March 2025 Newsletter

The studio library organization process involves lots and lots of sticky notes

Spring Cleaning

Whether that phrase sparks joy or inspires dread, there’s a million ways to give yourself a fresh start this spring, and we have a few niche ideas for ya.

Some ideas for a satisfying spring cleaning that don’t involve a mop:

• Artists, maybe it’s time to wrap up one of those half-finished projects that’s been taking up precious project/storage space.

• Get your head clear by quietly contemplating some artists’ books

• Those out-of-left-field art supplies you haven’t figured out yet? Figure out how to put them to work!

• Re-hang the art you live with for a fresh start at home

• Reorganize your book shelves (and re-read half the books just to remind yourself that you definitely need all of them)

Here’s some Spring cleaning projects we have going on here:

• New arrangement in screenprinting area to make papermaking vacuum table more accessible for papermaking projects or any projects that involve soaking paper larger than 30x40”

• Tropic Bound materials will be archived and stored for 2027

• We’ll have more space in the studio with Ingrid out on maternity leave!

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WHAT’S ON VIEW

Come clear your mind by spending some time with art.

Drop-in visitors are welcome during our business hours, but to ensure we have time to show you around, you can make an appointment by emailing info@isprojectsfl.com, SUBJECT: Museum Visit

You can always learn about Miami Paper & Printing Museum exhibitions on our website.

New exhibition in the Contemporary Wing:

Still Pools

Miami Paper & Printing Museum is proud to present Still Pools, an exhibition of artists’ books from Miami Artists and MPPM’s Special Collections. The exhibition is currently installed in the Contemporary Wing of the Museum, and includes work from the following artists:

Islam Aly
Sara Garden Armstrong
Jen Clay
Caroline Kern
Mary Larsen
Michelle AM Miller 
Lea Nickless 
Sheryl Oppenheim
Carol Prusa
Donna Ruff
Ingrid Schindall
Beth Sheehan
Small Craft Advisory Press

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Permanent Collection

Curated by Beth Sheehan from the Museum’s extensive collection of artwork, ephemera, and equipment, the Permanent Collection offers visitors a solid foundational introduction to both papermaking and letterpress printing, and how the two practices intersect.

It prominently features several tiny presses and a selection of contemporary letterpress printed posters from shops and artists we love from around the US, as well as a detailed look at different papermaking fibers and an processes.

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MUSEUM EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Use it or lose it: Workshops to the rescue

Learn everything you need to actually use those inks that have been staring you down for a few years since you had that exciting idea for a print you wanted to make.

Customize your learning

Set up a workshop that fits with your needs and your schedule. Built for 1-4 people, browse our selection of ready-to-go workshops, or if you want to learn something really specific, you can submit a custom inquiry here.

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MEMBERSHIP

Members-Only Studio Pass

from $75.00

Ready to wrap up that half-finished project?

Member passes might be the answer. We offer 7-day and 30-day Members Only Studio Passes. Studio Passes are the best way set yourself up with some momentum to start new projects and finish old ones.

Studio Passes include the following:

• Admission to any Open Studio Sessions (RSVP encouraged but not required)

• Unassisted Studio Time during our business hours (email Brooke to make sure the equipment you want is available before you come in, but if it is, it’s yours to use!)

• Assisted Studio Time at a discounted rate of $45/hour

Not a member? These passes are for studio members only (we do need to know you a little bit before we set you loose in here.) Becoming a member is really easy, and memberships start at just $150 per year. If you want flexible studio access and learning options, membership is definitely the move. It comes with enough perks, invitations, open calls, and discounts to keep you printing all year.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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THE MUSEUM STORE

It is what you make of it.

$20.00

Make some room for the things you love

The Museum Store is stocked! Come pick up the supplies you need to make your work, pick out some art that you’d love to live with, or both!

Supplies

• Huge pieces of linoleum to carve for your next big relief print

• Pro-quality pigment (you can add the pigment directly to whatever screen ink base you want to have total control over color. We also sell Speedball base!)

• New and vintage bookcloth sold by the foot and lots of linen thread

• A huge selection of paper (big, small, shiny, fancy, white, brightly colored, glittery, and more) and we can custom order paper for you to get exactly what you need.

Crafts

• Letterpress printed thank you cards

• Hand-sewn notebooks, sketchbooks, and journals

• Bind-them-yourself customizable spiral notebooks with hard covers handmade in-house

Fine Art

• Artists’ books like Nearing by Jen Clay and Devoted by Beth Sheehan (and a bunch more that aren’t on our website)

• Prints (real hand-made prints!) by artists like Carol Todaro and Baghead

Most of the things we sell won’t be sold by us online (especially not anytime soon) so we strongly recommend stopping in to shop.

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February 2025 Newsletter

Handmade books, top-tier shuttle tours of Miami’s literary arts landmarks, and a warm, sunny forecast!

This month, it’s all about Tropic Bound! Ingrid is one of Tropic Bound’s three co-founders and the team here at Miami Paper & Printing Museum is essential to making Tropic Bound possible. The fair takes place in just about a week from now — are you excited yet?

We’re gonna run through some things we’d love to highlight about the upcoming fair. If you’re already making your plans, maybe this will put something new on your radar! If you are new to the concept of Tropic Bound, allow us to introduce you.

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What is Tropic Bound?

Check out art and books at the Main Fair and the Addendum!

The inaugural edition of Tropic Bound launched February 16th-19th, 2023 in the Miami Design District with over 1600 visitors in 4 days, from more than 20 countries, to see 64 exhibitors. This year, there will be 70 exhibitors from around the globe, around 30% of the exhibitors are based outside of the US.

The exhibitors are the main attraction — each table is occupied by a bookseller or artist who has laid out incredible handmade, small edition, and/or rare books and prints for you to explore and (and perhaps purchase and take home!)

Folks looking to get into collecting art often find that artists’ books are a great way to start. They are made with tremendous care and offer a lower price point than many unique works and are often comparably priced to prints. Many of the artists making artists’ books today work in other disciplines like sculpture, fiber arts, painting, writing, sound, video, and illustration, and have found that the book is a necessary conceptual extension of their practices. Many other artists have make their disciplinary home in the print and book world, and have devoted the bulk of their creative practice to the techniques and discourse surrounding the handmade book. All of the artists represented at Tropic Bound make work which is exemplary of the medium and of the role of artists in pushing what we think is possible within and beyond it.

You may need to visit more than once to ensure you see all of the exhibitors. Check out the exhibitors and hours for the Main Fair and the Addendum here! Each portion of the fair has it’s own hours and is free to attend.

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Ride along on a Tropic Bound Shuttle Tour to explore Miami’s book and print treasures

Sign up for an immersive field trip with other art book lovers. Each tour is hosted by one of Tropic Bound’s co-directors, and offers a glimpse into the literary art hot spots of Miami. Your tour may visit the University of Miami’s special collections, artist and printmaking studios, binderies, book shops and more. Light lunch included.

There are three tours total, so choose wisely!

Shuttle tours will depart from Paradise Plaza, 151 NE 41 Street, street level, in the Miami Design District on Thursday, Feb 6, at 10am, and return to the same plaza at 2pm.

Option 1: Bindery Tour

Miami Paper & Printing Museum, (formerly known as IS Projects) a public access fine art printmaking and book arts studio and exhibition space, exclusive tour and talk from founder Ingrid Schindall, and D&B Book Binders, a family team specializing in printing and binding hardcover books, serving South Florida for over 60 years, tour from Anthony Lloret, 2nd generation owner

Option 2: Wolfsonian—FIU / Studio Tour

Extra Virgin Press, letterpress and book arts studio, with artist and printer Tom Virgin, EXILE Projects, an artist book publisher, community organizer, and experimental art space, The Wolfsonian-FIU, museum, library and research center with more than 200,000 objects with tour from Rosemarie Chiarlone, artist, and Frank Luca, Chief Librarian.

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Hear what the pros have to say about it at the Symposium (and then PARTY!)

The Tropic Bound 2025 Symposium takes place at Palm Court Plaza Event Space, 140 NE 39 Street, 3rd Floor, in the Miami Design District on Thursday, Feb 6, from 4-6pm. At 6PM immediately following the Symposium, guests can enjoy the Tropic Bound Welcome Party! Stick around to nosh and make friends of the most bookish sort.

The Tropic Bound 2025 Symposium is generously sponsored by Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, selling contemporary fine press and artists’ books, representing 300+ presses and artists, to spread the joys of contemporary Book Arts across the country. The Welcome Party is generously sponsored by Lux Mentis Booksellers, specializing in fine first editions and rarities, books that have been treasured and will continue to be treasured – Americana, fiction, film, children’s books, art, travel, or the history of ideas.

We couldn’t be more grateful for the support of these champions in the world of deeply loved, rare, and artist-made books.

Keynote Speaker, Stephanie Stillo,
Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections Division,
US Library of Congress

Stillo will deliver the Tropic Bound 2025 keynote speech, Beyond the Build: Integrating Art into Special Collections, discussing the significance of book arts to special collection libraries.

In 2023 Stephanie Stillo assumed the country’s head librarian position - Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the US Library of Congress, where she leads the development, stewardship, interpretation, promotion and service of the collection to meet the needs of government officials, scholars and the public. Prior to her appointment in 2023, she held the position of curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection and Aramont Library. Stillo holds a Ph.D. in modern European history and specializes in the history of printmaking and historical book illustration. She has a particular interest in the visual intersection of art, literature and poetry in modern and contemporary artist books.

The Rare Book and Special Collections Division is the largest collection of rare books in North America. Spanning eras and subjects, its holdings include nearly 1 million books, broadsides, pamphlets, theater playbills, title pages, prints, posters, photographs, and medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. At the center of the collection is President Thomas Jefferson's library, which was sold to Congress in 1815. In addition to the Collection, Stillo also oversees the division’s popular video series “From the Vaults” and co-manages the division’s blog, Bibliomania.

Panel Discussion: Beyond the Binding: How Artists’ Books are Made Today

with Emily Martin, Stephen Pittelkow, Sol Rébora, and Mark Sarigianis

Tropic Bound is an international fair with the mission to champion artists’ books. What makes an artists’ book different from a regular book? One of the main differences between an artists’ book and any other book is the intention that goes into every aspect of its creation. When embarking on the project of making a book, artists have a dizzying array of techniques, materials, and communication strategies to employ. In this panel we will hear from book artists and makers with diverse approaches to their practices. Attendees will gain insight into what really goes into planning and making an object that bridges the worlds of books and art.

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You’re gonna want to touch more paper after the fair

Sign up for a workshop before it’s too late!

You know you’re looking at great work when the most intense feeling you have while you’re looking at it is, “I want to go to the studio and get to work right now!” It’s possible that even just reading about the fair has you wound up about the idea of folding paper and rolling out ink. Seeing all of the incredible books and prints at the fair and talking to all of the people that love them and make them will definitely intensify that feeling for many of us. If you know you’re going to want to get your hands busy right away after the fair, we’d suggest signing up to learn something new here at the studio. We have both bookbinding and drypoint printing on the schedule starting real soon after the fair. Don’t lose your momentum!

