BEHIND THE SCENES - Meet Alice Leora Briggs

Flatbed is extremly proud to have Alice Leora Briggs as one of our artists. She was honored to be a Guggenheim recipient in 2020. Quoting from their site: “Her investigations into human frailties have generated thousands of drawings, woodcuts, letterpress books, broadsides, and site-specific architectural installations. These works have been featured in over forty solo exhibitions and are included in over thirty-five public collections, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.”

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Nothing About Us Without Us

Matthew Forrest is an artist, educator, and printmaker based in Gray GA. Forrest has over 12 years of fine art publishing, and community outreach experience which he uses within his classes to connect community needs to in-class projects. He is driven to make printmaking more accessible for students with disabilities and has worked with a number of groups to advance art outreach within middle Georgia and beyond.

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Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin. Norma Trist; Or Pure Carbon: A Story of the Inversion of the Sexes

Flatbed is pleased to announce the launch of its co-publication: Norma Trist, a Livre d’Artiste, with Houston-based artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin. The artists have used the source text from the 1895 novel by John Wesley Carhart, a groundbreaking work that contains stunningly progressive defenses of same-sex desire, that was the foundation of their 2016 installation: "50 States: Texas".

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2020 E/AB NYC Print Fair

Flatbed is delighted to invite you to join us and 63 other international exhibitors on October 14th at 12 Noon EST for the online edition of the E/AB Fair. Flatbed will be featuring the 2020 publications and select Artist Books by artists John Alexander, Alice Leora Briggs, Michael Ray Charles, Suzi Davidoff, David Everett, Sue Heatley, Melissa Miller, Ben Muñoz, Lance Letscher, and Jay Sullivan. Look for daily social media posts of the featured prints and emails featuring each of our artists.

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"Ship of Fools" by John Alexander

Flatbed Press is proud to present Ship of Fools,, our first annual Flatbed subscription print, by the renowned artist, John Alexander. Ship of Fools is Flatbed’s 2020 Friends or Flatbed subscription publication made possible by the Friends of Flatbed who receive an annual print with their membership. A limited number of prints are available for purchase. Link to see this etching in our artists’ collections and purchase.

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Recovery

Flatbed is so pleased to announce our newest publication, "Recovery", a three-panel lithograph with Melissa Miller. Inspired by the flotsom-jetsom of Houston's frequent hurricanes, Miller draws on the metaphorical mirror of human disaster and recovery found in nature. Working with a panoramic format, Miller intends that "Recovery" be read in time as well as a whole.

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