Join us as we steamroll giant prints with a construction grade equipment!

Make an Empathy Comic with Andrew Kozlowski!

So often we think of ourselves as the protagonist in our lives—but is that always the case? How might we use our sense of empathy to explore other points of view? This exercise is a great way to have fun grappling with a difficult interaction, while also exploring how we create characters with different motivations that can drive stories in new ways.

During this 1 hour workshop we’ll create not 1, but 2 mini comics that explore how we can use our ability as writers and artists to shift our point of view. No experience writing or drawing necessary!

Hear from Ingrid Schindall about Miami Paper and Printing Museum, formerly known as IS Project.

Join us as we steamroll giant prints with a construction grade equipment!

In this Plant Printing Workshop, participants will explore the art of plant printing using real plant clippings, brayers, watercolor paper, and block printing ink. They’ll learn how to create unique compositions by inking and printing various plants onto paper, experimenting with color, texture, and layering techniques. Designed to celebrate the natural beauty of plants, this workshop allows participants to create one-of-a-kind prints in a hands-on, eco-friendly art session.

Using plant clippings as natural stamps, participants can capture intricate details of leaves, flowers, and stems by rolling block printing ink onto the clippings and pressing them onto watercolor paper. Experimentation with different colors and compositions will help participants create pieces that reflect their artistic style, focusing on exploration, creativity, and the tactile experience of working with natural materials.

Hear from Jacoub Reyes about with pop up exhibition Deep Seeded, at SPF’24.

SPF is teaming up with The Wolfsonian-FIU for Print Fest ‘24 - a celebration of printmaking and book arts in Miami Beach!

Calling book lovers, print nerds, and zinesters of all ages for a celebration of printmaking and book arts! Shop prints / books / zines books from local artists in the SPF pop-up.

Discover rare publications in the Wolfsonian library open house, roll up your sleeves for hands-on workshops led by local printers Tom Virgin / Extra Virgin Press and Melina Tsalikis, and come away with unique creations hot off the press. Grab a student-made booklet from our teen zine giveaway. Grab a cafecito and donuts to share from Salty Donut food truck.

Co-presented with SPF South Florida and the City of Miami Beach STEAM+ program. This Discovering Design program is supported by the Batchelor Foundation, the Tamara L. Harris Foundation, the Seligman Family Foundation, and the City of Miami Beach.

Join Ronny Hantash of Mint Prints for a deep dive into screenprinting on textiles. Through the open and interactive demo, participants will learn about the foundations of screenprinting and gain lots of insight into the tools, techniques, and materials involved in pulling professional prints on fabric for varying applications. High-quality screenprinted garments are one of Hantash’s specialties. He will bring some of his favorite tools with him and offer insights from his years of experience using them to produce things for himself and the folks he loves to work with.

This one hour workshop is for anyone who wants to learn how to bind a short-form zine in a fun, creative way. The workshop will focus on different ways to bind with the saddle stitch technique, including stapling, sewing, and using safety pins, and will cover the few tools you need to make it happen. The pages are folded down the middle and attached to each other in the fold. It’s a popular method in self-publishing due to its ease and accessibility. There are endless creative ways to use saddle stitch to make your books your own.

From publishers weekly:

“A transplanted New Yorker, Colagrande has published two previous novels (Deco in 2012, and Hedz in 2009) with the Buffalo indie press BlazeVox and is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. He described the Jitney Books list as “quirky, deep, literary, and edgy,” pointing to the Brooklyn indie house Akashic Books, as well as McSweeney’s as models: “Jitney Books draws its inspiration from these two presses, and its content falls somewhere in between, drawing on all of Miami’s weirdness and roughness.

Jitney Books, a micropublishing venture launched in late 2017 by J.J. Colagrande, a novelist and full-time professor at Miami Dade College, is a good example of how a publisher with little capital can launch a small house with a list of talented but unknown writers. The press, which is named after the Miami minibuses that snake through the city’s gritty neighborhoods, focuses on quirky literary works written by authors based in the Miami area.”