Want to learn something a little more specific?

You can learn anything with us that we can do here through our Private Instruction options. We have a bunch of common Private Instruction topics ready-to-go on our website, which we can customize to your specific needs inquire here.

And if you’re ready to hit the ground running…

Gift a Studio Membership

from $150.00

…you can jump right in. Workshops optional (and discounted for members!)

Folks who are local and want flexible studio access, discounts on workshops, invites to members-only events, studio slots, and opportunities are great contenders for studio membership! Membership is the most economical way to use the studio if you know your goals go beyond a workshop here and there, or a one-off project.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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PREVIEW: Miami Paper & Printing Museum will have a table at Tropic Bound!

Ingrid will be holding it down at the Miami Paper & Printing Museum table this year at Tropic Bound. She’ll have lots of behind-the-scenes knowledge to share with visitors to the table about all of the books, prints, and zines that we’ll have on view. Here’s just a little glimpse at the work that you can expect at our table, which may offer you just a little more insight into what the fair is all about. Of course, nothing beats seeing it all for yourself.

Nearing by Jen Clay

$200.00

unknowing by Carol Prusa

from $1,750.00

Convergence by Michelle AM Miller

from $150.00

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Holidays + January 2025 Newsletter

A glimpse at the Museum Store

The gift of gratitude

At the end of the year, our thoughts turn toward our gratitude for all the good things that have come our way. We make time to be with the folks we love, to eat with them, to laugh with them, to share our traditions and do new things that will maybe become traditions in their own right later on. It’s not so uncommon to thank the folks we love for their place in our life with a gift, and whether you’re a holiday-person or not, this is typically when all that gratitude-in-the-form-of-gifting reaches a fever pitch around here.

There’s no way to put a bow on all the care and love that we have for you and all the folks we love who form the bedrock of our lives. Thank you. We couldn’t be more grateful. We give you everything we’ve got every day, and we know you do the same. And just like so many of the rest of you, we have a few heartfelt gifts to give to our moms and partners and friends that we hope will offer them a small glimpse of all that impossible-to-summarize love and gratitude which we typically close the year with.

If you, like us, are still trying to figure out a few last minute thoughtful gifts, then we’re happy be able to offer some small amount of help in the great American small business tradition of emailing you a holiday shopping guide in December. We hope you’ll find something heartfelt, fun or exciting here to help you close out your year. If you need us, we’re here for you, and if we don’t see you? We are wishing you the very best in 2025.

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HOLIDAY HOURS:

Our museum is a part of an active studio environment. Drop-in visitors are welcome, but we do recommend calling or emailing to make an appointment before your visit if you’d like to come by for a tour, to learn about the studio, or to get started on a new project. In those cases, please call or email the studio to make an appointment. Planning your visit will allow us to give you our full attention while you’re here.

SPECIAL HOURS

TODAY, MONDAY DEC 23: Open until 7PM (we are usually closed on Mondays)

We will be closed on the following dates:

• Dec. 24-25 (Christmas)

• Dec. 31-Jan 1 (New Years)

• Usual Hours:

  Tues - Fri: 11am - 7pm
  Sat - Sun: By Appointment

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FOR THE LIFELONG LEARNERS:

The gift of a workshop is perfect for so many situations!

If you’re gifted a workshop, it’s a gift you can definitely actually use. You’ll make something cool that you can enjoy for a long time, and the things you learn, you’ll only have to store in your mind! Give a workshop to someone who’d love to do something with their hands, or if they’re more of a quality-time-person than a gifts-person, sign up for two spots in the workshop and take it with them!

Want to set up a custom small workshop a time that works for you?

Two seats in a workshop aren’t always enough, if your loved ones are more artsy/craftsy! Give a group gift: set up a private workshop that you can all take together. We have five ready-to-go Private Instruction courses listed on our website. Letterpress, marbling, and all kinds of other things are also super easy to arrange. If you want to set up a workshop not represented in our ready-to-go options, you can review some of the options and inquire here.

FOR THE ARTIST WHO’S READY TO WORK:

Gift a Studio Membership

from $150.00

Dying to get in here to print/bind/make paper? Put a membership on your wish list!

Folks who are local and want flexible studio access, discounts on workshops, invites to members-only events, studio slots, and opportunities are great contenders for studio membership! Membership is the most economical way to use the studio if you know your goals go beyond a workshop here and there, or a one-off project.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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STATIONERY + GIFTS YOU CAN WRAP

Need a cute card? Great paper to make a cute card yourself? We got you. Books, prints, or zines to give to the collector in your life? We have a bunch. How about the inks, knives, bone folders, awls, threads, and other tools one might need to make books and prints at home? There’s nowhere better for you to stop in. Stop in to shop and we can show you what we’ve got. We’d be happy to set up a custom print or book starter kit for the creative person you’re shopping for. There’s way more stuff to see in-person in the Museum Store than you will find listed on the website. Drop in during our business hours to poke around!

Junk Food Love Card Set

$15.00

Clarendon Poster

$30.00

Moon Phase Coasters

$10.00

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November 2024 Newsletter

Are you coming? Learn more about the fair, or apply to reserve your table as an Exhibitor.

Community and exchange are how change happens.

Think it’s weird that we have drafted and sent you an email about a fun event right now? If it was about any other normal thing we do, maybe we would also think it’s weird.

But this email is about Small Press Fair, and truthfully, our experience of making SPF happen for the last 9 years has felt like a huge boon to our ability to keep going despite all kinds of pain, frustration, sadness and rage.

We say these things a lot, and we mean them:

• Being a part of a community of people who are using the tools they have to keep building better lives together can by very healing.

• Self-publishing has been the backbone of resistance and speaking truth to power for a very long time.

• Making art is political, and making art (whether or not the art appears to be political) is the practice of freedom.

• Art and books (and many of the wonderful and wild things that live in their ecosystem) cultivate curiosity and criticality, and we need both of those characteristics in abundance to survive and thrive.

Do we think SPF is going to solve every problem in the tangled mess of systems that we find ourselves in? No, probably not.

But do we really believe that showing up for each other and working together is the key? Yeah, we do. So we are going to show up for all the people we love this weekend — the great collaborators, the artists, the art lovers, the readers, the collectors, and friends old and new — and we’re looking forward to giving it our whole hearts.

So if you’re thinking of joining us at SPF this year, here’s what you can expect:

November 9th and 10th, come to the fair at Mad Arts in Dania Beach to be a part of all the fun we have planned:

• Tons of exhibitors: Sitting behind every table is someone (mostly artists!) who showed up with a bunch of their favorite zines/prints/pins/stickers/books/patches/a ton of other wacky things that they love, and they are ready to show you what they’ve got! Look around, make friends, get ideas, pick up some new work to take home.

• Live Demos: The only thing as exciting to us as gorgeous finished prints is getting to see and feel how they happen.

• Free workshops: The fair is free to attend, and there are a few exhibitors scheduled to lead free workshops at specified times throughout. You can leave the fair having made some art yourself!

• Exhibition and Artist Talk with Jacoub Reyes: SPF will be exhibiting a selection of truly incredible prints by Reyes, including at least one huge and very intricate woodblock print on fabric that was printed with our help here at the studio. We are incredibly grateful to have had a part to play in realizing these seriously ambitious prints, and can’t wait to share them with folks at SPF, and to hear what he has to tell us about his practice during his talk!

• Great people, food, and beer!

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THE PORTFOLIO EXCHANGE IS COMING

Basic Studio Membership

$150.00 every 12 months

Want to trade your art for more art?

We’re organizing a portfolio exchange. For the uninitiated, a portfolio exchange is a tradition in the print world. There is often a unifying theme or set of constraints proposed, and a list of artists are invited to participate. Every artist who participates will submit an edition of prints in the specified quantity, and in exchange, will receive back one print from every edition submitted by every artist participating.

This tradition is all about community and sharing, and is one of the coolest ways for artists to collect work from (and make work for!) other artists with whom they have something in common.

The official invite will go out next week to a bunch of folks who have been involved in a handful of studio programs since we sent out the invite to our last exchange in January 2023. If you’re dying to participate and don’t see the official invite in your inbox within the next two weeks, the only way in is to become a studio member. Invitation to the exchange is one of the member benefits we think is most exciting. Get in touch with us if you have questions.

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GET BUSY IN A WORKSHOP

November and December are busy months for everyone. Here in South Florida, the traffic gets heavier, the visits from loved ones fleeing the cold become more frequent, and between the holidays and the art fairs, there’s no shortage of things to do. Consequently, we only have a few workshops lined up before 2025 rolls around, and we think each of them would be worth the time you’d have to set aside for them. Especially true if you feel ready to make things and are excited to get a jump-start on it with a small group of other folks who are just as ready to learn.

Alternatively, class can start whenever you’re ready.

Already booked? Set up a custom workshop that fits with your needs and your schedule. Built for 1-4 people, browse our selection of ready-to-go workshops, or if you want to learn something really specific, you can submit a custom inquiry here.

READY TO MAKE A LOT?

Members-Only Studio Pass

from $75.00

Gift a Studio Membership

from $150.00

Member passes: 7-day and 30-day options

Book yourself a studio pass and get access to all of the following.

Passes include the following:

• Admission to any Open Studio Sessions (RSVP encouraged but not required)

• Unassisted Studio Time during our business hours (email Brooke to make sure the equipment you want is available before you come in, but if it is, it’s yours to use!)

• Assisted Studio Time at a discounted rate of $45/hour

Not a member? These passes are for studio members only (we do need to know you a little bit before we set you loose in here.) Becoming a member is really easy, and memberships start at just $150 per year. If you want flexible studio access, membership is definitely the move, and it comes with enough perks, invitations, open calls, and discounts to keep you printing all year. You can also gift a membership to a loved one, or put a membership on your holiday wishlist so that they’ll gift one to you!

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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SPF Shopping Preview

Not sure what to expect at SPF this year? Here’s a little preview of things you’ll be able to find at our table.

Moon Phase Coasters

$10.00

Painter's Roman Poster

$30.00

A Statistically Insignificant History of Time

$5.00

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October 2024 Newsletter

Want to visit a funky museum with a top-notch education department and museum store (and free parking?!)

It’s official: IS Projects has officially transformed itself into the Miami Paper & Printing Museum.

We installed the art, we hosted the reception, the grand opening/10 year anniversary party, and came back to the studio this week to the buzzy, warm feeling of starting a fresh new chapter.

A question we were asked repeatedly throughout this transition has been, “what sparked this change?” So we thought this newsletter might be a good opportunity to shed some light on the thought process behind the museum:

In April 2022, we received a call from a man who was preparing to retire from his career as a “renaissance printer” here in Miami and move back to his home in Peru. Hernan Helfer had 50+ years of experience making paper, studying calligraphy, and much more. He also ran a non-profit called Miami Paper Museum for some time. We purchased Hernan’s collection and moved it into the studio (some of y’all might remember that giant pile of cardboard tubes that we were rehoming… yup those were Hernan’s). As we sorted through everything and integrated it into the space, we found a home for Hernan’s historical dioramas, which explore the history of writing, in the blank walls of our restroom. The restroom became, in tongue and cheek, The Miami Paper Museum.

