As March comes to a close, New York City ushers in Print Week with the 34th edition of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair at the Park Avenue Armory and the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus. To celebrate the power of the press, Hyperallergic has put together the following guide of city-based print shops and publishers for artists of any level to refer to in their editioned endeavors.
The non-exhaustive list below brings together old-school staples and fresh faces on the block, each with their own facilities and services to help artists realize their serial potential. Some spots offer membership-based independent studio access and introductory technical courses, while others ensure that a master printer handles your ideas with care every step of the way. From DIY risograph zines for local organizing to masterfully crafted fine art prints that expand the boundaries of different techniques, New York City’s wealth of print and publishing spaces is bound to meet the needs of almost any project.
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 West 39th Street, Garment District, Manhattan | rbpmw-efanyc.org
Master printer Robert Blackburn opened this beloved city staple, originally called the Printmaking Workshop, in 1947, making it the longest-running community print studio in the United States. In 2005, it became a program of the Elizabeth Foundation 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 includes facilities for all traditional printmaking techniques as well as risograph and photo-based processes; classes engaging the available printmaking techniques; contract printing services; and a flat-rate annual studio membership (storage and supplies rented separately) that affords access to all equipment and supplies, discounted classes, and discount eligibility at certain art supply retailers. Published artists include Chakaia Booker, Baseera Khan, Dindga McCannon, Kenny Rivero, Maren Hassinger, Xenobia Bailey, Raque Ford, Otto Neals, Renée Cox, and many 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 fine art printshop and publishing house. As a screenprinter, Diuguid has collaborated with Hank Willis Thomas, Tauba Auerbach, Glen Baldridge, Faith Ringgold, Skye Volmar, B. Anele, Dominique Fung, and many other artists for editioned prints and zines. Du-Good Press was the inaugural selection for Print Center New York’s Publisher Spotlight in 2023.
Shoestring Press
640 Classon Ave, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | shoestringpressny.com
Shoestring Press opened its Crown Heights storefront in 2014, equipped with facilities and tools for silkscreening, relief printing, copperplate intaglio, stone and photolithography, cyanotype and Vandyke printing, large-format template printing, and fine art digital printing. In addition to contract and collaborative print services, Shoestring Press offers one-on-one instruction in all onsite processes and daily artist member access from 8am–10pm. They are also known for accessible activism collateral freely available outside the storefront, ranging from posters for Palestine advocacy and other sociopolitical causes to “know your rights” business cards in multiple 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, among others.
Secret Riso Club
122 Central Ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn | secretrisoclub.com
Jointly led by Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell, the Secret Riso Club (SRC) opened in 2017 as an artist-run space devoted to risograph and screenprinting at the intersection of activism, community building, education, and arts and design. In addition to introductory and special workshops for making the best use of the riso printers and screenprinting facilities, artists can use SRC’s flash printing services, book consultations, and, with established experience, also rent independent studio time. SRC’s primary focus is supporting the work of lesser-known artists, but it has also pursued collaborations with the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions.
Radix Co-op
522 Bergen Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn | radix.coop
Landing just 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 offering offset, letterpress, and digital printing services, as well as foil stamping, embossing, die-cutting, and paper duplexing. In addition to print work and design services, Radix also publishes a variety of projects with a priority for uplifting marginalized and underrepresented perspectives.
Radix has printed with Molly Crabapple and Cole Wilson; published works by Elektra KB, Cadwell Turnbull, and Ganzeer; and done commercial print jobs for Jewish Voice for Peace, Espo’s Art World, Senator Julia Salazar, and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign.
20 Jay Street Unit 217, Dumbo, Brooklyn | luckyrisograph.press
Lucky Risograph is a risograph printing press working with domestic and international artists to facilitate art books, zines, fine art prints, and community-oriented projects. Lucky Riso offers various general and specialized workshops that push the old-school medium’s boundaries, and artists and printmakers are able to book DIY printing time after verifying their eligibility with the press or taking a risograph orientation onsite.
Harlan & Weaver
83 Canal Street Room 501, Chinatown, Manhattan | harlanandweaver.com
Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver opened the namesake printshop in 1984, working exclusively in intaglio printing techniques including drypoint, aquatint, engraving, photogravure, and mezzotint. Providing both the facilities and technical assistance to realize projects, Harlan & Weaver invites artists to utilize the space and finalize their ideas alongside a master printer who takes the lead when it’s time to begin editioning.
Harlan & Weaver has published 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.
