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BTP is a student and faculty ran press at PSU committed to publications, book arts, artist prints, and collaborative projects.
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Making Meaning Manifestos Vol. 1 🔥
Students in the Making and Meaning course each wrote, designed by hand, printed, and coil bound manifestos for, Hear Us Out! Edition of 29 with Better Together Press by @better_together_press

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THE END IS NEAR! (of spring term that is 😅)
Speaking of the near future, our next speaker @breanne_ is gonna be at Shattuck Hall this Thursday, May 22nd!! There’s still some time to get your free tickets, but time and space is running out!!! [existential dread plays in background]

Come listen to this wonderful human, printmaker, and nonmusician talk about art and design!

Get your free tickets before THE END ☠️
🎟️ link in bio.
Doors at 6:30pm!
Shattuck Hall (PSU Campus) by @better_together_press

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NOT A DRILL!!! The Pickle Potluck Publication Party for Upper Crust Volume No. 4 is a dream made to reality with @breanne_ 🥒 BYOP. P being the operative word. Pickel, Poem, Party, Ponies, and Piazza. ♾️ 🥪@sandwiches4life

Thursday 22nd 4-6:30 on the Park Blocks across from Shattuck Hall. All are welcome. taken in PSU Park Blocks by @better_together_press

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@better_together_press Project 2: Accordion books and Clamshell boxes!! 📚 ✨🗃️ by @better_together_press

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a year ago

by @better_together_press

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We are just over a week away from our next guest speaker: Breanne Trammell!!
Check out some of Breanne’s work:

1. Keep Yr Eye On the Donut - June 2–July 1, 2017. A solo exhibition at the Box Gallery in Akron, OH that playfully explores everyday life while also serving as a bold statement for art activism.

2. Cheetos in the Expanded Field - 2011. Site-specific installation at Mixed Greens featuring a silkscreened wallpaper, archival digital print, tape IKB cheeto vinyl, “You Are Just Like Your Dad” bookmark, organic cheeto cigarette, world’s largest friendship bracelet, and custom #2 pencil.

3. Life is a Highway - November 29, 2018. A solo exhibition with Mary Banas at Colpa Books & Video in San Francisco, featuring a collection of printed ephemera that uses graphic styles to reflect on the unrest of modern life, the idea of “freedom”, and the open road as a symbol of how we keep moving and growing as a community and individual.

4. Say it With Poochie - A vinyl sticker and booklet on subverting Poochie, an ephemeral 80s character “for girls”—to critique social injustices, the carceral state, and more.

5. Hey, How’s Life - A toilet paper protest piece against Donald Trump’s support of racism, misogyny, transphobia, and white supremacy. Printed with the text “It’s Terrific!” appropriated from a 1940s Citizen Kane ad.

6. TXTS IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION - Letterpress printed quotes and thoughts sourced from Trammell’s twitter that they has been gathering since 2007.

7. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love - 2014. Print making project for the ZZ School Event at Plug Project based in Kansas City. Trammell was the “amateur excavator” where they found ephemera that highlighted Kansas City history.

8. High & Outside (No. 1) - 2017. Publication about sports, flowers, the outdoors, words.

9. The Joy of Enjoying - 2019. “Cook/book & Happening” with content they crowdsourced. Published by Temple University. Created using screen printing and risography in collaboration with Jesse Malmed

10. Hippies Modernism - Poster printmaking project with a focus on calls to action. by @better_together_press

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@better_together_press shared zines today. Everyone made a RISO zine, and they all turned out so great! 📚🐛🐞🪻🌼🌷🌞🌱 taken in Portland State University by @better_together_press

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Please join us on Thursday, May 22nd for the next Kemeny Lecture Series with Breanne Trammell!

Breanne Trammell (she/they) is an artist, educator, amateur archivist, nonmusician, and snack enthusiast. Rooted in printmaking but expansive in form, her work maps constellations of publics and ephemeral artifacts that explore site, memory, and the political and personal histories embedded within them. Breanne’s practice often manifests through playful interventions, publishing projects, and participatory events.

This event is in collaboration with Art Practice & Printmaking Studio at PSU.

Tickets are free and open for all! 🎟️ Link in bio

Location:
Shattuck Hall / Room 212
1914 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97201
Doors at 6:30pm

Poster Design by: @amitythecalamity

The Matthias Kemeny Design Lecture Series is coordinated and managed by the Portland State Graphic Design program. This series brings internationally celebrated design professionals annually to Portland to give a lecture for the benefit of the students and faculty in the Graphic Design program and the broader design community. This series is free and open to the public, highlights a wide range of design practices, and facilitates a community-wide dialogue about design and related fields. The series has been made possible by the Matthias D. Kemeny Charitable Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation. by @better_together_press

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The first ever @better_together_press newspaper! This was a term-long collaborative project in the Print Expanded class. This paper is filled with heart, labor, dreams, joy, jokes, and talent. Twenty-three artists put energy into this publication— working as one, printed with and for each other. It could of only happen together!!

You’re looking at is a snippet of an 11 page newspaper, printed front and back on newsprint. 44, 13”x14” laser cut wood blocks! 1320+ printed impressions! Made by very talented printmakers!

The full publication will be available to view @better_together_press in a week. taken in Portland State University by @better_together_press

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2 years ago

Print Expanded has been simply too busy to update other than this post. We are making a Newspaper, @better_together_press! 11 pages front and back, edition of 30, 22 spreads and laser cut blocks, and 23 artists. When we aren’t printing, Fluxus boxes, and zines are in the mix. 😤📰📒🫨📦 taken in Portland State University by @better_together_press

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@psu_printmaking is excited to announce Better Together Press (@better_together_press )! BTP is a press run by students and faculty, dedicated to publications, artists’ prints, and community projects. This spring term, BTP will also be offered as a course!

In the meantime keep a look out for open calls for submissions. taken in Portland State University by @better_together_press

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