It could have ended there, but the idea of building out a niche museum that could highlight some of the oddities and wonders that have been living in boxes and drawers throughout IS Projects for years while giving visitors deeper insight into the history and relevance of what we do here kept spinning in the back of our minds. We thought a lot about what a museum does for the community and how it can be a forum for discourse as well as a vessel of knowledge. I (Ingrid) thought a lot about my practice which revolves around the printed mark as a communication tool through time and printing as a means to build community.

The Museum itself is a collaborative art project that plays with our expectations of the word. The Permanent Collection lives in the smallest room in the space, the Contemporary Wing is the largest free wall in the building, the Museum Store focuses on art supplies and art by locals, and the Education Department (the studio) is the most substantial portion of the entire museum. This flips the typical art museum proportions to see what would happen if a museum was run by artists and focused on illuminating the act of making just as much, if not more, than the objects being made.

This newsletter, we’d like to take you through what all you can find here at the Miami Paper & Printing Museum.

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WHAT’S ON VIEW

There are two exhibitions currently on view here at the Miami Paper & Printing Museum:

The Museum presents Carol Prusa’s Galaxias Kyklos etching suite as the inaugural exhibition in the Contemporary Wing. This intricate and technical suite of etchings offers an awestruck meditation on the contributions of women to the field of astronomy.

Permanent Collection

Curated by Beth Sheehan from the Museum’s extensive collection of artwork, ephemera, and equipment, the Permanent Collection offers visitors a solid foundational introduction to both papermaking and letterpress printing, and how the two practices intersect. It prominently features several tiny presses and a selection of contemporary letterpress printed posters from shops and artists we love from around the US.

Contemporary Wing

Carol Prusa’s Galaxias Kyklos etching suit is the inaugural exhibition in the Contemporary Wing of the Museum. This intricate and technical suite of etchings offers an awestruck meditation on the contributions of women to the field of astronomy. Seeing this work in person is worth the visit on it’s own — it’s truly a wonder.

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THE MUSEUM STORE

Devoted by Elizabeth Sheehan

$40.00

Pro-quality inks, pigments, paper, and tools. No gimmicky erasers… but all the erasers we sell actually erase things.

Don’t get us wrong, we LOVE the fun and funky art-themed baubles and books that most museum stores carry, but here at the Miami Paper & Printing Museum, we have a slightly different focus: The P&PR Museum Store is all about making art and getting your hands on real art you can take home.

Some examples of things you can find in the Museum Store:

Supplies

• Huge pieces of linoleum to carve for your next big relief print

• Pro-quality pigment (you can add the pigment directly to whatever screen ink base you want to have total control over color. We also sell Speedball base!)

• New and vintage bookcloth sold by the foot and lots of linen thread

• A huge selection of paper (big, small, shiny, fancy, white, brightly colored, glittery, and more) and we can custom order paper for you to get exactly what you need.

Crafts

• Letterpress printed thank you cards

• Hand-sewn notebooks, sketchbooks, and journals

• Bind-them-yourself customizable spiral notebooks with hard covers handmade in-house

Fine Art

• Artists’ books like Nearing by Jen Clay and Devoted by Beth Sheehan (and a bunch more that aren’t on our website)

• Prints (real hand-made prints!) by artists like Carol Todaro and Baghead

Most of the things we sell won’t be sold by us online (especially not anytime soon) so we strongly recommend stopping in for it.

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MUSEUM EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

We’re teaching a TON in October and then there’s just a few short workshops before 2025

THREE of the workshops we’re teaching before the year ends start this week! This is your last chance to sign up for Intro to Bookbinding, Intro to Printmaking, and the Screenprinting Intensive, but if you sign up now, we can probably still sneak you in.

Alternatively, class can start whenever you’re ready.

Set up a custom workshop that fits with your needs and your schedule. Built for 1-4 people, browse our selection of ready-to-go workshops, or if you want to learn something really specific, you can submit a custom inquiry here.

MEMBERSHIP

Members-Only Studio Pass

from $75.00

Member passes: 7-day and 30-day options

Membership to this Museum sets you up to make things, since admission is already free!

One of the best perks we offer for our members is the studio pass. Passes include the following:

• Admission to any Open Studio Sessions (RSVP encouraged but not required)

• Unassisted Studio Time during our business hours (email Brooke to make sure the equipment you want is available before you come in, but if it is, it’s yours to use!)

• Assisted Studio Time at a discounted rate of $45/hour

Not a member? These passes are for studio members only (we do need to know you a little bit before we set you loose in here.) Becoming a member is really easy, and memberships start at just $150 per year. If you want flexible studio access, membership is definitely the move, and it comes with enough perks, invitations, open calls, and discounts to keep you printing all year.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER: SPF IS COMING UP

Are you coming? Learn more about the fair, or apply to reserve your table as an Exhibitor.

Apply to have a table at SPF this November!

Small Press Fair is coming up quick. Save the date. Sign up to volunteer or reserve your table before it’s too late.

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Special Announcement Newsletter - September 2024

What do you even say?

In 2014, I was 24 years old, living in Baltimore, selling blank journals at markets, and pining to have ink under my fingernails again. Flash forward 10 years, and I have found myself with a studio that has often been more of a home than home itself, full of ink, paper, and presses (most of which are older than me.) Most importantly, this studio has been full of collaboration and conversation. If you’ve heard the story before, you’ve heard me say things like “I never wanted to have a press to myself” and “the thing about printmaking that got me hooked is the community — printing alongside fellow artists, all fighting our own battles and celebrating each other’s victories.” While this journey has come with its fair share of sacrifice, I am happy to say that the relationships made along the way have made it all worth it.

In April 2022, we acquired the papermaking studio of Hernan Helfer, known as both Helfer Design Studio and Miami Paper Museum at different points throughout its history. While it was not the first studio to find its way to IS Projects, it sparked an idea that we are giddy to share with you next week. After 10 years of IS Projects, the studio will now be known as the Miami Paper & Printing Museum! This new project is part art project, part artist collaboration, part museum, and part community practice all combined to give Miami another important cultural landmark that folks can enjoy and be a part of for years to come. There is a lot more to the museum than what will fit in this newsletter today, but there will be plenty more to come. Just pay us a visit or keep an eye out for more digital updates until you can.

Thank you for supporting us and reading this far! Please check out all of the anniversary celebration plans, exciting events and workshops coming up at the Miami Paper & Printing Museum below.

Yours truly, Ingrid Schindall

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COME SEE THE CHANGES FOR YOURSELF

(during really fun events that you’re invited to)

We’re going all out for this — it’s our ten year anniversary AND our debut! — so it will be a fun and busy weekend. You’ve got two opportunities to come check out the Museum and all its wonders at the end of the month:

• Friday, September 27, 6-8PM: Opening Reception for Galaxias Kyklos, the inaugural exhibition in the Contemporary Wing

  Come see and celebrate Carol Prusa’s intricate Galaxias Kyklos etching suite. These dense and detailed etchings will be on view during this Friday evening reception. This will be the very first public event hosted by the Miami Paper & Printing Museum and will also offer a sneak peak of the rest of the Museum.

• Sunday, September 29, 12-4PM: Grand Opening of the Miami Paper & Printing Museum

  This is the main event — the opening of the newly installed Permanent Collection, curated by Beth Sheehan, and all of the snacks, merriment, community, and live printing that anyone could wish for. Friends and family are very welcome, whether they’re paper geeks or not (maybe they are and they just don’t know it yet!) The opening will also be an excellent opportunity to check out the Museum Store, which will be one of the best spots in Miami to buy a range of excellent papers, professional book and printmaking supplies, and a variety of handcrafted good, artists’ books, and zines.

Are you coming? Learn more about the fair, or apply to reserve your table as an Exhibitor.

Speaking of heartfelt celebrations of all things print…

Small Press Fair is coming up quick, and there’s still plenty of time for you to get involved!

• You can apply to be an exhibitor if you have work you’d like to share at SPF this year. Click here to reserve your spot — it’s only $20 to bring your own table to the Zine Dunes, or for $100 you can book a Beach Front spot (table and 2 chairs provided!)

• Not feeling a table this year? Want to run around and make the demos, lectures, photos, and other dreams come true? Join our volunteer squad! Every year we assemble a bright and bubbly close-knit team with cool matching t-shirts to run the fair.

Wanna keep your SPF plans more flexible? Just come visit the fair! SPF is November 9th and 10th and entry to the fair is free. We’d love to see you there.

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GET BUSY IN A WORKSHOP

We’re kicking off our next chapter with a LOT of learning. We have three 4-week courses planned for October and a few shorter classes in the busy months of November and December, plus of course, one Print Club demo every month.

Alternatively, class can start whenever you’re ready.

Set up a custom workshop that fits with your needs and your schedule. Built for 1-4 people, browse our selection of ready-to-go workshops, or if you want to learn something really specific, you can submit a custom inquiry here.

MEMBERSHIP

Members-Only Studio Pass

from $75.00

Member passes: 7-day and 30-day options

If all of this has you excited to get to making art, it might be time to book yourself a studio pass.

Passes include the following:

• Admission to any Open Studio Sessions (RSVP encouraged but not required)

• Unassisted Studio Time during our business hours (email Brooke to make sure the equipment you want is available before you come in, but if it is, it’s yours to use!)

• Assisted Studio Time at a discounted rate of $45/hour

Not a member yet? These passes are for studio members only (we do need to know you a little bit before we set you loose in here.) Becoming a member is really easy, and memberships start at just $150 per year. If you want flexible studio access, membership is definitely the move, and it comes with enough perks, invitations, open calls, and discounts to keep you printing all year.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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Artists’ Book Feature: Reliquary by Beth Sheehan

Let’s rewind for a second — you may have caught earlier in this email that the Permanent Collection has been curated by Beth Sheehan. It was a very brief mention, but it really merits unpacking. Beth Sheehan is one of the longest-standing friends of the studio. She has been mixed up in artists’ books and printmaking for as long as any of us here at the studio, and is today one of the most technically capable, curious, and rigorous artists we know in this field. All of those strengths on top of the fact that Beth is a joy to work with have led her to work in some of the coolest print shops and binderies we have here in the US, so her deep and geeky knowledge includes much of the recent history of where these things have been made as well as how. All excellent qualifications for the curator who’s going to dive into your archives and pull out the right things to shine a light on the magic of paper and print.

Curating from an archive requires deep attention to not only the objects in front of you, but also to the stories they tell and don’t tell. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the sensitivity to story and memory that have made Beth into an excellent curator first appeared to us in her own artwork. Reliquary, a tunnel book Beth Sheehan produced in 2017 in an edition of 40 is exemplary of these core elements of Beth’s creative practice.

