![]() The Wooster Collective blog was growing exponentially-it was before Banksy really hit popular culture, before street art temporarily became the best way to start an art career. We were spray stenciling and pasting stuff we had designed the night before. There was a “fuck the big galleries, we will put up our art in the streets for everyone” vibe at that time at Pratt. It was fun, interactive, low-stress and democratic at that time. We knew that people were starting to pay attention to street art, and blog ging about it. Garrison and I wanted to put some political information about waste and consumption on the streets, and realized silkscreen was a fast and efficient way to make prints for wheat past ing. ![]() I also had a set of keys to the Pratt shop. ![]() I was mostly doing etching and some relief, and collagraph prints, but I teaching-assisted many silkscreen classes at Pratt. I always loved school print shops, and was a student worker and shop assistant as much as possible, but seldom actually used screen printing in my work. I moved to Brooklyn from Virginia, via a few years in Rochester, New York, in 2001 to go to Graduate School at Pratt Institute. Previously, I had been working with Garrison Buxton and other collaborators, running the Ad Hoc Art gallery space at 49 Bogart Street and doing Peripheral Media Projects (PMP), a street art, design and silkscreen project that started out of a desire to circulate graphics in public space, that was first fostered by Adbusters Magazine around 2003. How did it start?īushwick Print Lab started in October, 2009. For those who have never heard of you, introduce Bushwick Print Lab.
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