"Creativity"
Designed by Byron O'Neill.
4-color print with bronze metallic.
Edition of 85.
24" x 36"

Promotional poster for JDK Design.

"Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is "to fit together" and we all do this every day."
-Sister Corita Kent

JDK Design and Iskra partnered with SRAM to celebrate Lance Armstrong's return to competitive cycling by releasing a series of seven limited-edition posters. The posters, part of SRAM's "Choose To Win" campaign, honored Armstrong's 2009 season, from the Tour of California to the Tour de France.

Each 24" x 36" poster is a 3-color print (with the exception of Giro D'Italia) and is limited to 200 signed/numbered/stamped copies. Iskra was responsible for printing five of the seven posters in the series, including:

Tour of California (Designed by Ted Olson)
Milano San Remo (Designed by Grant Stewart)
Tour of the Gila (Designed by Byron O'Neill)
Giro D'Italia (Designed by Jonathan Sandridge)
Tour de France (Designed by John Siddle)

also part of the series (not printed by Iskra):
Tour of Ireland (Designed by Erik Petersen)
Leadville 100 (Designed by Steve Francisco)

I Am Snowboarding
Designed by Chris Partelow.
2-color print with split-fountain and pearl purple.
Edition of 100.
15" x 21"

Iskra and JDK Design partnered up with I Am Snowboarding to produce this poster for a collaborative exhibition honoring the life of professional snowboarder Jeffy Anderson.

For more information, check out http://www.iamjla.org

Third Annual Munsey Bluegrass Festival
2-color print.
Designed by Seth Drury for Methodikal.
Edition of 55.
18" x 24"

This past summer, Iskra collaborated with the Molly Fund to create this two-color poster for Molly's Send-Off Party on August 22nd, 2009 down in Hampton Beach, NH. This poster was limited to 75 copies and was available for sale at the party; all proceeds went directly to the Molly Fund to help other families with children fighting lymphoma.

Looks like some copies are still available HERE... pick one up and support a great cause at the same time.

Meet Your Printmaker
at Washington Printmakers Gallery

June 29, 2009 – July 26, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, July 3 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm

For over a year Meet Your Printmaker has been compiling a directory of independent print/printmaking studios around the world through its blog. Meet Your Printmaker shifts the emphasis away from the artist/printmaker and presents the printers/printmakers as a unique workforce … the groups and individuals who uphold and evolve new and traditional printing/printmaking techniques, whether in the form of commercial work, artist editions or retail products and who share their skills and educate their respective communities.

The work in this exhibition presents a selection of printed matter from 40 print/printmaking studios around the world.

Participating studios in no particular order (apologies if we left your studio name out): DWRI Letterpress, Dirty Hands Serigraphie, Bleu Acier, The Little Friends of Printmaking, Sycamore Street Press, Dieu Donné, Deep Wood Press, Standard Deluxe, Patent Pending, Outlaw Print Co., Erika Ebert Press, Cannonball Press, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Common Press, Stumptown Printers, Slugfest Printmaking Workshop, Extrapool, Squid Ink Kollective, Tugboat Printshop, Lunalux, Purgatory Pie Press, The Firecracker Press, Thomas-Printers, Aesthetic Apparatus, The Lower East Side Printshop, Iskra Print Collective, Halo Halo Screen Printing, AS220 Community Printshop, Proyecto´ace, Elshopo, Low Rider Tee Shirt, Starshaped Press, Pinball Publishing, Uhrgalo, Sonnenzimmer, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Polluted Eyeball, Spudnik Press, Bob Eight Pop.

Washington Printmakers Gallery
1732 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20009

www.washingtonprintmakers.com
www.meetyourprintmaker.com

Gogol Bordello
2-color print.
Designed by David Covell.
Edition of 300.
15" x 15"

Now available in the Shop.

DEATH SEX DISCO
Opening Reception : 6:00 PM June 12th

June 12th - July 10th
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 - 5:30

When Rome begins to burn, that’s the time to learn, meeting trepidation head-on with inspiration, answering uncertainty with creativity, intensity, and desire. For over two months a group has been experimenting and exploring the two-dimensional world of screen printing via the teachings and tools of the Iskra Print Collective. Death Sex Disco represents their summary output and will debut in a gallery show June 12th at Jager DiPaola Kemp Design’s Sanctuary Artsite, 47 Maple Street, in Burlington, Vermont.

Henry Rollins: Spoken Word
3-color print.
Designed by James Lindars.
Edition of 269.
15" x 15"

Available in The Shop !

Dan Deacon & Ensemble
1-color print with day-glo soundboard tape.
Designed by Allison Ross.
Edition of 250.
15" x 15"

Tape hides secret messages... peel if you dare ! (note: the web does not do the tape colors justice)

Now available in The Shop.

Class Kingdom Phylum: Cayla Skillin-Brauchle
May 8 – June 5, 2009
Sanctuary Artsite at JDK Design
47 Maple Street, Burlington, VT Tel: 802 864 8040
Open Monday-Friday, 8:30-5:30

The work of an emerging Vermont artist will be featured in the upcoming May exhibition, Class Kingdom Phylum, at the Sanctuary Artsite. Printmaker Cayla Skillin-Brauchle explores patterning and organization through images of everyday objects and personal collections. Skillin-Brauchle’s whimsical, detailed and colorful screenprints and woodblock prints illustrate individual rituals and collective habits.
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle is interested in the personal and collective landscapes we create over time. Inspired by organizational techniques, scientific categorization and family traditions, Class Kingdom Phylum is an in-depth and intimate look at everyday life and the memories it creates. Tinged with nostalgia and idealism, Skillin-Brauchle’s work addresses the gap between how we actually live and what we hope for.
All the artwork shown in Class Kingdom Phylum was produced during Cayla Skillin-Brauchle’s residencies at Iskra Print Collective and the Vermont Studio Center. Skillin-Brauchle has her B.A. in Studio Art from Beloit College, Wisconsin and has shown throughout the American Midwest and in Bangkok, Thailand. This is her first exhibit in Burlington. She is will be pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking at Ohio University this fall.
The gallery opening will be from 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 8th. The artist will also be giving a short talk about her work and process at 7:00 p.m.

Lotus
2-color print.
Designed by Sachie Tani.
Edition of 475.
15" x 15"

Now available in The Shop !

Jeff Tweedy - Solo & Acoustic
2-color print, with blue pearl and split-fountain.
Designed by Jeremy Sadler.
Edition of 257.
15" x 15"

Now available in The Shop !

Busta Rhymes
3-color print, with Glo ink.
Designed by Erik Petersen.
Edition of 250.
15" x 15"

Busta Bus was kind enough to roll through Vermont a few days ago, so we decided to give his trademark massive grill a special glow treatment. Up close and personal... WOO HAW.

Available now in the Shop !

Mike Gordon
3-color print, with gold metallic.
Designed by George Mench.
Edition of 260.
15" x 15"

Now available for purchase in the Shop.