The tunnel book is a centuries-old book structure, and in Reliquary, Beth uses it to explore the gradual transformation of memory over the span of years and lives. The never-ending game of telephone which constitutes our social memory is held beautifully by the image of a gravestone, and embodied even more impactfully in the commitment of that image to paper. The screenprinted pages in this book are individually hand-cut, and consequently every books has it’s own minor unique variations. Every step of this book has Beth’s touch, from beginning to end, such that the book itself becomes as much a reliquary to the moment in the book arts that yielded her and her place in it as it is a vessel for her ideas about remembering and care.

To purchase your copy of Reliquary, you can visit our website. To learn more about Beth, you can visit her website, or come meet her at the Grand Opening of the Miami Paper & Printing Museum on Sunday, September 29th. She will be very excited to chat with you about all these things and more.

Reliquary by Beth Sheehan

$150.00

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July 2024 Newsletter

Too hot to work hard

So follow our lead and relax in the AC! We are trying to maximize our summer fun while we can, so we have two quick things to put on your radar:

1. The studio will be CLOSED July 4th and 5th for some much-needed rest. Open Studio Sessions hosted by Key Holders are still on, though!

2. Sunday, July 21st: Radiator Comics 10 Year Anniversary Party hosted here at IS Projects! Get excited for a Radiator Comics pop up, jam comics and doodle opportunities, a letterpress demo, and more! This family-friendly event is open to all to attend. We’re thrilled to be able to celebrate our friends and all of the wonderful work they’ve been doing over the course of the last decade (wow!) and hope you’ll join us.

If you’re looking for some more indoor summer fun to fill out your month, we’ve got plenty more ideas for you, all outlined below.

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FAST-APPROACHING DEADLINES

Okay maybe this isn’t everyone’s idea of “fun” but if you’re stuck inside anyways, we have a few applications you can do!

Are you coming? Learn more about the fair, or apply to reserve your table as an Exhibitor.

Deadlines for IS Projects and Tropic Bound:

July 31st: Tropic Bound Exhibitor application deadline

Remember Tropic Bound? Miami’s one and only international artists’ book fair? Ingrid and her collaborators, Sarah Michelle Rupert and Cristina Favretto, organized the inaugural fair for February 2023, and we are excited to find ourselves gearing up for it once more. Get ready for Tropic Bound 2025, and if you’d like to be an exhibitor, get ready fast! Whether you know and love Miami’s deep cultural arts scene or find yourself surprise to hear it has one, we strongly encourage makers and stewards of artists’ books world-wide to take a good, hard look at Feb. 6-9th, 2025 on their calendars and get this application in by July 31st. We can’t wait to see what folks will bring this year.

July 15: Internship application deadline

If you want to get into the nitty gritty of what we do here at IS Projects and get paid for it, our internship program is the answer. The diversity and complexity of the projects we work on here at the studio means that our interns spend their days working collaboratively and honing all kinds of skills — technical, creative, and interpersonal. We are especially looking for folks who are focused, detail-oriented, interested in cultivating their technical skills, and are excited to be in a highly collaborative and positive environment.

Our interns have to be over 18, but do not have to be students. This program is open to anyone who meets the eligibility requirements expressed on our website. Adults with all backgrounds, experience and education levels with print/book/paper are encouraged to apply.

July 15: Key Holder Residency application deadline

Our Key Holder residents also have an extremely important role in keeping IS Projects in motion. This program is for artists who work in print, book, and/or paper, can make their work safely and independently in this space, and can get to and from the studio on a weekly basis. Artists selected to be Key Holder residents will be given 24/7 access to the studio and a set of keys to use for the duration of their residency. In exchange, Key Holders commit to the equivalent of 4 hours of studio work per week. Most frequently, this work takes the form of hosting and monitoring our Members Only Open Studio session, making weekend and after-hours studio access possible for our studio members. Key Holders are essential stewards of this space, the equipment it contains, and the community that moves through it.

The Single sheet broadside zine of your dreams can be real if you’re ready to work with EXILE

BONUS: Deadlines from our community

July 12: Knight New Work application is due

Knight New Work 2024 provides up to $100,000 to support artists and arts organizations in South Florida, Akron and Detroit who use technology to create, disseminate and enhance the way art is experienced. The call for project proposals is open to individual artists, collectives and art organizations. Applicants must be based in or have direct ties to South Florida, Akron or Detroit and proposed works must premiere in the applicant’s community. All works must incorporate technology. Applications will be accepted from June 14 to July 12 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

July 15: EXILE Projects’ broadside zine program proposal is due

Apply to join EXILE's innovative broadsheet initiative. They will collaborate with artists, writers, illustrators, musicians, chefs, and creatives to produce one-page newspaper zines infused with your concepts and their expertise. You're invited to join this unique opportunity to showcase your ideas in an open call crafted specifically to capture the essence of Miami. What sets our city apart? This cycle, they're especially excited about ideas exploring our native flora and fauna, the underground music scene, Caribbean cuisine, and lush poetry inspired by the tropics.

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A FEW WORKSHOPS YOU CAN DO

See what we’ve got planned

If you’d rather close your laptop, we have a small selection of summer workshops coming up. These intimate, super-informative classes with Sammi McLean are guaranteed to be fun, cool, and relaxed. Conveniently, they are all scheduled to keep you busy during the hottest hours of the day.

Or get exactly what you want

Not seeing what you want to learn? You can now set up a custom workshop that fits with your needs and your schedule. Built for 1-4 people, browse our selection of ready-to-go workshops, or if you want to learn something really specific, you can submit a custom inquiry here.

MEMBERSHIP

Members-Only Studio Pass

from $75.00

Member passes: 7-day and 30-day options

Ready to binge your dream project? (Is there anything better to binge than living your dreams?) Book yourself a studio pass and get access to all of the following.

Passes include the following:

• Admission to any Open Studio Sessions (RSVP encouraged but not required)

• Unassisted Studio Time during our business hours (email Brooke to make sure the equipment you want is available before you come in, but if it is, it’s yours to use!)

• Assisted Studio Time at a discounted rate of $45/hour

Not a member? These passes are for studio members only (we do need to know you a little bit before we set you loose in here.) Becoming a member is really easy, and memberships start at just $150 per year. If you want flexible studio access, membership is definitely the move, and it comes with enough perks, invitations, open calls, and discounts to keep you printing all year.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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Artists’ Book Feature: collaborations with In Bloom Studio

If making artists’ books teaches you anything, it’s that there are few things more valuable than a great collaborator. Folks who visit the studio are often surprised by how many different things we do, but if you show an artist a limit, they will very often find a reason they need to push beyond it. In cases where the challenges artists present to us invoke a laser cutter, we are lucky to be able to tap our dear friend Luke Jenkins of In Bloom Studio for help.

The books featured here could not have been made without Luke’s skills and facilities, as our artists’ books require precise, detailed, careful, and replicable results. Much like our own, Luke’s practice is much broader than the high-end design and fabrication work he does through his studio, In Bloom. He is a sculptor and furniture designer, utilizing digital tools like CNC and laser cutting, a range of traditional woodworking skills, and in many cases, a collaborative relationship with natural elements like rain, sunbleaching, and hungry termites. He brings that level of care and creative problem solving to all of his work, and we are incredibly grateful to be able to point to those strengths of his in these books (and a number of other very exciting construction projects you can come to the studio and see in person, actually!)

You can see some of Luke’s own work now through September 7th in the exhibition Majorica Meets Art. The exhibition was curated by Miriam Kolker and features work by both Luke Jenkins and Patricia L. Cooke, both artists making work that challenges the perceived boundaries between art and design, and who’s work is thoughtfully installed amidst a careful arrangement of Majorica’s pearl jewelry displays. It’s a playful and thoughtful show, and a lovely reason to spend a little time on Lincoln Road. Be sure to check it out.

unknowing by Carol Prusa

from $1,750.00

Convergence by Michelle AM Miller

from $150.00

Nearing by Jen Clay

$200.00

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June 2024 Newsletter

SprinG Intern Izzy Lerman helps Ingrid Print

Summer slowdown

It’s hot out there! So we’re gonna cool it a little bit. This summer, we’re taking some time to work on ourselves (and boy, do we have a lot to do!) We have some big plans to work on, some equipment to move around, and an awful lot of art to make. You may not hear quite as much from us until fall, but until then, rest assured: We’re as busy as ever working away at our dreams.

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See Carol Prusa and Onajide Shabaka in the Florida Prize exhibition

The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art is organized annually by the Orlando Museum of Art, surveying hundreds of artists across the state in order to bring new recognition to the most progressive artists in the state. The finalists for the prize all have wildly ambitious installations of their work on view in the Florida Prize exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art through August 25th, 2024. Among the finalists are two previous Existent Books artists: Carol Prusa and Onajide Shabaka, as well as two artists we have had the deep pleasure of working on ambitious projects with: Jason Seife and Sheila Goloborotko. This exhibition places these four into a cohort of ten incredible artists who were considered for this award. The award was given to Yanira Collado, a Miami artist whose work we are deeply grateful to say has a powerful presence here.

At present, we are happy to continue acting as stewards the books we produced with both Prusa and Shabaka. Both books demonstrate the curiosity and rigor at the core of these artists practices. They regularly transfix viewers who had meant to just glance over our table at a fair or our in-studio display of artists’ books that we represent for sale. Shabaka’s book, Antillean Lacunae: points of departure, contains within it’s quiet and straightforward stab-bound covers a rich, multidisciplinary exploration of his research, containing digitally printed photographs, carefully selected text, and multiple printmaking techniques. Prusa’s book exhibits a similar balance between the minimal and maximal aspects of her drawing-based practice. In unknowing, we see the intensity and complexity of her drawings, the construction of the book and of it’s tri-fold slipcase (containing also a lasercut volvelle and a print from a suite of 7 etchings) in tension with the soft, contemplative quality of her meticulous, largely achromatic work.

We are in the middle of production for an edition of a new artists’ book by Carol Prusa, Strange Attractors, the first copies of which were debuted in the recent opening of her solo exhibition in Taipei, and continue to find ways to meaningfully support the artists we have loved to work with in this group and outside of it. Congratulations, artists — we’re looking forward to many more fun projects and opportunities to celebrate all that you do!

Antillean Lacunae by Onajide Shabaka

$175.00

unknowing by Carol Prusa

from $1,750.00

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Workshops: Have it your way!

This summer, we’ve flipped the script on our usual workshop plans… by which we mean, now YOU can plan them! Generally speaking, if we can do it, we can teach it. You can set up something extra special by request through our Private Instruction form, but we set up ready-to-go listings on our website for a few of our most popular techniques. Pick one, customize it, purchase it, and we’ll get in touch ASAP to pick a time and a date. These can be set up for up to four participants, but you’re also welcome to set one up for just yourself. The ball is in your court, now — come learn that thing you said you wanted to learn.

We’ve still got Print Club, though!