Nothing is worse than staring at a blank sheet of paper, hoping it will just read your mind and turn into something magical. This workshop is designed to help anyone conquer the blank sheet, turning it into an eight page autobiographical mini-zine in less than an hour. We’ll use some simple journaling to get our ideas moving, then combine timed writing and drawing challenges to push us past the blank sheet. Armed with just a single sheet of paper, some pens or pencils, and a pair of scissors, we’ll turn our everyday experiences into a creative catalyst!

This workshop is open to anyone. It’s a great way to build that muscle for getting your story onto paper. At the end of the workshop, you’ll have a new zine (or maybe two.) They might be complete, or a sketch for something bigger. Whatever your skill level, you’ll be able to jump in and get going. What’s the worst that could happen? It's just a sheet of paper!

Your host: Andrew Kozlowski is an artist, educator, cartoonist, publisher, and zinester who lives and works in Jacksonville Florida, where he runs Paper City Publishing. He loves teaching about comics and zines, and making them accessible to anyone. This is his second time at SPF.

During this interactive one hour Cyanotype workshop, we will harness the power of sunlight to craft some cool art. Open to all levels of experience, this workshop offers a simplified introduction to cyanotype printing. We will use objects to block or diffuse light on paper coated with a light reactive dye to produce vibrant blue-hued prints. Participants will compose their print by arranging objects on their paper and exposing them to the sun's rays. Cool shaped objects will be provided, but feel free to prepare for the workshop by bringing your own items to print with. Prints can be made with flowers, stencils, keys, sea shells, old photo negatives, translucent objects, and small toys. You will be encouraged to engage with and assist each other to foster a supportive, communal learning environment. Leave with your very own cyanotype prints, each one a testament to your new experience and the magic of sun printing.

Four large silkscreens on bark paper from Bhutan will be shown in cyc wall by Donna Ruff, who was an artist-in-resident at Deering Estate from 2019-2021, where she spent her residency researching the relationship between Charles Deering and botanist John Kunkel Small.

Small, chief botanist at the New York Botanical Garden, spent years exploring and documenting the wilds of South Florida in the 1920s. The title, Terra Incognita, is Latin for “unknown land”, as Florida at that time was largely the territory of Indigenous Peoples, exotic creatures, and tropical plantlife. The silkscreens are based on Small’s own photographs of landscapes taken on and around the Deering Estate grounds. Small’s book From Eden to Sahara: Florida’s Tragedy (1929), helped stimulate conservation efforts in South Florida to protect endangered lands that eventually brought about the creation of Everglades National Park in 1947.The substrate, handmade Resho paper, is known for being sustainable and durable, and includes bits of natural substances. 

About the artist:

Donna Ruff is an American visual artist, curator and educator currently living and working in Miami, Florida. She works in mixed media on found printed matter, primarily newspaper headline pages and historical documents. Ruff questions how written and photographic narratives are constructed by removing and transforming printed text and image to recontextualize the portrayal of world events. Ruff earned an MA in Art History from Florida State University and worked as a graphic designer and book illustrator in Miami and later in New York City. She earned an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts. During her graduate studies Ruff was introduced to printmaking and papermaking at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper and began incorporating these techniques into her art discipline. Ruff’s work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA); New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM), Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum (Mesa, AZ), Center for Book Arts (NYC), Mass MOCA, Sol Lewitt Exchange (North Adams, MA), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI), A.I.R. Gallery, New York, (NYC) and ArtSPACE New Haven (New Haven, CT). Ruff has worked as an artist in residence at PS 122 (NYC), Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, NM), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, (Berlin, Germany), Deering Estate (Miami, FL) and Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM)

Learn how to make simple, satisfying, screen prints at home—without the need for specialized equipment! We'll cover techniques that don't use photoemulsion and don't require equipment like power washers and exposure units. You'll learn monoprinting with water soluble drawing materials, making stencils with tracing paper and cut vinyl, and creating hand painted blockouts with screen filler or water soluble glue. In addition to these techniques, you'll learn how you can build a simple low cost printing station with items from the hardware store. After this workshop, you'll leave feeling ready to set up your own screenprinting studio at home!

Instructor: Andrew Kozlowksi

NOTE: This workshop is FREE and all SPF’22 visitors are welcome to attend.

