Photography Exhibit & Letterpress Studio Open House
Saturday, February 20, 2010
7:00pm - 11:00pm

221 Felch, #B3A
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Join us for an open house at Michigan’s newest design and letterpress printing studio, Elevated Press. Founder Michelle Baker will be showing off work by the studio, and the 75 to 110 year old machines used to produce it.

Also on display, the photographs of Peter Baker, whose work has been exhibited around the country and the rest of the world, as well as appeared in numerous magazines including Metropolis, I.D., and How. He will be showing recent work focusing on the state of Michigan, as well as previous works.

Greeting cards, prints, and limited edition photographs will all be on sale.

Forest Juziuk will be providing the musical styling, and J. Trees Cellars will be providing their newest varieties of wine.

[This will be the first in a series of 3 local artist exhibitions at the space, with a larger culminating group show in another space. These shows are planned for March 6th, March 20th, and April 3rd.]

Elevated Press’ new/old Chandler & Price is up and running like a champ. New/old paper cutter coming today, and finally moving the Vandercook into the new shop. Massive amounts of steel being manipulated (gotta find my steel toes). See what else is going on over at the blog.

Also, look for Elevated Press goods at the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago, December 5/6th.

My lovely, kick ass wife Michelle’s letterpress business, Elevated Press, finally has a website to show things off, designed and created by her slow, slacking husband, me.

Everything she does is printed by hand on old, archaic, and ridiculously heavy machines (a C&P, a Vandercook, and a Kelsey, see the about page for the details). More pictures of our shop space, where I am now working out of and setting up a photo studio, to come, check the blog.

Real ink! Actual paper! Metal, pressure, sweat! Who says print is dead?