That said, Print Club isn’t going anywhere. Sammi McLean will continue hosting her monthly Print Club days, which consist of a two hour demo (10AM-noon) followed by an open studio session (noon-4PM), during which participants can explore the new technique they’ve learned. We typically aim to host Print Club days on the second Saturday of each month. Print Club days are open to all! That said, we offer a Print Club Studio Membership, which garners Print Club Members a 50% discount on all Print Club day. If you’ve got more printmaking plans than just one Print Club day can cover, perhaps read on to learn more about membership.

MEMBERSHIP

Members-Only Studio Pass

from $75.00

30 days to make it

You can get an awful lot done in 30 days, especially with all the support and access our 30 Day Members-Only Studio Passes provide you with.

Passes include the following:

• Admission to any Open Studio Sessions (RSVP encouraged but not required)

• Unassisted Studio Time during our business hours (email Brooke to make sure the studio isn’t booked and the equipment you want is available.)

• Assisted Studio Time at a discounted rate of $45/hour

Not a member? These passes are for studio members only (we do need to know you a little bit before we set you loose in here.) Becoming a member is really easy, and memberships start at just $150 per year. If you want flexible studio access, membership is definitely the move, and it comes with enough perks, invitations, open calls, and discounts to keep you printing all year.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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May 2024 Newsletter

May I come in?

Saturday, May 11, 1-5PM: Artists Open

Make sure IS Projects is one of the stops on your circuit. During this annual event, participating artists open their studio door and invite the public to stop by and check out the work that they make. It’s a studio visit that you don’t have to do any work to set up — you just pop by between 1 and 5, look at the work, and chat with the artists until you’re ready to move along. Here at the studio, the following artists will be hanging out and sharing the things they’ve been working on with anyone who stops by:

• Ingrid Schindall

• Brooke Frank

• Yuko Yamaguchi

• Nina Osoria Ahmadi

• Angelina Parrino

We are not the only studio complex participating — tons of studios in Little Haiti, Little River, and North Miami will be open. Be sure to browse the directory for other artists to add to your route. May we suggest visiting one of our other Key Holder residents, Katelyn Kopenhaver, at EXILE? She’s right next door to Tom Virgin at Extra Virgin Press if you want to guarantee you get your fill of prints and books that day.

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Get your print fair fix

Sunday, May 19, 1-4PM: PrintFest at the Wolfsonian Museum

Can’t wait ‘til November for SPF to come back around? You don’t have to! The Wolfsonian Museum’s PrintFest this year features an SPF curated mini-pop-up. IS projects will have a table and so will other few beloved print/zine folks.

There will be hands-on workshops lead by Tom Virgin and Melina Tsalikis, and tons of awesome rare publications and other exciting things to see, since their library is hosting an open house.

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That book you saw on our table at NYABF… You still want it?

If you stopped by the IS Projects table at this year’s New York Art Book Fair, we’re happy to report that its not too late: We still have plenty of books. You can browse a good chunk of our roster or artists’ books on our website and purchase them directly through our website, and if you saw something at our table there that you don’t see online, just get in touch. Maybe we’ve been saving it just for you! The best part? You don’t have to carefully pack your newest artist book in your suitcase or march it through any busy intersections. We’ll ship it right to you.

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There’s only one workshop left!

…Until we drop our late summer plans, of course. Don’t miss the drop on our Classes + Events page to ensure you’re the first to find out about all the new things you could be learning. For now, though, our June Screenprinting Intensive is totally sold out. You’re in luck, though: We have one more Print Club Day for you before the heat starts melting tires to the asphalt. Luckier still? It’s all about Letterpress, and it’s going to be fun. If you can’t make it, then keep an eye out and hopefully we’ll see you in July.

MEMBERSHIP

Members-Only Studio Pass

from $75.00

Monthly passes make it easy

Good news: Members-Only Studio Passes are now 30 days starting whenever you choose! If you know you’ve got big studio plans coming up, a studio pass will give you the most flexible and economical way to see them through here at the studio.

Passes include the following:

• Admission to any Open Studio Sessions (RSVP welcome but not required)

• Unassisted Studio Time during our business hours (email Brooke to make sure the studio isn’t booked and the equipment you want is available.)

• Assisted Studio Time at a discounted rate of $45/hour

Not a member? These passes are for studio members only (we do need to know you a little bit before we set you loose in here.) Becoming a member is really easy, and memberships start at just $150 per year. If you want flexible studio access, membership is definitely the move, and it comes with enough perks, invitations, open calls, and discounts to keep you printing all year.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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April 2024 Newsletter

Snapshot of a paper mold prepped with a poem. It was used to pull sheets of paper with poems in them for Ingrid’s O, Miami project last year. The paper last year was made of upcycled misprint tote bags from previous O, Miami years.

O, April!

April is one of the most magical times of year if you live in Miami, and not just because the seasonal traffic is starting to let up a little bit. April is O, Miami Poetry Festival, a month long celebration with a mission: get every person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem. The poems come from everywhere and they end up everywhere. Every April since the festival began, they can be found on parking tickets and street signs, written by folks of all ages from all over the county and from all walks of life. The projects are dreamed up and brought to life through rich community collaboration, building connections everywhere they reach.

O, Miami has a long and multidisciplinary history, supporting tons of artist-driven projects each year. We are very excited to share that Ingrid is back in the mix with one of her most ambitious poetry festival projects yet: O, Paper Mill. It will unfold over the course of the whole month of April. O, Paper Mill brings papermaking, bookbinding, and poetic journaling practices to Miami through an intensive fellowship program and a series of public workshops and demos.

The fellows have just gotten started here at the studio, and will be out in the community exchanging ideas and skills with you very soon. A few more events are still cookin’, but the following events will feature O, Paper Mill pop-ups activations where you can make paper with the O, Paper Mill fellows:

• Friday, April 5: In Miami, I’m Happier: Education Showcase. Make paper, enjoy a performance by the Carol City Marching Chiefs, and of course, poetry readings by all kinds of Miamians

• Saturday, April 13: O, Paper Mill Bookbinding Workshop. Keep your eyes peeled — it will be published on O, Miami’s events page soon. This workshop will take place at IS Projects.

• Wednesday, April 24: Zip Odes Finale at Vizcaya Late. The O, Paper Mill fellows will be on site making paper during the reading and reception for the Zip Odes finalists. (You have until April 18th to submit your own Zip Ode!)

Go see the full O, Miami schedule here! There’s tons of amazing ways to find poems in Miami in April.

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FIND THESE BOOKS AT NYABF IN APRIL

You can find Ingrid holding it down with a bunch of wonderful books at the IS Projects table from April 25th-28th at this year’s New York Art Book Fair. We’re happy to share this preview of some of the books you can expect to find. Of course, if you won’t be at the fair this year, you can order any of these book through our website so the book you want doesn’t sell out at the fair.

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GET INVOLVED AT IS PROJECTS

Former intern Franky Rodriguez introducing the write-a-sign press to folks here at the studio.

Bad vibes need not apply.

No application fee, no cost to you, and easy applications for both programs — just follow the instructions and email us the PDF.

Paid print/book/paper internship?

April 15: Internship application deadline

If you want to get into the nitty gritty of what we do here at IS Projects and get paid for it, our internship program is the answer. The diversity and complexity of the projects we work on here at the studio means that our interns spend their days working collaboratively and honing all kinds of skills — technical, creative, and interpersonal. We are especially looking for folks who are focused, detail-oriented, interested in cultivating their technical skills, and are excited to be in a highly collaborative and positive environment.

Our interns have to be over 18, but do not have to be students. This program is open to anyone who meets the eligibility requirements expressed on our website. All ages, backgrounds, experience and education levels with print/book/paper are encouraged to apply.

Keys to the studio to make your own work and help steer this space?

April 15: Key Holder Residency application deadline

Our Key Holder residents also have an extremely important role in keeping IS Projects in motion. This program is for artists who work in print, book, and/or paper artists, can make their work safely and independently in this space, and can get to and from the studio on a weekly basis. Artists selected to be Key Holder residents will be given 24/7 access to the studio and a set of keys to use for the duration of their residency. In exchange, Key Holders commit to the equivalent of 4 hours of studio work per week. Most frequently, this work takes the form of hosting and monitoring our Members Only Open Studio session, making weekend and after-hours studio access possible for our studio members. Key Holders are essential stewards of this space, the equipment it contains, and the community that moves through it.

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APRIL WORKSHOPS START SOON

Reserve your spot — we’re off to a strong start!

Ready for a deep dive? We’ve got a few of them coming up fast. You can get started in printmaking or bookbinding with one of our swiftly approaching intro classes, or set yourself up with a firm foundation in color theory with our upcoming Print Club: Color Basics for Printmaking. We’ve got a few other exciting things coming up soon after, so be sure to click through to our Classes + Events page to see all that we’ve got coming up.

MEMBERSHIP

Members-Only Studio Pass

from $75.00

Monthly studio passes just got easier!

Good news: Members-Only Studio Passes are now 30 days starting whenever you choose! If you know you’ve got big studio plans coming up, a studio pass will give you the most flexible and economical way to see them through here at the studio.

Passes include the following:

• Admission to any Open Studio Sessions (RSVP welcome but not required)

• Unassisted Studio Time during our business hours (email Brooke to make sure the studio isn’t booked and the equipment you want is available.)

• Assisted Studio Time at a discounted rate of $45/hour

Not a member? These passes are for studio members only (we do need to know you a little bit before we set you loose in here.) Becoming a member is really easy, and memberships start at just $150 per year. If you want flexible studio access, membership is definitely the move, and it comes with enough perks, invitations, open calls, and discounts to keep you printing all year.

If you’ve got any questions, you can compare our different membership levels here, and if you still have questions, shoot Brooke an email at brooke@isprojectsfl.com and she’ll be happy to help you out.

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February 2024 Newsletter

Ingrid Schindall at Codex Artists’ book fair which took place Feb 4-7 in Oakland, CA this year. Want to be on the table next time? Use your Leap Day to make progress on your next artists’ book :)

BONUS DAY! Use your Leap Day to do something cool.

We’re big fans of “making the most of it” so perhaps unsurprisingly, we’re pretty excited to have an entire extra day on the calendar this year. A fun way to utilize Leap Day is to do something that you don’t have the time to do in a normal year. You know, something off of your “some day list” like reading that book that’s been staring at your from the night stand, tearing down and signing that stack of prints that you finished last year, making those cinnamon rolls you didn’t have time to figure out over the holidays — whatever you think you’d get a kick out of!

It’s plausible that if you are reading this, there’s a print or book project you’ve been meaning to start. If you think IS Projects might be involved in getting you started, it will only take a couple minutes of your Leap Day to get that ball rolling. Sign up for the Artists’ Book Development Program or the Print Development Program to get that dream project moving. Both programs start with a deep consultation, which will set you up with a step-by-step plan and budget for seeing the whole project through to the end. Learn what you need to learn, do what you need to do, and let us do the rest.

Sounds like a good time, right? All you have to do is click here to select the program you need, fill out the form, and we’ll get you started.

