Wingtip Press

[04/01/21]   Whew! What a year it's been. Wingtip has weathered the storm and we're finally thinking about Leftovers again. As in Leftovers X! Yup, can you imagine? Ten years of Leftovers coming up soon. Stay tuned.

[09/16/20]   Hey Wingtip Fans! I know. It' been a while. A good long while and we miss all of you. We are temporarily closed until we feel comfortable sharing our space. And we've put our beloved LEFTOVERS print exchange on hold until we can give our tenth year of delicious Leftovers all the luscious attention they deserve. Stay safe and stay tuned! We haven't forgotten you!

Hey printmakers! We haven't fallen off the face of the earth, we've just fallen in line with social distancing. For those of you lovers of Leftovers, don't worry, we're just taking our time. It'll be a feast to outdo Renaissance Chef Bartolomeo Scappi. Perfect for our delicious print exchange's 10th year. Stay tuned!

Online Summer Printmaking Workshop at Boise State

[02/25/20]   Hey all you lovers of Leftovers! We are a wee bit behind this year but that doesn't mean we aren't going to miss a chance to announce Leftovers X. Yes, that's Leftovers TEN! 10! That means we have 9 years of Leftovers behind us and Leftovers Ten is coming. So stay tuned. And spread the Leftovers Love by spreading the word.

Let’s hear it for Speedball!

Today, we bring you the many faces of Jay Ryan….

Most of you probably know Jay as a preeminent screen printer and gig poster artist, and we do too! But as of 2019, he’s now a lot more than the guy behind many (many, many) prints that fill the offices here at Speedball—he’s jumped on board for not one but TWO of our latest programs with his involvement in the Speedball Demo Artist Program and the Speedball Print Posse. Yes, we are lucky, lucky folks.

“I’ve used Speedball Acrylic Inks almost exclusively since 1995, and wanted to join the Posse as soon as I heard about it. I know that if my buddies Tuffy, Martin, Bryn, AndyMac, and Sean are on the team, I want IN. In all my travels to speak at universities around the country, I specify Speedball Inks for the workshops I run, because they’re bold in color, non-toxic, they mix beautifully, and they’re a great value and readily available at all sorts of art supply retailers. I’ve used them on concert posters for everyone from Edie Brickell to the Melvins, Fugazi to Gloria Estefan, My Morning Jacket and Pearl Jam and Andrew Bird. I think this medium should be accessible to everyone, and I like telling the story of how I was taught screen printing by master printer Steve Walters, who taught himself to print record covers using a Speedball all-in-one screen printing kit in the early 1990s.”

Jay will be bringing a unique formulation of his making to the Speedball Acrylic Screen Printing Ink line for the Print Posse with a limited edition color, Bird Machine Black. Stay tuned here and our site to learn more about how to get your hands on your own jar of that special sauce and see a demonstration of Jay's, and head over to TheBirdMachine.com to see all of Jay’s works!

Mulberry paper printed with Akua Inks

Wingtip Press's cover photo

It’s First Thursday and Wingtip has the distinction of exhibiting our longest monotype ever! Over 200 participants created a 150’ paper river that’s as long as the Hoff Building is tall. Swing by The Idaho History Museum between 5-7 and check out our Boise Arts and History Funded Print Boise River.

We’ve been installing our 150’ Print Boise River on the floor of the Idaho Room at Idaho History Museum today for First Thursday. It’s 3 times longer than the room and jam-packed with prints from over 200 participants,
- so we adapted with some rapids and waves! See you tomorrow from 5-7 pm. #boiart, #ahgrant

Love: It's what makes a Paper River. Join us for Wingtip's PRINT BOISE RIVER exhibition at Idaho State Museum on Thursday, August 1 from 5-7. Thank you Boise City Department of Arts and History and Katarzyna Cepek for the great photos! #ahgrant, #boiart

Saturday, July 13 from 10 AM - 1 PM
Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial
#ahgrant #boiart

Make Art & Celebrate the Boise River

Print Boise River this coming Saturday!
#ahgrant #boiart

boiseweekly.com Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, July 13

Print Boise River on the Boise Weekly Cover. Thank you Boise Weekly and Boise City Department of Arts and History! See you Saturday from 10-1 at Anne Frank Memorial with Idaho Conservation League. #ahgrant #boiart

There’s more than one way to print a river! Thanks to Boise City Department of Arts and History, you can make your mark on our paper river Saturday July 13 from 10-1 at Anne Frank Memorial and learn a bit about what makes a healthy river from our friends at Idaho Conservation League. #ahgrant #boiart

Print Boise River. It's really quite simple:
1. Make a stamp
2. Stick it to a flip flop
3. Step into the ink
4. Step into the river
Voila!

