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Stories About Place + Self at the Framemaker

April 1, 2013 – 8:49 am

Telling stories our environment, whether derived from myth or direct observation, is part
of the human condition. During the month of April the Framemaker Gallery will feature
Stories About Place + Self — a selection of broadsides printed by visual art and creative
writing students from Austin Peay State University.
The compelling textual posters were printed at the APSU Goldsmith Press & Rare Type
Collection in response to an interdisciplinary assignment developed by faculty members
Amy Wright and Cynthia Marsh. 2013 Acuff Chair of Excellence for the Creative Arts
— poet David Huddle —worked with the students to develop short narratives about
personal landscapes.
The exhibition, Stories About Place + Self will open during April ArtWalk — Thursday,
April 4th 5-8PM at the Framemaker 705 N 2nd St # B Clarksville, TN 37040 / (931) 647-
8290. A reading by the artists will take place at 7PM on the evening of the opening.

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Updates from the Printmaking Area

February 25, 2013 – 2:51 pm

18 APSU printmaking students attended and participated in the Nashville Print Revival on Friday, Feb. 22,2013  at Watkins College of Art

 

Jesse Shaw participated in the Nashville Print Revival — ‘Printacular —Great Poster Sale”  at  Barista Parlor, 519 Gallatin Ave, Nashville, TN 37206 / Sat. Feb 23, 2013

 

Cindy Marsh and the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection has a print installation included in the 28th Annual Positive / Negative Exhibition (Feb 18 – Mar 8, 2013) Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

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2012 Full Court Press: Fall Schedule for the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection

August 19, 2012 – 8:35 pm

The Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection is a unique letterpress facility that includes thousands of hand-carved wood letters and antique printing presses. Established as an interdisciplinary print studio on the campus of Austin Peay, the Goldsmith Press encourages the university community and the citizens of Clarksville to write, print, and make public their individual stories.

http://goldsmithpress.artapsu.com/

 

September 1 – September 29, 2012

Projects from the Goldsmith Press @ Blend Studio
Gallery Exhibition
79 Arcade, Nashville, TN 615.554.1340
Opening: Saturday, September 1 / Nashville Art Crawl

 

September 8 – September 11, 2012

The 9/11/2012 Project
A Public Art Project — recording and printing memories of 9/11/2001
Printing Sites:
9/08/12 — 12 PM – 4 PM: Blend Studio / 79 Arcade / Nashville, TN
9/09/12 — 12 PM – 4 PM: Clarksville-Montgomery Public Library / 350 Pageant Lane/ Clarksville, TN 347040 / 931. 648.8826
9/10/12 — 10 AM – 2 PM: The Ajax Senior Center / 953 Clark Street / Clarksville, TN / 931.648.1345
9/11/12 — 10AM – 4 PM: Woodward Library on the campus of APSU

 

September 15, 2012 

Frolic on Franklin
Demonstration / Display of Community & Student Work
Franklin Street, Downtown Clarksville, TN.
9 AM — 4 PM

October 6, 2012

2012 Handmade & Bound  / Artists’ Books and Zines
Demonstration / Display of Community & Student Work
Watkins College of Art, Design + Film / 2298 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. / Nashville, TN 615.383.4848
9 AM — 4 PM

Contact: Cynthia Marsh / 931.221.7349 [marshc@apsu.edu] for further information

 

Friends of the Goldsmith Press

Friends of the Goldsmith Press, founded in Spring 2012, is a group of APSU alumni and area printers who are committed to:

 

  1. producing personal, creative work @ the Goldsmith Press
  2. supporting the community work of the Goldsmith Press
  3. creating  a culture of care and respect for the Rare Type Collection

 

Alumni and printers interested in joining the Friends of the Goldsmith Press should contact: Laura Golobish @:  [golobish@uga.edu] or join our Facebook Page.

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Friends of the Goldsmith Press

March 30, 2012 – 6:47 am

The first meeting of the Friends of the Goldsmith Press will be held in Trahern on Sunday, April 1st at 9 am (coinciding with the Friends of Photography meeting). The goal of the group is to assist art department alumni in continuing their printmaking endeavors and aid the press’s aims of community education and outreach. This week we will be discussing introductory business such as activities in which the group would like to participate, scheduling time on the presses, general housekeeping issues, and things like remembering to clean and put away type and other tools.

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We Know That The Goldsmith Press Rocks, Now Nashville Does Too

October 5, 2011 – 3:05 am

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Read the article in the Nasvhille Scene about the Handmade and Bound at Watkins that highlights the amazing work of the Goldsmith Press. Great work Professor Marsh!