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NEW WORKSHOPS HAVE ARRIVED!

Why wonder? Why wait? Sign up soon to seal your fate.

The much anticipated release of classes scheduled to take place between now and June is out (early, might I add!) Releasing these classes a little extra early also means and extra advantage for the early birds among us — these classes sell out, and the extra day this Leap Year has granted us cannot change that. There’s no shortage of new things to learn, and you can get started as soon as this weekend. If you’re ready to go, you can take Sammi McLean’s Pattern Block Printing on Fabric workshop this Saturday. No matter what projects you’ve been trying to get in motion, this will be a fun, challenging and exciting chance to get yourself started in the studio. Come make something that will get your wheels turning.

Membership

Not a member? Here’s a chance to feel it out!

We have a very special Member Night coming up. It will be hosted by Katelyn Kopenhaver, who is one of out current Key Holder artists in residence. Katelyn will be moderating a free group critique during this member night. This group critique is open to participation from non-members, but only with RSVP for one of the ten spots available in the conversation and those spots are filling up fast! Definitely don’t wait to sign up. If you don’t RSVP, you cannot participate in the critique, and only the critique is open to non-members.

Members: The Open Studio component of this member night will still be happening! Only members are welcome to utilize the open studio during this event.

If you aren’t a member and are thinking that 6-9 hours of free studio access every quarter sounds pretty interesting, then membership is probably worth exploring for you.

Member Nights are a great opportunity to come in and get to know the other folks who are a part of your studio community. Member Nights are free and you have to be a studio member to attend. Come for the presses, stay for the drop-in feedback on your projects and the snacks (or vice versa — whatever floats your boat.)

If you’re planning to attend, please RSVP by “purchasing” the Member Night for $0.00 through our website.

Giftable Artists’ Books

Not every book we took to Codex at the beginning of February found a home, and in fact, some of our very favorites are here at the studio. Feel free to come by and browse the books in person or to order them from our website if you’d rather have them shipped to you! All of these books are produced in limited editions as works of art, by either the artists hands, our hands, or in many cases, some combination of the two. We’d love to answer any questions you have about them, too.

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Special Announcement: Project Wall Reception

Yuko Yamaguchi, -The first day of the year-, 2023, etching on paper, 10x8”

Stop by for a closer look this Sunday

You are cordially invited to IS Projects this Sunday, February 18th from 4PM to 7PM to celebrate the new work on our Project Wall.

We are excited to share a selection of Yuko Yamaguchi’s monotypes, as well as a print from a new edition of etchings. She is currently an artist in residence here at IS Projects through our Key Holder Residency. A closer look at her work reveals that there is more to what she makes than the control that her expertly balanced compositions and sparing use of color may indicate. In these works, she has set herself up with simple constraints — very few pigments, very few passes through the press — so that all of the play, wildness, and weirdness is saved for the construction of the image. In the images, she makes a wide variety of marks with a perplexing range of tools. The marks seem to subvert and support the images that they construct. Familiar images swim up out of the dark fields of ink and texture, and fall apart again into energetic forms. Grounded by her deep care for the technical foundations of printmaking, Yamaguchi balances her rigor and flexibility to yield prints which reflect these qualities in her practice and in her movement through the world.

To learn more about Yuko Yamaguchi, you can read her bio on our Key Holder page. She will also be happy to chat with you at the reception, where we will be in the studio celebrating these works with drinks, snacks, and good company. 

Please feel free to drop by! If you RSVP, though, we can make sure to have enough snacks and drinks for all.

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January 2024 Newsletter

Artist Javier Barerra and intern Sofia Metcalf sewing Javier’s latest artists’ book, “Phantom Bodies” which will be released at Codex 2024

Big plans? Lets plan them.

The studio calendar is looking pretty stacked! We’re thrilled to have a lot of great projects to work on, big trips to take, and lots of (still secret) plans to teach and learn coming up fast. You will probably not be surprised to read that things are busy at the studio right now, but if you’ve got some big ideas that you’re planning on bringing our way… Bring them on! There’s no time like the present. The more of a heads up we can get, the easier it will be for us to make these things happen.

BOOK PEOPLE: Don’t skip ahead yet! We’ve got some important book-heavy announcements for ya.

• FEBRUARY 4th-7th: We’ll see you at CODEX! And by “we,” we don’t just mean Ingrid. Ingrid and a few other beloved collaborators will be at the beloved artists’ book fair representing both IS Projects and Tropic Bound. The IS Projects table will have a range of stunning artists’ books available for sale (which you can preview here), as well as sculptural drawings on artist-made paper by Michelle A.M. Miller and prints by Carol Prusa.

• SPEAKING OF TROPIC BOUND… the 2025 dates are out! You can anticipate the return of Miami’s one-and-only international artists’ book fair to the Design District from February 6th-9th. You have just a little over a year to start making a plan for that.

Don’t say we didn’t warn ya!

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Get started!

Last chance to sign up!

We won’t announce the next round of workshops until sometime in March, so for now, what you see is what you get. You won’t want We have two great introduction courses coming up fast. Both courses start next week, so time is running out to register.

Membership

A little free ink for Members!

Studio members, make sure you clear your calendar: February 9th, 2024, we’d love to see you here for Member Night!

Member nights are a great opportunity to come in and get to know the other folks who are a part of your studio community. Member Nights are free and you have to be a studio member to attend. The snacks are always a plus, but there are two main reasons to come to Member Night:

1. Come for : Think of this January Member Night as Ingrid’s office hours. You can come in and join the conversation with her and anyone else who might be looking for a new folks to talk to about the work that they make, Typic. If you’ve got a victory to share or an issue you’d like some input on, this is definitely the time to come in with it.

2. It’s a free 3 hour open studio session! Maybe you’d rather print than talk about printing this time around. That’s fine! Studio members are invited to come to Member Nights and get right to work. Anything you know how to do safely and independently here, you are welcome to do. All equipment is first come, first served.

If you’re planning to attend, please RSVP by “purchasing” the Member Night for $0.00 through our website. And if you’re not a member and you’d like to become one? Keep reading — we’ve got some options!

Gift a Studio Membership

from $150.00

Gift a Membership

You can sign yourself up for an IS Projects Studio Membership at any time — just click through to our website to review your options and sign up. But if folks are still bugging you for some ideas about what you want, we have just the link for you.

You can gift anyone with print/book/papermaking goals a studio membership, and anyone can gift one to you!

Our Basic Studio Membership includes:

• 2 hour Welcome Course, which includes studio orientation and a one-on-one strategy session with IS Projects staff to figure out how to best use your studio time.

• 10% Discount on our scheduled workshops year round

• 20% Discount on setting up Private Instruction sessions

• Invitation to our free Member Nights

• Invitation to participate in the annual members print exchange

• Monthly studio insider newsletter

• An end-of-the-year print

Giftable Artists’ Books

With CODEX fast approaching, all our books are preparing for the long trip west. If you know you’ll be at the fair, it might be fun to put eyes on some of the books you can expect to find at the IS Projects table.

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December 2023 Newsletter

Scenes from the reception for Michelle AM MILLER’S OUROBOROS SERIES ON VIEW UNTIL FEBRUARY

We’re resolved to relax

As you may have gathered, it’s been a very eventful year, and we are ready for a little rest. We’re looking forward to taking a couple of days off this holiday season. We want to make sure you have what you need, though, so read on for our holiday hours and a few ways we might be able to help you get you through 2023 and start 2024 off strong (inclusive of a sweet discount code!)

The studio will be closed on the following dates:

• Monday, December 25th

• Tuesday, December 26th

• Friday, December 29th

• Monday, January 1st

Otherwise, we will still be in the studio during our normal Tuesday-Friday 11AM-7PM business hours, with some weekend Open Studio Sessions mixed in. Whether it’s your New Years Resolution or how you chill out and escape the Resolution Pressure, coming in to print is always a good plan. Make some time for it if you’ll be around.

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Get a fresh start with fresh skills

Do something new! Print classes for you or someone you love (at a discount)!

There are several highly requested printmaking courses coming up in January. If you’re ready for a real deep dive into Etching, Letterpress, or Screenprinting here in Miami, there is no better time or place to get started. Come in with an open mind and studio-appropriate clothes and leave with a ton of new skills, new friends, new confidence, and some good lookin’ prints.

Of course, our courses can also be purchased as gifts. Sign up someone you love or sign up together. Giving them the gift of printmaking skills means they have something they can grow with and make more artwork with for the rest of their lives! And if you’re lucky, maybe they’ll treat you to one of the prints that they make as a thank you.

Receive 10% off all scheduled workshops with code: CANTSTOP2024

Membership

A little free ink for Members!

Studio members, make sure you clear your calendar: January 12th, 2024, we’d love to see you here for Member Night!

Member nights are a great opportunity to come in and get to know the other folks who are a part of your studio community. Member Nights are free and you have to be a studio member to attend. The snacks are always a plus, but there are two main reasons to come to Member Night:

1. Come for Shop Talk: Think of this January Member Night as Ingrid’s office hours. You can come in and join the conversation with her and anyone else who wants to hang while everyone geeks out about ink consistency, registration techniques, and paper preferences for different tasks. If you’ve got a victory to share or an issue you’d like some input on, this is definitely the time to come in with it.

2. It’s a free 3 hour open studio session! Maybe you’d rather print than talk about printing this time around. That’s fine! Studio members are invited to come to Member Nights and get right to work. Anything you know how to do safely and independently here, you are welcome to do. All equipment is first come, first served.

If you’re planning to attend, please RSVP by “purchasing” the Member Night for $0.00 through our website. And if you’re not a member and you’d like to become one? Keep reading — we’ve got some options!

Gift a Studio Membership

from $150.00

Gift a Membership

You can sign yourself up for an IS Projects Studio Membership at any time — just click through to our website to review your options and sign up. But if folks are still bugging you for some ideas about what you want, we have just the link for you.

You can gift anyone with print/book/papermaking goals a studio membership, and anyone can gift one to you!

Our Basic Studio Membership includes:

• 2 hour Welcome Course, which includes studio orientation and a one-on-one strategy session with IS Projects staff to figure out how to best use your studio time.

• 10% Discount on our scheduled workshops year round

• 20% Discount on setting up Private Instruction sessions

• Invitation to our free Member Nights

• Invitation to participate in the annual members print exchange

• Monthly studio insider newsletter

• An end-of-the-year print

Giftable Artists’ Books

We’ve got a TON of incredible artists’ books available for sale here, many that we produced, and a good number that we represent on behalf of book artists that we love. We’ve highlighted a small selection here for you to think about, but we have books for all tastes and budgets (our most affordable books are in the $20 range.) If you’re looking for a last minute gift, be sure to check out our usual business hours at the top of this newsletter and feel free to swing by and shop. We’ve got tons of other things here in the studio that might be perfect for the job: some handmade blank journals, stationery, notebooks, hand-printed posters, handmade paper, cards, and more! Many of those items and many more artists’ books are only available for purchase by in-person visitors. Stop on by!