#ahgrant #boiart

Thanks to a generous grant from Boise City Department of Arts and History, we're celebrating Boise River with a 150' paper river! Join us at Anne Frank Memorial on July 13 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. We'll have supplies for you to create a river inspired stamp to adhere to the bottom of a flip flop. Walk through your favorite color of ink and down the river to leave your mark! Save First Thursday, August 1 to view the river at Idaho History Museum. #ahgrant #boiart

Join Wingtip and the Idaho Conservation League Saturday, July 13 for PRINT BOISE RIVER at Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial

We're gearing up for PRINT BOISE RIVER July 13 at the Anne Frank Human Right Memorial. Two sessions of fabulous flip flop printing on a 150' paper river. Join Wingtip with the Idaho Conservation League to celebrate our beloved Boise River. A giant thank you shout out to the Boise City Department of Arts and History. #AH Grant

After a wonderful trip to Italy to spend time at Dedalo Printmaking Center in Abruzzo learning etching and aquatint with nitric, watercolor monotype and brushing up on collagraph, will leave tomorrow from Rome. Had a great visit at the Archivo Della Stamperia and couldn't resist taking a photo of this handle on a press wheel. Home soon to prepare our Print Boise River on July 13.

We think we've found the perfect location and steamroller for our next big event. Pack your bags, tools and block and head to the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo. It could happen.

Another great day of Print Boise River at the Library! at Bown Crossing where even the teeniest and tiniest of feet too small to fit in a flip flop will find a way to be a printmaker!

What's this? One thousand four hundred and thirty six Leftovers IX prints on their way to our 128 participants. Thanks to our collating team, Lisa Flowers Ross, Cassidy Gillman, Katarzyna Cepek, Holly Hudson, Laurel MacDonald, Missy Cory and Amelia Bader. Whew!

PRINT BOISE RIVER at the Library! at Bown Crossing, Saturday, May 25 from 12 noon to 1:30. It's family day, so come one, come all! Thank you Boise City Department of Arts and History.

So just what IS Print Boise River? It's printmaking with flip flops! Yep! You'll make your own river stamp - stick it to a flip flop, ink it and dance (or float} down our paper river to celebrate the heart of our City,

Wingtip Press

We will be at Hillcrest Library! tomorrow from 2:00 - 3:30 for Print Boise River - A Boise City Department of Arts and History grant funded project celebrating our beloved Boise River by building a 150' paper river with flip flop prints.
Space is limited!

Thanks to a generous grant from Boise City Department of Arts and History, Wingtip is offering a series of 7 printmaking workshops at several branches of the Boise Library! Our big PRINT BOISE day will be July 13 at the Anne Frank Memorial. Come print your heart out on a 150' paper river.

Whoops! We've been so busy with Leftovers we nearly forgot to mention that Wingtip's PRINT BOISE RIVER workshops - so generously funded by a grant from The Boise City Department of Arts and History begin next week at Hillcrest Library on Friday, May 10 for the kids after school program and Saturday, May 11 for Adults and families. Come make a stamp using flip flops (provided) and walk your marks on a 150' paper river. Register here:
https://www.boisepubliclibrary.org/classes-events/calendar/

And those Leftovers just keep coming!

Hey Boise pals! This Friday is Wingtip Press' annual Leftovers print exhibition and silent auction at Push and Pour in Garden City. Come check out the dozens and dozens of delicious fine art prints. I'd love to see you there!

It's true. We're saving you a seat at the table. Friday, May 3. Push and Pour. You won't want to miss this! Please click share - there are a lot of hungry people in Idaho and the Task Force does incredible work to make sure no one here goes hungry. (Print by Carl Richardson of Spokane)

It's true. We're saving you a seat at the table. Friday, May 3. Push and Pour. You won't want to miss this! Please click share - there are a lot of hungry people in Idaho and the Task Force does incredible work to make sure no one here goes hungry. (Print by Carl Richardson of Spokane)

[05/01/19]   A Huge THANK YOU to our Leftovers exhibition team: Laurel, Katie and Missy for hanging a banquet of Leftovers prints tonight. The exhibition opens Friday at 5:00 PM at Push and Pour!

Check out these delicious relief prints by Boise Artists

We won't stop posting Leftovers until they are all here!