograph.press
Fortunate Risograph is a risograph printing press working with home and worldwide artists to facilitate artwork books, zines, wonderful artwork prints, and community-oriented initiatives. Fortunate Riso provides numerous common and specialised workshops that push the old-school medium’s boundaries, and artists and printmakers are capable of ebook DIY printing time after verifying their eligibility with the press or taking a risograph orientation onsite.
Harlan & Weaver
83 Canal Avenue Room 501, Chinatown, Manhattan | harlanandweaver.com
Harlan & Weaver Director Jane Kim and Co-founder Felix Harlan put together a big intaglio plate for the press. (picture courtesy Harlan & Weaver)
Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver opened the namesake printshop in 1984, working completely in intaglio printing strategies together with drypoint, aquatint, engraving, photogravure, and mezzotint. Offering each the services and technical help to appreciate initiatives, Harlan & Weaver invitations artists to make the most of the house and finalize their concepts alongside a grasp printer who takes the lead when it’s time to start editioning.
Harlan & Weaver has printed works by Richard Artschwager, William Bailey, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Cottingham, Steve DiBenedetto, Nicole Eisenman, Joanne Greenbaum, Joey Kötting, Chris Martin, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Mark Strand, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, and Stanley Whitney.
Decrease East Facet Printshop
306 W thirty seventh Avenue sixth Ground, Garment District, Manhattan | printshop.org
Mark Dion signing “Whippet Timeline” (2025), an version of 30 prints facilitated by the Decrease East Facet Print Store. (photograph by Aurélien Couput)
The Decrease East Facet Printshop (LESP), a nonprofit studio opened by Eleanor Magid in 1968 as an open-access modern artwork and neighborhood middle, is celebrating its twentieth 12 months within the large Midtown Manhattan location it shifted to in 2005. LESP gives services for all reduction, intaglio, and screenprinting strategies, obtainable 24/7 to month-to-month and weekly studio renters and keyholder residents alike. Technical help, digital and conventional printing providers, introductory courses, and customized workshops are additionally supplied along with onsite exhibitions, artist lectures, and extra.
LESP has printed and printed work by Derrick Adams, Arturo Herrera, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Enoc Perez, Saya Woolfalk, Hank Willis Thomas, and most lately, Mark Dion and Kate Shepherd.
Bushwick Print Lab
100 Grattan Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn | bushwickprintlab.org
Illustrator Kati Lacker completes a cut up fountain display screen print onsite on the Bushwick Print Lab (picture courtesy Bushwick Print Lab)
The Bushwick Print Lab (BPL) opened in 2009, providing each small- and large-format screenprinting services for DIY renters and contracted providers for wonderful arts printing, attire and accent printing, and weird substrate printing. Newbie and intermediate workshops are meant for these seeking to get to get familiarized with the silkscreen tools and strategies as they start their print journeys, and onsite help from Grasp Printer Ray Cross and different BPL crew members is offered to those that ebook DIY rental time onsite.
BPL has labored with John Giorno, Lori Anderson, Sara Cwynar, Christopher Wool, Tony Sjoman (Ruben 415), Molly Crabapple, Nelson Saiers, Sir Joan Cornelia, Swoon, and a number of cultural establishments throughout New York Metropolis.
Gowanus Print Lab
33 thirty fifth Avenue Suite B528, Business Metropolis, Brooklyn | gowanusprintlab.com
Gowanus Print Lab, an artist-run studio that opened in 2010 and has since moved into Business Metropolis, provides acetate printing, silkscreen coating, burning and reclaiming, and contract printing providers on nearly any floor. The house additionally hosts introductory courses and personal workshops.
10 Grand Press
1024 Dean Avenue #3, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | 10grandpress.com
A collaged view of 10 Grand Press’s services (picture courtesy Marina Ancona/10 Grand Press)
Grasp Printer Marina Ancona based her unbiased wonderful artwork printshop 10 Grand Press in 1999, inviting rising and established artists to collaborate together with her with a purpose to each experiment with and notice their editioned concepts throughout monotypes, intaglio, reduction printing, paper lithography, letterpress, photo voltaic plates, and stenciling. Drop-off printmaking might be facilitated at an hourly fee, and workshops are seasonally obtainable for adults and youngsters as properly. 10 Grand Press has a second location in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which opened in 2005.
Via 10 Grand Press, Ancona has printed work by Jennie C. Jones, Nicole Eisenman, Concord Hammond, Leidy Churchman, Ulrike Müller, Gregg Bordowitz and Sanya Kantarovsky, amongst others.
Kayrock Screenprinting
1205 Manhattan Avenue #141, Greenpoint, Brooklyn | store.kayrock.org
Kayrock Screenprinting has labored immediately with artists, galleries, museums, and different cultural establishments to print and publish wonderful artwork editions because it opened in 1998. Along with hands-on collaboration, Kayrock provides display screen burning, giant format scanning, contract printing providers on both paper or attire and equipment, and bookings for dwell occasions. Kayrock has printed work by Chie Fueki, Peter Burr, Erika Shiba, Claudia Peña, Matt Bollinger, and Kristin Texeira, amongst others.
The Arm Letterpress
281 N seventh Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn | thearm.org
A view of the Arm Letterpress services in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (photograph courtesy Daniel Gardiner Morris)
The Arm opened in 2005, providing letterpress and reduction poster and version printing in for-hire service as properly in collaboration with artists. Different providers embrace risograph prints and silksreen printing for posters, clothes, and equipment. Whereas self-service printing isn’t an choice on the Arm, group-based poster printing workshops can be found. The house produces artwork editions with Yto Barrada and Richard McGuire, and has printed poster editions with NASA and Main League Baseball.
Powerhouse Arts
322 third Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn | powerhousearts.org
Grasp printer Zaire Anderson testing colours for a print for Mickalene Thomas (picture courtesy Powerhouse Arts Printshop)
Powerhouse Arts has three print services onsite. The capital-P Printshop, headed by grasp printer Luther Davis, opened in 2016 as a contract, large-format silkscreen studio finishing work by hand printing and utilizing semiautomatic presses at scales of as much as 50″ x 100″. Utilizing wherever between one and 100 colours for any given undertaking, the Powerhouse Arts Printshop produces editions and unique work with over 100 artists a 12 months, together with however not restricted to Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon, Amy Sherald, Mickalene Thomas, Mark Bradford and Jenny Holzer.
Powerhouse Arts’s Digital Print Lab opened in late 2023, facilitating wonderful arts printing contract providers on monumental scales. Debuting onsite later this spring is the Manhattan Graphics Heart’s Group Print Studio, which is about to enhance the Printshop’s fabrication providers and likewise function as a instructing and studying lab for intaglio, reduction, silkscreen, and lithography processes by means of new services and skilled printers.
Kris Graves Initiatives
4301 twenty first Avenue Suite 231, Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens | krisgravesprojects.com
As a writer, Kris Graves Initiatives (+KGP) collaborates with artists to create restricted version publications and archival prints, specializing in modern images and works on paper that handle problems with race, id, fairness, gender, sexuality, and sophistication. In 2011, +KGP expanded into publishing with the aim of elevated accessibility for wonderful artwork, having since printed artwork books and photograph books by Kris Graves himself, Tracy Dong, Oji Haynes, Jon Henry, Nydia Blas, and Wendy Purple Star, amongst others.
