Join the New York Chapter of ARLIS/NA for a visit to Purgatory Pie Press in Brooklyn. Letterpress printmaker Dikko Faust and artistic director Esther K Smith have collaborated on limited editions, artist books, cards, and prints for forty + years. Along the way, they’ve worked with more than one hundred artists and writers. You can find their work in many public and private collections, including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum, Cooper Hewitt, London’s Tate, Azerbaijan’s Miniature Book Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. Smith taught artist book classes at Cooper Union and was invited as a visiting artist to Cooper Hewitt, Museum of Arts and Design, Princeton, Harvard, and other institutions in the US, UK, and Canada. Faust teaches letterpress printmaking at the School for Visual Arts. Together, Smith and Faust travel, teach, lecture, and exhibit their work. Highlights include exhibitions in the rare book libraries of the Metropolitan Museum and London’s V&A. After twenty-seven years of printing in Tribeca, Purgatory Pie Press now resides at Brooklyn Army Terminal, in ArtBuilt’s curated studio space.
This studio visit will be capped at 10 participants and registration is limited to members of ARLIS/NA's New York Chapter.
If you have any questions about the tour, feel free to reach out to Joey Vincennie, Programming Coordinator at vincennie@frick.org.
Photo Credit: Bella Brown
ID: A photo of the Purgatory Pie Press studio.