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Professor Cindy Marsh Will Be Attending the Woman’s Building Reunion and Exhibition at Otis College of Art + Design

September 29, 2011 – 7:11 am

Printmaking and Design professor, Cynthia Marsh will be attending the Woman’s Building reunion and exhibition at Otis College of Art + Design in Los Angeles — October 13 -17, 2011. Marsh was a founding member of the Women’s Graphic Center in 1974. She taught at the WB Feminist Studio Workshop from 1994-1984. Posters and publications designed by Marsh and her cohorts at the Women’s Graphic Center will be included in the Exhibition: Doin’ It in Public — Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building on display at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis. The exhibition was funded by the National Endowment of the Arts and the Getty

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Work by Professor Cindy Marsh will be featured in “Encoded Structures: Interpreting the Story”

September 29, 2011 – 7:09 am

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Work by design and Printmaking faculty member, Cynthia Marsh, will be featured in the exhibition: Encoded Structures: Interpreting the Story. The handmade book show will open on Friday, September 30, 2011 6:30 PM – 8 PM at Watkins College of Art, Design, and Film. Encoded Structures will be on display at Watkin’s Brownlee O. Currey Gallery through October 28, 2011.

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The Goldsmith Press Participates in “Hand Made & Bound” at Watkins College

September 29, 2011 – 7:06 am

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The Goldsmith Press will be displaying a collection of APSU student books produced between 2001 and 2011 at the Handmade & Bound at Watkins College of Art, Design, and Film. This is the 1st annual book art and sine festival offered in the Nashville Area. Students from APSU will also be printing keepsake Handmade & Bound paper bags on site. Come by, see your work on display — support the Goldsmith Press and the book arts community of Middle Tennessee.

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True Stories from the Goldsmith Press at the Downtown Gallery

February 22, 2011 – 6:07 pm

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“True Stories from the Goldsmith Press”
March 3 – April 2, 2011
Opening Reception: March 3 (5 – 8 pm)

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Professor Marsh to Present at the 18th Conference on Learning at the University of Mauritius in East Africa

October 4, 2010 – 6:22 am

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The Learning Conference is held annually in different locations around the world, each selected for the particular role education is playing in social, cultural and economic change. In recent years, the Conference has been held with Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia in 1999; RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 2000; the University of Athens, Spetses, Greece in 2001; Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China in 2002; Institute of Education, London University, London, UK in 2003; Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, Havana, Cuba in 2004; University of Granada, Granada, Spain in 2005; Sam Sharpe Teachers College, Montego Bay, Jamaica in 2006; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2007; the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA in 2008; the University of Barcelona, Spain in 2009; and Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong in 2010.

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“Terra Firma” Reading and Broadside Exhibition

April 20, 2010 – 10:27 am

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On Wednesday April 28, The Center of Excellence for Creative Arts, Zone 3, and the Department of Art’s Goldsmith Press and Rare Type Collection present “Terra Firma” a reading and broadside exhibition at the Clarksville Montgomery County Public Library.

The event celebrates 25 years of APSU’s Zone 3 Press with readings by Zone 3 editors and contributors. The broadsides of the Zone 3 poems, created by APSU art students will be on display in the lobby of the library.

There will be a reception at 5:30, readings at 6 and a book signing at 7.

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Professor Cynthia Marsh to present at the Southeastern College Art Conference

September 15, 2009 – 2:04 pm

Cynthia Marsh will be making a presentation at SECAC on Thurs. October 22nd titled,”Constructing the Autobiography of a Southern Community” as part of a panel “Art Partnerships with Community” chaired by Professor Jenny Hager-Vickery. Professor Marsh’s presentation will discuss how various outreach projects produced at the Goldsmith Press have documented the attitudes and ideas of Clarksville, TN. — thus serving as a developing autobiography of the region.

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Goldsmith Press Exhibition at the Nashville Airport

September 15, 2009 – 2:03 pm

On September 28th, portions of the Goldsmith Press Exhibition @ the Nashville Public Library will move to Nashville International Airport. The edited exhibition is titled, ” Projects from the Goldsmith Press” will feature letterpress work produced primarily by APSU art students, faculty, and visiting artists. The work will be on display in Concourse A for approximately 6 months.

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Goldsmith Press Exhibition at the Nashville Public Library

September 15, 2009 – 2:02 pm

The Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection is featured in an exhibition at the Nashville Public Library, The Goldsmith Press and Rare Type Collection at Austin Peay State University has a number of public art projects printed in the last 12 years on display at the main downtown branch of the Nashville Public Library. The show, titled “Telling the Story: Letterpress and Community,” features posters, quilts, limited edition prints, books and three-dimensional printed environments that tell stories about the Clarksville community. The exhibition, free and open to the public, is available for viewing daily until Sept. 27 at the Nashville Public Library, located at 615 Church St. APSU’s press is sharing the Nashville Public Library’s main exhibition space with Middle Tennessee State University’s Franklin Printing Press.

The Goldsmith Press is a unique letterpress facility that includes thousands of hand-carved wood letters, typesetting materials and antique printing presses. The wood type was originally created for a New England advertising company, Metropolitan Showprint (est.1890). APSU purchased the collection in 1997.The letterpress and type collection were named in honor of Arthur Goldsmith – an advocate for public literacy, a lover of books and a long-term supporter of the arts in middle Tennessee. The Goldsmith Press, which has been awarded 11 regional and federal grants, has proven to be a valued teaching tool and a coveted studio for artists, designers and writers.

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