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Join us Saturday May 2nd at @moorecollegeart for a special panel discussion with the curators of our 2026 group exhibition at the Alumni Gallery at Moore. Part of their annual alumni reunion, this panel is also open to the public, and free to attend! We are excited to speak to building a collective with friends and strangers, and finding your community. At the start of our 16th year, we know BYO Print is only getting better! This exhibition, and all of our public programming, is made possible with support from @philaculturalfund and the Joseph Robert Foundation. RSVP at the link in our bio! Saturday May 2, 4:15 - 5:15 Moore College of Art & Design, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia. DM with questions! Printing Community: BYO Printmaking Collaborative in Conversation Saturday, May 2 | 4:15 - 5:15 p.m. Moore College of Art & Design; 1916 Race St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Held in conjunction with the exhibition in the Alumni Gallery and Alumni Reunion, this panel brings Lauren Tapp ‘07, Kate VanVliet ’07, Rhonda Babb ’92, Claire Folkman ’09, Lisa Imperiale ’09 and Tori Kimberly ’15 together for a conversation about their nonprofit organization, BYO Printmaking Collaborative. Panelists will reflect on how their time at Moore helped shape BYO Print, their individual paths into printmaking and what it takes to sustain a community-based printmaking studio. The discussion will also highlight the collaborative curatorial approach behind the Alumni Gallery exhibition and look ahead to BYO Print’s future as its community continues to grow. @moorecollegeart @kvanvliet @clairecatharine @tj_kimber @thehopesymbol @liifa13

Announcing ALMANAC: valuable information for *these times* as part of this fall’s Collective Futures Festival @collectivefutures.info After a winter Open Call, BYO Print is pleased to present ALMANAC: a printmakers’ portfolio book and facsimile publication, co-curated and edited by Jessica Aguilar and Kate VanVliet Participating artists & writers: Felisa Adderley @felisaadotnet Rae Helms @printmakerrae Shelley Thorstensen @shelley.thorstensen Rhonda Babb @thehopesymbol Tanya Brassie @innerloop.press Rah Gerg / Kira Saks @rah_paints / @fortress_of_silt Tory Franklin @toryfranklin_print Tania Qurashi @tania.qurashi Nicole Saltzer @nicolesaltzer Ross Mazzupappa @rossmazzupappa Lya Finston @thehottestdjinmiami Peri Law @perijlaw Michelle Wilson @michellewilsonprojects Kalinda Tran @kalicow Molly Borth @mollyborth Claire Folkman @clairecatharine Elizabeth Castaldo @ecastaldo_artandbooks Sophie Loubere @sophieloubere Max Hautala @nomaxprint Zach Ozma @zachozma Dave DiMarchi 9inhandpress Kelly Leitermann @catclawpress Illkya Acosta @illkyaacosta Marilyn Montufar @marilynmontufar Mary Clare Butler Kate VanVliet @kvanvliet With a forward by co-curator Jess Aguilar @jesswiththe_mess Printmakers’ exchange portfolios are editions of prints traded between participants, so each artist receives an identical collection of all works, often organized around a theme, event, or class. The facsimile edition of ALMANAC will be published as a low-cost resource for the public with a book release during Collective Futures Festival. Exhibition and facsimile publication release October 8 - November 15, 2026 Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts Building 1400 N. American St, Philadelphia 19122 ALMANAC: valuable information for *these times* Exhibition and facsimile publication release October 2 – November 15, 2026 Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts Building 1400 N. American St, Philadelphia 19122 BYO Printmaking Collaborative is pleased to present ALMANAC: printmakers’ portfolio book and facsimile publication, co-curated and edited by Jessica Aguilar and Kate VanVliet

Announcing ALMANAC: valuable information for *these times* as part of this fall’s Collective Futures Festival @collectivefutures.info After a winter Open Call, BYO Print is pleased to present ALMANAC: a printmakers’ portfolio book and facsimile publication, co-curated and edited by Jessica Aguilar and Kate VanVliet Participating artists & writers: Felisa Adderley @felisaadotnet Rae Helms @printmakerrae Shelley Thorstensen @shelley.thorstensen Rhonda Babb @thehopesymbol Tanya Brassie @innerloop.press Rah Gerg / Kira Saks @rah_paints / @fortress_of_silt Tory Franklin @toryfranklin_print Tania Qurashi @tania.qurashi Nicole Saltzer @nicolesaltzer Ross Mazzupappa @rossmazzupappa Lya Finston @thehottestdjinmiami Peri Law @perijlaw Michelle Wilson @michellewilsonprojects Kalinda Tran @kalicow Molly Borth @mollyborth Claire Folkman @clairecatharine Elizabeth Castaldo @ecastaldo_artandbooks Sophie Loubere @sophieloubere Max Hautala @nomaxprint Zach Ozma @zachozma Dave DiMarchi @9inhandpress Kelly Leitermann @catclawpress Illkya Acosta @illkyaacosta Marilyn Montufar @marilynmontufar Mary Clare Butler Kate VanVliet @kvanvliet With a forward by co-curator Jess Aguilar @jesswiththe_mess Printmakers’ exchange portfolios are editions of prints traded between participants, so each artist receives an identical collection of all works, often organized around a theme, event, or class. The facsimile edition of ALMANAC will be published as a low-cost resource for the public with a book release during Collective Futures Festival. Exhibition and facsimile publication release October 2 - November 15, 2026 Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts Building 1400 N. American St, Philadelphia 19122