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November 2023 Newsletter

Scenes from September’s Screenprinting Intensive

Art, love, and money

The holiday season has arrived with full force. The arguments about when is too early to start seeing tinsel in the stores and listening to Mariah Carey are coming to a close — Thanksgiving is imminent. There are a million things to love and dread this time of year, and a million more arguments to have about all kinds of things, big and small, but wherever you fall in the vast assortment of perspectives about these holidays and the traditions and conversations they bring, trying to keep love and connection at the center will make it easier to handle any friction that comes your way. And if your plans are friction-free? Then you’re in an even better position to focus on the care you’re putting into things — yourself, the people you love, your community, the world around you.

That’s what it’s all about, right? It can be hard to keep an eye on care and gratitude when there are so many distractions and horrors at our fingertips. Those small acts of care add up, though. They’re where resilience comes from (fun, too.) So this holiday season, take care. You have tons of options for how you can do that, ranging from the thoughtful to the absurd, and generally speaking, a mixture of approaches can be pretty effective. We’re excited to have things to celebrate, and you can celebrate them with us if you read on!

So that’s all the “love” side of that headline — we’re a little more specialized to address the “art” and “money” parts. Art and love are intertwined and the specific ways they mix together is unique to each artist, and to each piece they make. The money part, in many cases, is just an obstacle. Money can mean new skills, cool materials, and the time and space to make art. It can feel blasphemous to get money involved in love and art, but if you feel that love knows no bounds and art involves transcending its limits, you first need to know what the bounds and limits are (and a lot of times they’re budget.)

For the sake of love and art, we have a few ways to help. With all the irony and sincerity in the world, we have Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday deals for you. We have a few incredible gift ideas for artists and art lovers. And if you or someone you know is really in the giving spirit, reach out to us! We would love to create more pathways to all the things we do here through direct or institutional sponsorships and partnerships. We would love support for a workshop scholarship program, for our paid internship program, or our residencies.

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First: Celebrate with us!

Michael Loveland, Buff Environmental I, 2023

Miami print headed to the the Met!

We’d like to start by taking a moment to give a shout out to an artist we love to work with. Michael Loveland, whose monoprint Buff Environmental I (2023), has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through the generous gift of an anonymous patron. This print is one of several in a series that Loveland worked on here at IS Projects. Being in the room while those prints came into the world was every bit as exciting as you might guess from looking at the print. If you’ve spent any time around the studio, you know there’s never a dull moment here, but the collaborative printing projects we do with artists are pure joy. That is seldom more evident than it is in working with Michael Loveland. Congratulations to you, Michael and to LNS Gallery! The Met’s stewardship of your work is a win for us all, for many years to come. Thank you for letting IS Projects be a part of what you do.

Learn more on Instagram

Learn more about Michael at LNS Gallery

There’s new work on the project wall from the Ouroboros series by Michelle AM Miller!

We are happy to present new work by Michelle AM Miller from her series, Ouroboros. The six pieces are all artist-made shaped paper, pigmented with hand-crushed oyster shell, graphite, charcoal, burnt ash, combined with help from a variety of plastic-free binding agents and adhesives. The care that Miller extends to the world around her through the sustainable materials and processes she uses to make her work are not an obstacle to the mystery, vulnerability, curiosity, and beauty that many of us come to art in search of; her conscientious studio practice is at the heart of these qualities in her work.

From Miller:
”Ouroboros, is part of my ongoing experiment to redefine waste as material opportunity. Through this work, I explore the use of a biomaterial categorized as ‘nuisance waste’ as a viable and beautiful fine art pigment. To do this, I collect discarded shells from local restaurants and use ancestral techniques to clean, cure and process them into an unrefined pearl white. Transformed, the shimmering calcium carbonate is then incorporated into my drawings on recycled fine art papers.”

Please join us for a reception celebrating Michelle and her incredible work on Sunday, December 3rd from 4-6pm (after Progressive Art Brunch). The artist will be present and we will have snacks and bevs for all artists, enthusiasts, and art curious folks who stop by. You can even pick up some last minute holiday gifts while you’re here!

In addition to the handmade paper works installed on the wall, Miller’s 2021 artists’ book, Convergence, will be here in the studio to explore. Convergence was produced through our Existent Books publishing program.

RSVP for the reception here!

See more of Michelle’s work here!

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Gifts for the Gifted

Give the gift of new skills (at a discount)!

Start 2024 with a new set of printmaking skills and new friends from your local print community! To help get you started off right or to help you secure the perfect course for your loved ones, we’re having our first ever Small Business Saturday sale on workshops starting today through Monday at Midnight EST!

Receive 10% off all scheduled workshops with code: INKYANDBRIGHT

IS Projects Members receive 20% off all scheduled workshops with code: PRINTINGALLTHEWAY

Gift a Studio Membership

from $150.00

Gift a Membership

Is there someone in your life who would benefit from an inky community and a place to explore new ideas and new projects? Consider gifting an IS Projects studio membership!

Our Basic Studio Membership includes:

• 2 hour Welcome Course, which includes studio orientation and a one-on-one strategy session with IS Projects staff to figure out how to best use your studio time.

• 10% Discount on our scheduled workshops year round

• 20% Discount on setting up Private Instruction sessions

• Invitation to our free Member Nights

• Invitation to participate in the annual members print exchange

• Quarterly member newsletter

• An end-of-the-year print

Giftable Artists’ Books

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SPF Special Announcement Newsletter

SMALL PRESS FAIR IS THIS WEEKEND!

To care for the fair, IS Projects and Nocturnal Press will be closed November 10th-12th.

Click here to learn more about Small Press Fair 2023

We hope to see you there!

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October 2023 Newsletter

If it can carve lino it can carve a pumpkin

Are you afraid of the dark?

Perhaps you are. Perhaps you are not. Many of us claim to have outgrown the fear of the monster under the bed, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to worry about. As a person with an email inbox, it’s plausible that one of the many things that haunts you on quiet, darkened evenings is lurking just one or two clicks of your cursor from this very sentence. Perhaps the spooky thing is the fact that you are sitting here reading emails when the sweet relief you crave can come only from pulling some prints from that half-carved linoleum block you’ve been trying to finish.

If you have received this particular email, there is a good chance that it contains something which could set you at ease in a world of specters, ghosts, and ghouls (digital and otherwise.)

For those of you seeking a break from the hex of the blue light of the screen, there are few potions more effective than a perfect ink you mixed yourself. And if potions aren’t quite your thing, we hear curling up with a playful handmade artists’ book is enough to keep even the noisiest of spirits calm and content… at least for a night.

Whether your Halloween plans are wholesome or raucous or very very scary, we hope that at the end of the night, this little note from us offers you a little peace of mind.

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Small Press Fair is coming up fast!

If the spooky season vibes have you hiding under a blanket, there’s no greater antidote than something heartwarming to look forward to. Look no further — making your SPF plans is exactly the heartwarming daydream you need.

Small Press Fair (SPF) returns to MAD Arts Space in Dania Beach this fall. Admission to the fair is free, and it features free workshops, free artist talks, and of course, the space will be bursting with table after table of incredible prints, books, and zines you can buy from tons of different exhibitors. Learn new things, meet new people, and hang out with the folks you already know and love.

The fair will be going on from noon to 6PM on both November 11th and 12th and the address is 481 S Federal Hwy, Dania Beach, FL. You can learn more about all the awesome things you can expect at SPF here.

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Workshop it

Come learn how to make your own drawing and screenprinting ink with coffee with Fola Akinde as a guest instructor in our Print Club demo series, or get started in silk aquatint. You can explore your options at our Classes + Events page.

Our featured course this month is Modern Letterpress taught by Ingrid Schindall. After lots of requests, she’s put together a course that will be great to get you started in letterpress — one of the most unique print processes we offer here in Miami. It’s an intimate course and there are only a few spots, so if you’re thinking about signing up, we’d suggest you just go for it! No previous experience required, but we’re sure there’s lots you can learn in this course even if it’s not your first brush with a Vandercook.

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More ink more often

Workshops are great, but if you’re always devastated when they end, you’re probably a good contender for a Studio Membership. Its the best path to studio access and it gets you a sweet discount on workshops (scheduled and private) and all kinds of other benefits.

To make things even easier, check out our monthly Studio Pass, which is open only to our Studio Members. The passes allow you to pre-pay for all the studio rental and Open Studio Sessions you can squeeze into the month you buy it for.

Just get in touch if you have any questions or want to schedule a visit.

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Artists’ Book Feature: Disarray

Disarray by Edau

$20.00

This month, we’re spotlighting Disarray by the Edau, and with Ingrid’s Modern Letterpress course coming up fast, we figured there was no better book to share.

Disarray was the first book produced through our Existent Books publishing program and first project we produced at IS Projects by letterpress printing from photopolymer plates. Edau is a fantastic designer and illustrator, and this book gave him a chance to build an image and play with it page after page. The book is concise, fun, and minimal, putting the elegant tactile qualities of letterpress up against the approachable, everyday feeling of a spiral-bound notebook in the hand.

This book is a pleasure to page through over and over again. It’s hard to believe how many new things you can find and new things you see in it with each pass through. And at twenty bucks? It’s a steal. A major piece of IS Projects history and an artists’ book that just gets better and better with time. You can learn more about this book and others produced through Existent Books here, and of course, you can pick up Disarray for yourself here.

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September 2023 Newsletter

Studio 1.0: This photo was taken during our Grand Opening of the Fort Lauderdale, FL Space in 2014

Studio 2.0: This Photo was taken during our 9th Anniversary Party this Past Weekend

9 years ago…

I was in the studio with my mom, dad, and grandma building tables. We brought my grandma because we thought it would be more fun for her than sitting at home but she spent most of the day asking, “Who said you have to build so many tables?”

She was the entrepreneur in the family. She moved from Norway to Denmark at 19, the only member of her family to leave the small town of Moi where the rest of the family still resides. She moved to the US at 34 after getting married and having two babies in Montreal, CA. She had dinner with Andy Warhol once because he was dating the man who lived in the apartment below hers.

When I asked her why she left Norway and how she wound up in Boca Raton, FL of all places, she told me “I hate it when my eyeballs get cold.” She had a furniture store in Boca at one point which was written up in the paper for her fantastic lampshade-making skills.

By the time I was born, her main profession was buying and selling antique dolls. She would pick me up every day after school and I would help her restring dolls or climb the trees in her backyard. She encouraged my artistic inclinations and let me be the weird little rascal that I needed to be to become who I am today.

My middle name is Signy, after her. She didn’t get to spend much time in the studio but she had an outsized impact on it. Her tenacity, energy, and laugh are part of the spirit that makes this studio the magical place that it is.

We’re still here, the tables are too (and yes, we needed all of them.) So this year for our anniversary, I wanted to honor Signy Schindall and tell y’all a little bit about her. Thanks for reading. Thank you so much for your support. Here’s to Signy and here’s to 9 more years!