Lower East Side Printshop
306 W 37th Street 6th Floor, Garment District, Manhattan | printshop.org
The Lower East Side Printshop (LESP), a nonprofit studio opened by Eleanor Magid in 1968 as an open-access contemporary art and community center, is celebrating its 20th year in the massive Midtown Manhattan location it shifted to in 2005. LESP provides facilities for all relief, intaglio, and screenprinting techniques, available 24/7 to monthly and weekly studio renters and keyholder residents alike. Technical assistance, digital and traditional printing services, introductory classes, and custom workshops are also offered in addition to onsite exhibitions, artist lectures, and more.
LESP has printed and published work by Derrick Adams, Arturo Herrera, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Enoc Perez, Saya Woolfalk, Hank Willis Thomas, and most recently, Mark Dion and Kate Shepherd.
Bushwick Print Lab
100 Grattan Street, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn | bushwickprintlab.org
The Bushwick Print Lab (BPL) opened in 2009, offering both small- and large-format screenprinting facilities for DIY renters and contracted services for fine arts printing, apparel and accessory printing, and unusual substrate printing. Beginner and intermediate workshops are intended for those looking to get to get familiarized with the silkscreen equipment and techniques as they begin their print journeys, and onsite assistance from Master Printer Ray Cross and other BPL team members is available to those who book DIY rental time onsite.
BPL has worked with John Giorno, Lori Anderson, Sara Cwynar, Christopher Wool, Tony Sjoman (Ruben 415), Molly Crabapple, Nelson Saiers, Sir Joan Cornelia, Swoon, and multiple cultural institutions across New York City.
Gowanus Print Lab
33 35th Street Suite B528, Industry City, Brooklyn | gowanusprintlab.com
Gowanus Print Lab, an artist-run studio that opened in 2010 and has since moved into Industry City, offers acetate printing, silkscreen coating, burning and reclaiming, and contract printing services on just about any surface. The space also hosts introductory classes and private workshops.
10 Grand Press
1024 Dean Street #3, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | 10grandpress.com
Master Printer Marina Ancona founded her independent fine art printshop 10 Grand Press in 1999, inviting emerging and established artists to collaborate with her in order to both experiment with and realize their editioned ideas across monotypes, intaglio, relief printing, paper lithography, letterpress, solar plates, and stenciling. Drop-off printmaking can be facilitated at an hourly rate, and workshops are seasonally available for adults and children as well. 10 Grand Press has a second location in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which opened in 2005.
Through 10 Grand Press, Ancona has published work by Jennie C. Jones, Nicole Eisenman, Harmony Hammond, Leidy Churchman, Ulrike Müller, Gregg Bordowitz and Sanya Kantarovsky, among others.
Kayrock Screenprinting
1205 Manhattan Avenue #141, Greenpoint, Brooklyn | shop.kayrock.org
Kayrock Screenprinting has worked directly with artists, galleries, museums, and other cultural institutions to print and publish fine art editions since it opened in 1998. In addition to hands-on collaboration, Kayrock offers screen burning, large format scanning, contract printing services on either paper or apparel and accessories, and bookings for live events. Kayrock has published work by Chie Fueki, Peter Burr, Erika Shiba, Claudia Peña, Matt Bollinger, and Kristin Texeira, among others.
The Arm Letterpress
281 N 7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn | thearm.org
The Arm opened in 2005, offering letterpress and relief poster and edition printing in for-hire service as well in collaboration with artists. Other services include risograph prints and silksreen printing for posters, garments, and accessories. While self-service printing isn’t an option at the Arm, group-based poster printing workshops are available. The space produces art editions with Yto Barrada and Richard McGuire, and has printed poster editions with NASA and Major League Baseball.
Powerhouse Arts
322 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn | powerhousearts.org
Powerhouse Arts has three print facilities onsite. The capital-P Printshop, headed by master printer Luther Davis, opened in 2016 as a contract, large-format silkscreen studio completing work by hand printing and using semiautomatic presses at scales of up to 50″ x 100″. Using anywhere between one and 100 colors for any given project, the Powerhouse Arts Printshop produces editions and original work with over 100 artists a year, including but not limited 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 fine arts printing contract services on enormous scales. Debuting onsite later this spring is the Manhattan Graphics Center’s Community Print Studio, which is set to complement the Printshop’s fabrication services and also operate as a teaching and learning lab for intaglio, relief, silkscreen, and lithography processes through new facilities and expert printers.
Kris Graves Projects
4301 21st Street Suite 231, Long Island City, Queens | krisgravesprojects.com
As a publisher, Kris Graves Projects (+KGP) collaborates with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class. In 2011, +KGP expanded into publishing with the purpose of increased accessibility for fine art, having since published art books and photo books by Kris Graves himself, Tracy Dong, Oji Haynes, Jon Henry, Nydia Blas, and Wendy Red Star, among others.
