BYO Print, 12 N 3rd Street #5, Philadelphia, PA (2026)

04/27/2026

Join us Saturday May 2nd at for a special panel discussion with the curators of our 2026 group exhibition at the Alumni Gallery at Moore. Part of their annual alumni reunion, this panel is also open to the public, and free to attend! We are excited to speak to building a collective with friends and strangers, and finding your community. At the start of our 16th year, we know BYO Print is only getting better!

This exhibition, and all of our public programming, is made possible with support from and the Joseph Robert Foundation.

RSVP at the link in our bio!

Saturday May 2, 4:15 - 5:15
Moore College of Art & Design, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia.

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Printing Community: BYO Printmaking Collaborative in Conversation

Saturday, May 2 | 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
Moore College of Art & Design; 1916 Race St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Held in conjunction with the exhibition in the Alumni Gallery and Alumni Reunion, this panel brings Lauren Tapp ‘07, Kate VanVliet ’07, Rhonda Babb ’92, Claire Folkman ’09, Lisa Imperiale ’09 and Tori Kimberly ’15 together for a conversation about their nonprofit organization, BYO Printmaking Collaborative. Panelists will reflect on how their time at Moore helped shape BYO Print, their individual paths into printmaking and what it takes to sustain a community-based printmaking studio. The discussion will also highlight the collaborative curatorial approach behind the Alumni Gallery exhibition and look ahead to BYO Print’s future as its community continues to grow.

04/09/2026

Announcing ALMANAC: valuable information for *these times* as part of this fall’s Collective Futures Festival .info

After a winter Open Call, BYO Print is pleased to present ALMANAC: a printmakers’ portfolio book and facsimile publication, co-curated and edited by Jessica Aguilar and Kate VanVliet

Participating artists & writers:

Felisa Adderley
Rae Helms
Shelley Thorstensen .thorstensen
Rhonda Babb
Tanya Brassie .press
Rah Gerg / Kira Saks /
Tory Franklin
Tania Qurashi .qurashi
Nicole Saltzer
Ross Mazzupappa
Lya Finston
Peri Law
Michelle Wilson
Kalinda Tran
Molly Borth
Claire Folkman
Elizabeth Castaldo
Sophie Loubere
Max Hautala
Zach Ozma
Dave DiMarchi
Kelly Leitermann
Illkya Acosta
Marilyn Montufar
Mary Clare Butler
Kate VanVliet
With a forward by co-curator Jess Aguilar

Printmakers’ exchange portfolios are editions of prints traded between participants, so each artist receives an identical collection of all works, often organized around a theme, event, or class. The facsimile edition of ALMANAC will be published as a low-cost resource for the public with a book release during Collective Futures Festival.

Exhibition and facsimile publication release
October 2 - November 15, 2026
Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts Building
1400 N. American St, Philadelphia 19122

03/24/2026

BYO Print’s 15th Anniversary Year is a wrap! Our unspoken Sweet Sixteen - celebrated Friday night with a group exhibition - the first time we’ve exhibited together for a curated group show since before the pandemic! The Alumni Gallery at the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design invited our founders to show in the space and what better way to use it than to showcase this amazing group of artists that have been working alongside each other for up to 16 years!

Huge thanks go out to our artists, and to the curators of this show, the intersection of Studio Artist members and Moore alumni: and huge thanks as well to the Gallery install team and Moore Staff who 100% deserve the Union they’ve asked for!

Visit the exhibition now through May 9th at Moore College of Art & Design, 1916 Race Street.

Additional photographs to come. Enjoy these from our opening night courtesy of

02/27/2026

Tomorrow! We are pleased to again be tabling at the ineffable printPHILLY! Fair for the 4th year. We’ll be sandwiched between long time member, and co-founder in the Heim Center study room. Come find us!

The Philadelphia Print Consortium is pleased to announce the fourth annual printPHILL Y! print fair.
Join us on Saturday February 28, 2026 at
Parkway Central Library, Free Library of Philadelphia,
1901 Vine Street on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Showcasing over 40 vendors, this one day fair is FREE and open to the public from 10am – 4pm. Visitors can interact with a range of printmakers, print-publishers, and print-focused galleries and nonprofits and will have the opportunity to purchase original prints from a wide variety of artists and shops using both innovative and traditional techniques which are a hallmark of the medium. Hear from Guest Speaker, speaker Dr. Heather Hughes, the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Kathy and Ted Fernberger Associate Curator of Prints, for a lecture about PhAM’s upcoming exhibition about the prints of Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui at 11 a.m. Enjoy hands-on Letterpress Make & Take
Workshop with Artist Belle Handler from Noon to 3 p.m. For a list of participating shops, collectives, nonprofits, and individuals, please visit the PPC website: https://printphilly.org/fair/ OR pop over to the hosts .print.consortium. We hope to see you there!

