Lower East Side Printshop
{{Infobox organization
| full_name = Lower East Side Printshop
| formation = {{start date and age|1968}}
| founder = Eleanor Magid
| type = Non-profit arts organization
| location_country = 306 W 37th St, New York City, New York 10018
| coordinates = {{coord|40.755285|N|73.992739|W|display=inline,title}}
| services = print editions service, classes, artist residencies, art studio space
| website = {{URL|https://www.printshop.org/}}
}}
Lower East Side Printshop, also known as L.E.S. Printshop (founded in 1968) is a nonprofit arts organization and printmaking studio located in New York City.{{Cite web|title=Lower East Side Printshop|url=https://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations/181/lower-east-side-printshop|access-date=2021-04-03|website=NYC-ARTS|language=en-US}} They offer studio space, artist residencies, classes, artwork for sale and printing editions services.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icJUAAAAMAAJ|title=Art on Paper|date=2005|publisher=Fanning Publishing Company|pages=81|language=en}} They work with approximately 160 artists per year, which makes this one of the largest printmaking shops in the country.{{Cite web|last=Abrams|first=Loney|date=2016-11-02|title=How Do Today's Art Stars Make Prints? Master Printer Erik Hougen Explains an Intimate Form of Collaboration|url=http://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/meet-the-printing-press-master-printer-erik-hougen-on-the-intimacy-of-collaboration|access-date=2021-04-03|website=Artspace|language=english}}
History
It was founded in 1968, by Eleanor Magid during a New York City school strike.{{Cite book|last1=Newsom|first1=Barbara Y.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xbG_W0mevmIC|title=The Art Museum as Educator: A Collection of Studies as Guides to Practice and Policy|last2=Silver|first2=Adele Z.|date=1978|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-03248-4|page=215|others=Council on Museums and Education in the Visual Arts}} Eleanor Magid was a printmaker, studying under Robert Blackburn.{{Cite book|last=Jemisin|first=Noah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0k9QAAAAMAAJ|title=Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop: The Artists of Color|date=1991|publisher=Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University|isbn=978-0-933699-24-3|pages=14|language=en}} Magid brought her young daughter's classmates and neighbors to the print studio during the strike and she taught them classes on printmaking. The studio was originally based in the East Village, and in 2005 the facility moved to a larger site in Midtown Manhattan.{{Cite web|last=Morris|first=Ashley|date=January 2012|title=Lower East Side Printshop|url=https://www.copper.org/consumers/arts/2012/january/Lower_East_Side_Printshop_Working_Side_Side_Artist_Community.html|access-date=2021-04-01|website=Copper in the Arts Magazine}}
References
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External links
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvLILr8H5Pg Screen Printing] (2014), with the Lower East Side Printshop and Erik Hougen, Design Dictionary video series, Cooper Hewitt
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Category:Organizations based in Manhattan