BYO Print’s 15th Anniversary Year is a wrap! Our unspoken Sweet Sixteen - celebrated Friday night with a group exhibition - the first time we’ve exhibited together for a curated group show since before the pandemic! The Alumni Gallery at the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design invited our founders to show in the space and what better way to use it than to showcase this amazing group of artists that have been working alongside each other for up to 16 years! Huge thanks go out to our artists, and to the curators of this show, the intersection of Studio Artist members and Moore alumni: @clairecatharine @thehopesymbol @liifa13 @tj_kimber @kvanvliet and huge thanks as well to the Gallery install team and Moore Staff who 100% deserve the Union they’ve asked for! Visit the exhibition now through May 9th at Moore College of Art & Design, 1916 Race Street. @moorecollegeart @thegalleriesatmoore @theartshopatmoore Additional photographs to come. Enjoy these from our opening night courtesy of @transient_arts

On Fri March 20, from 5-7pm, Moore College of Art & Design [@moorecollegeart ] is hosting an opening reception for the BYO Printmaking Collaborative Member Exhibition in their Alumni Gallery on Race St! This exhibition marks the 15th anniversary of BYO Printmaking Collaborative [@byoprint ], a beloved Philadelphia-based shared printmaking studio co-founded in 2010 by Moore alumni Kate VanVliet ’07 [@kvanvliet ] and Lauren Tapp (Fischer) ’07. Since its founding, BYO Print has supported the creative community by providing access to a professional printshop and fostering collaboration among artists, printmakers, and the public. On view in the Alumni Gallery from March 21 to May 9, 2026, the exhibition highlights the work of current BYO Print members and past collective collaborative projects. Curated by Moore alumni & BYO members Claire Folkman ’09 [@clairecatharine ], Kate VanVliet ’07, Lisa Imperiale ’09 [@liifa13 ], TJ Kimber ’15 [@tj_kimber ], and Rhonda Babb ’92 [@thehopesymbol ], the show features works on paper, sculptures, and handmade books that reflect the collaborative spirit of this amazing printmaking studio. Be sure to join us as we celebrate the Philadelphia creative community that BYO Print has made possible for the past 15 years!

Tomorrow! We are pleased to again be tabling at the ineffable printPHILLY! Fair for the 4th year. We’ll be sandwiched between long time member, @msgier and co-founder @kvanvliet in the Heim Center study room. Come find us! The Philadelphia Print Consortium is pleased to announce the fourth annual printPHILL Y! print fair. Join us on Saturday February 28, 2026 at Parkway Central Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Showcasing over 40 vendors, this one day fair is FREE and open to the public from 10am – 4pm. Visitors can interact with a range of printmakers, print-publishers, and print-focused galleries and nonprofits and will have the opportunity to purchase original prints from a wide variety of artists and shops using both innovative and traditional techniques which are a hallmark of the medium. Hear from Guest Speaker, speaker Dr. Heather Hughes, the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Kathy and Ted Fernberger Associate Curator of Prints, for a lecture about PhAM’s upcoming exhibition about the prints of Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui at 11 a.m. Enjoy hands-on Letterpress Make & Take Workshop with Artist Belle Handler from Noon to 3 p.m. For a list of participating shops, collectives, nonprofits, and individuals, please visit the PPC website: /fair/ OR pop over to the hosts @philly.print.consortium . We hope to see you there! #printPhilly2026 #phillyisgreatforprintmaking #phillyprintmakers @philly.print.consortium @freelibrarypix @phillysoapbox @americancolorprintsocietytoday

Join us Friday, March 20 from 5–7 p.m. in the Alumni Gallery for an opening reception celebrating BYO Printmaking Collaborative! (Held in conjunction with the Annual Student Show.) RSVP via the link in bio. 🔗 Co-founded in 2010 by Katie VanVliet ’07 and Lauren Tapp (Fischer) ’07, BYO Print has grown from a shared studio into a thriving nonprofit printmaking community in Philadelphia. “Solastalgia: Redefining Home in Precarious Times,” featured here and in the Alumni Gallery, is a portfolio project curated by Katie VanVliet and Jennifer Manzella and now held in major permanent collections across the country. Cover image: Katie VanVliet ’07 #moorealumni #moorecollegeofartanddesign #printmaking

