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Partners in Print thanks all who contributed to GiveBIG, Washington state’s annual nonprofit fundraising campaign. With your support our Seattle-based arts organization surpassed our financial goal, keeping our presses rolling and programs growing in our inaugural year as a women-run non-profit.

To celebrate National Poetry Month, PiP partnered with WA State Poet Laureate Rena Priest in 2021 to create and distribute Poetry for Everyone pocket poems. Rena selected the work of Lummi Nation youth poet Sadie Olsen, which was letterpress printed in English and Xwlemi Chosen and shared for Poem in Your Pocket Day at the end of April.

A pandemic can’t stop the presses — or the letterpress community! In this presentation hosted by Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Jenny Wilkson (Seattle) discusses the evolution of PiP and how the letterpress community can collaborate in a time of social distancing.

Representatives from Partners in Print, the Press at MICA, and the Amalgamated Coloured Printers Association led a discussion with civic leaders on the power of the printed word, better communication through art, and mobilizing communities. It was presented by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCOC).

“Hope is not an emotion, it’s an action.” That powerful reminder sparked the Hope is Action! print exchange, hosted by The Printing Museum. Letterpress printers across the U.S. created meaningful works to share with their communities, inspire positive change, and put hope into action.

WITS writers and PiP printers share the joy and heartbreak of helping young poets and patients of Seattle Children’s Hospital craft their own stories. This decade-long collaboration between the Writers in the Schools program, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and Partners in Print illustrates how letterpress printing makes a meaningful impact in our community.

“We had no idea what we were getting into.” Follow the twists and turns of the Kickstarter campaign to print and publish the epic poem One River: A Thousand Voices by Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna. PiP’s Jenny Wilkson and Castro Luna offer valuable insights on navigating the uncharted waters of a crowdfunded letterpress project.

PiP partnered with the Amalgamated Coloured Printers Association (ACPA) in 2020 for a nationwide voter mobilization initiative, in which printer affiliates provided communities with letterpress printed posters encouraging voter engagement.

Eye-catching portfolios house the letterpress broadsides of young poets receiving treatment at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Bookmakers and letterpress artists from PiP share the process of lovingly handcrafting fine book cloth donated by Ecological Fibers into an elegant presentation for this purpose-driven project.

Seattle Design Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020 with the theme “About Time.” In partnership with Design in Public, artists from PiP amplified community-sourced messages of hope, social justice and resilience. Watch the power of words cut through the digital noise as Seattle artists roll paper and ink through vintage Vandercook printing presses.