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Give Miami 2024 Kids Jamm / Nick

The sun is up, it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
As always I will give early to the organizations that work for kids.
Please keep letterpress printing alive in Miami.
Ink on paper is for everyone, no batteries or screens required.

https://www.givemiamiday.org/organization/Extravirginpressmiami

Printing with kids is one of the most rewarding aspects of dragging heavy presses around town. That smile that breaks out bounces from kids to parents to printers.

Friend, colleague, and printer Nick Gilmore joins us at PAMM regularly. The lines get long with only one printer. The four variations on the right: Flying Manatee- Nick, Hummingbird- Tom, Griffin- Russell Beans, and Dragon Cat- Miguel Mendoza AKA Miggs.

Aside from my two antiques (a 1949 Vandercook 4 Proof press and Challenge 15KP Proof press) most of what I use is ink, paper, and things to clean the press. Old school printing takes time, but it rewards those who are patient, take good care of their equipment, and clean up promptly & thoroughly. My days often are simply print and make a mess… Clean everything up and put everything away again. It works.

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Last Weekend for Walgreens

Greetings all, been sewing books and hanging out with printers.

If you are not living on the Beach, its a trek.

Still… 120 feet of printing, books and book arts are quite a sight.

This is the last weekend for A Public Education

@oolitearts @extravirginpress

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Fountainhead Artist Open

Please join me for Artists Open, Saturday, May 13, 11am – 6pm, as I open to the public for @fountainheadarts #ArtistsOpen. Explore Extra Virgin Press and our nextdoor neighbor, Exile Projects’ studio.

Learn about letterpress and book arts. I am surrounded by my inspiration, books… and of course, Mom. You can register for the event, explore the interactive guide, and get directions to my studio at www.artistsopen.miami.
We are between Panther Coffee and Clives Cafe.

https://artistsopen.miami/tom-virgin
https://artistsopen.miami/
https://www.instagram.com/fountainheadarts/

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Tropic Bound Book Fair Photos

EVP's table set up at the Tropic Bound book fair
EVP’s table set up at the Tropic Bound book fair
CB Sherlock & Gaylord Schanilec, Minnesota printers and mentors to Tom Virgin/ Extra Virgin Press getting ready for another day at Paradise Plaza's third floor event space at Tropic Bound Artists' Book Fair.
CB Sherlock & Gaylord Schanilec, Minnesota printers and mentors to Tom Virgin/ Extra Virgin Press getting ready for another day at Paradise Plaza’s third floor event space at Tropic Bound Artists’ Book Fair.
Solmentes Press and a view to Miami from the Design District's Paradise Plaza at the Tropic Bound Artist Book Fair.
Solmentes Press and a view to Miami from the Design District’s Paradise Plaza at the Tropic Bound Artist Book Fair.
CB Sherlock and Tom Virgin (teacher and student) fair neighbors and close friends, enjoy a brief break in the very well attended and soon to celebrated gathering of sixty plus book artists from around the U.S. and the world.
CB Sherlock and Tom Virgin (teacher and student) fair neighbors and close friends, enjoy a brief break in the very well attended and soon to celebrated gathering of sixty plus book artists from around the U.S. and the world.
Two visitors to the fair, Franklin and Karen Einspruch, examine Tom Virgin's collaboration with Edwidge Danticat, Food and Freedom, This Is My Body.
Two visitors to the fair, Franklin and Karen Einspruch, examine Tom Virgin’s collaboration with Edwidge Danticat, Food and Freedom, This Is My Body.
Tropic Bound symposium attendees
Tropic Bound symposium attendees
Tom Virgin, Extra Virgin Press showing Making Space, a 2021 artists book created for Juneteenth Celebration at FIU Frost Museum’s “Place and Purpose: Art Transformation in Coconut Grove” educational programming. Two of Virgin’s works, “Next Door” and “Can’t See It from My House” were included in the exhibition.