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02/18/2026

BYO Printmaking Collaborative’s 15th Anniversary year culminates with an exhibition celebrating the breadth of its current members and past collaborative works, on view in the Alumni Gallery at Moore College of Art & Design from March 21 – May 9, 2026. Co-founded in 2010 by Katie VanVliet ‘07 and Lauren Tapp (Fischer) ‘07, BYO Print opened as a shared printmaking studio in Philadelphia, with a mission to keep artists printing on their own time within a reasonable budget. Tapp and VanVliet built BYO Print with a foundational flexibility that has allowed the community to adapt and grow as new members bring with them fresh ideas and goals for their practice. Reorganized as a nonprofit in 2023, BYO Printmaking Collaborative fosters collaboration between artists, printmakers and the public by providing access to a professional printshop. BYO Print is located on the 5th floor of the Paradigm Arts Building, at 12 North 3rd Street.

This collection of works on paper, sculptures, and handmade books is curated by alumni members Claire Folkman ‘09, Kate VanVliet ‘07, Lisa Imperiale ‘09, TJ Kimber ‘15 and Rhonda Babb ‘92 and features the work of BYO’s Studio Artists as well as past collaborative and curatorial projects, featuring: Ellyn Womelsdorf, Christiane Moore, Erik Ruin, Jenn Manzella, Mike Sgier, Nicole Saltzer, Emma Foster, Bill Brookover, Jude Bigboy, Lucy Henderson, Mara Elliott, Marchelo Vera, Reece Farness, Ted Mosher, Celia Connaire and Laura Murdoch.

Join us for the opening reception on Friday, March 20, 5-7pm, at The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design.

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01/23/2026

Need some printshop sanctuary in these pensive times? We are dusting ourselves off from the new year transitions and gearing up for a strong 2026 filled with camaraderie, collaboration, and people power. Join us Monday night (pending our ability to move about the city post snowstorm) for the first Intaglio Club of the year. This program and our Second Sunday Open Hours will resume their normal schedules in February.

$40/session for full studio access, with a focus on intaglio practices including etching copperplates, printing on the presses, and drypoint collagraph with tetrapak. We share skills during Intaglio Club, but attendees should have some experience in the medium. RSVP required by DM or email through our link in bio. 5-9pm Third Mondays of the month.

We’re also happy to share that our building’s freight elevator is back in service, allowing full access to our shop for all folks! Hooray!

Public hours like these are made possible with funding from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund () and the Joseph Robert Foundation. Thank you!

11/07/2025

Announcing our November hours! We’re open tonight for First Friday, this Sunday open for visitors and guest printers, and on November 17th for Intaglio Club. RSVP by DM or email for Intaglio Club, but just stop by and visit us otherwise!

First Friday we’re doing a little screen printing project in celebration of the soft announcement of next fall’s Collective Futures Festival ( .info to keep up!), printing up some simple broadsides for guests to draw and doodle on! Some doodles may make it to the Collective Futures website too.

Keep an eye out in the coming days for the announcement of our project for C.F. Our Open Call will debut next week!

10/09/2025

Visit us this weekend during Philadelphia Open Studio Tours! We are located on the top floor of the Paradigm Arts Building, above . The gallery is open to the public as well, so you can make your way up to the fifth floor, taking in artwork on each floor. The elevator at the building is currently out of order, so the printshop is accessible only via stairs at the moment.

Meet , one of the co-founders and directors of the studio, and see hers and other members’ work on display. Kate will be running demos on the etching presses in intaglio, monotype, and relief throughout the weekend. She can answer any questions you may have about the printing processes as well as membership, upcoming events, exhibitions for members, and a special project for 2026!

Sunday’s POST coincides with our Second Sunday Open Studio hours, so feel free to book some time to print at our studio, especially if you’re considering membership at the space in the future.

See you this weekend!

07/30/2025

Join us this Friday night from 6-8 for a drop-in free make-n-take workshop with Studio Artist member, , Celia Connaire.

As always, we’re on the 5th floor of the Paradigm Arts Building, 12 N 3rd Street, above . Pssst! Their August exhibitions open Friday and the work is sure to be spectacular!

See you there!

06/12/2025

We are so pleased to share that BYO Print is a 2025 Philadelphia Cultural Fund grantee!

Support from PCF allows us to continue our mission by keeping printmaking coworking space affordable and accessible. Huge thanks to the Cultural Fund for last year’s grant, which made our *big move* from Kensington to Old City go smoothly. Our new and improved space allows us to reach more Philadelphians now and in the future.

We’ve done a lot over the last year through PCF’s funding, from being able to hire professional movers and equipment handlers, to replacing outdated equipment, and making small but important safety upgrades as we rebuilt the printshop. To celebrate the studio artist members of BYO Print, we began our 15th anniversary year with a big grand opening party and an exchange portfolio celebrating our milestone.

Looking forward, funding from PCF will continue to keep our space affordable and accessible to artists and the public. We are so thankful that our funding comes 100% from local sources, and will remain a steady sanctuary for Philadelphians to work and collaborate through printmaking.

Thank you !

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