- Ingrid Schindall

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Sign up before Sunday to $ave

What better way to celebrate the fact that the studio is still going strong than to come in and learn something new?

To celebrate, we are offering a 20% discount on all workshops from now through Sunday. The discount code is 9YEARS and it expires at 11:59PM so don’t delay!

All the workshops we have planned through December are finally published, and we’ve got some our favorites back on the schedule (Screenprinting Intensive and Intro to Print), as well as a few fresh new ones! Come learn how to make your own screenprinting ink with coffee, get started in a new print process, or dive deep into color fundamentals. You can explore the whole batch at our Classes + Events page.

Our featured course this month is Modern Letterpress taught by Ingrid Schindall. After lots of requests, she’s put together a course that will be great to get you started in letterpress — one of the most unique print processes we offer here in Miami. It’s an intimate course and there are only a few spots, so if you’re thinking about signing up, we’d suggest you just go for it! No previous experience required, but we’re sure there’s lots you can learn in this course even if it’s not your first brush with a Vandercook.

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It feels good to be a regular

Folks have been working on some SUPER ambitious prints in here lately. There’s no better time to be in here printing if you’re looking for ambitious studio camaraderie. Come try the hard thing you’ve been contemplating!

If you don’t want to overthink your time with us, check out our monthly Studio Pass, which is open only to our Studio Members. The passes allow you to pre-pay for all the studio rental and Open Studio Sessions you can squeeze into the month you buy it for.

Just get in touch if you have any questions or want us to show you around.

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Artists’ Book Feature: Nearing

Nearing by Jen Clay

$200.00

This month, we’re spotlighting Nearing by the incredible Jen Clay!

Clay has just debuted her video game, Eyes of the Skin, at Locust Projects here in Miami, and we were absolutely delighted by how beautifully it builds on all the things we loved about Nearing when it was produced in 2017.

The thread through Clay’s rigorous interdisciplinary practice is her ability to reveal some of the hardest truths through far-flung fictions, drawing attention to what we can and cannot admit we’ll believe in both. Nearing, much like Eyes of the Skin, explores the gray and messy aspects of navigating mental illness and unhealthy relationships through the lens of her weird fictional cryptid world.

When it was published, the book accompanied a series of performances by Clay conducted with the support of the Girls Club Collection in Fort Lauderdale, FL and allows readers to revisit to feelings and topics it stirred over and over again.

You can play Clay’s game in her stunning and soft installation in Locust Projects’ Project Room from now through November 4th. Be sure to consider visiting for her Scooby-Doo monster chase inspired “Fun Run” on October 21st or to take Sam Lopez de Victoria’s free beginner-friendly workshop on October 24th on the software that Clay used to build her game.

Clay’s many years of focused and intense artmaking have been gaining greater and greater recognition since her Oolite Studio Art Residency (2020-2022). She is now represented by Emerson-Dorsch Gallery here in Miami, and we are delighted to see her work is reaching and connecting with expanded audiences the longer we watch. We are so grateful to be a part of her practice (and to be her friends!) and we wanted to be sure we took this opportunity to make this highly portable piece of her practice more visible to our community while her work is still on view here for both the locals who want to take a little Jen home with them, and for the folks who can’t make it who wish that they could.

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August 2023 Newsletter

Artist Daniel Marosi Shows off his multi layered letterpress print to Summer interns learning how to make slip cases

Big heat, bigger dreams!

Although it’s still as hot as ever here in Miami, we’re bracing ourselves for the end of summer. The last mangos have fallen and tax-free week has come and gone, but the pace of things around the studio hasn’t changed a bit! There are still plenty of projects to keep us busy — there’s ink to mix, prints to pull, and and an awful lot of paper to cut.

We’ll be here all fall and can’t wait to share all the things we’ve been working on. We’ve loved being a part of so many summer projects and experiments, and we’re just as excited to watch those things go out into the world beyond the studio in the coming months.

If you’re ready to find your way in, there are some solid options below. If you’re not sure what you need, as always, feel free to get in touch!

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The cure for back-to-school FOMO:

School is back in session for most of the K-12 kiddos and Universities around here, but if all the back-to school buzz has you feeling nostalgic for learning new things, making new friends, and playing with all kinds of new supplies, taking a workshop might be the perfect way to scratch that itch. The only cure for Fear Of Missing Out is doing something even cooler.

We have a few spots left in our fan-favorite Screenprinting Intensive this September that we would love to see filled. We only offer a four seats in this course so that every participant gets lots of individual attention and support. Lead by Ingrid Schindall, it’s a total top-to-bottom immersion in screenprinting here at IS Projects suitable for beginners and experienced printmakers alike. It meets once a week for four weeks: You can enter with just an idea and exit with a multi-layered print edition.

We’ve only got a few more workshops posted on our website, so be sure to check it out if you’re looking to pick up a new skill soon. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until the next batch of workshops are announced toward the end of September.

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It feels good to be a regular

There are few better places to become a regular than the studio.

It’s been an awesome summer for projects with our members. All of our presses have been busy, folks are burning through tons of paper, and lots of new ideas are coming together. We’ve been super excited to welcome new members to the studio, and to help make their summer print goals possible.

The best deal we offer on studio access is our monthly Studio Pass, which is open only to our Studio Members. The passes allow you to pre-pay for all the studio rental and Open Studio Sessions you can squeeze into the month you buy it for, though of course, if you’re just looking to squeeze in a few hours here and there, you’ll still need a membership.

Just get in touch if you have any questions or want us to show you around.

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Artists’ Book Feature: Baabaa Aab Daad

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Baba Aab Daad (Father Gave Water) by Golnar Adili

$2,500.00

To wrap things up, we’d like to devote this months Artist’s Book Feature to بابا آب داد (Baabaa Aab Daad)- Father Gave Water by Golnar Adili.

Adili studied both painting and architecture before arriving to the form of the artists’ book — a form which allows her to build a box to understand, contain, and share her feelings and ideas.

Baabaa Aab Daad translates to “Father Gave Water” — the first sentence taught to first graders in Iran. The book connects together ideas by inviting you to physically manipulate language through its moveable block format, exploring the differences and connections between the two languages and cultures through active play. It’s elegant construction and playful structure invoke a conversation about how we learn to communicate and what we’re able to express. The book allows the history and languages she’s been shaped by and the future she’s shaping as both an artist and as a parent a form in which to coalesce.

Produced in a limited edition of 25, many of the books have found themselves homes in loving collections, many accessible to the public and in excellent care. We are very grateful for our continued role in helping these books find their homes. They are deeply loved wherever they go, and there are fewer and fewer remaining, so we suggest purchasing one through our website or getting in touch with us promptly if you know you’d like to acquire on for yourself or on behalf of a collection you know would benefit from its presence.

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July 2023 Newsletter

You busy Friday?

This Friday, July 28th, please join us at Studio 18 in Pembroke Pines for the opening reception for Chance Encounters, an exhibition organized by IS Projects in collaboration with Studio 18. The opening reception is from 7-9PM, with a 20 minute intermedia performance at 7:30PM by Richard Vergez in response to the exhibition and to the experience of editioning prints.

The exhibition is built around the idea of the portfolio exchange — a tradition in the print/paper/book world which fundamentally involves the participating artists producing an edition or varied edition to share with each other. Each artist submits the specified number of works, and receives back one work from all of the other participants.

The big project that set this exhibition in motion is our first annual IS Projects portfolio exchange, Under the Sun. We invited participants who have been involved in studio from our nearly nine year history and received prints from 36 artists (thank you, artists!) and we are very excited to debut the very first assembled copy of Under the Sun in this exhibition.

That said, Under the Sun is not the only exciting exchange you can expect to see — this exhibition features eleven exchanges in different formats, each featuring no fewer than 10 participating artists. Many of these exchanges traveled great distances from the collections of artists we love. A few are from our own collection. Three exchanges were produced specifically for this exhibition (shout out to the resident artists at Studio 18 and to Florida Printmakers Society!) and at least half of the exchanges exhibited in Chance Encounters have never been exhibited in their entirety before.

Thank you to all of the folks who made it possible for us to share these works together. We are looking forward to celebrating with all who attend, and hope that those of you who can’t make it will celebrate with us from afar.

We hope to see you there!

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Ready to learn?

This August, our class schedule is PACKED! You might want to clear your schedule — there are some really incredible courses coming up and we’d love to have you in them.

August will be a great chance to sign up for classes taught by recent Key Holder Residents — three by Charlisa Montrope, and one co-taught by Montrope and Nat Sassine. Head over to our Classes + Events page to explore them all!

There’s not much time left to sign up for these two fast-approaching August courses, though — if they sound interesting to you, be sure you sign up ASAP!

• Introduction to Printmaking with Charlisa Montrope: Four week course starting August 2nd — a great way to get started in fine art printmaking at IS Projects! This course covers relief, drypoint, and collagraph, and sets you up to work independently in these processes on the etching presses at IS Projects.

• Single Sheet Books with Charlisa Montrope: August 3rd, 6-8PM — Simple, affordable, and fun, this course is a great way to jump right in to making the books and zines you’ve been dreaming up.

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Get started on your fall print projects

If you have big plans this fall and think you might want us in the mix to help make them happen, let us know!

If you have an edition of prints or books you want us to produce, you can submit an inquiry through this form. Getting in touch with us early gives us time to properly plan the production of your project and ensure that the end result is exactly how you want it.

If you want to make some prints or books yourself, you have options! Your best and most flexible option is most likely a Studio Membership. It gives you the widest range of options to learn and make at the studio, comes with sweet discounts, and invites to a handful of awesome members-only perks.

There are only four Members Only Studio Passes this August, so if you’re ready to really get busy at the studio, purchase your pass before August begins to get the most use out of it.

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Artists’ Book Feature: July Double Feature

Carol Todaro, Before, But After, 2023. Book object: plaster over paper with solvent transfer print, mounted on a cloth covered board. Housed in a clamshell box lined with a duotone screen print. Book measures 3 ¾ x 3 5/8 x 1 ¼ inches.

Mary Larsen, The storm inside, 2022, mixed media on a book, 7.5" x 11" x 1", unique book

This month, our artists’ book feature is extra exciting: we’re highlighting the work of Carol Todaro and Mary Larsen! Both of these incredible Miami-based artists are so deeply grounded in the world of books that instead of choosing just one work from each of them to discuss, we’d like to suggest that you make some time to learn about their practices more broadly.

If your here in Miami, you’re in luck — both artists have concurrent exhibitions (Mary Larsen: Poetic Forms and Carol Todaro: Object as Subject) opening this weekend organized by Women Artists Archive Miami (WAAM) that you will not want to miss. The exhibitions will be installed at Dimensions Variable, and the opening will be this Saturday, July 29th, 6PM-9PM. We hope to see you there!

Additionally, if you find yourself at LA Art Book Fair mid-August, be sure to say hi to Ingrid at the IS Projects Table (Booth J5). We are very happy to represent works by both artists through IS Projects, and are looking forward to sharing some of their incredible books on the west coast!

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