{"id":46743,"date":"2021-05-18T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/creative-prints-made-from-local-knowledge-project\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:33:43","slug":"creative-prints-made-from-local-knowledge-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/creative-prints-made-from-local-knowledge-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative prints made from local knowledge project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The
The Mancos Common Press hosted an artist-in-residence program this month. From left are Mancos Common Press board members Tami Graham and Betsy Harrison, and artists Rosie Carter and Jamie Karolich. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

What do you know, have learned, or understand?<\/p>\n

Two artists asked the questions of the community as inspiration to create unique prints at the Mancos Common Press.<\/p>\n

Rosie Carter and Jamie Karolich came up with the idea of the Knowledge Deposit Box for a letterpress printmaking project during a two-week artist-in-residence program.<\/p>\n

Selected answers left in a special drop box were designed into stylish \u201cKnowledge Prints\u201d using two restored printing presses at the Mancos Common Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Carter and Karolich created about 20 original designs using a Chandler and Price press from the 1800s, and a Challenge Proof Press from the 1960s. They made 30 to 40 copies of each original print.<\/p>\n

The community submitted more than 100 knowledge messages, ranging from the whimsical to the profound. Copies of the finished prints are being offered for free from a newspaper box in front of the Mancos Common Press.<\/p>\n

\"The
The Mancos Common Press created prints based on messages left by the community. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

In an interview, artists Karolich and Carter explained that the historic presses require each letter, image, symbol, and space to be arranged by hand.<\/p>\n

They also used the letters and presses in original ways to create form and imagery in color, and black and white.<\/p>\n

Moving the giant wheels and mechanisms of the old printing presses was a physical job, they said.<\/p>\n

Karolich and Carter said the project was fun because it involved community participation and the use of historic type-setting in non-traditional ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a collaboration between us and the community. We used thoughtful designs to articulate the sentiment behind the comments,\u201d Karolich said.<\/p>\n

\"Artist
Artist Jamie Karolich works on a historic press as part of an artist-in-residence program by the Mancos Common Press. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The project is also a way to educate the public about historic printing presses and the variety of uses for them, said Mancos Common Press board president Tami Graham.<\/p>\n

The program was made possible through a grant from the Ballantine Family Foundation. The Chandler and Price press was donated by Larry Hauser of Cortez.<\/p>\n

Open house<\/div>\n

An open house exhibit of the prints made from the artist-in-residence program will be held May 20 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Mancos Common Press, 135 W. Grand Ave.<\/p>\n

\"Courtesy
Courtesy Mancos Common Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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