Announcing the Jerry Manson Residency at Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking

Jerry Manson, Master Printer Emeritus. November 4, 1934- May 28, 2019

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. The residents will receive a membership to Flatbed’s Community Press and a stipend to help cover materials costs. Named for Gerald Manson, Flatbed’s Master Printer of Editioning from 1990 - 2001 and Master Printer Emeritus from 2002 - 2019, this residency seeks to give artists time and resources to develop printmaking projects or research printmaking processes. Manson was a proponent of life-long learning. He earned his BFA at the University of Texas after a career in the U.S.Army serving two tours in VietNam, a tour in Korea, and a tour in Germany. He received five medals of honor for his service. He founded the Third Coast Press in Austin in the early 1980s after studying printmaking with Ken Hale, Lee Chesney, and Tim High at the University of Texas. In 1990 he joined Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith as a partner and Master Printer at Flatbed Press.

Manson editioned most of the prints published by Flatbed in the 1990s which included works by Kelly Fearing, Luis Jimenez, Terry Allen, Dan Rizzie, James Surls, Melissa Miller, Larry Scholder, Sandria Hu, Dan Allison, Spencer Fidler, Billy Hassell, Patrick Wadley and many others.

His legacy has inspired the highest quality of print craftsmanship possible with our editions at Flatbed.

Adrian Armstrong in Flatbed’s Community Press Studio