Made it to Joburg!

I got in Saturday evening. Jill Ross was so kind to pick me up from the airport and put me up for a couple of days. Sunday, Jill, Kate (also a new to David Krut Projects) and I went on a tour to see works public works done by Hannelie Coetzee. This lead us into an amazing abandoned post office, a huge building in downtown Joburg that burned down in 1998. They've begun to reconstruct it and it is destined to become the new mayor's office. 

 On Sunday I also ran into a familiar face. This mural of Jan Van Riebeck was painted by none of than Gaia.

Monday was spent orienting myself to the DKP Arts on Main location in the Maboneng Precinct. I made myself useful when possible but spent most of the day sponging up as much as I could about the work being made there, where everything goes and how the workflow runs. 

Tuesday was great, I spent a good chuck of the day handling William Kentridge prints. He came into the workshop to sign the finished editions and I was able to introduce myself. I couldn't help but be a bit starstruck. David invited us to go along to see William's studio and check out the sculptures he is working on at the moment that will soon be cast in bronze.

Assembling prints

Some assembled and signed prints

Mlungisi brought over some finished prints to dry and be assembled.

One quarter of the workshop (interior spaces are hard to photograph without a ladder, no?)

And today, I assisted Talya in proofing plates to be editioned (we hit just about every possible printmaking speedbump) 

In the afternoon Talya took me to see a closed down letterpress shop called Calrose Typesetters. The shop suffered burglaries that left them without any matrixes for their Ludlow, Intertype and Monotype machines. Jill, Talya and I ae rallying David to purchase the shop however it is unlikely that DKP will save the type-producing machines and will rather stick to saving the type and the Vandercook SP15 that are cooped up in the shop. Who knows where the wind blows...

Always nice to see a familiar face

Intertype machines, though fascinating are hard to save because they are complicated and heavy pieces of machinery that very few people know how to use or have the need to use. Its a sad story. If you're interested at all you should check out the documentary about Linotype machines called Linotype The Film http://www.linotypefilm.com/

They have twin Monotype machines in a little room with a big window

Ways to tell that letterpress was a man's world: Wall of Boobs

Bahahahaha

So I know I said I would post more.....

Somehow this year I fell waaaaay behind but I have been taking a lot of pictures and process shots. I've been keeping up my website with more success than the blog so definitely check it out at www.ingridschindall.com

So let us begin the updates:

This week we had Trenton Doyle Hancock as the artist-in-residence at Globe Collection & Press. We worked on a poster for the BMA print fair and a fine art print which the profits from will benefit both the BMA and the Globe Collection & Press at MICA. I was in charge of coordinating interns and working first hand with the artist on the collaborations. Trenton said he had a great time working with us and I think he really took a liking to Bob Cicero, former owner of Globe Poster.

This was taken on the Monday, the second day of the three day collaboration, of our working wall. The color swatches are for the benefit print and the faces are all of Trenton.

Trenton was enamored with the fraction of the Globe Collection that is currently in the letterpress studio. He had a great time setting a palindrome with wood type; he used some of the rare typefaces that haven't even been proofed yet which means that the benefit print will show the variety of type that is in the Globe Collection. Trenton started to get a little overwhelmed during the typesetting, it was about 1130pm when he started working on it.

Bob gave Trenton life lessons while cleaning up the Vandercook 325g

This is a proof of the photopolymer plate that mysterious lines appeared on. We pulled the colors for the poster over the face to test the transparency.

Trenton quietly reviewing a Color Trial Proof while the rest of us stood around and offered opinions and options.

Trenton and Bob laughing about something, they definitely left an impression on each other (it was easy to forget that this was Bob's first time working collaboratively with a fine artist.) I don't think I took this picture but I'm glad it was on my camera because it's priceless.

Justin Caruso (Globe Intern,) Lyla Shlon (Globe Intern,) Trenton, Amy Cousins (Globe Intern,) and I (Globe Coordinator) We had to get all of our photo ops in on the last night. I'm sure it's apparent that we were all exhausted and proud of what we accomplished. We were all slap happy by Tuesday night.

Last supper with Trenton. Gail brought out some bubbly and we made a toast to a successful collaboration.

Now all we have to do is print two editions of 100 (not including tear, artist proofs, printer's proofs, and color trial proofs) before late April. nbd.

OK so I may have been slacking

I was super sick a couple weeks ago and I'm now running at the speed of light trying to catch up after being out of school for TWO WEEKS. Any who, I'm better now and have very few excuses for not blogging. I've been working on my website www.ingridschindall.com and I hope to have the new revamped and updated site working by next week.
So, now is the time for pictures. Like I said, I've been working like crazy so I have a lot to post!


The image I posted about before has taken developed a lot and while its still not finished, there's a lot to show.




Also, I started on a project right before I got sick involving every rule in the letterpress shop that fit on my paper printed in CMYK.

Mr. SP20 all inked up with an inordinate amount of rules locked up

First two layers next (left) and first three layers (right)
Final print (left) and one that ran through the press crooked (right)

I'm not entirely sure if this one is really finished or what to even call it; I go back and forth between "noise" and "looks like" but I'm sure there is a better title hiding deep within my brain.
These two pieces conjure the dialogue between digital media and traditional media, image making media specifically, that I have been struggling with as a mostly traditional printmaker in the digital age.

I have so much more to post but if I did it all now you would have nothing to look forward too, except the new site of course.

This year I will Blog

This year, Dolphin Press & Print is making the transition to Globe Collection & Press after MICA bought the Globe Collection. The type and cuts from Globe are now being housed in the Dolphin Building (MICA's printmaking department.) I've been selected to be the Globe Collection and Press Coordinator, so I will be living in the Dolphin Building as well. I'll be posting a lot on here about things pertaining to my senior year as well as things pertaining to cool stuff going on at Globe.