BYO Printmaking Collaborative’s 15th Anniversary year culminates with an exhibition celebrating the breadth of its current members and past collaborative works, on view in the Alumni Gallery at Moore College of Art & Design from March 21 – May 9, 2026. Co-founded in 2010 by Katie VanVliet ‘07 and Lauren Tapp (Fischer) ‘07, BYO Print opened as a shared printmaking studio in Philadelphia, with a mission to keep artists printing on their own time within a reasonable budget. Tapp and VanVliet built BYO Print with a foundational flexibility that has allowed the community to adapt and grow as new members bring with them fresh ideas and goals for their practice. Reorganized as a nonprofit in 2023, BYO Printmaking Collaborative fosters collaboration between artists, printmakers and the public by providing access to a professional printshop. BYO Print is located on the 5th floor of the Paradigm Arts Building, at 12 North 3rd Street. This collection of works on paper, sculptures, and handmade books is curated by alumni members Claire Folkman ‘09, Kate VanVliet ‘07, Lisa Imperiale ‘09, TJ Kimber ‘15 and Rhonda Babb ‘92 and features the work of BYO’s Studio Artists as well as past collaborative and curatorial projects, featuring: Ellyn Womelsdorf, Christiane Moore, Erik Ruin, Jenn Manzella, Mike Sgier, Nicole Saltzer, Emma Foster, Bill Brookover, Jude Bigboy, Lucy Henderson, Mara Elliott, Marchelo Vera, Reece Farness, Ted Mosher, Celia Connaire and Laura Murdoch. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, March 20, 5-7pm, at The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design. @thegalleriesatmoore @moorecollegeart @moore_finearts @helicoptersandribbons @defaunicorn @erikruin @j.l.manzella @msgier @nicolesaltzer @efosterart @bill.brookover @jude_bigboy @youseelucysart @mlellow @nontoxicprint @reecefarness @tedmosherart @blackhaireddemon @lkmurdoch @thehopesymbol @clairecatharine @tj_kimber @kvanvliet @liifa13

Need some printshop sanctuary in these pensive times? We are dusting ourselves off from the new year transitions and gearing up for a strong 2026 filled with camaraderie, collaboration, and people power. Join us Monday night (pending our ability to move about the city post snowstorm) for the first Intaglio Club of the year. This program and our Second Sunday Open Hours will resume their normal schedules in February. $40/session for full studio access, with a focus on intaglio practices including etching copperplates, printing on the presses, and drypoint collagraph with tetrapak. We share skills during Intaglio Club, but attendees should have some experience in the medium. RSVP required by DM or email through our link in bio. 5-9pm Third Mondays of the month. We’re also happy to share that our building’s freight elevator is back in service, allowing full access to our shop for all folks! Hooray! Public hours like these are made possible with funding from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (@philaculturalfund ) and the Joseph Robert Foundation. Thank you!

Dec 2025 Holiday Hang Featuring: our Philly First Friday fam! We closed out the 2025 Comix Jam year with an epic Holiday Hang & Comix Exhibition at @byoprint where we opened the doors and invited all of First Friday to join us in celebrating some joyous jam times! We got the chance to embrace so many jam regulars and make so many new friends that we can’t wait to share all the comix we will make together in the shiny new year ✨ Join us next jam at @glorybeerbarandkitchen on Tues Jan 27 from 6 to 9pm. Bring your own pen/pencil, paper is provided, everyone is welcome! ✍️ Last 📸 - @msgier

Today is the final day to apply for the ALMANAC portfolio! Co-curators @jesswiththe_mess and @kvanvliet are excited to see your work and consider contributors for this special portfolio, to be published by @byoprint for the Collective Futures Festival in fall 2026. ALMANAC: valuable information for *these times* is a bit unlike a typical printmakers’ trade portfolio. We will be asking accepted artists to produce double-sided print works that will be bound into an artist’s book. Additionally, BYO Printmaking Collaborative will be scanning all the prints and publishing a facsimile edition for public distribution. BYO Print and the curators are actively seeking additional funding for the production costs and artists stipends, and at present, there is no cost to apply or participate. Contributors will receive one of the artist book (portfolios) in exchange for their edition of 30 prints. This call asks for editionable printworks, and can be traditional printmaking (silkscreen, relief, intaglio, litho, etc) but also risograph, letterpress, offset, photography, handmade paper, and digital archival works and whatever alternative means you use to create a multiple. Text and writing can be a part of the work. What we’ll be guiding accepted artists to exclude is digital reproductions of existing works and AI generated or altered content. We’d like the editions produced for ALMANAC to be the original work. More information can be found on the application page, BYOprint.org/opencalls. The application is fairly simple - we hope you’ll consider the prompt and apply! Remember, you don’t need to outline your edition in the proposal, just any brief writing that addresses the themes or even just your artist statement, is enough.

Need a big piece of copper for intaglio? Big thanks go to @benqk for calibrating the shear last winter and to gravity for it working perfectly today. #printmaking #printprocess #bodypositivity #printmakingmuscles @byoprint #showmeyourprintshop