The Entire History of Letterpress Printing Arrives Thursday, January 16th, 2025 to Detroit's Signal-Return Studio
Is the Library Street Collective the Ultimate Curator of Detroit's Culture Scene?
📣 New Impressions Comes to Signal-Return! 📣
📜 What: New Impressions International Letterpress Exhibition
🗓️ When: Thursday, January 16, 5-8 PM | On view through March 7, 2025
📍 Where: Signal-Return, 9301 Kercheval St #1, Detroit, MI 48214
✨ About the Exhibition:
🖋️ An international, juried showcase celebrating letterpress creativity
🪵 Curated by the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (Two Rivers, WI)
🌍 Featuring 43 works from artists in Brazil, Spain, Japan, the UK, and the US
👩⚖️ Juried by: Celene Aubry (Hatch Show Print), Naomi Kent (Ink Squasher), and Jim Moran (Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Master Printer Emeritus)
📖 Catalog Designed by: Nick Larson – available for purchase at Signal-Return or online
🎉 Opening Reception:
📆 Thursday, January 16th, 5-8 PM
🎨 S-R Gallery, 9301 Kercheval Suite #1, Detroit, MI 48214
🕰️ Gallery Hours:
📖 Thursday: 10am – 8pm
📖 Friday: 10am – 4pm
📖 Saturday: 10am – 6pm
📖 Sunday: 10am – 4pm
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📩 Contact: info@signalreturnpress.org
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Detroited Notes:
Signal Return has sprung up under the care and guidance of Lynn Avadenka. Lynn Avadenka showed up a few times, so to speak, in my weekend art plans. At the opening of the M Contemporary show, Avadenka made the scene. So did Chris Schneider of Hatch Art Gallery. M Contemporary occupies a small but mighty gallery space close to the corner of Nine and Woodward. I made my first visit Thursday night, breaking my rule of only covering gallery action south of Eight Mile.
Donita Simpson opened an exhibit of Detroit portraits, focusing on the arts scene of Detroit in the late twentieth century. Simpson captured Avadenka among an archive of art research, distilling the essence of this arts activist. I’ve met Avadenka at Signal Return, playing the role of the executive director with panache and passion. That conversation resonated as I viewed Simpson’s portrait.
You can sit among the scores of thoughtful portraits on Friday, January 17th and hear Simpson talk about the technique and process. More than one art photographer made the scene last night at the Gallerie Camille, more to make notes than to make portraits.
Signal Return has taken up residence in the Lantern, an outpost of art and culture among the young groves of Hantz Forest. The yard for Hantz Forest awaits a visit right across a street from the Lantern.
The Lantern has reached full capacity with the recent real estate coup, drawing Coup D’Etat from New Center to the Lantern. The Lantern has a dreamy space for celebrations, including an indoor event space and a broad patio. We can expect some awesome fashion shows in the fairer weather.
This real estate development happened under the guidance and funding of the Library Street Collective, a collective that develops cultural real estate in Detroit. PASC, a sheltered art workshop, rounds out the cultural line-up at Lantern. Expect plenty of cultural development to progress as the Shepherd grows more influential. I’m just wondering what spring will bring at Stanton Yards, a Jefferson Avenue marina, also under the umbrella of LSC.
One has to wonder what Detroit brands and shops are under review by the LSC? It seems that LSC exists as the ultimate curator of Detroit’s art and cultural scene.