Join us in the auditorium for a conversation with Jesse Shaw on his creative process in developing the American Epic series of linocut prints, a work in progress that he has dedicated 14 years to thus far. Jesse will discuss how he uses personal memory, American and art history, and cultural iconography to build imagery, as well as his personal experience working on a long-term project.

About the Artist:
Jesse Shaw is a printmaker from Tennessee primarily working in relief prints carved from linoleum blocks. His work is based in the narrative, satirical, political, and social commentary tradition of the graphic print. Jesse is currently working on a series of fifty prints depicting the epic story of America. He has completed 30 prints in the series over the past thirteen years. Prints from his “American Epic” series of linocut prints have been exhibited nationally in Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Philadelphia, New Jersey and North Carolina.

Jesse has been an invited guest speaker at several universities, including the University of Anchorage Alaska, AK, the University of North Carolina Greensboro, NC, Pennsylvania College of Technology, and Vanderbilt Divinity School, TN. Apart from academic activities Jesse has worked as a professional printmaker in fine art print publishing at Durham Press, in Durham, PA and curated and co-founded Print Riot, an annual print fair in Easton, PA. He received his MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design in 2009 and his BFA from Austin Peay State University in 2007. He currently teaches drawing and printmaking at Texas A & M International University in Laredo, TX.

Participate in this interactive installation and add your contribution to our woodblock wheat paste community mural during SPF'22! Using eco-friendly materials, learn how to carve, print, and paste your woodblock design onto our communal wall. This group activity is for all ages and abilities. Pre-carved designs will also be available to print and paste. At the end of SPF, you'll be able to take your prints and blocks home with you!

Instructor: Jacoub Reyes of the Florida Printmakers society

NOTE: This workshop is FREE and all SPF’22 visitors are welcome to attend.

Participate in this interactive installation and add your contribution to our woodblock wheat paste community mural during SPF'22! Using eco-friendly materials, learn how to carve, print, and paste your woodblock design onto our communal wall. This group activity is for all ages and abilities. Pre-carved designs will also be available to print and paste. At the end of SPF, you'll be able to take your prints and blocks home with you!

Instructor: Jacoub Reyes of the Florida Printmakers society

NOTE: This workshop is FREE and all SPF’22 visitors are welcome to attend.

Join us in the Main Gallery for an artist talk with Martin Mazorra on his current solo exhibition, bROADSIDE ATTRACTION.

About the Exhibition:
Brooklyn based Martin Mazorra is the founder of Cannonball Press and longtime advocate of straightforward printmaking and affordable art. His exhibit bROADSIDE ATTRACTION is an atlas of woodcut and woodtype printed signage on fabric banners. These are large-format hanging banners, letterpress printed in bold black ink on an antique press. They echo the stark economy and generic signage that one might find on any highway or roadside, and are chock-full of directives, both pithy and humorous. The text publicizes invented locations peppered with psychological and self-effacing satire that entices the mind to distraction, or drift, as it does when driving — while still managing to somehow keep eyes on the road.

Martin's work is not a remote, precious, technology-based product. It favors bold, informal messaging that is made by hand and detected quickly. These images, even seen in passing, can dwell in the mind, encouraging and shaping both internal and external narratives.

About the Artist:
Martin Mazorra is a Brooklyn based artist originally from West Virginia. He works in woodcut and letterpress, from small books, prints on paper, large prints on fabric, to site specific print-based installations. He is the founder of Cannonball Press, formed in New York in 1999.

His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Taubman Museum in Virginia, the Block Museum in Illinois, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana, the Yale Beinecke Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is represented by Planthouse Gallery in New York City and Signal Return in Detroit.

Let's draw together! Saturday afternoon sit down with paper and pencil to explore the many possibilities of representing emotions in comics. Together we will lean into the metaphorical potential of drawing to represent our experiences in unexpected ways. Bring your best sense of adventure and be prepared to leave with a four panel comic that you can replicate wherever you are in your comics making journey, whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced. Throughout it all, Emma will be there drawing alongside you and answering questions!

Instructor: Emma Jensen of The Sequential Artists Workshop

NOTE: This workshop is FREE and all SPF’22 visitors are welcome to attend.

