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ANYONE CAN ILLUSTRATE! 🌷Join me for an introduction to papercut illustration workshop at the @iprc_pdx on Sunday May 3rd from 11am-2pm! 🌞 ✂️ Explore image-making without having to feel the pressure of being “good” at drawing! We’ll play with color and shapes, learning how to make illustrations using simple materials — paper, scissors, and glue. 📍 318 SE Main Street (in the @elbow.room.pdx Classroom!) Portland, OR 97214 😷 Masks required! 💸 $45 – $100 (3 no-cost spots available; BIPOC & 2S prioritized!) 💌 Register at iprc.org or at my link!

We're thrilled to extend an invitation to join us for the launch of a very special project that we've been working on for the past couple of years in collaboration with poet & visual artist Anis Mojgani, and printmaker Hope Amico, made possible with support from the Oregon Cultural Trust. 🎉 Poems out of a Print Shop, taking place next Friday from 7-9pm, will be part poetry reading, and part printmaking party, with readings at regular intervals through the evening, as well as opportunities to make postcard-sized letterpress prints, and pick up a series of three zines, designed by Mariana Mora, that celebrate creative process and print. Read more about the event and the making of the project on the blog, and hope to see you at the event next Friday! 🎉

The poetry & writing offerings are booming this month. ⚡ Explore writing small poems and printing them large format with @zacharyschomburg and @whatnowpress ⚡ Take a text and image workshop with @jponteri and @elarzani . ⚡ Get into guided prompts and poetry sprints at the next virtual offering of Poetry Practice Space with @amiagogo ⚡ Or explore project-based writing with @hquinnifer ⚡

✨✨WE MADE YOU A ZINE ✨✨ 🧡 Members of @thepeoplesstorepdx have been working very hard on this collaborative, 13-page, mostly text-based publication. It came about from this mutual aid group’s desire to express unwavering solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸, and to further engage with political education strategies in our organizing. We’ve learned SO much, and welcome feedback — this is a process, not a product. ❤️‍🔥 Come to the @iprc_pdx TOMORROW (4/12) between 3-6pm to help us assemble our first Risograph-run of these zines, and take home a FREE copy!!!

❤️‍🔥 “Solidarity is a Practice: Part 1” was a big success!!! Thank you to everyone that donated and attended! I am so inspired by the conversations we had and the work that everyone created. Seeing people light up when they pull the first print is just… 🥲🥲 ❤️‍🔥 Next event is on Sunday from 3-6, and open house style! Come through to pull some prints yourself!

This term, the IPRC Rodeo team worked on creating some fresh social media assets for the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)! We focused on highlighting each printmaking studio they have in a “Meet the Studio” series: 🟣 Main Studio 🟠 Letterpress Studio 🟡 Risograph Studio 🔵 Screenprinting Studio We even got to take a field trip at the beginning of the term to see the space for ourselves! There are so many amazing resources the IPRC offers with community and accessibility top of mind. Be sure to check them out, especially if you’re a student interested in printmaking! @iprc_pdx It was great opportunity to work with Leland Vaughn, a board member for the IPRC. They offered valuable insight, helped us stay on track, and kept our type detail tight. We 🤍 Leland!! With love, the IPRC Team: Antoni, Emily, Mendi, Connor, and Leland 🌈💫

Reminder to all our new members that Community Events are free for members, and suggested donation for nonmembers. A couple pertinent Community Event updates: We’ll be open for this weekend’s Writing Night with @stephanie_victoire and Collage Night with @annpetro @therealgarky and @kara_mcmullen Later this month @amiagogo is facilitating a Poetry Practice Space, which will be a quarterly virtual offering in 2026. Register for the zoom link 🌀 And @countercurrentpress is launching a Political Art event for BIPOC artists and community organizers, with a meeting coming up next month in May.

It’s poetry month! And this year we decided to do something a little special with it and make a prompt deck with @jxzzhndz_ whose prompts are a kind of poem in themselves. The Poetry Month Prompt-a-Day has 30 prompts for 30 days and if you donate $30 or more to support the IPRC’s poetry programs, we’ll send you one 💌 Designed and printed by artist @fkasquiglie in an edition 100 🌀

> > > ⋆.ೃ*.˚༘♡ ⋆｡˚ Happy Spring Grafters! .ೃ*⋆˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ It's time to thaw. For our April reading, we are feeling giddy and grateful to be hosted by the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) — Portland's holy site of zines, print, paper, ink, and ideas-dreamed-into-being We’ll be gathering in the ZINE LIBRARY (!!!) surrounded by the evidence that you can just make things. And share them! > > This month’s reading is on FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH at 318 SE Main Street, Suites 155 & 145 *Masks will be required and provided!* > Doors: 6:30 PM > Event: 7:00–9:00 PM As always, expect: ✩ invited readers ✩ a little break to scheme, flirt, and loiter ✩ OPEN MIC > > > We're especially excited to be in a space rooted in community publishing, accessibility, and getting art and words out of heads and into hands See you there >:)) XOXO, GURS p.s. poster credit @julia.soft.animal

We’re in the last two days of our membership drive, but it’s never too late to join the IPRC. Whether you’re a seasoned printmaker or just beginning your creative journey, the IPRC is a space for all to create and connect. Become a member and join over 200 artists and writers who call the IPRC home. Swipe or read below to learn more about our membership offerings: ✏️ STAPLE MEMBERSHIP For writers, zinesters, and book artists of all kinds and levels. Staple Members have access to all the tools needed for printing and making chapbooks, zines, digital flyers, and more! Our Main Studio is equipped with a digital lab and bindery bar to bring your print and publication dreams to life! $12/month | $32/three months | $120/year* 🖨️ STUDIO MEMBERSHIP Calling all printmakers! Studio Members get all the same perks as Staple Members PLUS access to our three communal print studios. Explore over 150 fonts in our letterpress studio, choose from over 20 risograph ink colors, and burn and print with screens up to 23”x31” in size in our screen printing studio! $30/month | $81/three months | $300/year* *Sign up for an annual membership during our drive and receive a discount at checkout!

After nearly six months of tinkering with manuscripts revised, designed, and hand-bound, we’re celebrating the newly self‑published chapbooks on Saturday, March 28 from 7-9pm from the IPRC’s Chapbook Design Program. ✨📘 Come support and bear witness to bookish dreams materialized for these miraculous graduates: ❤️ Amy Botula 🧡 Cee Chávez 💛 Choya Renata 💚 Diana Sharp 💙 Samantha Hernandez 💜 Shea Selby 😍 The books are * B E A U T I F U L * and these humans who made them are wildly talented, brilliant, tender, sweet, funny, generous. Together, they’ve nurtured an incredible creative community. Their care for one another is so pure, so real, gifting the needed reminder that art can and does bring us together. They have so much to be proud of, and I hope to see you there to honor all they’ve done and who they are. ✨

Youth programs at the IPRC are in full swing this year. We launched monthly youth workshops in January. And as spring and summer approach, we also want to remind you about Show:Tell youth camps! We have four week-long offerings for youth ages 7 to 17 in zines, comics, and printmaking. Registration for monthly workshops and summer camps are live on our website! 🌼 2026 Summer Camps at the IPRC: High School Print Intensive  June 22nd-26th Middle Grades Comics, Zines and Screenprinting July 6th - July 10th  Middle Grades Comics, Zines and Riso July 20th - July 24th Elementary Grades Comics and Zines June 23rd - June 27th 🌼 Upcoming Monthly Youth Workshops: Flipbook Animations March 24th, 4-6PM Drawing Party April 28th, 4-6PM Collage and Mixed Media Night May 26th, 4-6PM