Anchor Graphics

I saw Anchor Graphics at Manifest, and wow! These people are super nice. You might think they’d be snobby artistes tossing repetitive pieces to the public and sniffing, «Pearls before swine!» at everyone, but if you did, you’d think wrong. This is more like a labor of love, with people who are passionate about art putting in the time and energy to do things with craftsmanship and caring, silk screening everything one step at a time, rather than digitally churning out print after print.
They also let me touch their equipment. No, not THAT equipment, their silk screen equipment!
After looking around the web site, there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on here. If I had a few extra hundred bucks laying around I’d probably snap up some of this art, but alas, I don’t. Maybe someday…
The only thing I’d like to see is more information – information about the artists, what their work is about, opportunities to see the works in galleries, exhibitions, or fairs (if applicable), and that sort of thing. The information on the site is a bit vague – who is in the fish tank now? what else has this artist done? is this work part of a series? – and I think some of the pieces must have a story behind them, a story that might draw interest and attract more people to Anchor Graphics, either as art fans, art consumers, or people who want to learn how to silk screen.

They have adult ed classes for a wide variety of printmaking media. Reasonable prices include open studio time. My teacher Pete, rocked! And the owner and other people who work there are cool as hell.