SPF is teaming up with Old Town Untapped in Pompano Beach for the SPF’22 Doodle Party!

Join us for Pompano Beach’s Arts Festival! Patrons experience a night filled with live music by local bands and a local DJ, art gallery openings at Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, craft beer, food trucks, and artist vendors selling unique and artistic merchandise.

All are invited to exercise their creative muscles and doodle with us! Doodle Parties invite everyone to doodle down and get involved with spontaneous drawings, doodles, scribbles or other markings. No skill, purchase, rsvp or pre-registration required. SPF will take over a space, covering the walls in blank paper for your doodling pleasure. Pens, markers and other doodling utensils provided. Stop in at any time during the event to make your mark.

At the end of the event, SPF gathers the doodles to make an edition of the official SPF Doodle Zine, with your contributing words, scrawls, comics, cartoons and, of course, doodles. SPF Doodle Zines are available for pre-order at the Doodle Party, and available for pick up and purchase at SPF Small Press Fair. SPF'22 takes place November 12 and 13, Noon-6pm at MAD Art Space in Pompano Beach. More details at spf-ftl.com.

Join us in the gallery at IS Projects (during SPF’ 21) for an artist talk with David Wolske on his solo exhibition, Re: Contextual.

Not local? The conversation will also be broadcast on the @isprojects Instagram live.

About the Artist
David Wolske is a typo/graphic designer, artist, and educator. His interdisciplinary practice combines the traditions of letterpress and printmaking with digital tools and design thinking. Wolske’s work is exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. He is a 2020 LHM Educator Fellow at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography at ArtCenter College of Design; the College Book Art Association 2018 Emerging Educator; 2016 Visiting Artist at Hatch Show Print; and a 2014 Utah Visual Arts Fellow.

Wolske’s work is represented by Artspace111 in Fort Worth. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas.

SPF'21: The 6th edition of SPF: Small Press Fair Fort Lauderdale returns to FATVillage for an epic day of IRL print, book and zine chaos! 

+ exhibitor market
+ steamroller press
+ live print-making demonstrations
+ food and drinks

Teens and adults (ages 13 & up) will create content for a zine through a printmaking technique utilizing found objects to print visually interesting abstract patterns. Attendees will learn two simple zine folding methods and participate in a discussion on sustainable art practices throughout this two hour workshop.

Materials will be provided, however, attendees are invited to bring their own found objects with textures they may be interested in replicating, such as mesh produce bags, tin foil, bubble wrap or leaves.

This workshop is FREE to attend, but please RSVP via email to tayina@girlsclubcollection.org or by clicking the button below.

About the Instructor:
Sharene Ashley is a Jamaican-born, Fort Lauderdale based multidisciplinary artist. Her work is largely introspective, exploring social interaction or isolation, self esteem and sentimentality as experienced from behind the lens of black, West Indian cultural identity.

This exciting two-hour workshop will include a relief carving demo on PVC and the making of a SMALL PRESS BUILD for each participant! The wood will be pre-cut to size for easy assembly and once built, the Tortilla Presses will be able to print 5"x7" relief blocks. There will be blocks with images ready to carve or you can draw your own design!

Check out the video below to see a Tortilla Press in action!

$10 per person, limited to 8 participants. Please register with IS Projects here or by clicking the button below.

About the Instructor:
https://www.josephvelasquez.com/bio

Join instructor Brooke Frank in this short, intensive workshop that focuses on quick and pain-free ways to bind book projects.

Students will learn multiple variations of the pamphlet stitch binding and Japanese stab binding techniques, as well as the x-book. These bindings are quick and easy and can be used to add a handmade touch to zines or other book projects without the need for large studio equipment or glue. Each student will leave with 2-5 small handmade books.

Admission is free to the public, but seating is limited. Please register in advance with the library here or by clicking the button below.

About the Instructor:
Brooke Frank is a painter based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She received her MFA in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin and her BFA in Studio Art at Florida Atlantic University. She has completed multiple artist residencies and currently teaches drawing and printmaking at Nova Southeastern University and Florida Atlantic University.